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Jun 08, 2025
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Courses of Study 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Anthropology|
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Introductory Courses:
Each of these introductory courses provides an introduction to one of the subfields of anthropology. They do not form a sequence; students can take them in any order and at any point during their time at Cornell. Sociocultural Anthropology:
- ANTHR 1400 - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
- ANTHR 1520 - Tamil Conversation in Context
- ANTHR 1700 - Indigenous North America (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 1900 - [Global Engagements: Living and Working in a Diverse World] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2104 - Palestine and the Palestinians (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2400 - Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues
- ANTHR 2410 - South Asian Diaspora (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2415 - Anthropology of Iran (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2420 - Nature-Culture: Ethnographic Approaches to Human Environment Relations (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2421 - Worlding Sex and Gender (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2424 - Culture and Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANTHR 2430 - The Rise and Fall of Civilization (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2433 - [Anthropology of Law and Politics]
- ANTHR 2437 - Economy, Power, and Inequality (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2440 - The Social Life of Money
- ANTHR 2465 - Global Heritage (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2468 - Medicine, Culture, and Society (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2470 - [Islam and Gender] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2482 - Anthropology of Climate Change (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2546 - South Asian Religions in Practice: The Healing Traditions (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2720 - [From the Swampy Land: Indigenous People of the Ithaca Area] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2721 - Introduction to the Anthropology of Latine Communities (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2846 - Magic and Witchcraft in the Greco-Roman World (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3000 - Introduction to Anthropological Theory
- ANTHR 3061 - [Computing Cultures] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3110 - [Documentary Production Fundamentals] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3152 - Peasant Economies and Ecologies
- ANTHR 3402 - Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3405 - Multicultural Issues in Education (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3409 - Telling Jewish Stories (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3413 - [Anthropology of Global Health]
- ANTHR 3416 - The Barbarians (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3420 - [Myth, Ritual, and Symbol] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3422 - Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3428 - [Conflict, Dispute Resolution, and Law in Cultural Context]
- ANTHR 3430 - Heat Waves and Global Health: Environmental Justice and Social Autopsy in London and Beyond
- ANTHR 3437 - [Brave New World, 21st Century Authoritarianism]
- ANTHR 3443 - Anthropology of Children
- ANTHR 3458 - [Specters: Derrida, Marx, and Other Ghosts] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3465 - Anthropology of the Body (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3474 - Infrastructure (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3476 - [Anthropology and Friends: Philosophy and Psychology]
- ANTHR 3479 - [Culture, Language, and Thought]
- ANTHR 3487 - [Racial Capitalism]
- ANTHR 3520 - [Kingship and State-Making in Asia] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3552 - Genocide Today: The Erasure of Cultures (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3590 - [Heritage, History, and Identity in Cambodia] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3612 - Histories of Afghanistan (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3680 - [Islam and the Ethnographic Imagination] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3703 - [Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3745 - Medicine, Biomedicine, and Latine-x Communities (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3762 - [Law, Latinxs, Illegality] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4013 - [Textual Ethnography] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4030 - [The Caucasus: Captives, Cultures, Conflicts] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4100 - Public Service Capstone
- ANTHR 4101 - [The Entangled Lives of Humans and Animals] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4139 - Global Currents: Immobility and Multi-Sited Ethnography (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4143 - Ruins of Modernity (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4176 - Humanitarian Affects (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4182 - Disturbing Settlement (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4186 - Textures of Friendship: Ethics, Politics, Crossings (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4401 - [Advanced Documentary Production] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4402 - [Anthropology of Education] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4403 - [Ethnographic Field Methods]
- ANTHR 4407 - [Hasidism: History, Community, Thought] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4413 - [Walter Benjamin] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4416 - It’s the End of the World As We Know It (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4418 - Writing Ethnography: Theory, Genre and Practice
- ANTHR 4419 - [Anthropology of Corporations]
- ANTHR 4424 - [Ethnographic Film Theory and History]
- ANTHR 4432 - [Queer Theory and Kinship Studies] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4434 - [Ethnoracial Identity in Anthropology, Language, and Law] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4435 - Postcolonial Science (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4437 - Ethnographies of Development
