Course Offering Fall/Winter 2026-27: How does social science make social change? What do anthropologists have to offer the communities we work with and the world at large? Can we meet the current moment? This course is all about harnessing scholarship for public ends. Through advocacy, policy, and community engagement, it’s about applying anthropology’s methods and […]
Course Offering Fall/Winter 2026-27: Is biology destiny? Are gender and sexual differences such as “male promiscuity”, “female monogamy”, “heterosexuality” and “homosexuality” genetically hardwired or socially constructed? How do we explain the range of sexualities people experience? Are all intimate relationships based on “love”? Is the “nuclear family” the basic building block of all societies? This […]
Offering in Summer 2026: Drawing upon images produced by anthropologists, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, and activists this course asks questions about how the visual continually challenges and shapes understandings of self, community and other. This course uses ethnography, film, video, visual art, photography and new media to explore issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, globalization, power, […]
Course Offering Fall/Winter 2026-27 - Course Director: L. Davidson - lmdavids@yorku.ca What are the different ways that we, as anthropologists, research and analyze culture? What is ethnography and what are anthropological approaches to ethnography? This course is designed to familiarize students to key concepts in sociocultural anthropology by focusing on the craft of ethnography; specifically, how […]
Not Offering in Fall/Winter 2026-27: This course analyzes and critiques the foundations of historical and contemporary forms of global capitalism. The curriculum focuses on the examination of the social, political, and economic consequences of the production and circulation of global commodities, the rise of consumer capitalism, and the idea of the society of perpetual growth, […]
Not Offering Fall/Winter 2026-27: What can popular culture tell us about the world we live in? For anthropologists, it turns out that it can tell us quite a lot! This course takes an anthropological approach to how ideas of race, and processes of racialization, in particular, are expressed through various forms of popular culture, past […]
Course Offering Fall/Winter 2026-27: What is culture and how does it vary over time? What shapes people’s ideas and experiences of belonging and identity? How are people propelled to imagine who they are and how they belong? In this course, students are introduced to contemporary concepts, theories, and debates in anthropology. Through ethnographic readings, films, […]
Course Offering Fall/Winter 2026-27: This course will explore how Anthropology approaches social, economic, political, and belief systems, and survey contemporary issues of selected peoples and cultures by considering several real-world cases. The aim of this course is to convey an understanding of how anthropology can help us understand the human condition, and thereby assist us […]