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Apr 24, 2026
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Courses of Study 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Anthropology|
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Introductory Courses:
Each of these introductory courses provides an introduction to one of the subfields of anthropology. They do not form a sequence; students can take them in any order and at any point during their time at Cornell. Sociocultural Anthropology:
- ANTHR 1400 - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
- ANTHR 1520 - Tamil Conversation in Context
- ANTHR 1700 - Indigenous North America (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 1900 - Global Engagements: Living and Working in a Diverse World (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2104 - Palestine and the Palestinians (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2400 - Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues
- ANTHR 2410 - South Asian Diaspora (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2415 - [Anthropology of Iran] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2420 - Nature-Culture: Ethnographic Approaches to Human Environment Relations (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2421 - [Worlding Sex and Gender] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2424 - Culture and Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANTHR 2430 - [The Rise and Fall of Civilization] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2433 - [Anthropology of Law and Politics]
- ANTHR 2437 - Economy, Power, and Inequality (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2440 - The Social Life of Money
- ANTHR 2465 - [Global Heritage] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2468 - Medicine, Culture, and Society (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2470 - [Islam and Gender] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2482 - [Anthropology of Climate Change] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2546 - South Asian Religions in Practice: The Healing Traditions (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2720 - From the Swampy Land: Indigenous People of the Ithaca Area (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 2846 - [Magic and Witchcraft in the Greco-Roman World] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3000 - Introduction to Anthropological Theory
- ANTHR 3041 - Reproductive Justice (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3110 - Documentary Production Fundamentals (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3152 - [Peasant Economies and Ecologies]
- ANTHR 3402 - Social Justice: Special Topics (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3405 - Multicultural Issues in Education (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3411 - Jewish Family and Marriage Law (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3416 - The Barbarians (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3420 - [Myth, Ritual, and Symbol] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3422 - [Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3430 - London’s Transforming Urban Environment
- ANTHR 3437 - [Brave New World, 21st Century Authoritarianism]
- ANTHR 3443 - [Anthropology of Children]
- ANTHR 3451 - [Global Cultural Heritage] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3465 - [Anthropology of the Body] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3474 - Infrastructure (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3476 - [Anthropology and Friends: Philosophy and Psychology]
- ANTHR 3487 - [Racial Capitalism]
- ANTHR 3520 - Kingship and Statecraft in Asia: Angkor and Beyond (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3552 - [Genocide Today: The Erasure of Cultures] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3590 - Heritage, History, and Identity in Cambodia (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3612 - [Histories of Afghanistan] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3680 - Islam and the Ethnographic Imagination (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 3703 - [Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4013 - Textual Ethnography (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4030 - The Caucasus: Captives, Cultures, Conflicts (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4100 - Public Service Capstone
- ANTHR 4101 - [The Entangled Lives of Humans and Animals] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4143 - [Ruins of Modernity] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4176 - [Humanitarian Affects] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4401 - Advanced Documentary Production (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4402 - Anthropology of Education (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4403 - Ethnographic Field Methods
- ANTHR 4407 - [Hasidism: History, Community, Thought] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4409 - [Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences]
- ANTHR 4410 - Indigenous Peoples, Ecological Sciences, and Environmentalism
- ANTHR 4413 - [Walter Benjamin] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4416 - [It’s the End of the World As We Know It] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4417 - Ecopolitics (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4418 - [Writing Ethnography: Theory, Genre and Practice] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4419 - Anthropology of Corporations
- ANTHR 4424 - [Ethnographic Film Theory and History]
- ANTHR 4428 - [Reading Derrida and Others] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4432 - [Queer Theory and Kinship Studies] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4435 - [Postcolonial Science] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4437 - [Ethnographies of Development]
- ANTHR 4442 - Toxicity (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4448 - [Death, Dying, and the Dead] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4458 - [Girls, Women, and Education in Global Perspective: Feminist Ethnography and Praxis] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4460 - [Heritage and its Entanglements: Representing, Collecting, and Preserving Cultural Identity] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4466 - Citizenship, Borders, and Belonging
- ANTHR 4467 - [Self and Subjectivity]
- ANTHR 4473 - [Messiah and Modernity] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4476 - Carceral Worlds: Policing, Prisons, and Securitization (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4478 - [Taboo and Pollution]
- ANTHR 4489 - [Theory and Anthropology from Below: Special Topics]
- ANTHR 4490 - [The Sexual Politics of Religion] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4499 - [Primitive Accumulation]
- ANTHR 4513 - Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4514 - Topics in South Asian Culture and Literature (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4516 - [Power, Society, and Culture in Southeast Asia]
- ANTHR 4520 - Society and Culture in the Nilgiris: Engaged Research in Rural South India
- ANTHR 4530 - Mental Health, Healing Systems, Community-Based Care: Resilience in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
- ANTHR 4610 - Environmental Justice and the Middle East
- ANTHR 4620 - Jewish Cities (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4637 - [Shi’ism: Poetics and Politics] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4659 - [The Idea of Biblical Israel] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4682 - Medicine and Healing in Africa (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4700 - The Jewish Dead (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4725 - American Indian Lands and Sovereignties
- ANTHR 4733 - The Lower East Side: Jews and the Immigrant City (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4755 - Indigenous Erasure and Resurfacing (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4774 - Indigenous Spaces and Materiality (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 4790 - Latinx Education Across the Americas (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7417 - Ecopolitics (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7774 - Indigenous Spaces and Materiality (crosslisted)
