ANTH 4120 6.0: Anthropology Beyond the Academy: Bridging Theory and Practice

Course Offering (Fall/Winter 2025-26): L. Davidson - lmdavids@yorku.ca This course is a unique opportunity to explore the diverse applications of anthropological knowledge and skills outside of traditional academic settings. Through a combination of seminar discussions, guest speaker presentations, and workshops, this course delves into the practical, real-world impact of anthropology in various professional fields. Drawing […]

ANTH 4530 3.0: The Anthropology of Race, Gender and Labour

Course Director (Winter 2026): L. Ameeriar- lalaie@yorku.ca This course examines anthropological perspectives on the politics of labour as impacted by race and gender. This class will focus on ethnographic texts and films. We will take a national as well as transnational perspective in examining the everyday experiences of workers. What counts as work? Why are […]

ANTH 3530 3.0: The South Asian Diaspora, Anthropological Perspectives

Course Director (Fall 2025): L. Ameeriar- lalaie@yorku.ca This course considers anthropological perspectives on the history of migration from the South Asian subcontinent, and will examine the configuration of South Asian cultures, identities, and politics. We will explore anthropological theories migration to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and will examine how both the […]

ANTH 3510 3.0: Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology: From Conflict to Coalition

Course Director (Winter 2026): E. Yasui - eyasui@yorku.ca This course examines the changing relationship of Indigenous peoples and archaeology. Previously marked by conflict, but now by cooperation, this relationship is improving as artifacts and ancestors are repatriated, and as archaeologist focus on the lived experiences of past people.  

ANTH 4140 3.0: Anthropological Perspectives on Sound

Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: This course explores the merging of sound studies and anthropology, with a focus on how social actors understand their environments through sound. We will consider how anthropologists frame their work through sound, in an effort to further understand how anthropology may contribute to knowledge about sonic ecologies, and how anthropological […]

ANTH 2120 3.0: Visualizing Ourselves, Visualizing Others: Media, Representation & Culture

Course Offering Winter 2026: This course interrogates the relationship between media and culture. It focuses on media representations in different cultural contexts in order to develop critical analytical skills for understanding the processes through which identities and social inequalities are produced, contested and transformed.

ANTH 4320 3.0: Ethnographic Approaches in the Anthropology of Christianity

Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: This course provides an in-depth examination of anthropological theories and ethnographic approaches in the Anthropology of Christianity. With a focus on ethnographic texts and films, students are challenged to think about the relationship between culture, power, and diverse kinds of Christianity that shape gender, sexuality, kinship, social inequalities, social movements, […]

ANTH 4420 3.0: The Gendered Politics of War

Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: This course explores how gender relations have been deployed in sites of militarized conflict to incite, exacerbate and fuel violence; the reasons for and the ways in which war is increasingly waged on the bodies of unarmed civilians; the massive scale of displacement and the gendered experience of both conflict […]

ANTH 4400 3.0: Speculative Futures: The Anthropology of What Might-Be

Course Director (Fall 2025): Zulfikar A. Hirji - zhirji@yorku.ca Speculative FuturesWhat might the future look like?In this course we engage with impossible, extraordinary, unimaginable and speculative futures envisaged by people who are dreaming, composing, conjuring, striving, challenging the future yet-to-be.The main course assignment is a zine made of pictures and words based on a series […]

ANTH 4200 3.0: Practicing Ethnography: Advanced Approaches to Ethnographic Methods

Not offering in Fall/Winter 2025-26: This course provides students with the opportunity to engage critically with and apply qualitative research methods toward the production, individually and collectively, of ethnographic analyses.