ANTH 515

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Seminar in Anthropology

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Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Analysis of selected topics of special interest in anthropology.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours in the same or subsequent semesters.

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CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
67985	Lecture-Discussion	A1	3:00PM -4:20PM	MW	Music Building	Buchanan, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Fdns/Methods of Musicology II Section Info: Meets with Music 512 Focuses on the major resources, intellectual history, theories and methodologies of ethnomusicology. Students pursue a state-of-research project on a topic relevant to their interests, selected in consultation with the instructor.
67920	Lecture-Discussion	DB	1:00PM -3:50PM	T	Music Building		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Seminar in Musicology Section Info: Topic:Performance in Practice: Ethnomusiclogical Perspectives Since the late 1960s, folklorists, anthropologists, and music scholars have argued for a broader approach to the study of performance practice that takes into account, in specific detail, how and why contextual and other social factors influence the ultimate shape of a particular expressive or artistic product, message, or event. This seminar traces the evolution of paradigms associated with such an approach, glossed generally as the “ethnography of performance.” We will consider 1) the inception of performance paradigms in the fields of literature and folklore (the ethnography of speaking, verbal art as performance, the ethnography of communication); 2) their transformation and application in the social anthropology of ritual, festivity, and theater; 3) the turn to performativity in gender studies and the far-reaching ramifications of this development for other disciplines, including music; 4) performance studies and performance ethnography as methodological companions to musicological studies; 4) performance as ethnographic technique; and 5) contemporary applications of performance theory in ethnomusicological, anthropological, and performance studies scholarship. Topics will include oral literature (epics, tales, and tale-singers); music(s) in oral tradition; the anthropology of space and place; musical occasions, cultural performances, and their analysis (carnivals, festivals, masquerades, parades, concerts, civic rites, religious ceremonies, calendrical customs, life-cycle rites, dramas, exhibits, public culture, heritage displays, multimedia productions, etc.); performance practice; and performance as pedagogical and/or methodological strategy in period (i.e., early music or similar) and non-western music ensembles, among others. Special attention will also be given to how the ethnography of performance relates, historically and methodologically, to the performance of ethnography. This course is suitable for any graduate student in music, folklore, anthropology, or related disciplines interested in adopting a critical perspective toward theorizing or analyzing performance as event or practice, one that “targets performance occasions as potential dramatizations of difference and social dialectics, performers as creative agents in (and embodiments of) their enactment, and expressive media as embedding and articulating real social questions and power asymmetries.” Readings will derive from a broad range of musicological, anthropological, folklore, and performance studies scholarship; in addition to weekly readings and their discussion, seminar participants will be expected to develop a term project and accompanying paper.
67047	Lecture-Discussion	EK	9:00AM -11:50AM	F	Davenport Hall	Kramer, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Narrative
54641	Conference	EM	5:00PM -7:50PM	TR	Davenport Hall	Moodie, E	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/12/18-05/02/18 Section Title: Ethnography and Method
65206	Conference	FH	2:00PM -4:50PM	T	Davenport Hall	Harrison, F	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Racialization
48533	Lecture-Discussion	GR	2:00PM -4:50PM	T	Davenport Hall	Rosas, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Immigrants, Refugees & Asylsum Section Info: Immigrants, Refugees and Asylsum Studies
45465	Conference	IA	12:00PM -12:50PM	M	Davenport Hall	Shackelford, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Illinois Anthropology Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
68025	Lecture-Discussion	J	5:00PM -7:50PM	M	Lincoln Hall	Davis, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: NAGPRA & Repatriation
67981	Lecture-Discussion	MS	1:00PM -3:50PM	W	Music Building	Silvers, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Seminar in Musicology
67022	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:50PM	R	Education Building	Pinkert, A Higgins, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Theory, Performance, Practice Section Info: Topic: Learning Publics: Theory, Performance, Practice What does it mean to be a public university? Our typical answers are unsatisfying. Public universities, we say, are supported by public revenues rather than tuition; they are accessible to students regardless of social-economic status; they serve the public. The first answer is too formalistic and is, in any case, fast becoming a fiction as tuition has now surpassed state support. The second answer points to a substantive ideal but, again, is starting to look like wishful thinking. Admissions at public flagships is increasingly selective, and as tuition rises the student body is increasingly affluent. The third answer, that public universities serve the public, begs the key questions: who do they serve and how? If we want to deal with these questions seriously we have to investigate the nature of public formations, public things, and public goods. This team-taught interdisciplinary seminar will do just this. Through close reading and discussion of primary texts, from a range of humanistic fields, we will examine the nature of the public and the current conditions of public life. We will investigate what part universities play in catalyzing public formations and discourse. And we will consider what special role might be played by the arts and humanities in “summoning the public into being” (John Dewey)? The phrase "learning publics” is meant to signal the double connection between education and the public: that public life itself is educative and that central to education is the act of making public. Graduate students from all disciplines interested in pursuing such questions through collaborative inquiry and serious-playful discussion are welcome. Special guest lectures and events sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study campus-wide initiative Learning Publics will enhance our work. There are no pre-requisites. Meets with CAS 587 31695, EPS 512 54663, GER 576 43209. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
50204	Lecture-Discussion	SC2	6:00PM -8:50PM	M	Davenport Hall	Greenberg, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Title: Anth Social Theory II
58678	Conference	VD	5:30PM -8:20PM	W	Davenport Hall	Dominguez, V	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Title: PROFESSIONALIZATION & CAREER Section Info: PROFESSIONALIZATION & CAREER