Courses
Course Descriptions 30000s
Course Descriptions 10000s-20000s
ANTH 30001 Majors and minors only
Mesoamerican Art: Olmec and Their Legacy
Elective
Cross-listed from: ARHI
The Olmec civilization was the mother culture of Mesoamerica, and beginning in 1500 B.C., forged the template of pre-Columbian cultural development for the next 3000 years. This course introduces the student to the Mesoamerican world-view by tracing the origins of Mexican art, religion and culture from the development of the Olmec civilization up to Aztec times. Each week’s classes will consist of a thorough examination of the iconography and function of art object through slide lectures, as well as hands on, in-depth study of individual pieces of sculpture. Special emphasis will be placed upon the essential unity of religious concepts as iconography evolved over this 3,000 year time span.
This will be an object-oriented course. Students will be called upon to reason logically, voice opinions, and make aesthetic judgements. A good visual memory will help anyone.
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ANTH 30002 Majors and minors only
Irish Traditional Music
Elective
Cross-listed from: IRST
In the post-Riverdance period traditional Irish music (recently renamed “Irish Traditional Music” by aficionados) has achieved a prominence not even reached at the height of the ‘60s-‘80s folk music revival. But exactly what is Irish Traditional Music? Definitions—always elusive in the fields of folklore, anthropology, and even musicology—are even more challenging in an era marked by the increasing commercialization and diversification of an idiom previously typified by informal dissemination and only the most gradual change. Does Irish Traditional Music embrace all of the more recent forms marketed under this heading? Is there a form still recognizable as “traditional”—and, if so, what distinguishes it? Are there even social considerations that give Irish Traditional Music an essential and fundamental character, or has the traditional always been typified by its absorption of new influences? These and many other issues will be addressed in this course, which will also examine the historical background of the instrumental and song traditions; musical style and its relationship to specific musicians and regional traditions; performance practice; and the social and cultural context of “the music.” While the course is also of interest to students in anthropology and music, no experience in either discipline is required—although those with previous knowledge of these areas will be encouraged to contribute their expertise to class discussions, presentations, and written assignments. Requirements: reading and listening assignments, oral presentations, a 10-15 page research paper, and a final examination. Texts will include Gearoid O'Hallmhurain’s Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music and Thomas O'Canainn’s Traditional Music in Ireland.
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ANTH 30006 Majors and minors only
Race and Ethnicity in America
Elective
This course focuses on race and ethnic relations in the United States. Current cases involving racial and ethnic issues will be presented and discussed in class. Readings and materials will present three approaches to the study of majority-minority group relations, the emergence and maintenance of group dominance, and minority group adaptations to modes of dominance including separation, accommodation, acculturation, and assimilation. Class participation and student's experiences will be emphasized.
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ANTH 30009 Majors and minors only
Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
Elective
Cross-listed from: CLAS
After an initial survey of historical sources, this course will focus on a wide range of texts, archaeological artifacts, and architectural remains associated with Egyptian funerary practice and conceptions of the Otherworld.
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ANTH 30010 Majors and minors only
Ancient Japan
Elective
Cross-listed from: HIST
This course provides training in understanding and engaging history as a series of wide-ranging debates. The class will examine three issues: first, the politically charged question of Japan's origins in myth and archeology; second, the question of whether the forces of Chinese culture or nature as disease and environmental degradation defined the Yamato state from the sixth to the ninth century; and, third, whether Heian court power until about 1200 rested on economic, political, military, judicial, or aesthetic grounds. The second purpose of the course, the development of the disciplined imagination necessary to enter another culture and another time, relies on the reading of primary texts in translation. There will be three tests and several classroom assignments.
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ANTH 30011 Majors and minors only
Asian American Literature
Elective
Cross-listed from: ASIA
This course will explore the development of Asian American Literature from the 1800s to the present, focusing on writers of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Hmong, Japanese and Korean descent. Discussions will focus on questions of race/ethnicity, identity/representation, nation and exile. Primary texts, including novels, short fiction, poetry, theory and film will be supplemented by critical articles. Some works to be discussed will include Carlos Bulosan's America Is In the Heart, Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Faye Ng's Bone, John Okada's No-No Boy, in addition to other texts.
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ANTH 30012 Majors and minors only
Creole Language and Culture
2 credits
Elective
Cross-listed from: ILS
This course introduces students to the vivid, sonorous language of Kreyòl, or Creole, and to the fascinating culture of its speakers. This intensive, beginning-level course is intended for students with no knowledge of Creole. In small-group teaching sessions, students will be prepared for conversational fluency with basic reading and writing skills, emphasizing communicative competence as well as grammatical and phonetic techniques. Our study of Kreyòl is closely linked to our anthropological exploration of how the language is tied to Caribbean society and culture. The course takes a holistic, anthropological approach to the history, political economy, and religion of Haiti. In addition to class work, audio tapes, music and film enhance the study of the Haitian language and culture.
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ANTH 30013 Majors and minors only
Caribbean Diasporas (ILS)
This course examines the development of Creole societies in the French, Spanish, Dutch, and British Caribbean in response to colonialism, slavery, migration, nationalism and, most recently, transnationalism. The recent exodus of as much as 20 percent of Caribbean populations to North America and Europe has afforded the rise of new transnational modes of existence. This course will explore the consciousness and experience of Caribbean diasporas through ethnography and history, religion, literature, music, and culinary arts.
ANTH 30014 Majors and minors only
Social Movements (SOC)
Organized social protest has become increasingly common in the United States and throughout the world in the last several decades. Corresponding with this change, there has been a sharp increase in the number of sociologists specializing in the study of collective behavior and social movements. This course will introduce you to the central theoretical insights and empirical findings that these scholars have produced. You will also have an opportunity to make your own contribution to this field by engaging in a bit of research of your own. The following are just some of the questions that will be addressed: (1) Why do individuals participate in collective action when they could enjoy the benefits of a collective effort without participating? (2) How do groups organize to compel or ward off social change? (3) What are some of the primary causes of social protest? (4) What determines the effectiveness of social protest?
