USC Catalogue 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]
Anthropology
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The Department of Anthropology offers a BA in Anthropology with tracks in cultural anthropology and medical anthropology; a BA in Anthropology with a concentration in visual anthropology; a BA in Global Studies; minor programs in cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and popular culture, food and society, and Southeast Asia and its People; an MA in Anthropology; a certificate in visual anthropology for PhD students; and a PhD in Anthropology. The Department of Anthropology encourages students to ground their research on ethnographic fieldwork while gaining a firm theoretical foundation in the discipline. The program encourages research on problems that cross fields of knowledge, genres, and fields of practice. Special areas of emphasis in the department are provided by visual anthropology, experimental ethnography, medical anthropology, folklore and an interdisciplinary global studies major. All these topical interests are unified by a methodological approach that emphasizes ethnographic fieldwork and thinking broadly about human diversity, historical change and challenges of the future.
Kaprielian Hall, 352
(213) 740-1900
FAX: (213) 747-8571
Email: anthro@dornsife.usc.edu
Chair: Peter Redfield, PhD
Faculty
University Professor, ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging and Professor of Gerontology, Biological Sciences, Anthropology, and Psychology: Caleb E. Finch, PhD (Gerontology)
Robert F. Erburu Chair in Ethics, Globalization and Development and Professor of Anthropology: Peter Redfield, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute and Professor of History, Anthropology, and Economics: Peter C. Mancall, PhD (History)
Professors: Janet Hoskins, PhD; Dorinne Kondo, PhD (American Studies and Ethnicity); Lanita Jacobs, PhD (American Studies and Ethnicity); Andrew Lakoff, PhD (Sociology); Nancy Lutkehaus, PhD; David Raichlen, PhD (Biological Sciences); Alison D. Renteln, PhD* (Political Science); Craig Stanford, PhD* (Biological Sciences)
Associate Professors: Andrea Ballestero, PhD; Jenny Chio, PhD (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Stephanie Spray, PhD
Assistant Professors: Fiori Berhane, PhD; Luísa Reis Castro, PhD
Professors (Teaching): Erin Moore, PhD; Tok Thompson, PhD;
Associate Professors (Teaching): Jennifer Cool, PhD; Thomas Ward, PhD; Emily Zeamer, PhD
Lecturers: Eric Heller, PhD; Tracie Mayfield, PhD; Xochitl Ruiz, PhD; Kristiana Willsey, PhD
Emeritus: Gelya Frank, PhD (Occupational Science); Cheryl Mattingly, PhD; G. Alexander Moore, PhD; Gary Seaman, PhD; Joan Weibel-Orlando, PhD
*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.
Undergraduate Degrees
Interdisciplinary Law and Society Minor
See the Department of Political Science .
Minor in Photography and Social Change
See Sociology .
Graduate Programs
The Center for Visual Anthropology Archive
The Center for Visual Anthropology (CVA) at USC was founded by acclaimed anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff, best known for her Academy Award-winning documentary Number Our Days (1976). Dedicated to incorporating visual modes of expression into the academic discipline of anthropology, the CVA worked in conjunction with USC Anthropology faculty through teaching, research and production, along with archiving of visual projects, and sponsoring public events, including the Margaret Mead Film Festival and the RAI Film Festival. Research continues with its archival collections. The Dornsife Center for Ethnographic Media Arts (CEMA) builds on its legacy as a media arts research center for the development of innovative audiovisual work by practice-led researchers working across disciplines at USC.
Policy on Films and Videos Produced by Students
All films and videos produced with school equipment, funding or facilities are the property of USC. Any income from distribution of student-produced films and videos will be used for the benefit of CVA students through production budgets, equipment purchases or scholarships.
