Anthropology|

Courses:

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

ANTHR 1101 - FWS: Culture, Society, and Power

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)

Biological Anthropology:

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