Anthropology 501/601:A1 Fall Term 2016 MA and PhD Graduate Seminar
Prof. Jean DeBernardi Office Hours:
(780) 492-0131 Monday 2-3
[email protected] and by appointment Time: Wednesday 2-4:50
Place: Humanities Centre Room 2-17 The Course
Anthropology 501/601 will provide new graduate students in the Department of
Anthropology with a broad introduction to the discipline and to the academic career. Individual faculty members will discuss their research and careers, and we will discuss readings assigned by them in conjunction with their classes.
Week 1 Introduction September 7
Kevin Haggerty "Tough Love: Professional Lessons for Graduate Students" American Sociologist Vol 41(1): 82-96. Published on-line 4 March 2010.
Week 2 Sandra Garvie-Lok: On the Challenge of reconstructing status inequities in diet using isotopes
September 14
Zhou Ligang, Sandra J. Garvie-Lok, Wenquan Fan, and Xiaolong CHu. "Human Diets during the Social Transition from Territorial States to Empire: Stable Isotope Analysis of Human and Animal Remains from 770 BC to 220 AD on the Central Plains of China."
Unpublished manuscript.
Sandra Garvie-Lok, "Human Remains from the Fortress of Mytilene." In Medieval and Post- Medieval Greece: The Corfu Papers, edited by John BIntliff and Hanna Stoger. Oxford:
Archaeoppress, 2009.
Week 3 Jean DeBernardi/Rob Losey September 21
I. Jean DeBernardi: On Religion and Migration
Simon Coleman, "Scholarly Language II: Anthropology, Religion and Migration" In Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis, edited by Alana Harris, pp. 41-44. London and New York: Routledge, 2013
II. Rob Losey: On Domestication/collaborative research
Now: Domestication Reconsidered. Ed. Rebecca Cassidy and Molly Mullin. 2007.
Bloomsbury Collections.
Week 4 Marko Zivkovic: Botanizing Belgrade Asphalt: Ethnographic Sensibility Training as Delicate Empiricism
September 28
Carlo Ginzburg and Anna Davin, 'Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method" History Workshop No. 9 (Spring, 1980): 5-36.
Tim Ingold, "From Science to Art and Back Again: The Pendulum of an Anthropologist" Anuac Vol 5(1)2016: 5-23.
Week 5 Andie Palmer: " From Salish Territory to Aotearoa and Back Again: A Tale of Social Justice and Cross-Cultural (Mis)Communication"
October 5
Week 6 Pamela Willoughby: The Archaeology of Iringa, southern Tanzania October 12
Pamela Willoughby, “The Middle and Later Stone Age in the Iringa Region of southern Tanzania”. Quaternary International 270: 103-118, 2012.
Jennifer M. Miller and Pamela R. Willoughby. “Radiometrically dated ostrich eggshell beads from the Middle and Later Stone Age of Magubike Rockshelter, southern
Tanzania”. Journal of Human Evolution 74(1): 118-122, 2014.
Week 7 Kathleen Lowrey/Part I:
October 19
Spedding, Alison. (1999) “Dreams of Leaving: Life in the Feminine Penitentiary Centre, Miraflores, La Paz, Bolivia.” Anthropology Today 15 (2): 11-17.
A selection from: Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller, "Live From New York: An Uncensored History Of Saturday Night Live"
A selection from Karen Kelsey's The Professor Is In.
Week 8 Kisha Supernant: Collaboration in Archaeological Research October 26
Colwell-Chanthaphonh, C., & Ferguson, T. J. (2008). Collaboration in Archaeological Practice:
The Collaborative Continuum. In Collaboration in Archaeological Practice: Engaging Descendant Communities, edited by C. Colwell-Chanthaphonh and T. J. Ferguson, pp. 1- 34. AltaMira Press, Plymouth.
Flueher-Lobban, C., 2008. Collaborative anthropology as twenty-first-century ethical anthropology. Collaborative Anthropologies, 1(1), pp.175-182.
(recommended) Supernant, K. and G. Warrick. 2014. Challenges to Critical Community-Based Archaeological Practice in Canada. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 38(2):563-591.