ANTH 30016 Majors and minors only
Victorian England (HIST)
Elective
Cross-listed from: HIST
The history of Great Britain during the long 19th century, from the impact of the French revolution in 1789 to the First World War in 1914, is one of innovation and social experiment. The period saw the emergence of many of the most characteristic and most controversial features of the modern world, such as urban industrialism; corporate capitalism; the welfare state; the transformation of civil and political rights, of the civic role of religion, of gender and class relations; the non-revolutionary expansion of democracy; the professionalization of government; paternalist colonial conquest and administration of much of the world; the rise of classical economics, Marxism, and Darwinism. Most remarkable is the intensity of Victorian public examination of these and other issues. The Victorians are known for the thoroughness with which they interrogated their souls on everything from the foundations of faith to social responsibility to their own sexuality, and equally the passion and brilliance with which they examined these issues in public in their doctrinaire social novels, their scathing reviews of one another's ideas in periodicals, their eloquent and witty speeches in the House of Commons, and through enormous campaigns of social investigation. It was a time of immense confidence that through the exercise of intellect human beings could finally get the world to run right. In their depth and breadth these discussions reflect a far richer political culture than most of us are accustomed to, one which incorporates morality with efficiency, duties with rights, progress with the maintenance of values. Course assignments will include research on the life of a not so eminent Victorian, someone like Henry Brougham, an insufferable polymath, who could speak extemporaneously (and eloquently) for six hours straight or Harriet Martineau, radical economist, pioneer anthropologist, and mystic. Course materials include general texts, novels of the period, and a packet of primary and modern sources.
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ANTH 30021 Majors and minors only
Critical Approaches to the Anthropology Race
Elective
Cross-listed from: AFST
While issues of Race and Racism are pervasive in our society, most people know surprisingly little about the social, biological, political, and historical factors at play. Race is simultaneously a very real social construct and a very artificial biological one. How can this be? Why do we care so much about classifications/divisions of humanity? This course will tackle the Anthropology of Race from a critical perspective. We will learn about the biology of human difference and similarity, how societies view such similarities and differences, how our social and scientific histories create these structures, and why this knowledge is both extremely important and too infrequently discussed.
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ANTH 30023 Majors and minors only
Introduction to Irish Folklore
Elective
Cross-listed from: IRST
This course will discuss the 19th century concept of folklore and its application in Ireland. ´Irish folklore´ is usually understood in terms of three main and related domains: ´folk narrative´ (or oral literature), ´folk belief´ (or popular religion) and ´material folk culture´. These will be examined with special emphasis placed on narrative. Representative oral narrative texts from the Gaelic tradition will be studied in translation.
ANTH 30024 Majors and minors only
Pagans, Preachers and Passions: Christian Missionaries, 100-500AD
Elective
Cross-listed from: HIST
How did Christianity go from Mediterranean cult to world religion? How did the scattered tribes of ancient Europe become a world civilization? This course will examine the growth of Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, concentrating particularly on the men and women who actively pursued its expansion--the missionaries. A combination of lectures and discussions of primary sources will consider the conversion of the Roman Empire, the beginnings of missions on the fringes of the Roman world, the growth of an early medieval missionary movement, and the changes in approaches to non-Christians that came with contact with the Islamic and Mongol worlds and the rise of the papacy and new religious orders in the later Middle Ages.
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ANTH 30035 Majors and minors only
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
Elective
Cross-listed from: POLS
This course introduces students to the dynamics of the social and historical construction of race and ethnicity in American political life. The course explores the following core questions: What are race and ethnicity? What are the best ways to think about the impact of race and ethnicity on American citizens? What is the history of racial and ethnic formation in American political life? How do race and ethnicity link up with other identities animating political actions like gender and class? What role do American political institutions--the Congress, presidency, judiciary, state and local governments, etc.--play in constructing and maintaining these identity categories? Can these institutions ever be used to overcome the points of division in American society?
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ANTH 30046 Majors and minors only
Today's Gender Roles
Elective
Cross-listed from: SOC
This course is concerned with current changes in male and female roles in the light of social science, primarily sociological evidence. Such issues as the source of male and female role differences, the range of roles open to women and men and the consequences of changing roles and institutions like paid work and the family are considered. The class format is primarily group discussions supplemented by some lectures presentations from visiting scholars.
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ANTH 30055 Majors and minors only
Multi-cultural China
Elective
Cross-listed from: LLEA
This course showcases the multifaceted aspects of China not only in the ethnic sense but also in the political sense. We will read literary works by writers of different ethnic backgrounds (e.g., Han, Tibetan, the Atayal tribe from Taiwan) and geographical origins (the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong). The objective of this course is to help students to gain a deeper understanding of the notion of "Greater China" and the concept of "Chineseness." Through analyzing works by different ethnic writers, we will learn to appreciate the diversity of Chinese culture that is often oveshadowed by a misconception about Chinese homogeneity. Likewise, fictional creation by writers from the three regions will give us a broader knowledge of Chinese culture that is constantly threatened by a political need for unity.
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ANTH 30056 Majors and minors only
U.S. Sex, Sexuality, and Gender to 1900
Elective
Cross-listed from: HIST
Sexuality, like other areas of social life, has a history. Yet historians have only written about the history of sex for the last 40 years or so. This course will both introduce students to a variety of current themes in the history of sexuality and invite them to consider how they themselves might research and write that history. The class will survey recent topics in the history of sexuality from first colonial settlement to the end of the Victorian era. Issues we may consider include different religions' attitudes towards sexuality (the Puritans were not anti-sex!); how different cultures' views of sex shaped relations between colonists and Indians; why sex was an important factor in establishing laws about slavery in Virginia; birth control and abortion practices; changing patterns of courtship; men who loved men and women who loved women; and why the average number of children in American families fell by 50 percent between 1790 and 1890. Over the course of the semester, students will also design a small research proposal on some aspect of the history of American sexuality prior to 1890. Written assignments will include a weekly journal, midterm and final examinations; a book review; and a small research project.
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ANTH 30057 Majors and minors only
US Sex, Sexuality, and Gender since 1880
Elective
Cross-listed from: HIST
Topics may include representations of sexuality in movies and advertising; new courtship practices among unmarried heterosexuals (from courting to dating to hooking up); changing concepts of same-sex love (from inversion to homosexuality to gay liberation to LGBTQ); the demographic shift to smaller families; the twentieth-century movements for and against birth control and legal abortion; and the late-twentieth-century politicization of sexual issues.
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ANTH 30061 Majors and minors only
Africa Since 1800
Elective
Cross-listed from: HIST
This course will focus on African history from 1800 to the independence movements of the 1960s. In the 19th century, new states, economies, and societies emerged in Africa as African peoples developed new relations among themselves and with the rest of the world. With the "scramble for Africa" of the 1880s, European powers colonized Africa and suppressed many of these processes. In the 1960s, however, self-rule resurged as Africans helped throw off the yoke of colonial rule and form independent nation-states. This course will consider the social, economic, and political history of Africa by using case studies from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Zaire), Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.
