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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for junior/senior social sciences majors. Introduction to modern industrial cities and urban life. Examination of notion of urban space in context of social relations by drawing from historical and cross-cultural urban ethnographies. Urban space is created according to needs of capital and actions of urban subjects. Exploration of ways in which class, gender, race, and geography shape or contest perspectives and priorities on urban issues. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Issues of ecology and political economy; continuing impacts of colonialism, nationalism, and current challenges for development; changes in social relations. Examination of Africa's significance to development of anthropology. Cultural background for understanding events in contemporary Africa provided. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. Introduction to study of communication from anthropological perspective. Formal linguistic methods compared with ethnographically oriented methods focused on context-bound temporal unfolding of communicative activities. Topics include language in everyday life and ritual events, socialization, literacy, multilingualism, miscommunication, political discourse, and art-making as cultural activity. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to study of speech communities in metropolitan areas, with special focus on communities in Los Angeles. Emphasis on ways in which communities share and incorporate speech norms of urban society while maintaining rules for conduct and interpretation of speech within specific speech communities. Topics include language and identity, socialization, social dialects, and communication. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. Evolutionary processes and evolutionary past of human species. P/NP or letter grading. 8. Archaeology: Introduction. (5) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; one field trip. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. General survey of field and laboratory methods, theory, and major findings of anthropological archaeology, including case-study guest lectures presented by several campus archaeologists. P/NP or letter grading. 9. Culture and Society. (5) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; fieldwork. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. Introduction to study of culture and society in comparative perspective. Examples from societies around world to illustrate basic principles of formation, structure, and distribution of human institutions. Of special concern is contribution and knowledge that cultural diversity makes toward understanding problems of modern world. P/NP or letter grading.
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2.00 Credits
Seminar, 90 minutes. Limited to 20 lower division students. Readings and discussions designed to introduce students to current research in discipline. Culminating project may be required. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Comparative anthropological study of first complex societies in Near East, Mesoamerica, and Andes, including early Egyptian, Uruk, Teotihuacan, classic Maya, Wari, and Tiwanaku, with focus on political and economic structures of these societies and on causes of state development and collapse. Concurrently scheduled with course CM214S. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to problem formulation, theory, and method in archaeology, with emphasis on development of research designs. Focus on how archaeological research is conceived and planned, with consideration of differing viewpoints and their usefulness. Concurrently scheduled with course C215R. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 33 or American Indian Studies M10. Introduction and comparative analysis of sociocultural aspects of language use in Native North American Indian speech communities. Specific foci include both micro- and macro-sociolinguistic topics. Micro-sociolinguistic topics are comprised of such issues as multilingualism, cultural differences regarding appropriate communicative behavior and variation within speech communities (e.g., male and female speech, baby talk, ceremonial speech, etc.). Macro-sociolinguistic considerations include language contact and its relationship to language change and language in American Indian education. Concurrently scheduled with course C243P. P/ NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Native Americans have recently been successful in obtaining passage of federal and state laws repatriating human remains and cultural objects to them. Examination of this phenomenon. Concurrently scheduled with course C269R. Letter grading.
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