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  • ANT 310: Compare World Religions ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: Ant 100 or instructor's permission. The course will examine underlying philosophical principles rituals myths and motifs that these major belief systems have in common and how these religions transcend the local space and unify large groups of believers. The course will focus on Christianity Islam Judaism Buddhism and Hinduism as major world religions but will consider local belief systems and local faces of world religions.
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  • ANT 314: Anthro:Magic-Sorcery ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: Ant 100. Human existence cannot be fully understood without understanding the deeply held emotional beliefs and rituals we express in order to make sense of the universe. This course will explore one area of belief and ritual that of magic and witchcraft from an anthropological and cross-cultural perspective. Magic can loosely be defined as an ideology grounded in the assumption that a supernatural universe exists. witchcraft-loosely the practice of magic-is grounded on the assumption that humans can manipulate aspects of the supernatural. This course will examine how and why magical ideology operates within cultures. magical healing and harm. magical deviance and social control. the ritual process. the roles of magical practitioners such as shaman witch sorcerer and magician. entities of the supernatural worlds such as demons and angels. magic in history. and magical practice within contemporary cultures.
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  • ANT 330: Medical Anthropology ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: Ant 100 Soc 100 or instructor's permission. The course examines how human culture local environment and disease interrelate. The course will consider traditional explanations for illness traditional healing methods and the social role of the healer nutrition and diet environmental stresses such as climate and population the impact of scientific western medicine on local knowledge and the impact of endemic and epidemic disease on human populations and cultures.
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  • ANT 331: Human Ecology ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: Ant 100 Bio 100 or instructor's permission. Humans have been manipulating the environments of Earth for 10000 years. Most of the planet has now been modified to suit human needs and wants. This course will examine the many ways in which people interact with the physical environment both real and imagined. This course will also provide a scientific grounding in environmental knowledge and human interactions as well as case studies.
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  • ANT 334: Archaeology & Environments ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: None. This course will cover the principles issues and methods of contemporary archaeology as well as an overview of world prehistory. The primary focus will be the environments and cultural ecologies of ancient civilizations such as Ancient Egypt and Central America. We will consider the factors of climate and climate change available natural resources and resource use water land modifications and technology in the coalescing maintenance and disintegration of the early urban systems.
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  • ANT 350: Comparative Behavior ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: Ant 100 Psy 100 or Bio 100. Investigates how biological organisms operate in general and specifically examines how the human animal relates to other primates and other mammals. The course will consider principles of evolution biological and learned adaptive strategies within environments communication group behavior reproduction and parenting behavior aggression dominance territoriality and cognition.
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  • ANT 354: Anthropological Folklore ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: Ant 100 or permission of instructor. The course will use a cross-cultural comparative method to look at the nature of oral and written folk traditions including the folk tale ballad corrido myth urban legend heroic legend and fable. It will also examine performed art such as folk music and drama pictorial art and the creation of material culture. We will look at how folk traditions are created and maintained how tradition operates to define identity and the generation of ethnic tourism. We will focus on local cultural traditions and use the Valley as a resource area.
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  • ANT 400: Anthropological Fieldwork ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: Ant 100 and 3 additional hours of Ant or Soc. Discussion theory and application of anthropological data collection methods including passive observation participant observation archival search photography interviewing life history and genealogy linguistic research and initial archaeological survey and mapping.
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  • ANT 402: Northeastern Native People ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: None. This course covers the archaeology history ethnology past and present contemporary cultures of the indigenous people of the Northeast. We will primarily focus on the Wabanaki groups of New England and their Maritimes: the Penobscot Passamaquoddies Malisites Mikmaqs and Abenakis. We will cover the Iroquoian Wendat and Mohawk and the Southern Algonquans.
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  • ANT 450: Psychological Anthropology ?

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Fort Kent

    Prerequisites: Ant 100 or Soc 100 and Psy 100. The course discusses the relationship of the human self to culture and to environment. It will examine theories of human cognition and consciousness from a cross-cultural and global perspective. It will use an anthropological perspective to examine how culture is a primary shaper of self-awareness and concepts of self.
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