Contemporary Issues in Archaeology
ANTHRO 2251
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This course is meant to serve as a follow-up to the primary Method and Theory Course in Archaeology and is designed to help graduate students think through contemporary and theoretical issues in preparation for their General Exams. We will cover major debates in Anglophone literature about archaeology’s role in modern society and its relationship to adjacent disciplines. As graduate students in archaeology are expected to “read broadly”, these readings cover a wide range of lenses through which scholars frame the dynamic possibilities and limitations of what we can know from human-made and modified materials, spaces, ecosystems, and bodies. The intent is that each student will find something to react to, or react against (!), ponder, and work with as you develop your own theoretical orientation.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
