Guided individual student research covering the relationship between theory, methods, and reality: how to better design anthropological inquiry.

Guided individual student research covering the relationship between theory, methods, and reality: how to better design anthropological inquiry.

Guided individual student research covering the relationship between theory, methods, and reality: how to better design anthropological inquiry.

The course introduces students to the various applications of anthropological theory and ethnographic research methods in contemporary institutional settings, including businesses, government, and non- governmental organizations. Students will investigate the concept of organization from an anthropological perspective in order to understand how organizational forms manifest in different social and cultural contexts and what cultural patterns and processes shape them.

Practical experience in aspects of the cultural resource management process are provided through a one-semester rotation of work in the Office of State Archaeology (OSA), Museum of Anthropology (UKMA), and the program for Cultural Resource Assessment (PCRA). Students are assigned tasks at each work assignment rotation during the semester and are evaluated on the basis of work performance and a journal summary of this experience by a committee of their supervisors.

Practical experience in aspects of the cultural resource management process are provided through a one-semester rotation of work in the Office of State Archaeology (OSA), Museum of Anthropology (UKMA), and the program for Cultural Resource Assessment (PCRA). Students are assigned tasks at each work assignment rotation during the semester and are evaluated on the basis of work performance and a journal summary of this experience by a committee of their supervisors.

Practical experience in aspects of the cultural resource management process are provided through a one-semester rotation of work in the Office of State Archaeology (OSA), Museum of Anthropology (UKMA), and the program for Cultural Resource Assessment (PCRA). Students are assigned tasks at each work assignment rotation during the semester and are evaluated on the basis of work performance and a journal summary of this experience by a committee of their supervisors.

This seminar will offer a critical approach to the study of states and related political forms, with special emphasis on anthropology's contributions to theorizing about the state. Drawing on temporally and spatially diverse examples of state-making, statecraft, and ideologies of the state, it will both question definitions of the state as well as engage in ethnographic exploration of past and current states. Other topics will include related political forms such as tribes, nationalist movements, empires, and multi-lateral actors.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.