Clare A. Sammells

Cultural anthropology seeks to understand the diverse ways in which people construct their social lives, experience daily life, interact with their physical environment, interpret the world, and confront difficult problems.

Read more about this class here.

Food and eating are idioms of meaning as well as sources of nourishment. This course explores how food defines social worlds and embodies conceptions of identity, hierarchy, gender, migration, capital, and power.

Economic Anthropology is an ongoing conversation between the disciplines of economics and anthropology.  This course considers what each discipline brings to the larger analysis of how humans produce, exchange, and understand value through material culture. 

This course considers the relationships between tourists, toured, service providers, the state, and money, connecting these broad issues to specific case studies.

Co-taught with Philippe Dubois. Crosslisted as UNIV288/ FREN288/ LAMS288.

This Integrated Perspectives course considers how food both brings people together, and creates divisions between them, through an in-depth comparison of French and Andean cuisines as mirrors into larger social worlds.

An advanced seminar about the history of relationships between peoples, cultures, agricultural systems, and cuisines in Latin America. Topics include plant and animal domestication, pre-Columbian agriculture and environments, colonialism, land tenure regimes, food as global commodity, food aid and policies, and contemporary gastropolitics.

An advanced discussion-based seminar for seniors majoring in anthropology.

Read about this first-year seminar here.

Zombies have always been a commentary on capitalism, from experiences of slavery in West Africa and Haiti, to today’s Hollywood movies.  All students will leave this class with braaaaaaaaaaaaaains.

See Prof. Sammells speak about zombies for Bucknell 360.