Week 9 Helen Valianatos: Community Based Participatory Research November 2
Stephanie M. Reich & Jennifer A. Reich. "Cultural Competence in Interdisciplinary
Collaborations: A Method for Respecting Diversity in Research Partnerships." American JOurnal of Community Psychology 38 (2006): 51-62.
Merrill Charles Singer, "Knowledge for Use: Anthropology and Community-Centered Substance Abuse Research." Social Science and MEdicine Vol. 37(1): 15-25. August 1993.
Helen Vallianatos, Emina Hadziabdic and Gina Higginbottom. "Designing Participatory Research Projects." In Participatory Qualitative Research Methodologies in Health, edited by Gina Higginbottom and Pranee Liamputtong. London: Sage Publications.
Week 10 Reading week/November 9 : NO CLASS
Week 11 Lesley Harrington: "Navigating the Social Science Continuum"
November 16
[Pamela Mayne/On Managing Special Collections (tentative)]
Week 12 Joe Hill, "Performance and the Creativity of Social Change"
November 23
Turner, Victor. 1987. “Images and Reflections: Ritual, Drama, Carnival, Film, and Spectacle in Cultural Performance.” In The Anthropology of Performance, 21–32. New York: PAJ.
Hill, Joseph. 2016. “‘Baay Is the Spiritual Leader of the Rappers’: Performing Islamic Reasoning in Senegalese Sufi Hip-Hop.” Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life 10 (2):
267–87.
Week 13 Mark Nuttall: "The Ice sheet, the urban common and deep time"
November 30
Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey and Ursula Münster 2016 “Multispecies studies: cultivating arts of attentiveness” Environmental Humanities 8(1): DOI 10.1215/22011919- 3527695
Richard D.G. Irvine 2014 “Deep time: an anthropological problem” Social Anthropology 22(2):
157-172.
Week 14 Jack Ives: “Can Archaeologists Truly Approach the Study of Kinship in Prehistory?"
December 7
Barnard, Alan 2016 “Unity versus Interdisciplinarity. A Future for Anthropology” Current Anthropology 57 (Supp. 13): DOI: 10.1086/686022.
Billinger, Michael S. and John W. Ives 2015 “Inferring the Age Structure of AD 13th Century Promontory Point Populations from Moccasin Size Data.” American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 156(1):76-89.
Ives, John W., 2015 “Kinship, Demography and Paleoindian Modes of Colonization: Some Western Canadian Perspectives.” In Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas, edited by Michael D. Frachetti and Robert N. Spengler III, pp. 127-126.
Springer Press, New York.
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All students should consult the information provided by the Office of Judicial Affairs regarding avoiding cheating and plagiarism in particular and academic dishonesty in general (see the Academic Integrity Undergraduate Handbook and Information for Students). If in doubt about what is permitted in this class, ask the instructor.
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Audio or video recording of lectures, labs, seminars or any other teaching environment by students is allowed only with the prior written consent of the content author(s) or as a part of an approved accommodation plan. Recorded material is to be used solely for personal study, and is not to be used or distributed for any other purpose without prior written consent from the instructor.
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Regular attendance is essential for optimal performance in any course. In cases of
potentially excusable absences due to illness or domestic affliction, notify your instructor by e-mail within two days. Regarding absences that may be excusable and procedures for addressing course components missed as a result, consult sections 23.3(1) and 23.5.6 of the University Calendar. Be aware that unexcused absences will result in partial or total loss of the grade for the “attendance and participation” component(s) of a course, as well as for any assignments that are not handed-in or completed as a result.
Policy for Late Assignments:
There is no grade penalty until I have graded and returned a set of papers on the assigned topic.
Student Accessibility Services:
If you have special needs that could affect your performance in this class, please let me know during the first week of the term so that appropriate arrangements can be made. If you are not already registered with Specialized Support & Disability Services, contact their office immediately ( 2-800 SUB; Email [email protected]; Email; phone 780-492- 3381; WEB www.ssds.ualberta.ca ).
Grading:
Anthropology 501/601 is a Pass/Fail course. Attendance is required and students should notify Prof. DeBernardi if they need to be absent from the course.
