Jr st or cons inst. 630 Seminar on American Folklore. Focuses on American folk and popular culture as it relates to expressive behavior using the work of folklorists, anthropologists, historians and literary scholars. A lower level crse in folklore or anthro or cons inst. 635 Visual Anthropology.
Course is designed to create familiarity with the use of photography in anthropological research.
A review of key methodological and theoretical approaches for studying festivals, in situ observation of summer festivals and small town folk and ethnic museums, and supervised writing and photographic assignments. 640 Topics in Ethnographic Textiles. 654 Performance, Poetics, and Practice in Anthropological Theory. Sr major or Grad st or cons inst. 655 Comparative World Costume.