- ANTHR 4442 - [Toxicity] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4448 - Death, Dying, and the Dead (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4458 - [Girls, Women, and Education in Global Perspective: Feminist Ethnography and Praxis] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4465 - [Language Ideologies and Practices] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4467 - Self and Subjectivity
- ANTHR 4476 - [Carceral Worlds: Policing, Prisons, and Securitization]
- ANTHR 4478 - [Taboo and Pollution]
- ANTHR 4489 - [Theory and Anthropology from Below: Special Topics]
- ANTHR 4499 - [Primitive Accumulation]
- ANTHR 4513 - [Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4516 - Power, Society, and Culture in Southeast Asia
- ANTHR 4520 - Society and Culture in the Nilgiris: Engaged Research in Rural South India
- ANTHR 4530 - Mental Health, Healing Systems, Community-Based Care: Resilience in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
- ANTHR 4620 - [Jewish Cities] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4637 - Shi’ism: Poetics and Politics (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4659 - The Idea of Biblical Israel (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4682 - Medicine and Healing in Africa (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4725 - [American Indian Lands and Sovereignties]
- ANTHR 4733 - The Lower East Side: Jews and the Immigrant City (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4774 - [Indigenous Spaces and Materiality] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4790 - [Latinx Education Across the Americas] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7774 - [Indigenous Spaces and Materiality] (crosslisted)
Anthropological Archaeology:
- ANTHR 1200 - Ancient Peoples and Places (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2010 - Archaeology of Mesopotamia (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2235 - Archaeology of Indigenous North America (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2245 - Health and Disease in the Ancient World (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2285 - [Egyptomania? Egypt and the Greco-Roman World] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2729 - [Climate, Archaeology and History] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3000 - Introduction to Anthropological Theory
- ANTHR 3040 - Merchants, Migrants, Barbarians, Pirates (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3200 - Heritage Forensics (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3210 - [Historical Archaeology: Capitalism, Colonialism, Race, Gender] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3230 - [Humans and Animals] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3235 - Bioarchaeology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3245 - [Across the Seas: Contacts between the Americas and the Old World Before Columbus] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3248 - Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3255 - [Ancient Mexico and Central America] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3256 - [Ancient Civilizations of the Andes] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4005 - Archaeology of Slavery and Indenture (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4020 - Smoking Guns or Smoke and Mirrors? Science and Archaeology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4152 - Plantations (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4200 - Field Methods in Community-Engaged Archaeology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4216 - [Maya History] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4222 - [Archaeological Ethics] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4225 - [The Prehistory of Power: Archaeological Visions of the Political] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4227 - Embodiment of Inequality: A Bioarchaeological Perspective (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4231 - Fakes and the Authentic: Connoisseurship, Value, and Judgement (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4235 - [Meaningful Stuff: Interpreting Material Culture] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4240 - Collecting Culture: Museums and Anthropology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4246 - [Human Osteology] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4250 - Archaeological Research Design (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4254 - [Themes in Mediterranean Archaeology] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4256 - [Time and History in Ancient Mexico] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4257 - [The Archaeology of Houses and Households] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4263 - Zooarchaeological Method (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4264 - Zooarchaeological Interpretation (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4272 - Archaeology of Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6040 - Merchants, Migrants, Barbarians, Pirates (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7020 - Smoking Guns or Smoke and Mirrors? Science and Archaeology (crosslisted)
Honors, Field Research, and Independent Study:
Graduate Seminars:
- ANTHR 6020 - History of Anthropological Thought
- ANTHR 6025 - Proseminar in Anthropology
- ANTHR 6100 - [Borders Belonging Technoscience] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6101 - [Sense, Movement, Sociality] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6102 - Political Culture (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6110 - [Documentary Production Fundamentals] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6152 - Peasant Economies and Ecologies
- ANTHR 6210 - [Historical Archaeology: Capitalism, Colonialism, Race, Gender] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6230 - [Humans and Animals] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6235 - Bioarchaeology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6245 - [Across the Seas: Contacts between the Americas and the Old World Before Columbus] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6248 - Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6250 - Archaeological Research Design (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6255 - [Ancient Mexico and Central America] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6256 - [Maya History] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6301 - Social Theory (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6403 - [Ethnographic Field Methods]
