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3.00 Credits
A survey of African peoples and cultures, emphasizing the sub-Saharan region. Topics to be studied include geography, prehistory, history, religion, political economy, kinship, gender, and marriage. Contemporary issues in the anthropology of Africa.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to be an anthropological introduction to Japan. It aims to clarify the origins of Japanese culture and people, to interpret its cultural history from the earliest times to the present, and to account for the relationship among the components of culture such as ideology, social structure, personality formation, and economic development.
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3.00 Credits
with respect to kinship and related forms of social organization, including the classification and analysis of kinship systems and associated terminology, patterns of marriage and residence, descent theory and alliance theory, and the role of kinship in different social systems.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an investigation of different medical systems and their practitioners, the ecology of health, illness, human adaptation, nutrition, and the life cycle.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 2511 or instructor permission. This course is designed to acquaint the student with each of the bones of the normal adult human skeleton. It is particularly appropriate for those students interested in archaeology and physical anthropology. Each bone is examined, followed by a review of abnormal variations. The uses of anthropometric instruments are demonstrated as are the methods of estimating age, sex, and racial origin.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 2511 or instructor permission. This course provides an overview of the early phase of the life cycle. It uses data and theory from biological anthropology, primate ethology, evolutionary psychology, and sociocultural anthropology to provide nontraditional perspective on human development and its interface with the caretaking behavior of adults.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 2511 or instructor permission. Introduces the substantial scholarly literature on the behavior and ecology of free-ranging prosimians, monkeys, and apes. Anthropological applications of recent findings will be emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 2511 or instructor permission. Focuses on the behavior and ecology of the large-bodied, non-human hominoids: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. Introduces the complexities involved in using this evidence to draw conclusions about human evolution.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT2511 or instructor permission. This course emphasizes a close examination of the fossil record for human evolution. It builds on basic principles and ideas presented in ANT 2511.
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3.00 Credits
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