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Professor of Anthropology at Bennington College
INTRODUCTORY
| Sociocultural Anthropology | The AIDS Pandemic |
| People, Culture and Society | Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living |
| Peoples and Cultures of Africa | Embracing Difference |
| Many Peoples, One World | Beginning Peacebuilding |
| Making a Living (economic anthropology) | Practicing Peacebuilding |
| Being Human (four-fields introduction) | Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere |
| Production, Consumption, and Exchange | Structures of Power in Society |
INTERMEDIATE
| Colonialism and Its Aftermath | Global Capitalism |
| (Re)Presenting Culture (ethnographic film) | Consumerism |
| Exploring the World through Research | Gender and Social Change in Modern Africa |
| U.S. of A: Multiculturalism and Diversity | Learning from People |
| Reading the Body | AIDS Activism in Africa (in Uganda) |
| Other People’s Worlds | Studying Place by Metes and Bounds |
| Anthropology of Art | Gender, Inequality and Social Change |
| On Tyranny | Globalization |
| From an Indigenous Point of View: Voices and Words of Cultures of the World | In Sickness and in Health: Introduction to Medical Anthropology |
ADVANCED
| History of Anthropological Theory | Cultural Localities I and II |
| Theories of Social Life | Advanced Research Seminar in Society, Culture and Thought |
Visiting Professor
- Peoples and Cultures of Africa, Williams College, MA.
- Gender and Social Change in Modern Africa, Williams College, MA.
- Race, Class, Ethnicity and Gender, Community College of Vermont, Bennington, VT.
- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Community College of Vermont, Bennington, VT.
- Contemporary Issues in American Society, Bennington College July Program, Bennington, VT.
- Qualitative Research, Australian National University, National Centre for Development Studies.
Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
- Anthropology through Film: An Introduction to World Ethnography (Professor John Middleton)
- Man and Culture (Professor William Kelly)
- Becoming Human (Professors Keith Basso and Andrew Moore)
- Chinese Communist Society: Ideology and Social Change (Professor Helen Siu)