Anthropological Archaeology:
Honors, Field Research, and Independent Study:
Graduate Seminars:
- ANTHR 6020 - History of Anthropological Thought
- ANTHR 6025 - Proseminar in Anthropology
- ANTHR 6101 - [Sense, Movement, Sociality] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6102 - [Political Culture] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6110 - Documentary Production Fundamentals (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6152 - [Peasant Economies and Ecologies]
- ANTHR 6210 - [Historical Archaeology: Capitalism, Colonialism, Race, Gender] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6230 - Humans and Animals (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6232 - [Politics of the Past] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6235 - Bioarchaeology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6245 - Across the Seas: Contacts between the Americas and the Old World Before Columbus (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6248 - Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6250 - Archaeological Research Design (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6255 - Ancient Mexico and Central America (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6256 - [Maya History] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6301 - [Social Theory] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6403 - Ethnographic Field Methods
- ANTHR 6411 - Jewish Family and Marriage Law (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6416 - The Barbarians (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6422 - [Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6430 - [Concepts and Categories in Theory and Practice]
- ANTHR 6437 - [Brave New World, 21st Century Authoritarianism]
- ANTHR 6440 - Proposal Development
- ANTHR 6443 - [Anthropology of Children]
- ANTHR 6451 - [Global Cultural Heritage] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6465 - [Bodies and Bodiliness] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6474 - Infrastructure (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6476 - [Anthropology and Friends: Philosophy and Psychology]
- ANTHR 6482 - Perspectives on the Nation
- ANTHR 6487 - [Racial Capitalism]
- ANTHR 6516 - [Power, Society, and Culture in Southeast Asia]
- ANTHR 6520 - Kingship and Statecraft in Asia: Angkor and Beyond (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6552 - [Genocide Today: The Erasure of Cultures] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6590 - Heritage, History, and Identity in Cambodia (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6612 - [Histories of Afghanistan] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6680 - Islam and the Ethnographic Imagination (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6703 - [Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6729 - Climate, Archaeology and History (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 6880 - Proseminar in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7013 - Textual Ethnography (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7030 - The Caucasus: Captives, Cultures, Conflicts (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7139 - Global Currents: Immobility and Multi-Sited Ethnography (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7143 - [Ruins of Modernity] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7176 - [Humanitarian Affects] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7200 - Field Methods in Community-Engaged Archaeology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7220 - Inkas and their Empire (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7222 - [Archaeological Ethics] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7227 - [Embodiment of Inequality: A Bioarchaeological Perspective] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7231 - [Fakes and the Authentic: Connoisseurship, Value, and Judgement] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7432 - [Queer Theory and Kinship Studies] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7246 - Human Osteology (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7250 - Time and History in Ancient Mexico (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7254 - [Themes in Mediterranean Archaeology] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7256 - [Ancient Civilizations of the Andes] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7257 - [The Archaeology of Houses and Households] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7263 - [Zooarchaeological Method] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7264 - [Zooarchaeological Interpretation] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7268 - [Aztecs and Their Empire: Myth, History, and Politics] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7272 - Archaeology of Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7401 - Advanced Documentary Production (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7402 - Anthropology of Education (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7407 - [Hasidism: History, Community, Thought] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7409 - [Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences]
- ANTHR 7410 - Indigenous Peoples, Ecological Sciences, and Environmentalism
- ANTHR 7413 - [Walter Benjamin] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7416 - [It’s the End of the World As We Know It] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7418 - [Writing Ethnography: Theory, Genre and Practice] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7419 - Anthropology of Corporations
- ANTHR 7424 - [Ethnographic Film Theory and History]
- ANTHR 7428 - [Reading Derrida and Others] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7435 - [Postcolonial Science]
- ANTHR 7437 - [Ethnographies of Development]
- ANTHR 7442 - Toxicity (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7448 - [Death, Dying, and the Dead] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7458 - [Girls, Women, and Education in Global Perspective: Feminist Ethnography and Praxis] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7460 - [Heritage and its Entanglements: Representing, Collecting, and Preserving Cultural Identity] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7466 - Citizenship, Borders, and Belonging
- ANTHR 7467 - [Self and Subjectivity]
- ANTHR 7473 - [Messiah and Modernity] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7476 - Carceral Worlds: Policing, Prisons, and Securitization (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7478 - [Taboo and Pollution]
- ANTHR 7489 - [Theory and Anthropology from Below: Special Topics]
- ANTHR 7490 - [The Sexual Politics of Religion] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7499 - [Primitive Accumulation]
- ANTHR 7513 - Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7514 - Topics in South Asian Culture and Literature (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7520 - Southeast Asia: Readings in Special Problems
- ANTHR 7530 - South Asia: Readings in Special Problems
- ANTHR 7540 - Problems in Himalayan Studies
- ANTHR 7550 - East Asia: Readings in Special Problems
- ANTHR 7620 - Jewish Cities (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7637 - [Shi’ism: Poetics and Politics] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7659 - [The Idea of Biblical Israel] (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7682 - Medicine and Healing in Africa (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7700 - The Jewish Dead (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7725 - American Indian Lands and Sovereignties
- ANTHR 7755 - Indigenous Erasure and Resurfacing (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7758 - Archaeology of Greek Religion: Theory, Methods, and Practice (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7790 - Latinx Education Across the Americas (crosslisted)
- ANTHR 7900 - Department of Anthropology Colloquium
- ANTHR 7910 - Independent Study: Grad I
- ANTHR 7920 - Independent Study: Grad II
- ANTHR 7930 - Independent Study: Grad III
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