Art and New Materialisms
Art and New Materialisms
This cluster examines artistic forms of cultural and political creativity, beauty, and imagination.
New materialism asks about the life of objects and other matter, and encompasses cultural anthropology, archaeology, and other interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. Research areas include cultural and artistic expressions, ranging from pottery to images to music.
Researchers
Andy Roddick PhD
chair, Anthropology
Associate Professor, Anthropology
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23913
Basit Iqbal PhD
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
associate-member, Religious Studies
(905) 525-9140 ext. 24283
Petra Rethmann PhD
Professor, Anthropology
director-graduate-advisor, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
(905) 525-9140 ext. 26259
Affiliated Courses
Level I
1AA3: Sex, Food and Death
Level II
2BB3: Ancient Mesoamerica
2FO3: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
2MA3: Media, Art and Anthropology
2PA3: Intro to Anthropological Archaeology
2PC3: Aliens, Curses, and Nazis
2RP3: Religion and Power in the Past
Level III
3CAC: Ceramic Analysis
3EM3: Current Debates in Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory
3LA3: Lithics Analysis
3FFF3: Key Debates in Andean Archaeology
Level IV
4AA3: Materiality
4EE3: Archaeology In (And Of) the Present
4WO3: Explorations in Experimental Anthropology
Graduate
702: Contemporary Problems
722: Ethnographic Theory and Research Methods
786: Global Futures
787: Object Worlds
Research Programs
Archaeology Research Program
Biological Anthropology Research Program
Sociocultural Anthropology Research Program
Anthropology of Health Research Program
Research Clusters
While the department covers four main Research Programs (sub-fields) in Anthropology, we also integrate these Research Programs in six key areas of expertise and investigation: Art and New Materialisms; Ecologies, Resilience, and Change; Embodiment, Health, and Wellbeing; Foodways, Diet, and Nutrition; Heritage, History, and Memory; and Migrations, Displacements, and Violence.
Ecologies, Resilience, and Change