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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Cross-cultural examination of politics and political organization. Law and maintenance of order; corporate groups; ideology. Relations of political institutions to other institutions of society and to issues of identity and representation. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Review of economic and ecological approaches to studying organization of production and exchange. Economic life viewed from three perspectives: adaptation, decision making, and social structure. Comparative theories discussed in context of ethnographic evidence from wide variety of cultural systems. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Introduction to anthropological perspectives for interpretation of economic life and institutions. Economic facts to be placed in their larger social, political, and cultural contexts; examination of modes of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services in their relation to social networks, power structures, and institutions of family, kinship, and class. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Survey of various methodologies in comparative study of religious ideologies and action systems, including understanding particular religions through descriptive and structural approaches, and identification of social and psychological factors that may account for variation in religious systems cross-culturally. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Study of selected topics in social anthropology. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Survey of hunting and gathering societies. Examination of their distinctive features from both ecological and cultural viewpoints. Discussion of possibility of developing general framework for synthesizing these two viewpoints. Use of this synthesis as basis for illustrating relevance of hunting and gathering societies as understanding of complex societies. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9 or 150. Survey of pastoral nomad societies. Consideration of environmental and social demands of livestock domestication and production. Focus on ecological features, cultural practices, and social organization, with special attention to historical interactions between pastoral nomads and settled peoples. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of conflict and violent confrontation as these have been treated in anthropological literature. Cross-cultural comparison of institutions such as raids, feuds, ritual warfare. Consideration of application of anthropology to study of militaries, modern warfare, and large-scale ethnic conflict. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Designed for juniors/seniors. Comparative study of planned and unplanned development, in particular as it affects rural societies. Emphasis on impact of capital, technological change and gender differences, economic differentiation and class, urban/rural relations, and migration. Discussion of theoretical issues in light of case studies. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Study of selected topics in applied anthropology. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics and instructors. May be repeated for credit. P/ NP or letter grading.
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