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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Analysis of anthropological research and theory on cultural systems of thought, behavior, and communication expressed in symbolic mode (as distinguished from discursive, instrumental, and causal modes). Methods for study of symbolic meaning, including experiential approach. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Provides framework for cross-cultural understanding of aesthetic phenomena that meets requirements of anthropological research. Human capacities for aesthetic experience; sociocultural formation of aesthetic production; ethno-aesthetics; experiential dimension of aesthetic production. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Counting systems such as one, two, three, many or modern equivalent of one, two, three, infinity are widespread in human societies. Counting things is important part of everyday life. But indigenous thinking goes far beyond pragmatics of counting, and conceptual systems underlying counting are integrated with concepts people have about themselves and their societies. Numeracy is product of social life and not just reflection of one's experience with physical world. Exploration of different ways that indigenous mathematical thinking is embedded in human societies and cultures, ranging from use of fractals in African art to algebra of kinship terminologies to cosmological systems formulated around concepts of numbers. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
P/NP or letter grading: 135A. Historical Development. (4) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Survey of field of psychological anthropology, with emphasis on early foundations and historical development of field. Topics include study of personality, pathology and deviance, altered states of consciousness, cognition, motivation, and emotion in different cultural settings. P/NP or letter grading. 135B. Current Topics and Research. (5) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/ seniors. Survey of field of psychological anthropology, with emphasis on current topics and research. Topics include study of personality, pathology and deviance, altered states of consciousness, cognition, motivation, and emotion in different cultural settings. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Firsthand exposure to current research in psychocultural studies. Various university scholars discuss their on-going research. Using these presentations as models, students develop proposals for future research. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Relationship between culture and recognition of, responses toward, and forms of deviant and abnormal behavior. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Exploration of mutual relations between anthropology and psychoanalysis, considering both theory and method. History of and current developments in psychoanalysis; anthropological critiques of psychoanalytic theory and method, toward crosscultural psychoanalytic approach. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Laboratory, three hours. Skill of observing and recording behavior in natural settings, with emphasis on field training and practice in observing behavior. Group and individual projects. Discussion of some uses of observations and their implications for research in social sciences. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Study of selected topics in cultural anthropology. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit. P/ NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to skills and tools of data ascertainment through fieldwork in cultural anthropology. Emphasis on techniques, methods, and concepts of ethnographical research and how basic observational information is systematized for presentation, analysis, and cross-cultural comparison. Letter grading.
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