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(Sociology) A study of Africa both from historical and contemporary perspectives. Offers insights into Africa's political, socio-cultural and economic systems, population processes, the growing environmental problems facing the continent, and Africa's response to pressures for change. Also covers various policy issues designed to effect a development change for the African continent. Togunde.
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Prerequisite: A&S 101 or 105 or permission of instructor. (Sociology) Explores the interplay between human populations and their physical environment from a social science perspective. Examines ways in which the dynamics between population processes and environmental resources determine prospects for economic development, urbanization, housing, food, literacy, quality of life for women, and household structure in a variety of countries. Environmental issues will include: desertification and deforestation, food and famine, grassroots environmental movements, eco-feminism, environmental racism and environmental regulation. Assesses policy responses to population and environment. Togunde.
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Prerequisite: A&S 101 or 105 or permission of instructor. (Anthropology) The historical and anthropological study of Native peoples of North America, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. Topics include federal policy, political movements, gender, the construction of identities and relationships between scholars and Native communities. Same as History 256. Mullin.
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(Anthropology or Sociology) Same as History 263. Wu.
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(Anthropology or Sociology) Same as History 264. Wu.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. (Anthropology) An introduction to the study of religion through the techniques of anthropology and archaeology. Examines the ways that sacred places, such as Stonehenge, the pyramids of Egypt and Central America, Japanese teahouses, Hindu temples and American churches, reflect and shape the religious world of the people who create and use them. Other topics include: sacrifice, the environment, shamanism, death and pilgrimage. Staff.
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(Anthropology or Sociology) An examination of issues of contemporary significance within the disciplines of anthropology and sociology. Topics will range from the political economy of developing societies, to the sociology of mental illness and deviant behavior. May be taken more than once for credit. Staff.
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Prerequisite: A&S 101 or 105 or permission of instructor. (Anthropology) Anthropologists have often worked in societies without indigenous categories that clearly translate into "art" and "artist." Do such societies still produce "art"? This course explores the significance of labels such as "art," "craft," "artifact," "tradition" and "trash." It also considers some of the ways anthropologists and scholars in related disciplines have attempted to document and understand art, art markets, aesthetics and taste, particularly in relation to gender, class, race and national identity. Mullin.
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(Anthropology) Same as Religious Studies 313. Staff.
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Prerequisite: A&S 105 or permission of instructor. (Anthropology) A cross-cultural consideration of sex and gender, drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a wide variety of societies, including societies in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. The course covers key theoretical approaches that have informed anthropological research on sex and gender. Specific topics include gendered divisions of labor, the cultural construction of sexuality, gender in colonial encounters and the politics of reproduction. Mullin.
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