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3.00 Credits
With almost 6 billion people to feed and unprecedented levels of human impact on the environment, many cultural, social, and environmental questions surround the supply of food. Are there ethical and non-ethical ways to produce food? How does food production relate to a healthy environment? What happens to food as it moves from the farmer to the dinner plate? How does food become an expression of our social selves? This course uses an anthropological perspective to assess these and related questions in the production, processing and consumption of food.
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3.00 Credits
Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, and Egypt with a special geographic focus on the Holy Land; cultural and environmental settings of biblical history reconstructed from archaeological evidence from Palaeolithic through Roman times; placing events and customs described in biblical narrative in political, religious, and economic contexts of the larger region. Applies ethnohistory and archaeology to understand the Bible Lands.
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3.00 Credits
Voluntary and forced movements of peoples, whatever their motivation - ambition, fear, persecution - are examined through case studies of relationships between sending and receiving societies, displacement, and changing cultural identities, impact on families, societies and intercultural values examined. Lectures and community case studies.
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3.00 Credits
Environmental degradation in the form of the deforestation of tropical forests, the agricultural use of marginal lands, soil erosion, overfishing, overgrazing, and declines in the yields of American agriculture is an urgent and growing concern in this world of shrinking resources. This course will draw on current approaches in ecological, cognitive, and development anthropology. Case material will come from the tropical forests of Brazil, the midwest of the United States, the mountains of the Andes and the Himalayas, the Sahel region of West Africa and the seas of North America and South Asia.
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3.00 Credits
How do technologies help define and change human societies? How are they organized as systems of practice and knowledge in a society? This course takes a comparative approach to understanding the social life of technology, scientific careers and work, how they influence and are influenced by cultural values, unconscious practices, and public policy.
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3.00 Credits
Examines notions of "ethnicity" as a complex social classification system of categories and meanings embedded into institutions and practices. A cross-cultural comparison of ethnographic cases reveals how these social categories are used to mark people and groups as the same or different and to construct "cultures," "identities," "peoplehood," stereotypes, "history"; and their social effects as affirmative, celebratory, critical, and possibly liberating, as well as illiberal, punitive, and violent.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the cultural construction of community, ethnic violence, transnational networks, cultural heritage politics and creolization characterizing our world today. Particular attention to organizations, forms, and settings that are problematic for established government and for classical approaches to freedom and order, domination and resistance, religious fundamentalism and the emergence of virtual communities associated with the communications revolution.
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3.00 Credits
Archeology study of the prehistoric societies, their environment, and cultures that gave rise to pre-Columbian cities and states.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth analysis of prehistoric imagery through examination of portable art objects and monuments in their archaeological contexts. Emphasizes approaches to uses of style in archaeology, analysis of material culture, and interpretation of material remains of cultures ranging from the Paleotlithic to the colonial era. Formerly ANTH 359.
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3.00 Credits
What do non-western religions tell about the social nature, context, and reference of cultural idioms of interpretation, symbolism, religious movements? This course also examines how religious belief and practice fare in situations of contact, modernization, and contemporary globalization.
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