ANTHROPOLOGY
ANT 1014 credits
No Audits
Cultural Anthropology
Session B-6wk
June 30August 8
Meliora 206
NEW TIME: MTR 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.
CRN 10118; M. Healy
This course provides a basic overview of the discipline and subfields of socio-cultural anthropology. We use the lens of cross-cultural comparison to examine the various ways that humans organize their lives in societies ranging from small-scale traditional to modern industrial nations such as the U.S. Specific topics will include the idea of "culture", language, family & marriage, migration and refugee/immigrant communities, gender and cultural diversity in the U.S. The course presents theories and ideas about what makes us universally human and how we differ.
ANT 103/WST 2024 credits
No Audits
Women in Society
Session B-6wk (June 30-August 8)
MTR 6 p.m.9 p.m.; Meliora 218
CRN 10120, ANT 103
CRN 18602, WST 202; M. Healy
This course uses the lens of cross-cultural comparison to examine the lives of women from small-scale to modern industrial societies. We will look at women's perceptions of their roles, their contributions and their relative status and position in different cultures, focusing on ideological images of women and the realities of daily life. This course also presents and analyzes theories that seek to explain gender inequality as a "universal" and explores the various ways that the experience of being female is shaped by race, class and culture.
ANT 1264 credits
No Audits
Archaeological Field School
Session A-4wk (May 19-June 13)
MTWRF 9 a.m.-4 p.m..; Lattimore 413
CRN 18634; K. Krumrine
This course provides a summer archaeological field school opportunity at the historic Dixon Hollow site in Hemlock, New York. This site was a middle 19th to early 20th century village situated along the Canadice Outlet. The village was occupied by a small number of residents over that time period and was abandoned completely by 1920 after residents sold their land to the City of Rochester. The upcoming field season will focus on 2 residences and a mill, which was used to manufacture wool and butter tubs, among other things. Students will have an opportunity to learn surveying, excavation and lab techniques as well as explore the broader cultural context of the site through field trips to area historical sites. The field site is located about 30 miles south of Rochester, so students will need transportation. Please contact the instructor at kkrumrine@sjfc.edu for additional information.
ANT 216/ANT 4164 credits
No Audits
Medical Anthropology
Session A-6wk (May 19-June 27)
MTR 6 p.m.-9 p.m.; Lattimore 416
CRN 10136, ANT 216
CRN 10147, ANT 416; L. Metcalf
Medical anthropology explores medical systems and health-related beliefs and practices cross-culturally and in different historical periods. This course introduces students to some of the concepts and methods that anthropologists have developed to account for the cultural dimensions of illness and healing, as well as to the ethnographic variety of cultural responses to disease across the globe. We will also pay critical attention to the cultural dimensions of modern Western biomedicine, as well as to the political and economic dimensions of health care delivery, both in the US and abroad.
ANT 217/HIS 174-4 credits
No Audits
Food, Culture, and Identity
Session A-6wk (May 19-June 27)
TWR 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Morey 402
CRN 19577, ANT 217
CRN 19590, HIS 174; B. Lundy
Students should have No Reservations about registering for this course in which we will discuss both the "Bizarre Foods" and the "Good Eats" of cultures and global "Food Networks." M.F.K. Fisher, the prolific food writer, said that with our gastronomical growth will come, inevitably, knowledge and perception of a hundred other things, but mainly of ourselves. This class takes a global look at the social, symbolic, and political-economic roles of food. How do people in different cultures throughout history define themselves through their foodways? Topics that will be examined include: the role of food in history and ecology; the biological and cultural construction of food needs; classification of foods; foods role in maintaining economic and social relations; cultural conceptions of health and the body; as well as food and religion. We will also discuss recent food movements and the transnational flow of food ideas such as veganism; anti-cancer diets; transnational food production and exploitation; international development, hunger, malnutrition, and poverty; and protests against genetically modified food, bringing into focus new linkages between what we eat and who we are. We will explore a cross-cultural range of identities and socialities built through food production, preparation, and consumption. The format of instruction is a combination of lecture and seminar-style discussion. Grades will be based on participation and attendance, keeping a food journal, class presentation and paper, and midterm and final examination.
ANT 248/AAS 106/HIS 1064 credits
Colonial and Contemporary Africa
ANT 254/WST 2544 credits
No Audits
Women of the Middle East: Culture & Conflict
Session B-6wk (June 30-August 8)
MTWR 10 a.m.12:15 p.m.; Hylan 306
CRN 18678, ANT 254
CRN 18680, WST 254; S. Monshipour
The course is designed to give an overall perspective on the socioeconomic status and the political role of women in several Middle Eastern societies. The course materials will inter-relate the historical context with the current economic, social and cultural issues that impact the lives of women in the Middle East. The course lectures and the class discussion will be based on a "Symbolic-Interaction" method of research analysis and examining of literary material produced by scholars of Egyptian, Iranian, Saudi and the US origins, with an emphasis on publications of women writers within the last ten years. Major topics will include: diversity of lives, roles and ranks of women in Middle Eastern societies of present time; factors that shape and form the lives of women in the region: cultural, religious, political and economic forces; social status within the varied cultural contexts of domestic society; barriers to identity formation: personal, cultural, social and global; and issues on the way of progress. We will make use of slides, audio and videotapes, and segments of documentary films as visual tools to elucidate the topics.
ANT 2996 credits
No Audits
Malawi Immersion Seminar
May 26-June 16*
CRN 18713, ; J. Lanning
August 4-25*
CRN 18724, : J. Lanning
Students will participate in an in-depth study experience in Malawi, Africa. The seminar will analyze issues of underdevelopment in Malawi in relation to culture, gender, public health, education, public policy, history and religion. Students will participate in, and be evaluated on, their progress in language classes (Chichewa), group discussions, the composition of ethnographic field notes and substantial experiential learning in both rural and urban areas of Malawi. The program includes a rural village home stay with a Malawian family as well as immersion activities at a rural irrigation project, health center and secondary school. Excursions include trips to Lake Malawi, Dedza Mountain, the Chamare Museum at the KuNgoni Centre of Culture & Art as well as a 2 day safari in Liwonde National Park. The program fee includes 6 academic credits, language instruction, accommodations/village homestay and excursions. Program fee does not include airfare. Coursework includes essays, field notes, group discussions, and language exam participation in 8 hours of pre-departure and 4 hours of post-trip lectures. Enrollment is limited to 15 students per session and a special application is required.
ANT 416/ANT 2164 credits
No Audits
Medical Anthropology
* Dates subject to change, for additional information please call 585-275-8614.