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3.00 Credits
PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. The rich and complex Thoreau/East Indian connection has been elaborated in many essays and books, and this course pushes the frontiers further through a "heroic reading" of all of Wald en and much of t he Git a. We also discuss how these masterpieces speak to fundamental problems: good/evil, self/cosmos, duty/passion, reality/illusion, political engagement and philosophical meditation, and sensuous "wildness" and ascetic devot ion. P. Friedrich. Not offered 2009-10; will be offere d 2010
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PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This course explores fundamentals of poetry and poetics on a world basis (e.g., music of language, theory of tropes, poetry and myth, linguistic-poetic relativism, unique individual, sociopolitical context, moral intention of the poet, metaphysical questions). We focus on the following four poetic worlds: T'ang Chinese (e.g., Tu Fu); Russian (i.e., Pushkin); Native American (e.g., Quechua, Eskimo); and three American poets (Dickenson, Frost, Hughes). We also briefly introduce other poetic worlds (e.g., Villon, Baudelaire, haiku). P. Friedrich. Spring.
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PQ: Consent of instructor. This course introduces the theoretical foundations and analytical techniques that allow archaeologists to use ceramics to make inferences about ancient societies. Ethnographic, experimental, and physical science approaches are explored to develop a realistic, integrated understanding of the nature of ceramics as a form of material culture. Practical training in the use of the ceramic labs is included. M. Dietler. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken concurrently with ANTH 36500. Class limited to sixteen students. Students participate directly in an ongoing scientific research project while pursuing studies in archaeological theory, method, and data collection. Archaeological, historical, and paleo-environmental research in the North American Southwest and beyond are introduced through direct field experience and evening seminars and lectures. This course is held in the Middle Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. M. Lycett. Summer. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken concurrently with ANTH 36400. Class limited to sixteen students. This course provides practical experience in the design and implementation of archaeological fieldwork and basic lab procedures and an introduction to the analysis of chipped stone, ceramic, floral, and faunal materials recovered from archaeological contexts. Through field and lab work, students do archaeological research, including surface documentation, transit mapping, excavation, artifact processing, and preliminary artifact analysis. Students may pursue a directed research project under the guidance of the instructor. M. Lycett. Summer. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. Offered in conjunction with ANTH 36400 and 36500. Class limited to sixteen students. This course provides an opportunity to participate in the intensive laboratory analysis of materials recovered from archaeological contexts. Students receive closely supervised instruction in advanced techniques of analysis while working with expert consultants and staff members of the Archaeological Field School in New Mexico. Topics may include study of faunal, botanical, ceramic, metallurgical, and chipped stone material. Students develop a supervised research project as part of their course work. M. Lycett. Summer. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken concurrently with ANTH 36611. Class limited to sixteen students. This course introduces students to the practice and theory of African historical archaeology through hands-on participation in an ongoing research program at the nineteenth-century Catholic Mission of Ngasobil (Senegal). Students learn basic fieldwork procedures, including surface documentation and collection, intensive transit mapping, shovel test surveys, excavation procedures, artifact processing, and preliminary artifact analysis. These are complemented by evening seminars and lectures examining salient theoretical questions and historical concerns that shape contemporary Senegalese archaeology. F. Richard. Summer.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken concurrently with ANTH 36610. Class limited to sixteen students. This course introduces students to the analysis of historic material culture commonly encountered on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sites in coastal West Africa. Using a combination of lectures and intensive hands-on work, students learn to identify and analyze major classes of artifacts that were made, used, and traded in Goree Island and coastal Senegal at the height of the Atlantic trade and during the colonial era. F. Richard. Summer.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Good reading knowledge of French and consent of instructor. Offered in conjunction with ANTH 36610 and 36611. Class limited to sixteen students. This course presents students with an opportunity to develop an independent project in consultation with the instructor, and to compile a selection of relevant readings to help them research their topic of interest. Student projects target a salient theme or question regarding the archaeology of history of Senegal. F. Richard. Summer.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. The correlation between ethnic groups and patterns in material culture lies at the heart of many archaeological problems. Over the last several years, a new emphasis on the social construction of racial and ethnic identities has invited a re-examination of the ways in which aspects of the material world (i.e., architecture, pottery, food, clothing) may participate actively in the dialectical process of creating or obscuring difference. This seminar surveys historical debates and engages with current theoretical discussions within archaeology concerning race and ethnicity in complex societies. S. Dawdy. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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