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4.00 Credits
Household Archaeology plays a central role in the analysis of a wide range of anthropological issues, such as wealth, status, economic risk, gender, political networks, and ethnicity. Focuses on how to integrate household data into abstract general theories of social process.
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4.00 Credits
The nature and results of the evolutionary processes responsible for the formation and differentiation of human populations.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the nature and role of genes in evolution, in natural selection, in sexual reproduction, in cellular regulation, in human development, in structuring universal human adaptive design, and in creating individual and intergroup similarities and differences.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the penetration and impact of global capitalist economy (national and multinational) upon local level third world societies, communities, and groups. A world system perspective is taken and anthropological case studies are presented from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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4.00 Credits
A hands-on course which explores the scientific process as used in bio- and bio-cultural anthropological research. Emphasizes hypothesis testing, data collection and data analysis. Students examine and analyze new anthropological data from ongoing socio-ecological research.
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4.00 Credits
The cross-cultural study of gender from a feminist perspective. Topics may include gender and nature, gender and the division of labor, gender and kinship, gender and subjectivity, gender and sexuality, gender and the state, gender and knowledge/discourse.
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4.00 Credits
What do Pygmies, Aborigines, and Eskimos have in common? What is the relationship between nature and culture in these simple societies? These questions and others will be examined through case studies and cross-cultural comparisons.
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4.00 Credits
A thorough introduction using a behavioral ecology approach to the diversity of behaviors found among foragers in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Topics include: diet and subsistence, mating, demography, social behavior, mobility and settlement patterns, gender, indigenous rights, and conservation.
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4.00 Credits
Examines human dimensions of global environmental change in developing countries from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. Compares and contrasts alternative conceptual and analytical models of dynamic, interrelated human-environmental systems and presents recent approaches to understanding risk, vulnerability, resilience, and disasters.
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4.00 Credits
Focus on the contradictions between international tourism as an economic development strategy and environmental conservation efforts, especially in an era of climate change. One major objective is to help students make more informed decisions about their own tourist experiences.
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