The is a representative list of courses offered by the department and should not be used for schedule planning. For accurate and up-to-date course listings and information, Duke students should log into ACES.
| Course | Title | Instructor | Section | Time | Room |
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CULANTH 80S |
Studies-special Topics | Kwon, June Hee | 01 | MW 04:40 PM-05:55 PM | White 106 |
Course DescriptionOpportunities for first-year students to engage with a specific issue in cultural anthropology, with emphasis on student writing. Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 80S |
Studies-special Topics | Dixon, Dwayne | 02 | TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM | Friedl Bdg 204 |
Course DescriptionOpportunities for first-year students to engage with a specific issue in cultural anthropology, with emphasis on student writing. Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 89S |
First-year Seminar (top) | Byerly, Ingrid Bianca | 01 | MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM | White 106 |
Course DescriptionTopics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 101 |
Intro To Cultural Anthro | Starn, Orin | 01 | TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM | White 107 |
Course DescriptionTheoretical approaches to analyzing cultural beliefs and practices cross-culturally; application of specific approaches to case material from present and/or past cultures. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 105 |
Intro To African Studies | Smith, Stephen | 01 | MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM | Social Sciences 139 |
Course DescriptionA range of disciplinary perspectives on key topics in contemporary African Studies: nationalism and pan-Africanism, imperialism and colonialism, genocide and famine, development and democratization, art and music, age and gender. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 106S |
Doc Exper: A Video Appr | Hawkins, Gary | 02 |
W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM F 10:05 AM-12:35 PM |
Bridges 104 |
Course DescriptionA documentary approach to the study of local communities through video production projects assigned by the course instructor. Working closely with these groups, students explore issues or topics of concern to the community. Students complete an edited video as their final project. Not open to students who have taken this course as Film/Video/Digital 105S. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Hawkins |
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CULANTH 137 |
Music/social Life/scenes | Byerly, Ingrid Bianca | 01 | MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM | Biddle 104 |
Course DescriptionStudy of musical styles and performance practices in relation to issues of identity and other aspects of social life; focus on the diverse local musical scenes and traditions and on learning through doing original fieldwork. Instructor: Meintjes |
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CULANTH 170D |
Advertising/society:global | O'Barr, William | 001 | MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM | White 107 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 170 except instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr |
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CULANTH 170D |
Advertising/society:global | O'Barr, William | 01D | Th 10:05 AM-10:55 AM | Crowell 106 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 170 except instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr |
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CULANTH 170D |
Advertising/society:global | O'Barr, William | 02D | Th 11:45 AM-12:35 PM | White 106 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 170 except instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr |
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CULANTH 170D |
Advertising/society:global | O'Barr, William | 03D | Th 01:25 PM-02:15 PM | Carr 136 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 170 except instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr |
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CULANTH 170D |
Advertising/society:global | O'Barr, William | 04D | Th 03:05 PM-03:55 PM | Carr 241 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 170 except instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr |
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CULANTH 170D |
Advertising/society:global | O'Barr, William | 05D | F 10:05 AM-10:55 AM | Carr 241 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 170 except instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr |
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CULANTH 170D |
Advertising/society:global | O'Barr, William | 06D | F 11:45 AM-12:35 PM | Friedl Bdg 118 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 170 except instruction is provided in lecture and discussion group each week. Instructor: O'Barr |
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CULANTH 195 |
Comp Appr Global Issues | Campoamor, Leigh | 01 | MWF 01:40 PM-02:30 PM | Biddle 101 |
