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cross-disciplinary background, within and outside the department. Requirements include
courses in anthropological theory and research methodology, as well as spoken and/or
written competence in at least one foreign language, at the level appropriate to the planned
research program. The core courses include two year-long sequences: Theories in Cultural
Anthropology (330S, 331S), required of first-year graduate students, and Research Seminar
in Cultural Anthropology (332S, 333S), required in the fourth and fifth semesters.
Preliminary field research is required in the summer following the second year of classes.
The Guidelines for Graduate Students in the Doctoral Program in Cultural Anthropology
and the Guidelines for Graduate Students in the J.D./M.A. Program fully describe these and
additional requirements and the detailed steps in the student’s graduate career.
Applications for admission to both the Ph.D. and J.D./M.A. programs are accepted
every year. Please contact the departmental web site at http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu
or send email to duca_grad@duke.edu for further information.
For Seniors and Graduates
200. Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in Cultural
Anthropology. Topics differ by section. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
203S. African Modernities. 3 units. C-L: see African and African American Studies 213S
207S. Anthropology and History. Recent scholarship that combines anthropology and
history, including culture history, ethnohistory, the study of mentalité, structural history, and
cultural biography. The value of the concept of culture to history and the concepts of duration
and event for anthropology. Prerequisite: major in history, one of the social sciences, or
comparative area studies; or graduate standing. Instructor: Reddy. 3 units. C-L: History
210S
253S. Person-Centered Interviewing. Strategies for effective interviewing, including how
to establish rapport, ask productive questions, recognize nonverbal communications, and
interpret data using various theoretical models. Students are required to conduct several
interviews during the semester. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Ewing. 3 units.
C-L: Documentary Studies 253S
262S. Culture, Power, History. Debates in cultural theory and anthropology: identity and
nationalism, memory and tradition, globalization, and poststructuralist, feminist and
postcolonial theory. Some previous coursework in anthropology and or cultural theory
recommended. Instructor: Starn. 3 units.
264S. Millennial Capitalisms: Global Perspectives. Critical examination of the
problematic of capital from the late nineteenth century until the present moment.
Anthropological frameworks and related disciplinary approaches to the multiple cultural
productions and lived experiences under divergent forms of capitalism in the new
millennium. Focus on East Asia. Theories of capitalism, globalization and anti-globalization
movements, "imaginaries" and fantasies, nature and the virtual, consumption, and disciplinary
practices of the body. Instructors: Allison and Litzinger. 3 units.
279S. Race, Racism, and Democracy. The paradox of racial inequality in societies that
articulate principles of equality, democratic freedom, and justice for all. Instructor: Baker.
3 units. C-L: African and African American Studies 279S
280S. Seminar in Selected Topics. Special topics in methodology, theory, or area. Consent
of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
284S. Transnationalism and Public Culture. Critical examination of issues in transnational
studies in anthropology and beyond. Tracking the theories of contemporary scholars of
the global, and examining new multisited strategies of method, we explore the emerging
ethnographic landscape of the global and the role transnational studies is playing in a
revitalized anthropology of the twenty-first century. Instructor: Piot or Thomas. 3 units.
285S. Space, Place, and Power. Examines relationship between space and power by
studying how communities make and negotiate spaces, how identities are forged out of
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