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ANTH 30062 Majors and minors only
Consumerism in the US sincc 1890
Elective
Cross-listed from: HIST
By 1900 the development of mass production made the possibility of consumption for private enjoyment available to increasing numbers of Americans. This course will examine the creation of contemporary consumer culture beginning with the advent of mass production and mass marketing in the nineteenth century including the rise of advertising and the growth of department stores. We will look at how the ideas and institutions associated with consumerism change through the twentieth century during times of depression, war and into the present. Additional topics will include how consumers have used consumption to fashion individual and group identities, as well as how Americans have embraced or challenged consumerism over time.
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ANTH 30066 Majors and minors only
Problems in Latin American Society
Elective
cross-listed from SOC
Since the fall of dictatorships in the 1980's, a multitude of new social organizations has emerged in Latin America. At the same time, globalization has presented new challenges to social groups struggling to retain their livelihoods and their communities. This course examines traditional and new social movements, organizations and institutions in contemporary Latin America.
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ANTH 30070 Majors and minors only
Islam and Modernity
Elective
Cross-listed from: MELC
Islam and its compatibility with modernity is a much debated issue in the contemporary period. The course will address this timely topic and discuss the most important "hot-button" issues involved: political Islam, democracy, pluralism, rights of women, and secularism. The historical contexts in which these issues have been debated will also receive attention. What internal resources exist within Islamic thought which are being drawn upon by modernists to make a strong case for an essential compatibility between Islam, modernity, and democracy, for example? Is democracy (or Islam, for that matter) a monolithic concept? Students will be expected to actively take part in discussions centered around such questions, the assigned readings, and class lectures. Prior exposure to at least one class on Islam or the Middle East is strongly recommended.
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ANTH 30072 Majors and minors only
Religion and Social Life
Elective
Cross-listed from: SOC
How does social life influence religion? How does religion influence society? What is religion's social significance in a complex society like ours? Is religion's significance declining? This course will consider these and other questions by exploring the great variety in social expressions of religion. The course examines the social bases of churches, sects, and cults, and it focuses on contemporary religion in the United States.
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ANTH 30075 Majors and minors only
Polish Americans
Elective
Cross-listed from: SOC
A study of the cultural and racial pluralism of American society through the focus of the Polish American experience; a review of the social and historical background, the immigration experience, and adaptation to the American experiment in terms of family, religion, education, work, and government.
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ANTH 30078 Majors and minors only
Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in 21st Century America
Elective
Cross-listed from: SOC
Migration from Latin America and Asia over 1970-2000 brings a new heterogeneity for the United States that mirrors the global population. Now, the consequences of this migration are reflected in federal statistical policy to expand official population categories of five categories on race and two on ethnicity. This course is an introduction to these U.S. populations of Whites, Blacks or African-Americans, American Indians or Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders, and Latinos or Hispanics as to historical context, social and economic characteristics, and current research and policy issues. Migration in the post-1965 era of Asians and Latinos created new racial and ethnic communities geographically concentrated in California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, and Arizona. Conceptualization and quantification involve new challenges increasingly relevant for governmental and private sectors, nationally and for communities. Scholars are more attentive to changing identities and population heterogeneity for social institutions of family, education, and government. The 2000 Census and population projections show the future population as considerably different from that of the past. These topics hold relevance in contemporary discussions of world population growth, immigration policy, social change, globalization, and environment.
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ANTH 30079 Majors and minors only
Caribbean Historiography
Elective
Cross-listed from: AFST
This class will introduce students to major events in Caribbean History and the various ways in which these histories have been represented. This course will present a picture of the Caribbean very different from that held by many North Americans. For 500 years, this region has been the site of encounters and clashes among Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Asians. For three centuries Europe's leading states fought each other to control these islands, which were the most valuable real estate in the Atlantic world. At the same time Dutch, English, French and Spanish colonists imported millions of enslaved men, women, and children from Africa to work on the sugar and coffee plantations that made the region so profitable for its masters. Supported by racism and colonialism, plantation slavery left its mark on the Caribbean long after emancipation and independence. We will be emphasizing recent, representative texts, monographs and essays but placing them in the context of early research.
ANTH 30081 Majors and minors only
Chinese Ways of Thought
Elective
Cross-listed from: LLEA
This is a special topics class on religion, philosophy, and the intellectual history of China. Conventionally it is assumed that the religion and philosophy of the Chinese can be easily divided into three teachings: Daoism, Buddhism, and "Confucianism." Chinese Ways of Thought questions this easy doctrinal divisibility by introducing the student to the world-view and life experience of Chinese as they have been drawn and local cultic traditions, worship and sacrifice to heroes, city gods, earth gods, water sprites, nature deities, and above all, the dead. China’s grand philosophical legacy of Daoism, Buddhism, "Confucianism," and later "Neo Confucianism" with which we have become familiar in the West derived from the particular historical contexts of local practice and it was also in such indigenous contexts that Islam and later Christianity were appropriated as native faiths.
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ANTH 30082 Majors and minors only
Popular Religion and the Practice of Philosophy in China
Elective
This lecture/discussion course will introduce the student to the plural religious traditions of the Chinese as manifested in ancestor worship, sacrifice, exorcism, and spirit possession. From an understanding of these practices, the course will offer insight into the mantic foundations of Chinese philosophy, especially metaphysics. Readings will consist of texts in translation of popular cults, as well as scholarly interpretations of these phenomena. In his Natural History of Religion (1757), David Hume articulated the now common distinction between high and low religion, identifying the monotheistic traditions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) with the former and the polytheistic (the majority of the world's religions) with the latter.
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ANTH 30083 Majors and minors only
A Chinese Mosaic
Elective
Cross-listed from: LLEA
A Chinese Mosaic is a special topics class that provides an introduction to the diverse life ways constituting the puzzle of the Chinese people. The course will chart the terrain of current Chinese imagination as it has been shaped from the contending, and often contentious, influences of religion, philosophy, and politics, introducing students to the heralded works of the Chinese intellectual tradition while at the same time requiring critical engagement with the philosophic and religious traditions animating this culture. Thus, as they learn about China students will also reflect on how it has been interpreted by Chinese and by Westerners. From readings in both primary texts and secondary interpretations the class will reconstruct the ethos of the Chinese, attending particularly to the ways in which inherited traditions have been affected by the rise of the modern, authoritarian state. Our concerns will include questions of philosophy as a response to moral crisis, the abridgement of tradition in ideology, the creative reinvention and persistence of popular religion, and the politics of representation. From our attempts to address these concerns, we will reconstitute the philosophic discourse of ancient China and the religious practice of the present in an unconventional, but more evocative, manner that engenders understanding of contemporary political resistance to single-party rule.
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ANTH 30086 Majors and minors only
The City in Modern Chinese Fiction
Elective
Cross-listed from: LLEA
Examining portrayals of cities such as Beijing and Shanghai in fictional works, this course explores the image of the city as the big, the bad, and the irresistible site of desire for modernity in 20th-century China.