Course DescriptionIntroduction to critical transnational studies through several disciplinary approaches. Examines capitalism and neo-liberal globalization and their relationships to culture, politics, economics, and other social forms and outcomes; considers transnationalism "from below"; addresses linear and Western-centric thinking about progress and modernity; focuses a historical lens on political discourses, institutions, and projects to understand them contextually; demonstrates how cultures and identities are dynamically constituted in interaction with historical, material, political, and situational factors; considers how different inequalities and contestations inflect most social formations. Instructor: Hasso and Campoamor |
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CULANTH 202 |
Languages Of The World | Baran, Dominika | 01 | WF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM | Gray 228 |
Course DescriptionThe major languages of the world viewed in the context of the communicative and significate functions of language as parameters that shape and define society. The role of language in defining and structuring culturally-based relationships from a semiotic point of view. The structure, writing systems, phonology, morphology, and lexicon of languages from the following groups: Indo-European, Semitic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Caucasian, Afroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Kordofanian, Dravidian, and Native American languages. Instructor: Andrews or Tetel |
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CULANTH 203 |
Marxism And Society | Hardt, Michael | 01 | MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM | Friedl Bdg 107 |
Course DescriptionIntroduction to Marx's core concepts, such as alienation, commodity, and revolution. Includes examination of Marx's own major historical & political analyses, his economic texts, and his philosophical writings. Students also gain familiarity with the role of Marxist thought in different fields and disciplines, including feminist theory, anthropology, history, political science, and literary studies. Instructor: Hardt |
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CULANTH 204 |
Self And Society | Thornburg, Aaron | 01 | TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM | Perkins 2-071 |
Course DescriptionThe nature of human social identities, the contexts in which they are shaped, and the processes by which they change. May include an optional service-learning component. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 205 |
The Law And Language | Newcity, Michael | 01 | TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM | Friedl Bdg 126 |
Course DescriptionIntersections of language and law and legal institutions examined from a comparative approach, i.e., official state language and national identity; freedom of speech and its limitations; language as property |
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CULANTH 206 |
Anthropology Of Law | Sobel-Read, Kevin | 01 | TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM | Friedl Bdg 107 |
Course DescriptionComparative approach to jurisprudence and legal practice, dispute resolution, law-making institutions and processes, and the relation of law to politics, culture, and values. Instructor: O'Barr |
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CULANTH 214S |
Shamanism & Spirit Posession | Freeman, John | 01 | TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM | Crowell 108 |
Course DescriptionAnthropological, psychological, and Religious Studies approaches to cross-cultural study of spirit possession and shamanism. Examination of in-depth case-studies and comparative works, from both literate civilizations and non-literate cultures. Engage with contemporary concerns with nature and boundaries of personhood and embodiment and their relation to leadership. Instructor: Freeman |
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CULANTH 216S |
Global Migration & Ethics | McIntosh, Laurie | 01 | TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM | West Duke 107F |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 216 except in seminar format. Offered through Duke Immerse Program. Instructor consent required.. Instructor: McIntosh |
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CULANTH 236S |
Farmworkers In Nc: Poverty | Sims, Christopher | 01 | Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM | Bridges 201 |
Course DescriptionFocus upon those who bring food to our tables, particularly those who labor in the fields of North Carolina and the Southeast. Farm work from the plantation system and slavery to sharecropping, and to the migrant and seasonal farmworker population today. Documentary work and its contributions to farmworker advocacy. Instructor: Thompson |
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CULANTH 290 |
Current Issues (topics) | Ryan, Michael | 02 | TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM | Soc/Psych 126 |
Course DescriptionSelected topics in methodology, theory, or area. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 290 |
Current Issues (topics) | Smith, Stephen | 03 | MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM | White 107 |
Course DescriptionSelected topics in methodology, theory, or area. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 290S |
