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3.00 Credits
Comparison of modern economic theory with anthropological analysis of pre-capitalist, non-Western and Third World political economies. Discusses band, tribe, chiefdom, early state, peasant, market, and world economic systems and how these systems interact with social and religious systems at national and/or community levels.
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An examination of the ways different cultures regard the aged and the process of aging. Topics include attitudes toward aging, the treatment of the aged, and the social, economic, and political aspects of growing old among men and women in different cultures.
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Reviews the processes of human biocultural adaptation to the world's various biotopes: tropical, sub-tropical, temperate, island and arctic by means of foraging, agriculture, regional and world trade. Discussions will include environmental description and selective reciprocal relationships between key environmental elements.
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3.00 Credits
Students will conduct ethnography of communication focusing on selected topics or events as they relate to speech communities applying participant-observation techniques, interviews, and other methods of field work.
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The course involves a critical evaluation of historical and current anthropological theories concerning human variation and the concept of race. It examines the various approaches to the relationships between human biology and sociocultural structures and behavior. Field Methods. 3 crs. Exploration of the methodology in conducting competent, meaningful, ethical field work with emphasis on practical experience. (The student has a choice of section or field of interest as presented below).
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3.00 Credits
Detailed study of the techniques used in the analysis of skeletal material focusing on identification of age, sex, growth, and repair, pathology, and measurement.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the techniques used in recording or describing the culture, customs, beliefs, and values of specific peoples or of individual societies.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores urbanism and the process of urbanization. The focus is on understanding the development and history of cities from prehistoric evidence to an investigation of the patterns and complexities of contemporary urban life. Various theoretical approaches and cross-cultural ethnographic studies help explain the lifeways of people in cities.
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews the history, goals, and theoretical approaches used in modern archaeology; discusses field methods in survey and excavation, data recording, dating, material analyses, and the reconstruction of ancient lifeways.
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3.00 Credits
The application of anthropological principles to the solution of practical problems. Prerequisite: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, or Introduction to Archaeology or by permission of instructor.
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