Instructor: Dr. Elif Sari
Term 2
Tuesdays & Thursdays
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Description:
An anthropological exploration of how understandings of sex and gender are culturally and historically shaped.
ANTH 217: Culture and Communication
Instructor: Dr. Daisy Rosenblum
Term 1
Tuesdays & Thursdays
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Description:
The study of communication; the relation between communication and its cultural context with emphasis on verbal and non-verbal communication, cross-cultural communication, and cultural differences in the use of oral, literate, and electronic media.
ANTH 376: Diasporas and Belonging: Anthropological Perspectives
Instructor: Dr. Helena Zeweri
Term 1
Mondays & Wednesdays
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Description:
Examines how multiple generations of migrants find, build, and reimagine what community and belonging are beyond the confines of the nation-state. Centres ethnographies of diasporic identity and personhood. Recommended: at least one 200-level social science course (e.g. ANTH, SOCI, GEOG, POLI).
This course examines how migrants and refugees create community and identity in the aftermath of displacement. What new cultural formations emerge when a community is dispersed throughout the world? Through an anthropological perspective, students will learn about different communities’ experiences rediscovering their cultural identities, finding a sense of home, and building new communities across generations and places throughout the world. Students will explore case studies that unsettle fixed notions of belonging, thereby transcending nationalist imaginaries of citizenship, assimilation, and integration. We will explore these themes through oral histories, film, and ethnographies.
ANTH 303I: Archaeology of the Eastern Arctic
Instructor: Dr. Samantha Walker
Term 2
Tuesdays & Thursdays
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Description:
This course introduces students to the study of ancient and historic societies in the North American Arctic and Greenland, with emphasis on Pre-Dorset and Dorset (Paleo-Inuit), ancestral Inuit (Thule), and historic Inuit peoples. Students will emerge from the course with an understanding of the region’s culture history, how diverse societies emerged in challenging environments, and the analytical challenges specific to northern archaeological research. We will also consider emerging research directions in Arctic studies, including advancements in community-based participatory research, archaeological engagement with Inuit ways of knowing, ancient DNA and isotope analyses, climate change research, and the management of at-risk sites.
ANTH 303F: Sounding it Out: Music and the Making of Diasporic Life
Instructor: Dr. Lennon Mhishi
Term 2
Tuesdays and Thursdays
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Description:
Exploring the intersections of music and socio-cultural life in the negotiations of place and belonging in the African Diaspora. What is the place of music in the histories and formations of African diasporic consciousness and legibility? How do communities, through music, grapple with the afterlives of slavery and colonialism and create livingness in the face of multiple historical and contemporary challenges?
Sex, Love and Migration – Russian Translation (2024)
Sex, Love, and Migration
Postsocialism, Modernity. and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic
Alexia Bloch
Russian Translation published by Academic Studies Press (2024)
In a Wounded Land: Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania (2024)
Vinay Kamat