Sociocultural Anthro.

Fall 2013

Sociocultural Anthropology

Listed in: Anthropology and Sociology, as ANTH-112

Formerly listed as: ANTH-12

Faculty

Deborah B. Gewertz (Section 01)

Description

An examination of theory and method in social anthropology as applied in the analysis of specific societies. The course will focus on case studies of societies from different ethnographic areas.

Fall semester. Professor Gewertz.

Course times and locations

ANTH 112 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 01:00 PM - 02:20 PM FAYE 115
Th 01:00 PM - 02:20 PM FAYE 115

Textbooks

Below are the textbooks used in this course, along with pricing information and availability at local bookstores. The price range shown is based upon queries to multiple online booksellers; click on the the price field to see detailed pricing information.

ISBN	Title	Publisher	Author(s)	Comment	Book Store	Price
0133949737	House of Lim	Prentice Hall, 1960	Margery Wolf		Amherst Books	TBD
0192853465	Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction	Oxford University Press, 2000	Peter Just and John Monaghan		Amherst Books	TBD
0226461009	Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes		Don Kulick		Amherst Books	TBD
0520262085	Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande		Garcia		Amherst Books	TBD
0520276345	The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the 21st Centure		Frederick Errington, Tatsuro Fujikura, and Deborah Gewertz		Amherst Books	TBD
0691120773	Nuclear Borderlands: the Manhattan Project in Post Cold-War New Mexico	Princeton University Press, 2006	Joseph Masco		Amherst Books	TBD
0804774064	On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation	Stanford University Press, 2011	Niko Besnier		Amherst Books	TBD
0812217594	Love & Honor in the Himalyas	Pennsylvania Univ Press 2001	Ernestine McHugh		Amherst Books	TBD

These books are available locally at Amherst Books.

Offerings

2022-23: Offered in Fall 2022
Other years: Offered in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2024