Anthropological approaches to foodways and agricultural sustainability, particularly small-scale producers and communities. Includes ethnographic analysis of food movements, food systems and the socio-economic contexts of food provisioning and food production. Recommended: Third year status.

Anthropological perspectives on health, illness, and disability as represented by classic and contemporary research in selected topics in medical anthropology including disease and human evolution, illness and human ecology, culture and epidemiology, ethnomedical systems, the relationship between folk and biomedicine and the cultural construction and social organization of health care, illness and disability. Specific content will vary from year to year. Consult the Department brochure.

Analysis of the relations between human societies and the ecological aspects of their environment (including technology, society, and ideology). Previously ANTH 460.

Outsider and marginalized groups in the Roman world. Topics could include representations of entertainers, immigrants, magic workers and so forth, using ancient evidence from literature to art. Restricted to students with second-year standing or above.

Selected topics on the origins, development, and material manifestations of urbanism in the ancient Mediterranean, Near East and/or Egypt.