- ANTHR 6408 - [Conflict, Dispute Resolution, and Law in Cultural Context]
- ANTHR 6413 - [Anthropology of Global Health]
- ANTHR 6416 - The Barbarians (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6422 - Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6424 - [Ethnoracial Identity in Anthropology, Language, and Law] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6430 - Concepts and Categories in Theory and Practice
- ANTHR 6437 - [Brave New World, 21st Century Authoritarianism]
- ANTHR 6440 - Proposal Development
- ANTHR 6443 - Anthropology of Children
- ANTHR 6458 - [Specters: Derrida, Marx, and Other Ghosts] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6465 - [Bodies and Bodiliness] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6474 - Infrastructure (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6475 - [Culture, Language, and Thought]
- ANTHR 6476 - [Anthropology and Friends: Philosophy and Psychology]
- ANTHR 6482 - [Perspectives on the Nation]
- ANTHR 6487 - [Racial Capitalism]
- ANTHR 6516 - Power, Society, and Culture in Southeast Asia
- ANTHR 6552 - Genocide Today: The Erasure of Cultures (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6590 - [Heritage, History, and Identity in Cambodia] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6612 - Histories of Afghanistan (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6680 - [Islam and the Ethnographic Imagination] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6703 - [Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6729 - [Climate, Archaeology and History] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6762 - [Law, Latinxs, Illegality] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6880 - Proseminar in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7005 - Archaeology of Slavery and Indenture (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7013 - [Textual Ethnography] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7030 - [The Caucasus: Captives, Cultures, Conflicts] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7139 - Global Currents: Immobility and Multi-Sited Ethnography (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7143 - Ruins of Modernity (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7152 - Plantations (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7176 - Humanitarian Affects (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7182 - Disturbing Settlement (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7186 - Textures of Friendship: Ethics, Politics, Crossings (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7200 - Field Methods in Community-Engaged Archaeology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7222 - [Archaeological Ethics] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7225 - [The Prehistory of Power: Archaeological Visions of the Political] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7227 - Embodiment of Inequality: A Bioarchaeological Perspective (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7231 - Fakes and the Authentic: Connoisseurship, Value, and Judgement (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7432 - [Queer Theory and Kinship Studies] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7235 - [Meaningful Stuff: Interpreting Material Culture] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7240 - Collecting Culture: Museums and Anthropology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7246 - [Human Osteology] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7250 - [Time and History in Ancient Mexico] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7254 - [Themes in Mediterranean Archaeology] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7256 - [Ancient Civilizations of the Andes] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7257 - [The Archaeology of Houses and Households] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7263 - Zooarchaeological Method (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7264 - Zooarchaeological Interpretation (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7272 - Archaeology of Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7401 - [Advanced Documentary Production] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7402 - [Anthropology of Education] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7407 - [Hasidism: History, Community, Thought] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7413 - [Walter Benjamin] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7416 - It’s the End of the World As We Know It (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7418 - Writing Ethnography: Theory, Genre and Practice
- ANTHR 7419 - [Anthropology of Corporations]
- ANTHR 7424 - [Ethnographic Film Theory and History]
- ANTHR 7435 - Postcolonial Science
- ANTHR 7437 - Ethnographies of Development
- ANTHR 7442 - [Toxicity] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7448 - Death, Dying, and the Dead (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7458 - [Girls, Women, and Education in Global Perspective: Feminist Ethnography and Praxis] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7467 - Self and Subjectivity
- ANTHR 7476 - [Carceral Worlds: Policing, Prisons, and Securitization]
- ANTHR 7478 - [Taboo and Pollution]
- ANTHR 7489 - [Theory and Anthropology from Below: Special Topics]
- ANTHR 7499 - [Primitive Accumulation]
- ANTHR 7513 - [Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7520 - Southeast Asia: Readings in Special Problems
- ANTHR 7530 - South Asia: Readings in Special Problems
- ANTHR 7540 - Problems in Himalayan Studies
- ANTHR 7550 - East Asia: Readings in Special Problems
- ANTHR 7620 - [Jewish Cities] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7637 - Shi’ism: Poetics and Politics (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7659 - The Idea of Biblical Israel (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7682 - Medicine and Healing in Africa (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7725 - [American Indian Lands and Sovereignties]
- ANTHR 7758 - Archaeology of Greek Religion: Theory, Methods, and Practice (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7790 - [Latinx Education Across the Americas] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7900 - Department of Anthropology Colloquium
- ANTHR 7910 - Independent Study: Grad I
- ANTHR 7920 - Independent Study: Grad II
- ANTHR 7930 - Independent Study: Grad III
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