Anthropology 208B - American Anthropology

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Bard College

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Description:

Africana Studies Up until World War II, American anthropology had three central concerns: the description and understanding of Native American peoples based on participant observation through fieldwork; the defeat of scientific racism; and the placement of the concept of culture at the center of anthropological thought. This course examines this history along with the rise of sociological, psychological, and neomarxist evolutionist thought in American anthropology in this period.Works by Franz Boas, Frank Cushing, James Mooney, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Robert Lowie, Alfred Kroeber, Paul Radin, Melville Herskovits, Leslie White, and other anthropologists are studied.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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