Current Issues (topics) | Mhando, Lindah | 01 | WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM | Languages 207 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 290 except instruction is provided in seminar format. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 290S |
Current Issues (topics) | Dua, Jatin | 03 | M 06:15 PM-08:45 PM | Friedl Bdg 204 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 290 except instruction is provided in seminar format. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 290S |
Current Issues (topics) | El-Shaarawi, Nadia | 04 | MWF 03:20 PM-04:10 PM | West Duke 106 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 290 except instruction is provided in seminar format. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 290S |
Current Issues (topics) | Matza, Tomas | 05 | MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM | White 201 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 290 except instruction is provided in seminar format. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 290S |
Current Issues (topics) | Jouili, Jeanette | 06 | MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM | White 201 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 290 except instruction is provided in seminar format. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 290S |
Current Issues (topics) | O'Barr, William | 11 | M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM | Friedl Bdg 216 |
Course DescriptionSame as Cultural Anthropology 290 except instruction is provided in seminar format. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 301 |
Theoretical Foundations | Makhulu, Anne-Maria | 01 | WF 08:30 AM-09:45 AM | Friedl Bdg 204 |
Course DescriptionMajor schools and theories of cultural anthropology. Open to seniors and juniors. Sophomores by permission only. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 302 |
Fieldwork Methods | Wesolowski, Katya | 01 | WF 11:45 AM-01:00 PM | Friedl Bdg 204 |
Course DescriptionAnthropology as a discipline (a field of study) and the site where anthropologists work: the field. Combines theories of anthropological fieldwork methods with practice, including participation, observation, and interviews. Students undertake original research in a local fieldsite of their choice and produce their own mini-ethnography. This requirement may also be satisfied by taking Cultural Anthropology 290A Duke in Ghana Anthropological Field Research. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 307 |
Development And Africa | Piot, Charles | 01 | TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM | Friedl Bdg 107 |
Course DescriptionAddresses the vexed issue of economic development in Africa - its many failures, its occasional successes - from the early colonial period to the present. Focuses especially on the transition from the 1960s "modernizing |
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CULANTH 308T |
Borderwork(s): Home/walls | Kirk, Robin | 01 | F 01:25 PM-03:25 PM | Smith B189 |
Course DescriptionBorderWork(s)lab course. Working in teams, students research specific questions related to walls, human rights and the ways communities shape the divisions in their lives; we start by looking at walls and partitions around us in Durham and in places like Belfast, Northern Ireland, then at divisions in other contemporary societies like Israel and the Occupied Territories, India/Pakistan, and North Africa. Instructor: Kirk |
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CULANTH 309S |
Food And The Body | Solomon, Harris | 01 | W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM | Friedl Bdg 204 |
Course DescriptionInvestigation into social, cultural, and political connections between food and body. Connections approached from two perspectives: The relationship between food and culture, and how the body is key to that relationship. Specific themes include: food and cultural identity; nationalism and eating; social class and taste; global food production; gender and eating disorders; politics of organic and local foods; and the rise of obesity. Instructor: Solomon |
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CULANTH 333S |
The Wire | Makhulu, Anne-Maria | 01 | W 06:15 PM-08:45 PM | Friedl Bdg 216 |
Course DescriptionExamines all 60 episodes of the HBO series "The Wire." Described as "socially robust" by one television scholar, the series dramatizes the real world experiences of poor, mostly African American, residents of Baltimore struggling to survive by way of the underground drug economy, while city officials and the police department strive to bring the illegal trade in check. The course brings all 60 episodes into conversation with relevant texts in anthropology, sociology, cultural geography, queer and literary theory. Requirements include weekly blog entries and a final keyword project. Students should have background in interpretive social science and social theory. Instructor consent required. Instructor: Makhulu |
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CULANTH 364S |
Minor Japan | Ching, Leo | 01 | Th 01:25 PM-03:55 PM | Trent 142 |
Course DescriptionExamine the history and experiences of marginalized peoples in Japan from the Ainu to ethnic Koreans, from queer to the Okinawans, to challenge the myth of racial and ethnic homogeneity and sexual heteronormativity. Enhance understanding about cultural and artistic productions by reading a variety of texts, including fiction, oral histories, philosophical treatises, and films. Instructor: Ching |