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ANTH 30087 Majors and minors only
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (HIST)
Elective
Cross-listed from: HIST
This class discusses the roots, evolution, current situation and prospects of resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In order to better understand this theme the class will also locate this conflict in larger regional and global perspectives. Thus, issues such as nation lism in the Middle East, colonial impact in the region, the Arab states and their involvement in the conflict, cold war and post-cold war dynamics, will all be an integral part of the class discussions. We will also juxtapose the competing narratives of Israelis and Palestinians towards this conflict. Finally, we will engage in an un-historical practice by looking at the future and thinking about possible avenues for concluding this protracted conflict.
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ANTH 30088 Majors and minors only
"Anti-Social" Behavior in Modern Chinese Fiction
Elective
Cross-listed from: LLEA
Chinese society is often characterized as highly conformative and lacking in individuality. Is this true? What kind of behaviors then would be considered anti-social, and what are their moral, social sequences? In this course, we will read fictional works depicting behaviors and attitudes that are considered by society in general as anti-social, anti-conventional, and sometimes anti-Party. We will investigate the contexts of these behaviors and their political implications. For instance, are these behaviors justified? Are different standards applied to women? What are the temporal and spatial factors in people's conception of an anti-social behavior? To what extent are these behaviors culturally determined? This course is taught in English and no prior knowledge of the Chinese languages or China is required.
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ANTH 30089 Majors and minors only
Cultural Performances in Contemporary China
Elective
Cross-listed from LLEA
This course asks students to engage and analyze different types of "cultural performances" in China from the 1980s to the present day. How do we interpret the diversity and complexity of cultures in contemporary China? How is this diversity represented (or "performed") within and between different types of mediums, disciplines, and socio-cultural activities? After establishing an understanding of the historical context for the period under discussion, the course will examine different types of "cultural performances" within a broad range of areas, including film, television, theater, advertising, the Internet, and popular music, dance and leisure activities. Particular issues to be examined in conjunction with the "cultural performances" include commercialism and consumerism, the role of the government, the state, and nationalism, tradition and modernity, globalism and transnationalism, the urban/rural divide, class, and gender. The course will also provide a basic introduction to theories of performance and performativity. Students will view, analyze, and discuss an array of "cultural performances" through different media and utilize the Internet as an interface for collecting viewpoints from China and across the Chinese Diaspora to be applied to their own research projects. In addition to providing a current overview of the diversity of cultures in China and the contemporary issues embedded within, this course is ideal for students seeking to explore the role of culture across disciplines, including arts and literatures, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, media studies, and business. No prior knowledge of Chinese language, culture, or history is required.
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ANTH 30090 Majors and minors only
Archaeology of the African Diaspora (AFST)
This course will introduce students to organizations and movements arising from and on behalf of black populations in the Diaspora, including the United States and various nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. "Movements" is defined broadly in this course to include both historical and contemporary instances of collective resistance, revolt, and rebellion as well as sustained collective activism and organizing around artistic, cultural, social, intellectual, political, and/or religious agendas aimed at bringing about black liberation, social justice, and cultural/ethnic/racial awareness and pride. Among the topics to be considered are varying expressions of black nationalism within the U.S., Rastafarianism in Jamaica, black identity groups in Brazil, and black organizational presence and community building on the internet. Readings and class discussions will encourage students to think about blackness (and identity and mobilization more generally) in global terms, searching for points of connection across international borders along with points of disconnect based on differing historical, cultural, and socio-political realities and differing local understandings of race and ethnicity.
ANTH 30091 Majors and minors only
Short Story in East Asia and the Asian Diasporas
Elective
Cross-listed from: LLEA
This course introduces students to short stories by 20th-century writers in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and the East Asian diasporas. The goals of the course are to examine the intertwined modern histories of East Asian nation-states, investigate the short story as a literary genre, and explore critical concepts of literary and cultural identity studies. The stories will be read in conjunction with critical essays on nation, gender, and the short story with particular attention to the narrative strategies of the authors. Reading the stories both in terms of the cultural and ideological contexts in which they were written and as material artifacts available to us in English today helps to problematize the meanings of “Chinese,” “Japanese,” or “Korean” in East Asia and beyond. Ultimately, this course will provide students with the conceptual framework and vocabulary to interrogate gender, race, and nationality as socially constructed categories.
All readings are in English; no prior knowledge of Asia is presumed.
Note: the syllabus includes Henry David Hwang’s play, M. Butterfly, and the film adaptation of his play to facilitate discussion on orientalist constructions of Asian sexuality. (We will read Said and Porter on Orientalism, and Ziauddin on Orientalism in film.) Also, units on the Desiring Male Gaze and on the Female Counter-Gaze will include critical essays from film studies (Mulvey, Doane, Straayer, Gaines, bell hooks).
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ANTH 30096 Majors and minors only
Japanese Film and Fiction
Elective
Cross-listed from: EALL
For Japan, an island nation whose feudal state followed a policy of isolation for over 150 years (1600 1868), the transition to modernity has been an abrupt and complicated process. Modernization has involved a transformation at every level of Japanese society, ranging from the political and economic realms, to the scientific, cultural, and educational. This course focuses on how some of Japan's most creative authors and film directors have responded to debates relating to the strategies and sacrifices involved in enacting sweeping social changes, and to developing a modern, educated citizenry that would include not only elite males, but women, the poor, and ethnic or other minorities. Through critical essays that accompany the assigned primary sources, students will be introduced to the concepts of narrative voice and perspective; to questions concerning the tensions between presentational and representational modes of Japanese narrative expression; and to the ways in which gender, nationality, and other affiliations have been constructed in the Japanese cultural imaginary.
This course fulfills the Arts and Letters literature requirement. No prior knowledge of Japanese language, history, or culture is required. All readings are in English, and films are subtitled.
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ANTH 30101 Majors and minors only
Fundamentals of Biological Anthropology
Fundamentals or Elective
This course approaches human evolution from a theoretical point of view that combines both biological and cultural processes into a cohesive bio-cultural model. It begins by tracing the development of modern evolutionary theory and the place of evolutionary studies in anthropology, especially in the sub-field of bioanthropology. These concepts provide the framework for understanding the many lines of evidence that anthropologists use to explore and explain human evolution. These include studies of our primate relatives, through the intricacies of the fossil record, to archaeological evidence for the invention of material culture from the simplest stone tools to the complex cultural world that we live in today. Modern human variation can only be explained as the result of evolutionary forces acting on the complex interplay of biology and culture over millions of years. We continue to be affected by these forces, and this course not only provides information about where we came from, it also provides the scientific backgrounds to help us understand where we might be going as our species continues to evolve.
