Ph.D. Anthropology

Bachelor's degree

In Princeton (USA)

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  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Princeton (USA)

The Department of Anthropology prepares students for knowledgeable teaching and significant original research in sociocultural anthropology, also enabling them to bring anthropological concepts, findings, and approaches to bear on cross-disciplinary scholarship, public understanding, and public policy. The Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology is the final degree in the graduate program.

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  • Social Theory
  • Poetry
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Course programme

ANT 500 Responsible Conduct of Research in Sociocultural Anthropology A half-term seminar-style course covering the elements of the responsible conduct of research (RCR) for sociocultural anthropologists, including: fieldwork; teaching, mentoring, and assessment; publication and peer review, intellectual property; funding. Required of all Anthropology graduate students, beginning with second-years; open to students in other departments seeking RCR certification in a course designed for ethnographers. Completion satisfies the University RCR training requirement.

ANT 501 Proseminar in Anthropology A two-term survey of major anthropological writings, primarily for first-year graduate students.

ANT 502 Proseminar in Anthropology A two-term survey of major anthropological writings, primarily for first-year graduate students.

ANT 503A Co-seminar in Anthropology (Half-Term) What theoretical approaches are available to ethnographers for making sense of race and inequality? This class places Critical Race Theory in conversation with foundational anthropological theories of race and ethnicity. Students in this course explore the usefulness of contemporary legal theory, structuralism, pragmatism, Marxian analysis, and interpretivism for understanding and writing about race and difference.

ANT 503B Co-seminar in Anthropology (Half-Term) In this course, we situate economic anthropology as a subfield of anthropology in the context of developments in political economy, social theory, and anthropology writ large. We read: classic works that reveal the rationality of 'primitive' society, attempts to use economic theory to analyze 'primitive' economies, the formalist-substantivist debate with Karl Polanyi at the center, as well as approaches to economic anthropology from the 1970s and onward (structuralist Marxist economic anthropology, feminist economic anthropology, and new approaches to markets after Latour).

ANT 505 Field Research Practicum This seminar alternates reading discussions and workshopping to explore the ethics, politics, and practice of ethnographic fieldwork. It considers questions about evidence, research spaces (e.g., "the field"), researchers' relations with diverse interlocutors, and 'method' itself. Students' local field projects are bases for workshop meetings on participant observation, the interview/conversation distinction, and record-keeping, as well as for critical reflection on credibility claims, scale, subject position, representation/reception, improvisation and collaboration in ethnographic practice in anthropology and neighboring disciplines.

ANT 521 Topics in Theory and Practice of Anthropology A selected topic in anthropology is studied, the particular choice varies from year to year.

ANT 521A Topics in Theory & Practice (Half-Term) Theories of the intersubjective developed in modern clinical psychoanalysis are brought to bear on interlocution-based ethnographic field research. How do key concepts such as object relations, transference and countertransference, and the intersubjective third help us understand how insight is produced in the relation of ethnographers to their interlocuters, and how does the experience of fieldwork itself lead to certain knowledge claims? This course concentrates on insights from the different psychoanalytic schools that have followed Freud's original work.

ANT 521B Topics in Theory & Practice (Half-Term) This course extends the work of ANT 521a by focusing on collective or group rather than individual processes of meaning making. The course considers some key pschoanalytic contributions to understanding contemporary processes of group formation and dissolution. It focuses on changing relations to thinking, to objects, to new media, and to ideology in the constructed human environment. In contrast to 521a, where the focus is on intersubjectivity in self formation, this course relates insights of intrapsychic and interpersonal to groups beyond/outside the family and kin, to collective forms of belonging.

ANT 522 Topics in Theory and Practice of Anthropology A selected topic in anthropology is studied; the particular choice varies from year to year.

ANT 522A Topics in Theory and Practice of Anthropology (Half-Term) A brief introduction the anthropology of language, focusing on examples from law and politics. Course begins with basic methods for analyzing language emerging from recent developments in anthropology, focusing particularly on tools for examining how language works in social contexts (e.g., language pragmatics, metapragmatics, linguistic ideology), then considers ethnographies of language in legal contexts which used these tools to give insights into the vital role of language in law. Students who have already done fieldwork may consider applying linguistic anthropological approaches to their own ethnographic materials. A six-week course.

ANT 522B Topics in Theory and Practice of Anthropology (Half-Term) This 6-week course for graduate students will focus on recent key theoretical and ethnographic texts on gender and sexuality. Recent research in clinical psychoanalytic, linguistics and rhetoric, and anthropology have opened up new ways of understanding attachment, gender identification, and cultural context in the shaping of sexuality. This course will explore this literature, with the primary concern the utility of these frames for ethnographic research.

EAS 549 Japan Anthropology in Historical Perspective (also

ANT 549

) The course concerns Japan studies in the context of theories of capitalism, personhood, democracy, gender, and modernity. The thematic focus this term is on health and medicine as they intertwine with social and cultural processes. Topics include: cultural variability of diagnosis and bio-medical practices; how biotechnologies shape and are shaped by social relationships; the containment of medicalization by received notions of kinship, gender, and national identity; conceptions of life itself; and models of public health and the containment of harmful behavior. Reading selections include material on Japan, China, and India.

EAS 550 Topics in Social Theory and East Asia (also

ANT 550

) An introduction to classical social theory and an exploration of new directions in historical and social science literatures on East Asia. Weber's copnstruction of capitalism, Durkheim's notion of society, and Marx's concept of ideology all continue to inform contemporary East Asian studies; in turn, East Asian Studies has also been central to demonstrationg the Eurocentrism of many of these theories.

POR 562 Luso-Brazilian Seminar (also

LAS 562

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ANT 562

)
To suit the particular interests of the students and the instructor, an intensive study of a subject chosen from either Portuguese or Brazilian literature, such as the Cancioneiros and the origins of lyric poetry in Galicia and Portugal, the theater of Gil Vicente, Camões and Os Lusiadas, the fiction of Eça de Queiroz, the poetry of Fernando Pessoa, the novel of the Brazilian Northeast, or recent trends in Brazilian poetry, culminating in the concretistas of São Paulo.

Ph.D. Anthropology

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