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CULANTH 366 |
Trauma In Asia | Ginsburg, Shai | 01 | Th 12:00 PM-03:00 PM | Franklin Center 230/232 |
Course DescriptionSpace and Trauma across Asia. Introduces theoretical framework of "trauma discourse;" examines how the experience of space in Asia broadly defined has shaped historical traumas, which have marked the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. Focus on Israel/Palestine, India/Pakistan, China/Taiwan, Japan/Korea; examine how critical terms originating in one historico-geographical context are translated across geographical boundaries. Instructor: Kwon, Ginsburg |
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CULANTH 397S |
Language In Immigrant America | Baran, Dominika | 01 | WF 11:45 AM-01:00 PM | Languages 207 |
Course DescriptionDiscussion of issues of language in the context of immigration in the United States, from the turn of the 20th century until the present, combining approaches from literature, memoirs, language policy, media studies, and linguistic anthropology. Some fieldwork in an immigrant community. Topics include: identity, assimilation, race, bilingual communities, bilingual education, foreign accents, language contact. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 399S |
Global Russia | Lind-Guzik, Anna | 01 |
W 01:25 PM-02:40 PM F 01:25 PM-02:40 PM |
Allen 306 |
Course DescriptionGlobalization of Russian culture as manifested in popular and academic cultural forms, including political ideologies, media and artistic texts, film, theater and television, markets, educational and legal institutions, historical and contemporary social movements. Examination of ethical issues in context of such topics as the relationship between church and state; the evolution of a totalitarian government into a democratic state; reproductive rights; the struggle against corruption in education, finance, police force; the role of censorship; views of citizenship, patriotism, valor, and treason; historical perspectives on prison camps, abuses of psychiatry. Instructor: Andrews |
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CULANTH 423 |
Sex And Money | Allison, Anne | 01 | MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM | Friedl Bdg 204 |
Course DescriptionSexual practices that involve transactions of money in different cultural and historical settings, including "regular" marriage practices that involve exchanges of money and goods as well as extramarital practices where one party is selling bodily acts. Examination of the ethics and politics of these exchanges questioning who benefits from them (and who not) and how to also assess other bodily transactions including prostitution and surrogacy. Reading materials on sexual practices in different cultural contexts (including Tonga, Thailand, Brazil, India, Ghana, China, Japan, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia). Comparisons made in terms of culture, religion, ethical systems, politics, and economy. Instructor: Allison |
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CULANTH 424T |
Medical Anthropology | Solomon, Harris | 01 | WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM | Friedl Bdg 126 |
Course DescriptionCross cultural experiences and understanding of health and illness, the body and non-biological aspects of medicine. Culture-specific sickness (like envidia, running amok, attention deficit disorder). Class, race, and gender inflected experiences of health. Various societies' organization of health care specialists, including biomedical doctors, voudon priestesses, and shamans. Instructor: Davis |
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CULANTH 425 |
Globalzation/anti-globalzation | Trott, Ben | 01 | TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM | Friedl Bdg 204 |
Course DescriptionThe politics and process of globalization in light of the responses, ideologies, and practices of the anti-globalization movement. Focus on the interrelationship between the analysis of globalization and policy formulation on such topics as social justice, labor, migration, poverty, natural resource management, and citizenship. Case studies from the United States, Latin America, South and East Asia, Africa, and Europe. Instructor: Litzinger |
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CULANTH 434S |
Cultures Of New Media | Stein, Rebecca | 01 | M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM | Friedl Bdg 118 |
Course DescriptionAnthropological look at `new media |
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CULANTH 490S |
Special Topics | Hayles, Katherine | 01 | M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM | Friedl Bdg 102 |
Course DescriptionAdvanced Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology. Instructor: Staff |
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CULANTH 499S |
Senior Distinction Seminar | Settle, Heather | 01 | W 06:15 PM-08:45 PM | Friedl Bdg 204 |
Course DescriptionContinuation of Cultural Anthropology 498S, and required for credit for 498S. Consent of director of undergraduate studies required. Instructor: Staff |
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