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3.00 Credits
This course examines interactions between human societies and their natural environments. Human adaptation is viewed as a problem-solving process, involving the development of strategies for maximizing energy efficiency and reproductive success, for warding off environmental stress, and for reducing conflicts. These management strategies are examined for a number of human societies, and are used to gain insight into modern decision-making processes. Prerequisite: ANT 101J or 102K. Cr 3.
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This course combines an ethnographic and archaeological perspective on the culture history and traditional cultures of native North Americans. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of aboriginal native cultures to their environments, and the evolution of complex societies in certain regions of North America. Also included is discussion of the fragmentation of Indian societies that followed the European invasion of North America. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as a comprehensive summary of the prehistory, traditional culture, and contemporary life ways of peoples living in the northern hemispheres of both the Old and New Worlds-from Maine to Alaska, and from Siberia to Lapland. Special attention will be given to the origins of these peoples; the problems of living in cold, northern environments; the effects of European contact; and the modern problems that they face ranging from the effects of urbanization to land claim disputes. Prerequisite: ANT 101J or 103 or permission of instructor. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Hunting and gathering is a way of life, not simply a subsistence technique. Ninety-nine percent of human evolutionary history involved this kind of life, and our biology as a species was created through this mode of existence. In this ethnographically oriented course we will study several huntergatherer societies including the Ju'/hoansi, the Mbuti, the Australian aborigines, and the Inuit. Special attention will be given to understanding the traditional life and world view of hunter- gatherers, but we will also focus on how recent political and economic events are changing their lives. Cr 3.
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Sex and gender are, respectively, biological realities and cultural constructs. This course will examine the anthropology of sex and gender in an evolutionary- biological and cross-cultural perspective. The course is organized to explore the issues of sex and gender in three of the major subfields of anthropology: archaeology and biological and cultural anthropology. Topics will include bias in science, the biology and evolution of sex differences, sex-linked behaviors, nonhuman primates, human evolution and the division of labor, and sex roles in different kinds of human societies. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on food as an essential and central part of human experience. We will examine the anthropology of food and food habits, including an evolutionary- ecological perspective, the reconstruction of past human diets from archaeological evidence, and a cross-cultural examination of the diversity of human food preferences and avoidances. An important goal of the course will be to try to understand and appreciate cultural differences in food habits from both an ecological and a societal point of view. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as a comprehensive summary of prehistoric cultures and paleo-environmental conditions of South America. Emphasis is placed on the evolution of complex societies in the Andean and Pacific coast regions. Also included is a discussion of European contact and interaction with the Inka State. Cr 3.
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This course will examine prehistoric cultural developments in China, Korea, and Japan. Several issues will be examined in depth, including the theoretical framework of regional research, the Pleistocene- Holocene transition, the development and spread of wet-rice farming, the development of regional states, and the role of writing and historic documents. Students will gain insight into the social and economic transformations of selected cultures. Cr 3.
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This course examines the archaeological evidence for cultural developments in the African continent, from the earliest traces of hominid behavior through the Iron Age and precolonial states. Emphasis will be placed on the development of stone tool technology, pottery and metallurgy, the ecological setting of sites, the reconstruction of subsistence activities, and African geography and regional settlement patterns, through time. Prerequisite: ANT 103 or permission of instructor. Cr 3.
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3.00 Credits
Students will engage in the pursuit of both knowledge and social action. Much of the information base for the social action project will come from concurrent enrollment in ANT 350 or ANT 301I, both of which address the environmental/cultural issues of indigenous peoples. The link between knowledge and informed action will be explicit: students will research a particular aspect of an environmental/ cultural issue of indigenous peoples, and design a social action project to address it. This course will be particularly useful for students interested in a career in social or environmental service in a multi-ethnic setting. Credit will vary with the scope of the projects undertaken in a particular semester, as determined by the instructor. Prerequisite: concurrent registration with ANT 350 or ANT 301I. Cr 1-2.
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