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3.00 Credits
This course provides an interdisciplinary anthropological and ethnohistorical analysis of Native American societies and cultures in the Americas from the first peopling of the New World through interactions with Euro- Americans from the 1 7th to the early 20th Majors, Minors, Other Programs of Study, Course Descriptions century. Archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical approaches are employed. Cross-listed as HIST 311. Students may receive credit for either course but not both.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the worldview and lifestyles of African Americans during the colonial period. Students explore early African American culture through archaeology, ethnohistory, and anthropological linguistics. The intent of the course is to discover what it meant to be human during the colonial era from an African American perspective, and to gain general insight on how culture develops for all groups.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on major approaches and important contributions to the cross-cultural study of myth. Students explore and evaluate the place of myth in Western culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of contemporary relationships of economy to society, culture, and environment. Students examine the major anthropological approaches to the study of human adaptation and livelihood. The course focuses on basic processes of production, exchange, and consumption for societies ranging from small-scale foragers to global-scale capitalists.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the analysis of symbolism and application of this analytical perspective to the study of ritual. Students examine the capacity of humans to create and use symbols to establish order and meaning, and explore the relationship between religious and secular rituals.
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3.00 Credits
The course surveys contributions from folklorists and anthropologists to the understanding of the American variant of Western culture. Topics considered include social structure, kinship, myth, material culture, and symbolism. Problems concerning ethnographic recording and observer bias receive special attention.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to examine how anthropologists, archaeologists, folklorists, and other analysts of humanly constructed artifacts and environments infer cultural symbol and logic from prehistoric, historic, and contemporary material culture. A cross-cultural sample of cultures and societies is considered. Material categories addressed include architecture, gravestones, measuring instruments, pottery vessels, clothing, and settlement pattern.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the breadth of contemporary African American culture in the United States explored through ethnography, ethnohistory, anthropological linguistics, biological anthropology, and cultural criticism. The intent of the course is to provide an introduction and broad overview of the relationship of culture to the formation and maintenance of ethnic identity.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of sociocultural and social theory in anthropology. Students learn the history and evolution of classical and contemporary anthropology theory, and relationships between theory, research, and practice needed for a solid liberal arts education. The course prepares students fro St. Mary's Projects, general careers, and graduate school. Prerequisites: ANTH 101 and ANTH 201.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to underwater archaeology at the undergraduate level. Students will learn the history of the sub-discipline and a basic understanding of the steps involved in researching, recording, interpreting and protecting submerged cultural remains. No diving is required for this class. Students who successfully complete the course will have a solid foundation on which to build experience by assisting on archaeological projects.
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