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5.00 Credits
Introduction to human/ environment interactions from various anthropological perspectives. Intellectual history of anthropological approaches to environment, emphasizing the mutual interconnectedness of people and nature. Survey of evolutionary models; cultural ecology; systems approaches; indigenous knowledge; ethnoecology; nature and the state; political ecology; ecofeminism; and environmentalism.
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5.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of race, class, gender, and sexuality in anthropology. Through ethnographic and theoretical readings, students are introduced to the concept of identity as intersectional construction and social performance.
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3.00 Credits
Engages students in volunteer activities in order to explore the process of social change around intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. A service learning companion course to ANTH 228. Students must be enrolled in ANTH 228 in order to enroll in ANTH 289.
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3.00 Credits
Comparison of various anthropological perspectives on the sources of variation in customs, values, and beliefs of human groups, including non-Western peoples and contemporary Americans.
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5.00 Credits
Surveys classic anthropological literature examining the relationship between culture and the body. Examines Euroamerican body culture historically. Explores how the body is represented in mass media and the effects this has on everyday body ideologies.
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3.00 Credits
Kahn Explores written texts and visual images about the Pacific Islands and Islanders in an effort to understand the power of representation and its relationship to the construction of knowledge. Examples drawn from early explorers, artists, novelists, anthropologists, the tourist industry, and Pacific Islanders.
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5.00 Credits
McGrath Examines U.S. Pacific Islander culture as informed by Pacific history, social and cultural organization. Emphasis on understanding contemporary experience in the U.S. and other diaspora communities. Major themes include post-colonialism, migration, family, religion, politics, gender, education, and transnational identify. Recommended: either ANTH 202 or AES 151. Offered: jointly with AAS 300. Offered: Sp.
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5.00 Credits
Traditional cultures of America north of Mexico, emphasizing diversity of North American Indian and Eskimo societies. Origins of Native- American culture areas and language groupings; subsistence systems; levels of social organization; European conquest and colonialism; and description of representative cultures from the ten culture areas. Recommended: ANTH 100.
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5.00 Credits
Focuses on works written by Pacific Islanders (novels, short stories, plays, and poetry)since the 1970s. Explores colonialism and its effects on indigenous peoples. Examines discourses of gender, and cultural identity within the Pacific Islands region.
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5.00 Credits
Survey of the many cultures of pre- and post-colonial sub- Saharan Africa. Appreciation of the adaptability, strength, and creativity of African peoples. Recommended: ANTH 100.
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