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ANTH 30102 Majors and minors only
Fundamentals of Archaeology
Fundamentals or Elective
This course is an introduction to the methods, goals, and theoretical concepts of archaeology, with a primary focus on anthropological archaeology practiced in the Middle East, North America, and Europe. The field of archaeology is broadly concerned with material culture (at times combined with textual information) that can be employed to generate interpretations about past human societies. The challenge of this social science is to interpret past societies and anthropological behavior using the fragmentary, but nonetheless rich and complex, data base of the archaeological record. Lecture topics will include the methods and goals of archaeological excavation; analytical techniques employed in material studies; and the problems and challenges in the interpretation of past human behavior. Case studies of survey, excavation, and analytical techniques will focus on recent or on-going investigations of archaeological sites in North America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
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ANTH 30103 Majors and minors only
Fundamentals of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fundamentals or Elective
This course introduces students to the field of social-cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropologists are primarily interested in exploring issues of human cultural diversity across cultures and through time. This course will explore key theoretical, topical, and ethical issues of interest to cultural anthroplogists. We will examine diverse ways in which people around the globe have constructed social organizations (such as kinship, and political and economic systems) and cultural identities (such as gender, ethnicity, nationality, race, and class) and we will consider the impact of increasing globalization on such processes. Throughout the course we will consider how different anthropologists go about their work as they engage in research and as they represent others through the writing of ethnographies.
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ANTH 30104 Majors and minors only
Fundamentals of Linguistic Anthropology
Fundamentals or Elective
Language is fully embedded in human culture and society. It has both meaning and efficacy; that is, it both means things and does things. Our goal in this course is to become aware of some of the ways language functions in social life, often below the level of awareness of its users. Students will engage in a number of practical exercises that demonstrate some of the more astonishing features of language all around us. Topics include: the nature of language; ethnographic approaches to language; conversational analysis; language, identity, and power; and language, culture, and thought.
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ANTH 30130
Biocultural Anthropology: Human Nature and Culture
Elective
This course will present the theoretical and empirical bases of biocultural anthropology, the integration of biological and cultural anthropology. A split exists between scientific and humanistic understandings of ourselves, but recent anthropological research has actively bridged this gap. Using a key set of problems and models, this class will cover the basic elements of biocultural anthropology. Dichotomies such as nature versus nurture and mind versus body will be reconsidered in a biocultural perspective. Integrative approaches to studying humans (e.g., embodiment, human development) will be presented, along with the different types of biocultural anthropology that exist today (e.g., synthesis of human biology and political economy, evolutionary theory and ethnography, neurobiology and psychological anthropology). Finally, by actively participating in presenting case studies such as stress, addiction, and language, students will gain the analytical and conceptual tools to address complex problems in ways that embrace the field of anthropology as a whole.
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ANTH 30150
Primate Conservation
Elective
Cross-listed with: BIO
This class will introduce students to the diversity, distribution, and abundance of nonhuman primates and explore the impact that human behavior can have on non-human primate populations. We will begin by discussing the top 25 most endangered primates; their behavior and ecology, biogeography, and reasons why it is classified as endangered. At this point, each student will be assigned one of these species as their “focus” for the rest of the semester. The course will then examine the various threats facing primate populations today, the ways that scientists define and monitor threatened/endangered populations, and the steps that are being taken to increase likelihood of their survival. For each topic addressed, each student will be responsible for reporting on how this topic specifically relates to their focal species. At the end of the semester, students will write a term paper discussing the current conservation status of their focal species and the programs being implemented to prevent/delay its extinction.
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ANTH 30160
Anthropology of Race
Elective
While issues of Race and Racism are pervasive in our society, most people know surprisingly little about the social, biological, political, and historical factors at play. Race is simultaneously a very real social construct and a very artificial biological one. How can this be? Why do we care so much about classifications/divisions of humanity? This course will tackle what Race is and what it is not from an anthropological perspective. We will learn about the biology of human difference and similarity, how societies view such similarities and differences, how our social and scientific histories create these structures, and why this knowledge is both extremely important and too infrequently discussed.
ANTH 30190
Infancy: Evolution, History and Development
Elective
Formerly 30194
Explores aspects of infant biology and socio-emotional development in relationship to western child care practices and parenting. Western pediatric approaches to infancy and parenting are evaluated in light of western cultural history and cross-cultural, human evolutionary and developmental data. A variety of mammals are included as a comparative background to explore the relationships between infant physiology, mental and physical health and contemporary infant caregiving concepts.
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ANTH 30305
Immigration in Comparative Perspective
Elective
How do people in immigrant-receiving countries form their attitudes toward immigrants? What are the unintended consequences of increased governmental investments in border and immigration control? What are the differences between refugees and other migrants? How is immigration related to the 2005 riots in France? In this course we will be able to examine such questions, and more generally to understand the causes, experiences, and consequences of transnational migration. We will acquire a sound interdisciplinary understanding of migration in its historical, social, political, and cultural facets. Diverse aspects of immigration history, policy implementation and migrants' lives will be examined, with fieldwork accounts from countries of origin and from the United States, Europe, and Japan. Issues to be addressed include ethnic neighborhood formation; gender and class differences in migration and settlement; religion; identity formation; border enforcement; racism; and mass-media representation.
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ANTH 30310 Majors and Minors Only
Ritual, Sport and Play
Elective
This class considers three closely related genres of human behavior: play, sport and ritual. The class will begin by considering the concept of blurred genres -- forms of behavior which are considered quite distinct, but which have a strong family resemblance. We then consider child's play as a genre of performance, reading essays on play by noted psychologists and anthropologists. Weeks three and four will turn to key essays about games and sports, considering not only what makes sporting games a distinct genre of activity, but what features link games to child's play and eventually to ritual. Finally, we turn to the kind of performances we call ritual, once again considering them as distinctive variations on many of the themes we saw in both play and sports. The course includes several more general readings linking all three genres, and ends with Victor Turner's seminal essay which attempts to tie all three genres together using his famous concept of liminality.
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ANTH 30320
Native Peoples of North America
Elective
Tremendous variation exists between the cultures of the peoples of North America, both in the past and today. This course will offer an opportunity to glimpse at this variation, which occurs in technology, social organization, economic, political, and religious systems, and in the arts.
A brief introduction of the archaeological and linguistic evidence will provide information on the debate as to when and by what means people entered America and spread throughout its vast area. The course will then move on to consider the many different cultural adaptations to the various environments of North America. The comparative approach will be used to discuss the similarities and differences between specific cultures. The readings will focus upon particular groups (i.e. Eskimo, Cahuilla, Dakota, Navajo, etc.).
