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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 1 or 2 or Environmental Science and Policy 30 or Evolution and Ecology 100 or Biological Sciences 101. Interdisciplinary study of social and cultural evolution in humans. Culture as a system of inheritance, psychology of cultural learning, culture as an adaptive system, evolution of maladaptations, evolution of technology and institutions, evolutionary transitions in human history, coevolution of genetic and cultural variation. Only two units of credit to students who have completed Environmental Science and Policy 101 or course 101 prior to fall 2004. (Same course as Environmental Science and Policy 105.) GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.-III. (III.) McElreath
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; extensive writing or discussion-1hour. Prerequisite: course 2 or Science & Technology Studies 1 or Science & Technology Studies 20. Anthropological approaches to scientific visualization techniques, informatics, simulations. Examination of different visualization techniques toward understanding the work involved in producing them, critical assessment of their power and limits, especially when visualizations are used socially to make claims. Offered in alternate years. (Same course as Science & Technology Studies 109.) GE credit: Soc- Sci, Wrt.-II. (II.) Dumit
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 2. The role of language analysis and linguistic theory in the development of sociocultural anthropology. Language, culture, and thought; the linguistic accomplishment of social action; language ideology; language and social power. Language as cultural mediator of politicoeconomic process. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II. (II.) Shibamoto Smith
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 4, or Linguistics 1 and course 2. Consideration of language in its social context. Methods of data collection and analysis; identification of socially significant linguistic variables. Contributions of the study of contextualized speech to linguistic theory. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 4 or Linguistics 1. Survey of major world writing systems, including pictographic, syllabic, and alphabetic scripts used in both the Old and New Worlds in ancient and modern times, examined from linguistic and socio-political aspects. GE credit: Soc- Sci.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 4; or course 2 and Linguistics 1. Culture, cognition, meaning, and interpretation; language and the classification of experience; communication and learning in crosscultural perspective. GE credit: Soc- Sci, Div, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Varieties ofproduction, exchange, and consumption behavior in precapitalist economies, their interaction with culture and social-political organization, and the theories that account for these phenomena. The effects of capitalism on precapitalist sectors. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 122. (Former course 122.) GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.- I. (I.) McElreath
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 2 or consent of instructor. Survey of anthropological approaches to the study of political organizations; inter-relationships among political institutions, economic infrastructures and cultural complexity. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 123A. (Former course 123A.) GE credit: Soc- Sci, Div, Wrt.-I. (I.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 2 or the equivalent. Analysis of popular protest in Third World and indigenous societies ranging from covert resistance to national revolts. Comparative case studies and theories of peasant rebellions, millenarian movements, social bandits, Indian "wars", ethnic and regional conflicts, gender andclass conflicts. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 123B. (Former course 123B.)-III. (III.) Srinivas
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 2. Recent developments in conceptions of minority identity, from the point of view of minority populations in the Third World, Europe, and the United States. Challenges to existing categories of gender, race and class, as well as nationalism and imperialism. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 123C. (Former course 123C.)
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