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4.00 Credits
Comparative examination of human foraging societies, emphasizing ethnographic cases and socioecological analysis. Foraging and human evolution; rationality of foraging societies; population and reproductive strategies; variability in social organization and land use; power relations between the sexes; ritual and belief; contemporary status of hunter-gatherer populations.
Prerequisite:
one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203
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5.00 Credits
Analysis of Soviet and post-Soviet culture and identity. Historical transformations in Soviet approaches to ethnicity and nationality; contemporary processes of nationbuilding and interethnic conflict. Examination of culture through the intersection of social ritual, government policies, language, economic practices, and daily life. Regional focus will vary. Offered: jointly with SISRE 425.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural examination of theoretical issues in anthropology as studied in urban places. Focuses on ethnic identity and the formation of urban ethnic groups; migration and its rural and urban consequences; family and kinship organization as an adaptation to urban complexity; the nature of urban voluntary associations; law and politics; and the developments in anthropological method.
Prerequisite:
one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203
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5.00 Credits
Anthropological approaches to ethnicity and ethnic group relations with reference to other models including race, caste, class, regional groupings, nations, religion, and stratification. Data drawn from precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods.
Prerequisite:
one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203
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5.00 Credits
Anthropological view of one expressive aspect of culture: plastic and graphic arts, myth and folktale, music, dance, humor and tragedy, or play and games.
Prerequisite:
one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of aspects of anthropological thought influential in ethnomusicology. Critical evaluation of dominant theoretical schools and modes of explanation, e.g., evolutionist, diffusionist, historical particularist, structuralist, functionalist, symbolist, and semiotic, through detailed examination of seminal texts. Offered: jointly with MUSIC 480; alternate years.
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5.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
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5.00 Credits
Social variation in the phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon of languages and dialects. Nonstandard language, diglossia, pidgins and creoles, gender differences, bi- and multilingualism, ethnography of speaking, pragmatics, and language attitudes. Offered: jointly with LING 432.
Prerequisite:
either LING 200 or LING 400; recommended: prior or concurrent registration in ANTH 451 or LING 450
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3.00 Credits
Wassink Examines field methods linguists use in socially oriented studies of language variation and change. Students learn to target and design interviews appropriate for eliciting specific kinds of linguistic data. Discussion of issues related to recording, ethics, and analysis of large bodies of data. Offered: jointly with LING 434.
Prerequisite:
LING 432
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
Separate File
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