The course will also be concerned with the cultural changes which occurred within Native American cultures during the Colonial and Expansion periods of Euro-American cultures. The course will end with consideration of the current issues significant to Native American cultures.
Lectures, film, discussions of readings, and research will allow students a range of learning experiences. Both exams and short papers, as well as a research paper provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the basic information and issues.
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ANTH 30325
Ecological Anthropology
Elective
Ethnoecology is the study of the interaction of local peoples and cultures with natural and man-made ecosystems. The management and control of the ecosystem through decision-making processes is part of this ecological approach to understanding and appreciating traditional knowledge. This course will analyze issues such as: types of land use systems; local taxonomies; spatial and temporal management; health and religion associated with the system; intellectual property rights; ethno- and eco-tourism.
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ANTH 30330
Religion, Myth and Magic
Elective
This course explores anthropological approaches to the diverse human experience of supernatural power and spiritual life. It examines the major theoretical concepts expounded by pioneering thinkers such as Tylor, Durkheim, Weber, Malinowski, and Evans-Pritchard, Lévi-Strauss, Douglas, Geertz, and Turner, paying steady attention to the rich ethnographic tradition upon which the discipline is built. While a variety of themes will be addressed, including shamanism, dreams, voodoo, ecstatic states, witchcraft, healing cults, uses of psychotropic drugs, divination, theodicy, and rites of passage, a major emphasis will be placed on the question of immortality. Addressing different understandings of death and afterlife from an anthropological perspective will concentrate on the comparative study of attitudes and practices surrounding funerary ritual and memorial cults, as expressions of beliefs about the nature of life beyond the grave and the implications of these ideas for the living.
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ANTH 30335
Christianity, Colonialism, and Culture
Religion has long been a locus of anthropological inquiry, but Christianity outside of Europe or European settler states was often dismissed as a corruption of true local culture. In recent years, however, there has been a burst of anthropological attention to non-Western Christianity-in part because so many of the people with whom anthropologists have worked have enthusiastically embraced this foreign religion. This course examines Christian belief and practice in historically non-Christian areas, focusing on Africa and the Pacific Islands. Christian missions were often established in the context of European colonial domination; we will examine how this history continues to affect the way that formerly-colonized people experience Christianity today. We will consider how conversion to Christianity often entails a total re-imagining of social life that is often simultaneously empowering and disturbing. We will also examine new forms of Christianity that are not perceived to be emanating from the West. Students in the course are encouraged to engage methodological and theoretical issues, including questions about whether there is a "culture" of Christianity and whether it is valid to take religion as a distinct domain of social life.
ANTH 30345
Food and Culture
Elective
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All humans eat, but the variations in what, how, and why we are are dazzling. This course examines the many roles of food played in a variety of cultures. We consider food choices and taboos, religious and symbolic meanings of food, dining and social interactions, obesity and thinness, and the political and industrial issues of fast food and the slow food movement. There will be practical and field studies associated with the course.
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ANTH 30359
Peoples of Africa
Elective
This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to the societies of Sub-Saharan Africa. The scope of the course is broad and general. We will use a combination of African film and video, novels, and ethnographic studies. The basic goal is to gain an understanding and an appreciation of the many and varied cultures of Africa. The content of the course includes a consideration of the dimensions of both time and space with emphasis placed on modern Africa, from the period of early colonialism and the slave trade to contemporary independent African countries. It examines cultures in present-day Africa as well as in the past in order to lend an understanding to the developmental processes which led to their modern forms.
The course will be a readings based, seminar format. Evaluation will be based upon one midterm, a final, a term paper, and class participation.
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ANTH 30365
The Contemporary Middle East
Elective
This course examines the societies located in the vast culture area that makes up what Muslims have long referred to as the region from the Ocean to the Gulf, meaning from North Africa in the west to the extremities of the Arabian Peninsula and Iran to the east. Approached from an anthropological perspective, the course includes an overview of existing social, political, economic, expressive, and religious dimensions including recent history and persistent tensions. Traditional structures such as the family, tribe, city, village, market, and pilgrimage will be addressed as well as a range of issues that have risen to dramatic prominence more recently such as health, gender, law, education, nation-state, tourism, and fundamentalism. The role of religious institutions and ideas and their influence at all levels of interaction will receive special emphasis.
Readings will include not only ethnographic and other social science sources, but a range of materials illustrating current trends in the region including contemporary fiction.
In addition to a mid-term and a final exam, students will be expected to write a term paper on a major topic relevant to the objectives of the course.
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ANTH 30382
The Anthropology of Gender
Elective
All humans are born with a biological identity called "sex" (male or female). But we are also socialized into different social roles (called "gender") for being male and female. Who defines our gender? How do we come to adopt ways of being male and female?
This course introduces students to the main issues and debates characterizing the anthropology of gender. Through cross-cultural studies, students explore the manifold ways in which gender is constructed in human societies. The class contrasts and compares the representation of women and men in different kinds of societies and in different political-economic contexts. Students explore the construction of gender in different contexts, but also how anthropologists, through various paradigms, have attempted to understand changing roles, sexual asymmetry and stratification. Thus, Anth 382 is about masculinity as much as it concerns feminity. It is neither a course in feminism nor an exercise in criticizing men. Men and women are most welcome in the class.
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ANTH 30395
Russian Realms: Societies/Cultures of Eastern Europe and Beyond
Elective
This course explores the social structures, the historical contexts, and the symbolic universes of the peoples who either identify themselves as Russian or whose way of life has come to be deeply affected by the Russian tradition. It concentrates on those territories that were formerly incorporated into the Tsarist empire and subsequently formed parts the Soviet Union. It will include an examination of the extensive efforts by Russian thinkers to characterize their own national spirit, reflecting, for example, on classic and contemporary attempts to define dusha or a distinctively Russian "soul," as well as some of the consequences of these formulations, looking at this famous "civilization" question through art, literature, and film as well as social science works. However, the chief approach of the course will be through reading of anthropological studies that have addressed the larger questions from numerous specific local venues. A strong emphasis will also be placed on the so-called current "transition period," as a new Russia in the neighborhood of the "Commonwealth of Independent States" seeks to reshape it heritage amid complex problems arising from social, economic, political, and cultural tensions, not to mention old ghosts of global rivalry, terrorism, and on many levels, disputed legitimacy.
