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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or consent of instructor This course will acquaint students with the anthropological study of cities and city life. Students will review recent anthropological studies of the urban environment using cross-cultural and historic data. (CMCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 111 or consent of instructor This course covers the origins and development of religion in society; myth, ritual, magic and religious specialists: Australian, African and American Indian. Offered alternate years, fall semester. (CGCL; CSOC; CWRT)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or consent of instructor This course introduces students to anthropological approaches to analyzing and understanding learning, schools and education systems cross-culturally. Students investigate schools as agents of child socialization and enculturation; compare U.S. schools, education systems, and school cultures to learning, schools and education in other societies; and examine how educational institutions relate to other aspects of culture. Cross-cultural data include indigenous and contemporary Native North America, Africa, Japan, Germany and other settings globally. Offered alternate years. (Formerly ANTH 415) (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC; CWRT)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 110 or consent of instructor This course investigates the forms, functions, meanings and aesthetics of art cross-culturally. It will be critical of the modern western concept of “art for art’s sake” and discuss ways that socio-cultural, political and economic factors frame the contexts and dynamics of art production across the world. The role of artists in society and aesthetic creativity will also be examined from a cross-cultural perspective. Discussion begins with the arts of “traditional” societies drawing from examples from Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas. The course will then examine how these arts have been impacted by colonialism, capitalism and the emergence of new nation-states. Topics include: ethnic, tourist and national arts, culture revitalization, issues of authenticity and the emergence of a global art world with its power relations. Offered every three years. (CGCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 110 or ANTH 111 or INTD 230 or consent of instructor This course will investigate females and the feminine in mythologies and folklore traditions cross-culturally. Native indigenous (African, Australian, South Pacific, Native American), classical (Greek, Egyptian, Roman) and Judeo- Christian mythologies will be analyzed, compared and contrasted. Students will explore mythology and story-telling traditions as they pertain to women and gender cross-culturally. Offered every other semester. (CGCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or SOCI 102 or consent of instructor This course considers the role of ethnic background in personal and social relationships. The varying interpretations of ethnic culture – its formation and growth in America – are examined while each student looks into his or her personal heritage and the role of tradition in contemporary life. Once yearly. (CMCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 206 or consent of instructor This course will explore the problems faced by native or indigenous peoples in the United States today. It will focus on issues of land, tribal recognition, poverty, treatment by government agencies and multinational corporations and ethnic discrimination. It will also address the ongoing changes in native responses including the American Indian Movement, the revival of native spiritual life and the problem/opportunity of casino gambling. Offered alternate years. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Any 100- or 200-level anthropology course or consent of instructor This course proceeds from the premise that while conflict of some sort is inevitable within and among human cultures, war is not. By investigating sources of conflict violence and conflict resolution strategies in a variety of cultures, the course creates an opportunity to study war, violence and conflict cross-culturally – and the possibilities of peace. Offered alternate years, spring semester. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or consent of instructor The development of prehistoric and proto-historic Native American cultures. Cultural dynamics of hunting-gathering and maize agriculture. Theories of the peopling of the continent will be evaluated. Offered alternate years, fall semester. (CGCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Any 100- or 200-level anthropology course or consent of instructor The course concentrates on health, illness and healing in cross-cultural perspective. It will examine ways in which culture mediates ideas of physical well-being, and will be aimed at dispelling belief in the absolute truth of medical dogma, teaching students to think outside their own cultural biases. It begins with a consideration of body image in a range of different cultures and then proceeds to the varying rationales for normal function and for dysfunction. The healing process as ritual and as scientific procedure, including the theory and practice of healing in different cultures, figures into the course as does the training and outlook of healers – doctors, priests, shamans, nurses, midwives and others. Finally, the medical systems of several cultures, ancient and modern, industrialized and preindustrial, are compared. Offered alternate years. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC; CWRT)
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