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  • ANT 435: Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    This course focuses on shifting paradigms guiding natural resource management. The class will survey a variety of influential ideas driving debates over natural resources, including the following: 1.) debates over property right and management approaches in common pool resources, 2.) complex adaptive systems theory and its role in the debate over adaptive management as alternatives to single-species management, 3.) the ideal of efficiency in the formative era of professional natural resource management and new approaches that seek to move beyond it, 4.) ideas of progress, modernism, and optimism, including debates over the limits to growth, and 5.) debates over uncertainty and the precautionary principle. Students will explore these paradigms through case studies from fisheries, climate change, industrial pollution, forestry and public land management. In doing so, students will gain a better understanding of the development and contours of current debates over controversial environmental issues. Satisfies the General Education Population and the Environment Requirement.
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  • ANT 441: People and Cultures of the Pacific Islands

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    Topics include Pacific geography, the history and prehistory of the Pacific islands, cultural traditions of the ancient Polynesians with special reference to the political evolution of their societies, cultural traditions of the Melanesians with special reference to art, warfare and ritual, cultural traditions of the Micronesians with special reference to the problems of these Oceanic people in the modern world. Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements. Prerequisites & Notes ANT 102 or ANT 300 or permission. Credits: 3
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  • ANT 445: Sex and Gender in Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    An exploration into the commonality and diversity of sex and gender roles in cross-cultural perspective and an examination of cultural and bio-sociol explanations for why such diversity exists. Foci include contemporary approaches to sex and gender, changing views about men's and women's roles in human evolution, the conditions under which gender roles vary in contemporary societies and the issues surrounding gender equality, power and politics.Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement. Prerequisites & Notes ANT 101 or ANT 102 or permission. Credits: 3
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  • ANT 448: Ethnography Through Film

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    A critical analysis of film from an anthropological perspective. Students will be introduced to the history of the use of ethnographic film in anthropology, and they will consider how professional anthropologists living at different times have used motion pictures to capture aspects of human cultural behavior. Students will also examine how ethnographic films, documentaries, and popular motion pictures (past and present) have been used to represent people in a variety of cultures. We will ask how professional anthropologists may differ from other types of filmmakers in their treatment of the same cultural groups and/or subjects. Prerequisites & Notes ANT 102 or permission. Credits: 3
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  • ANT 450: Hunters-Gatherers

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    The economy, ecology and culture of peoples whose subsistence economy depends extensively upon hunting animals and collecting non-domesticated plants. Focus will be on the prehistory of hunting and gathering, interactions between hunter-gatherers and their environment, explaining the diversity in patterns of culture and behavior among pre-colonial populations, and the effects of colonialism and culture change on hunter-gatherer life-ways. Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements. Prerequisites & Notes ANT 102 or ANT 300 or permission. Credits: 3
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  • ANT 451: Native American Cultures

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    Covers both traditional culture patterns and modern developments and problems. Includes consideration of traditional culture areas, emphasizing adaptations and cultural dynamics, past and present. Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement. Prerequisites & Notes ANT 102 or NAS 101 or permission. Credits: 3
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  • ANT 454: Cultures and Societies of the Middle East

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    Emphasis on Arab world, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. Covers religious organization, kinship, political organization, and economics as well as contemporary life and the current problems in the ethnography. Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements. Prerequisites & Notes ANT 102 or ANT 300 or permission. Credits: 3
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  • ANT 458: Anthropology of War

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    Surveys war in human prehistory and history and the anthropological theories developed to explain it. The primary focus is on pre-industrial warfare, especially the contact-era Pacific. Throughout the course, however, this comparative perspective will be brought to bear on what pre-modern warfare tells us about war in the modern world. Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements. Prerequisites & Notes ANT 102 or permission. Credits: 3
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  • ANT 461: Islamic Fundamentalism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    A survey of the distinctive ideological and social features of Islamic fundamentalist movements of the twentieth century including comparisons with other religious revitalization movements. Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.) Prerequisites & Notes one course in Anthropology or Sociology or permission. Credits: 3
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  • ANT 462: Numerical Methods in Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Maine

    Introduction to how numerical methods are used in anthropological research. Topics include: survey and history of numerical methods in anthropology, presentation and description of quantitative and qualitative anthropological data, probability, testing anthropological hypotheses using parametric and nonparametric statistics, the pitfalls and potential of numerical methods in anthropology. Satisfies the General Education Mathematics Requirement. Prerequisites & Notes one 300 level course in anthropology or permission. MAT 232 recommended but not required. Credits: 3
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