Taught by Dr. Aubrey Cannon.

An examination of the diverse and millennia-long archaeological histories of Indigenous North America, with particular focus on migrations, beginning with the earliest peopling of the continent, environmental interactions and adaptations to climate change, and the emergence of varying forms and scales of political integration.

Note: The instructors will consider waiving the prerequisites for these courses, so please reach out if these are of interest and you face any issues enrolling.

This course addresses historical and contemporary instances of displacement and forced migration. Although grounded in ethnographic studies, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to topics which may include border politics, humanitarianism, hospitality and the figure of the refugee.

Taught by Dr. Kee Yong

What is the relationship between climate change, changing foodways and politics. Why is it that agri-businesses are reporting record profits while most farms lose money? Students will consider how the combination of climate threats in global capitalism, crop failures, price spikes, displacement and migration, and how these catastrophes might be averted if agricultural innovation and changing foodways keep pace with climate change.
Seminar (three hours)
Prerequisite: ANTHROP 2F03 is recommended.

Note: The instructors will consider waiving the prerequisites for these courses, so please reach out if these are of interest and you face any issues enrolling.

Taught by Dr. Kee Yong

**There are no exams for this course. Only two essays, four one-page summaries and your participation. All reading materials, including weekly lecture notes are accessible on Avenue to Learn.

This course provides an introduction to some of the concepts in socio-cultural anthropology with which you are probably familiar – culture, race, ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, and so on. We will use these concepts to address the question of human universals and where do cultural differences come from. Are these more or less significant than biological differences and what is the cause of social inequality? We will use what anthropology has to say about both the distant and “exotic” locales that have been its traditional focus of study, as well as anthropological studies of urbanized and familiar locations. At the base of all our “conversations” for this course, we will attend to the questions of the “Other.” Who are the “Othered”?  Under what foundational history are the “Others” created and maintained?  Who among these “Others” have speech, and who among them have only noises? How intrinsic are the “Others” to the creation of the modern?  Indeed, how have these dialectical underpinnings affected our emotion, our creativity, representation? Indeed, how have these dialectical underpinnings both encapsulated as well as undermined our imaginative horizons?

Note: The instructors will consider waiving the prerequisites for these courses, so please reach out if these are of interest and you face any issues enrolling.