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ANTH 30530
The Archaeology of Africa
Elective
This course is designed as a survey of the archaeological evidence recovered on the continent of Africa. It will begin with an examination of the earliest evidence for culture in the lower Paleolithic 3 to 4 million years ago. From these earliest beginnings, the study of emergent cultural systems will move chronologically through the various stages of cultural development from early Paleolithic through the middle and later periods of the Paleolithic and the beginnings of regional diversification and ecological specialization on the continent. From the next period, the Mesolithic, the beginning of early sedentism will be traced in several geographic regions culminating in the earliest evidence of agriculture and pastoralism in the Neolithic. In the last period, the Iron Age, the development of urban centers and the earliest evidence for regional and world trade will be examined as they took shape before the earliest European contact by sea.
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ANTH 30535
Archaeology of the African Diaspora
Elective
This course is designed to serve as an in-depth undergraduate level introduction to archaeological perspectives on the African Diaspora. In this course, we examine the formation and transformation of the Black Atlantic World beginning with the transatlantic slave trade to the middle of the 19th century through the study of archaeological and historical sources. The emphasis in this course is on English- speaking African America, where the vast majority of archaeological investigations have been undertaken. A major objective of this course is to understand the material world of communities of the African Diaspora within the context of the history and historiography of the Black Atlantic.
This course is organized around the following themes:
1) Diaspora and the Atlantic World
2) Material Life of the Diaspora
3) Diverse Communities of the Diaspora
4) Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Representation
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ANTH 30550
Buried Cities & Lost Worlds: Archaeology of Cultural Collapse
How and why do complex societies collapse? Is collapse a 'natural' phase in the life of a society and, thus, inevitable? Is it the result of some social malaise and, thus, can it be (or could it have been) avoided? The class explores some of the important political, economic, and environmental dimensions of the emergence and eventual collapse of complex societies. Combining archaeological case studies (the Classic Maya of Mesoamerica, Pueblo cultures of the American Southwest, Bronze Age city states of Mesopotamia, and Neolithic agricultural towns of the Near East) with anthropological theory of the emergence of social differentiation, and the mechanisms of societal collapse, this class explores contemporary debates of processes by which, and reasons for, the emergence and disappearance of complex societies in the past. While the geographical focus will be worldwide, the class considers topical issues that illustrate a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding social organizations and cultural collapse.
ANTH 30570
Engendering Archaeology
Elective
In this course, students will explore the potential for studying and reconstructing a prehistory of people through archaeology. We will consider the historical and theoretical foundations of creating an engendered past, the methodological and practical aspects of "doing" engendered archaeology, and the intersection between political feminism, archaeological knowledge production, and the politics of an engendered archaeology. Topics for consideration include feminist perspectives on science, anthropology, and archaeology; concepts of gender in prehistory and the present; women's and men's relations to craft production, state formation, and space; and the complex relationship between feminism, archaeology, and the politics of women and men in archaeology and the archaeological past. Under the broad theoretical, political and historical umbrella of feminism, archaeologists today are negotiating their own paths toward an engendered past from multiple directions, and this course will explore the diversity of these approaches toward creating a prehistory of people.
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ANTH 30580
Forager/Farmer Transition
Elective
The course explores the transition from hunting and gathering ways of life to agricultural societies and systems of food production in the Old and New Worlds. The transition to food production represents one of, if not the, most critical cultural developments in prehistory. This course examines the origins of food production in diverse areas as a long-term social, conceptual and economic process. The first part of this course focuses on the different approaches to the treatment of archaeological sources and remains dating to this shift and evaluates the consequent differences in interpretation and understanding of the emergence of food production. The second part of the course focuses on the consequences and implication of food production, addressing such issues as changing health conditions, population dynamics, and the organization of labor and social practices employed to maintain communities during this critical economic and social transition.
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ANTH 30590
Prehistory of Eastern North America
Elective
The ancestors of the historic American Indians are thought to have been the first people to discover North America. They entered the New World as hunters of now-extinct animals such as mammoths and mastodon. Over the next 10,000 years, the Native Americans of eastern North America developed the unique and varied cultures first encountered by Europeans in A.D. 1492.
This course traces the development of a Native American culture from its earliest beginnings in North America to the time of European contact. The Native American tribes had no written histories, so archaeology is the only way to learn about the prehistory of the American Indian. The course shows how archaeology has sought to learn such things as when the American Indians first entered North America, who the Moundbuilders were, how the Native Americans invented agriculture, how they developed sophisticated societies, and why historic American Indian tribes were so diverse. There will be one mid-term exam and a final exam. You will also write a short research paper on a topic of interest to you.
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ANTH 30591
Prehistory of Western North America
Elective
This course deals with archaeological data and cultural life of prehistoric western North Americans over the last 20,000 years. The course emphasizes origins and cultural development from an early pioneer stage to the later, sophisticated and diverse cultures of the Native Americans. The course will focus on material culture, environmental relationships, and technology to explore cultural change, land-use patterns, economics, and political complexity. In addition, some understanding of the methods by which archaeology is done by scientists in North America and an introduction to historical archaeology are included.
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ANTH 30592
Prehistory of the American Southwest
Elective
This course deals with archaeological data and cultural life of prehistoric Southwest Americans over the last 12,000 years. The course emphasizes origins and cultural development from an early pioneer stage to the later, sophisticated and diverse cultures of the native Americans. The descendants of these cultures includes the Pueblo peoples, the Dene, and the Oíodham peoples. In the course students will explore cultural change, land-use patterns, economics, and political complexity, using information on environmental relationships, technology, and other aspects of material culture.
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ANTH 30610
Kinship and Comparative Social Organization
Elective
The course uses a broad cross-cultural comparative perspective to identify and analyze the major forms of human social organization. Emphasis is on kinship terminology, descent, marriage, residence units, economic exchange, political structure, and social inequality, among other topics.
ANTH 33100
Career Skills Pro Seminar
Elective
The goal of this proseminar is to engage students in their own professional development, be it either towards traditional academic career or some other applied career. There are two key components to this course: individual projects and group projects of their own choosing. Individual projects center on technical development (such as the use of powerpoint and graphics programs), and the development of other professional skills. This includes practical skills such as creating resumes, applying for employment, writing statements of purpose for graduate school or some other professional organization, writing abstracts for professional meetings and writing grant applications. Group projects vary with the interest of class members, but can include attending professional meetings, presenting group papers and organizing departmental or university events. This might include organizing speakers and international visits.
ANTH 33300
Intro to Community-Based Participatory Research Methods
Elective
1 Credit Course
Cross-listed from: CSC
This interdisciplinary Seminar focuses on the ways in which researchers and community members collaborate to conduct research that leads to community change and improvement in the quality of community life. The purpose of this Seminar is to introduce students to community-based participatory research as a means to examine community challenges through quantitative and qualitative research methods. The Seminar is offered through the collaboration of the Center for Social Concerns and the Department of Anthropology.
