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brigdhSchool started yesterday! I am so not prepared. Still, here are the courses I'm taking for this, my very last (at least of coursework), semester:
Professionalization Seminar Archaeology
The archaeology professionalization seminar is open to faculty and students with interests in archaeology and related disciplines. All students enrolled in the Department of Anthropology Archaeology program are required to enroll in the seminar for one semester and attend throughout their career in the department. The seminar will be taught by members of the archaeology faculty. Among the topics that may be addressed are effective grant writing, constructive critique and peer review, ethical issues in publication and matters of cultural property, issues surrounding research permits and organizing inter-disciplinary and collaborative research, strategies for successfully applying for positions and procedures of potential employers, construction and design of course outlines for teaching, job options in academic and non-academic settings, presentation of papers at conferences or meetings, and ways to achieve a balance between research and life outside of archaeology.
Visual Cultures of South Asia
The Indian subcontinent is iconic, perhaps even cliched, for its rich and varied visual traditions from calendar art to Mughal miniatures, from monumental architecture to Bollywood films This course examines the diverse visual forms and practices of the region – expanding beyond conventional media such as painting, photography, or film [which will be addressed] to include [but not limited to] architecture, clothing, museums and festivals Rather than taking it for granted, the course begins with a critical examination of the concept of “visual culture,” and explores the analytical and theoretical possibilities of such a framework. What do we learn about South Asia by focusing on visual rather than textual regimes of knowledge? How do South Asian visual practices and ideologies articulate with and/or challenge the general theorizing about visual culture? How are the debates around the constitution of a unique aesthetic and the assertion of an uniquely “Indian” way of seeing situated historically and politically? By virtue of the subject matter and the nature of scholarship, the course readings will be very interdisciplinary in nature. However, the course will be anthropological in its overall inquiry – concerned with the questions of everyday life, social practice, material culture, cultural production, politics, and ethnographic practice.
The Near East and South Asia: Warfare, Trade, and Technology
In this course, we are going to focus on cultural interaction in the Near East and South Asia from the mid-third to early second millennia B.C. Our geographic scope will include ancient Mesopotamia and the Indus Civilization as core areas, as well as other cultures throughout Iran, the Arabian peninsula and Central Asia. The evidence is archaeological and textual. We will read what scholars have had to say about this interaction, the ways in which they believe it drew these regions together or pulled them apart and its significance in the development of early states and civilizations. The concepts used in these works center around the terms warfare, diplomacy, alliances, trade, emulation, colonization, diffusion, the transfer of technologies, worldviews, and any other undefined forms. Our quest is to come to collective and individual understandings of the significance of cultural interaction during the mid-third and early second millennia B.C. and the relevance of concepts employed by scholars. It's a fascinating period of history, when an entire world was created in which for the first time, people from cultures that had been isolated politically and socially engaged in face-to-face contact.
And I am TA'ing 'Paleolithic Archaeology'. I know nothing about it! Good times.
Professionalization Seminar Archaeology
The archaeology professionalization seminar is open to faculty and students with interests in archaeology and related disciplines. All students enrolled in the Department of Anthropology Archaeology program are required to enroll in the seminar for one semester and attend throughout their career in the department. The seminar will be taught by members of the archaeology faculty. Among the topics that may be addressed are effective grant writing, constructive critique and peer review, ethical issues in publication and matters of cultural property, issues surrounding research permits and organizing inter-disciplinary and collaborative research, strategies for successfully applying for positions and procedures of potential employers, construction and design of course outlines for teaching, job options in academic and non-academic settings, presentation of papers at conferences or meetings, and ways to achieve a balance between research and life outside of archaeology.
Visual Cultures of South Asia
The Indian subcontinent is iconic, perhaps even cliched, for its rich and varied visual traditions from calendar art to Mughal miniatures, from monumental architecture to Bollywood films This course examines the diverse visual forms and practices of the region – expanding beyond conventional media such as painting, photography, or film [which will be addressed] to include [but not limited to] architecture, clothing, museums and festivals Rather than taking it for granted, the course begins with a critical examination of the concept of “visual culture,” and explores the analytical and theoretical possibilities of such a framework. What do we learn about South Asia by focusing on visual rather than textual regimes of knowledge? How do South Asian visual practices and ideologies articulate with and/or challenge the general theorizing about visual culture? How are the debates around the constitution of a unique aesthetic and the assertion of an uniquely “Indian” way of seeing situated historically and politically? By virtue of the subject matter and the nature of scholarship, the course readings will be very interdisciplinary in nature. However, the course will be anthropological in its overall inquiry – concerned with the questions of everyday life, social practice, material culture, cultural production, politics, and ethnographic practice.
The Near East and South Asia: Warfare, Trade, and Technology
In this course, we are going to focus on cultural interaction in the Near East and South Asia from the mid-third to early second millennia B.C. Our geographic scope will include ancient Mesopotamia and the Indus Civilization as core areas, as well as other cultures throughout Iran, the Arabian peninsula and Central Asia. The evidence is archaeological and textual. We will read what scholars have had to say about this interaction, the ways in which they believe it drew these regions together or pulled them apart and its significance in the development of early states and civilizations. The concepts used in these works center around the terms warfare, diplomacy, alliances, trade, emulation, colonization, diffusion, the transfer of technologies, worldviews, and any other undefined forms. Our quest is to come to collective and individual understandings of the significance of cultural interaction during the mid-third and early second millennia B.C. and the relevance of concepts employed by scholars. It's a fascinating period of history, when an entire world was created in which for the first time, people from cultures that had been isolated politically and socially engaged in face-to-face contact.
And I am TA'ing 'Paleolithic Archaeology'. I know nothing about it! Good times.
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