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5.00 Credits
Historical background and contemporary life of cultural groups in eastern and southern Africa with special study of selected cases of political and economic organization and cultural change.
Prerequisite:
one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203
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5.00 Credits
Survey of anthropological research among the traditional peoples of South America. Historical background and contemporary life of cultural groups of the Amazonian Basin. Transformation of traditional life-styles through the process of European conquest and the aftermath of colonialism. Detailed study of selected societies.
Prerequisite:
one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203
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5.00 Credits
No course description available.
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5.00 Credits
Analysis of contemporary environmental problems in China, including population, food, water supply, pollution, biodiversity, and environmental activism. Combines natural science and social science perspectives. Offered: jointly with SISEA 406.
Prerequisite:
either ANTH 210, ENVIR 201, SIS 200, SIS 201, or SIS 202
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5.00 Credits
Caste class, and community in modern India. Transitions from colonial typology to analysis of social change, diversity, stability, and caste hierarchy in rural society. Current debates on class and community in Indian society, rural and urban, explored through themes of identity, structure, and mobility. Offered: jointly with SISSA 412.
Prerequisite:
one 200- level ANTH course
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5.00 Credits
Pena Historical, ethnographic, and theoretical perspectives in the study of Mexican-origin communities in social movements in Mexico and the United States with a focus on workers, immigrants, peasants, women, indigenous peoples, and students as forces of collective mobilization and social, cultural, and political change. Offered: jointly with CHSTU 416.
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5.00 Credits
Indian civilization of Mexico and Guatemala, their origins and ecological foundations. Contemporary communities of Mexico and Guatemala, focusing on creative adaptation of pre-Columbian traditions to modern national realities.
Prerequisite:
one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203
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3.00 Credits
Spain Anthropological use of theories developed by Freud to understand culture. Reviews psychoanalytic theory as a foundation for examining the work of Roheim, LaBarre, Devereaux, Kardiner, and Spiro, among others. Topics covered include the universality of oedipality and the utility of psychoanalysis in non- Western cultures.
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5.00 Credits
Systematic survey of concepts, models, and theories that characterize the anthropological study of religion. Consideration of the human universal basis of religion and of diverse ways in which religions are constructed and related to social experience.
Prerequisite:
either ANTH 321 or RELIG 201; RELIG 202
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5.00 Credits
Focuses on the movement of cultural patterns and processes across boundaries, examining the “contact zones” in colonial encounters, moving to borrowing and blendings along ethnic and national borders. Examines border crossing of immigration and diasporas. Ethnographic examples from the Americas and Africa.
Prerequisite:
one 200-level ANTH course
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