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ANTH 33300
Intro to Community-Based Participatory Research Methods
Elective
1-Credit Course
Cross-listed from: CSC
This interdisciplinary Seminar focuses on the ways in which researchers and community members collaborate to conduct research that leads to community change and improvement in the quality of community life. The purpose of this Seminar is to introduce students to community-based participatory research as a means to examine community challenges through quantitative and qualitative research methods. The Seminar is offered through the collaboration of the Center for Social Concerns and the Department of Anthropology.
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ANTH 34750
Archaeological Fieldwork at Neolithic Dhra', Jordan
Methods or Elective
Seven weeks of intensive archaeological fieldwork on one of the earliest Neolithic farming communities in the world. Students will be introduced to the use of geophysical survey and to excavation techniques at this prehistoric Near Eastern site. Students will also learn analytical techniques by working with material culture and other archaeological remains they've excavated, namely lithics, architecture, fauna, and paleobotanical remains. Students will also learn about the prehistory and history of Jordan through a series of lectures and field trips in the region. Students must have taken ANTH 327 as a prerequisite, or another upper-level archaeology course. By permission of instructor only, application necessary (see Dept of Anthropology for application).
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ANTH 35106
Primate Behavior
Methods or Elective
This course provides an introduction to the field of medical anthropology. Medical anthropology examines beliefs, practices, and experiences of illness, health, and healing from a cross-cultural perspective to show that illness, health, medicine, and the body are shaped by social relationships and cultural values from the local level of the family and community to the global level of international development and transnational capitalism. This course will consider the ways in which medical anthropology has historically been influenced by debates within the discipline of anthropology as well as by broader social and political movements. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of viewing biomedicine as one among many culturally constructed systems of medicine. Some of the key issues which we will explore are: medical pluralism and therapeutic choice; biocultural studies; medicalization; the political economy of health and disease; the anthropology of the body; the role of medicine and disease in colonialism and postcolonial movements; and applied medical anthropology.
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ANTH 35110
Primate Behavior and Ecology
Methods or Elective
This course will give students an understanding of primate social systems and the factors that influence their maintenance and evolution. The course will begin with a brief overview of primate natural history (taxonomy of major primate groups and primate evolution). The remainder of the course will use various primate examples to explore the core topics of primate behavior and ecology, including: diet and nutrition, predation, social structure, kinship, mating behavior, social dominance, and cognition. Students will also have the opportunity to learn some of the basic data collection techniques used when studying non-human primate behavior, and a trip to the zoo will be scheduled so that they can practice these techniques. Throughout the semester, the students will be asked to read several relevant books/articles (primate case-studies) and write reaction papers on their readings.
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ANTH 35210 Majors and minors only
Health, Healing and Culture
Methods or Elective
This course provides an introduction to the field of medical anthropology. Medical anthropology examines beliefs, practices, and experiences of illness, health, and healing from a cross-cultural perspective to show that illness, health, medicine, and the body are shaped by social relationships and cultural values from the local level of the family and community to the global level of international development and transnational capitalism. This course will consider the ways in which medical anthropology has historically been influenced by debates within the discipline of anthropology as well as by broader social and political movements. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of viewing biomedicine as one among many culturally constructed systems of medicine. Some of the key issues which we will explore are: medical pluralism and therapeutic choice; biocultural studies; medicalization; the political economy of health and disease; the anthropology of the body; the role of medicine and disease in colonialism and postcolonial movements; and applied medical anthropology.
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ANTH 35250
Cultural Aspects of Clinical Medicine
Elective or Methods
Formerly 35-254
Permission Required
4-credit-hour course
ELIGIBILITY:
1. Open only to Juniors and Seniors
2. Must have access to transportation to participate in the ER internships
3. Must be able to spend one 4 hour evening session per week in hospital internship
This course focuses on social science approaches to sickness and healing. The medical encounter is examined from anthropological perspectives. The course emphasizes the difficulties traditional biomedicine has in addressing patients' expectations for care. Students serve an internship as patient ombudsman in a local hospital emergency room 4 hours per week. Students are required to sign a waiver, to present evidence of immunizations, and to receive a TB skin test.
HOW TO REGISTER FOR COURSE: -Students must obtain authorization numbers through the Department of Anthropology (611 Flanner). Authorization numbers will be given during the first session of DART to anthropology majors and minors meeting the eligibility requirements. Beginning the second session of DART, authorization numbers will be given to any student who meets the eligibility requirements.
**IF YOU OBTAIN AN AUTHORIZATION NUMBER AND MUST DROP THE COURSE PLEASE NOTIFY THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY (631-6433 - Diane) SO ANOTHER STUDENT MAY ADD THE COURSE.
(It is very important that we have an enrollment of 28 students - no more - no less.)
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ANTH 35350
Anthropology of Africa
Africa is known as the cradle of humanity and has the longest record of ¿human¿ activity of any continent. Yet it is also the least understood in terms of its past. The discipline of anthropology has the primary field of study used to understand the development of societies and cultures of Africa. In this course, students will learn and critically apply techniques drawn from biological anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, history and linguistic anthropology for understanding the evolution of human societies within Africa, and the inter-connections between Africa and the rest of the world from the earliest times to the present era. Topics covered in the readings, lectures, practical laboratory work, and assignments will include the beginnings of cultural development (tool-making and social networks), the interactive development of agriculture, pastoralism and foraging, the rise of social complexity, urbanism and states within Africa, colonialism, and post-colonial African states.
ANTH 35582 Majors and minors only, permission required
Archaeology of Ireland
Methods or Elective
This course examines the cultural and historical trajectory of the archaeology of Ireland through a series of richly illustrated lectures, organized chronologically, that trace cultural, social, and technological developments from the Neolithic through the Viking period. Integrated with this lecture series, and running concurrently on alternate days, will be a series of seminar and discussion classes focused upon a number of anthropological and archaeological issues related to each of these periods of time. This includes the emergence of the unique systems of communities, and the development of systems of metallurgy in the Iron Age. Other classes will touch upon the topics of regionalism and identity and contact at different periods of time, mortuary practices and ritual, and discussion of village life in ring forts during the Bronze Age.
Questions should be directed to Prof. Kuijt. Permission required. Authorization numbers may be obtained directly from Prof. Kuijt, 617 Flanner.
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ANTH 35588
Archaeology Field School
Methods or Elective
Three weeks of practical instruction in the method and theory of archaeological survey, excavation and laboratory analysis. Students learn field techniques and apply them to investigations of both prehistoric and historic archaeological sites. They also learn the basic methods used in laboratory analysis of archaeological materials by working with artifacts collected during the field course. There are no prerequisites for this course, but prior exposure to an introductory course in anthropology or archaeology is helpful. Enrollment is limited to 14. Materials/transportation fee.
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