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4.00 Credits
The origin and development of prehistoric peoples and cultures. The concepts, methods, and theories of prehistoric archaeology, human paleontology, and human biology as a framework for examining the fossils and artifacts left by humans. Course includes films and the use of casts and slides to illustrate concepts. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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A broad survey covering topics such as genetics, evolutionary mechanisms, adaptation, primate studies, the human fossil record, and human variation. All of these areas will be placed within the framework of the interaction of humans within their environment. The course is divided into three sections: human genetics, human ecology and primatology, human evolution and adaptation. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to ethnographic field interviewing learned in the context of individually run student field projects. Focuses on the anthropologist-informant field relationship and the discovery of cultural knowledge through participant observation and ethnosemantic interviewing techniques. Permission of the instructor required. Every semester. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on an ecological approach to health, disease and therapies. It examines relationships among environmental factors, historical events, and sociocultural definitions of health and illness. Case studies will be used to illustrate the complexity of these relationships in different cultural settings. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between self, culture and society. We will examine and discuss critically the broad array of methods and theories anthropologists use to analyze personality, socialization, mental illness and cognition in different societies. Our aim is to address questions related to the cultural patterning of personality, the self and emotions and to understand how culture might shape ideas of what a person is. We will also seek to understand how cultures define behavior as abnormal, pathological or insane, and how they make sense of trauma and suffering. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of issues related to refugees and humanitarian response in U.S. and international settings. Students explore the meaning of "humanitarian" and inherent issues of power, ethics, andhuman rights in responses to conflict by examining the roles of those who engage in humanitarian work. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to anthropological approaches to the study of religious beliefs and practices, the idea of syncretism, witchcraft, sorcery, shamanism and the practice of magic, the role of religion in bringing about social change and the social and cultural theories that have been put forward to explain religious phenomena. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
The course introduces students to the diversity of Muslim societies in the Arab world, Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia. It traces Islam as a culturally lived local and transnational experience. The course applies various social-science and humanities theories to complex case studies to illuminate connections between Islam and ethnicities, gender, media, travel, migration, citizenship, politics, and social change. Concurrently the course aims to undo the many stereotypes about Islam and Muslim societies. Next offered Fall 2008. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the traditional cultural areas of the Americas and of selected topics related to American Indians. The course introduces the peoples, languages, subsistence patterns, and social organizations in America at the time of European contact, and traces selected patterns of change that have come to these areas. Prerequisite: Anthropology 111, Cultural Anthropology. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the cultural diversity and complexity of Latin American, the course examines regional differences from an anthropological perspective and discusses how social institutions and cultural practices and traditions have been shaped, and how they have dealt with continuity and change. Ethnographic case studies explore topics related to ethnicity, social stratification, gift-giving/reciprocity, kinship, rural/urban relationships, cosmology and religion, and gender. These topics are examined within the context of particular histories, considering the legacy of colonialism, the formation of the nation-state, the emergence of social movements, post-colonial nationalism, the impact of migration and urbanization, and the effects of neo-liberalism and globalization. We will conclude with a critical examination of forms of representation of Latin America, which involve notions such as indigenismo. Every year. (4 credits)
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