Bachelor’s Degree
Minor
Master’s Degree
Graduate Certificate
Doctoral Degree
Anthropology
- • ANTH 101g Body, Mind and Healing: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
- • ANTH 105g Culture, Medicine and Politics
- • ANTH 125g Social Issues in Human Sexuality and Reproduction
- • ANTH 140g Mesoamerican Cosmovision and Culture
- • ANTH 200Lg The Human Animal
- • ANTH 201g Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
- • ANTH 202g Archaeology: Our Human Past
- • ANTH 203g Global Media
- • ANTH 205g Introduction to Global Studies and Cross-cultural Research
- • ANTH 207 Introduction to Heritage Studies
- • ANTH 220g Anthropology of the Environment
- • ANTH 235g The Changing Pacific: History, Culture, Politics
- • ANTH 240gm Representing 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
- • ANTH 250g Race and Sexual Politics in Southeast Asia
- • ANTH 255 Culture, Performance and Personal Narrative
- • ANTH 263g Exploring Culture through Film
- • ANTH 272 Mindfulness and Culture
- • ANTH 273g Shamans, Spirits and Ancestors: Non-Western Religious Traditions
- • ANTH 275 Anthropology of the Arts
- • ANTH 300 Evolution, Ecology, and Culture
- • ANTH 301g The Global Performance of Healing
- • ANTH 302 Humans and Ancient Environments
- • ANTH 303 Exploring Ancient Ways of Living: Experimental Archaeology
- • ANTH 305 Childhood, Birth and Reproduction
- • ANTH 306 Biology of the Non-Human Primates
- • ANTH 307 Trojan Archaeology
- • ANTH 308 Origins and Evolution of Human Behavior
- • ANTH 309Lg Virtual and Digital Culture, Heritage and Archaeology
- • ANTH 310 Archaeology of the Americas
- • ANTH 311 Old World Archaeology
- • ANTH 312 Documenting Latinx Los Angeles Food Cultures
- • ANTH 313 Water
- • ANTH 314g The Nature of Maya Civilization
- • ANTH 315gw Native North Americans
- • ANTH 316gmp Native Americans in American Public Life
- • ANTH 318 Ethics and Global Heritage
- • ANTH 319 Political Anthropology of Europe
- • ANTH 321 Space, Place, Perception and Power
- • ANTH 322 Anthropology of Bali
- • ANTH 323 Southeast Asian Cultures Today: Globalization and Multiple Modernities
- • ANTH 324gw Contemporary China: Cultural Politics and Social Realities
- • ANTH 325 Global Studies Research Methods
- • ANTH 326 European Folklore and Ethnology
- • ANTH 327 Media Ethnography and Living Archives
- • ANTH 329 Archaeology and Global Cultural Heritage
- • ANTH 330m Culture, Gender and Politics in South Asia
- • ANTH 331 Disability, Embodiment and an Ethics of Care
- • ANTH 332g Anthropology and Narrative Medicine
- • ANTH 333gm Forms of Folklore
- • ANTH 336 Health, Gender and Ethnicity
- • ANTH 337 Anthropology of Warfare
- • ANTH 338g Food in Culture and Society
- • ANTH 340 Anthropology In and Of the Museum
- • ANTH 343 Heritage Archaeology
- • ANTH 344g Social Memory
- • ANTH 345 Politics, Social Organization and Law
- • ANTH 355 Urban Anthropology
- • ANTH 357g Cultures of Genocide, Cultures of Care
- • ANTH 360 Symbolic Anthropology
- • ANTH 365 Life History in Anthropological Perspective
- • ANTH 370 Sex, Love, and Marriage: An Introduction to Kinship
- • ANTH 371gm Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs
- • ANTH 372 Interpretation of Myth and Narrative
- • ANTH 373 Magic, Witchcraft and Healing
- • ANTH 375 Anthropology for Consulting and Design
- • ANTH 376 Scientific Analysis in Archaeology
- • ANTH 377g Archaeological Interpretation of Complex Societies
- • ANTH 380 Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective
- • ANTH 385m Men and Masculinity
- • ANTH 390 Special Problems
- • ANTH 393 Directed Internship
- • ANTH 395m African American Humor and Culture
- • ANTH 400 Maya Resilience: Constructing Past and Present Identities
- • ANTH 401 Environment and Politics in the Middle East
- • ANTH 405 Evolutionary Medicine
- • ANTH 406 Theory and Method in Human Evolutionary Biology
- • ANTH 409 Indigenous Languages in the Contemporary World
- • ANTH 410 Ethnographic Research Methods
- • ANTH 411 Thesis Seminar in Ethnographic Analysis
- • ANTH 414 Refugees: Migration, Race and the Law
- • ANTH 415 Global Issues Seminar
- • ANTH 425 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
- • ANTH 440 History of Anthropological Theory
- • ANTH 441w Cities of the Middle East
- • ANTH 445 African American Anthropology
- • ANTH 449 Feminist Science and Technology Studies
- • ANTH 450 Field Research in Maya Archaeology
- • ANTH 460 Economic Anthropology
- • ANTH 465 Archaeology and Society
- • ANTH 470 Multimodal Methods in Visual Anthropology
- • ANTH 472 Photo-ethnography
- • ANTH 474 Posthuman Anthropology
- • ANTH 475 Anthropological Film Analysis
- • ANTH 476 Ethnographic Film Theory from an Historical Perspective
- • ANTH 478 Local Culture in A Globalizing World
- • ANTH 480 Heritage and Power
- • ANTH 481L GIS for Investigating the Past
- • ANTH 485 Global Studies Capstone Seminar
- • ANTH 490x Directed Research
- • ANTH 491 Directed Research for Honors
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