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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Exemplary fieldwork-based monographs in cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on most recent ones. Ethnography as text; ethnography as cultural description, inscription, interpretation, and criticism; ethnography as theory-laden versus ethnography as data for theorizing. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.
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Anthropological perspective on human rights; explores how this idea is deployed and negotiated by nation-states, transnational bodies, and localized groups in a variety of different contexts around the world today.
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3.00 Credits
Theory and ethnography of recent immigrations; community, identity construction; class, race, gender, and age; local, national, and transnational factors; various case studies. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
How gender, power, and difference shape the writings of women ethnographers. Interpretation, analysis, authority, intellectual representation, and creativity; life experiences and ethnography. Prerequisite: 01:070:101. Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:323.
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Examination of current research on the relationship between evolutionary biology and culture. Topics include animal culture studies, cultural transmission theory, gene-culture coevolution, and the application of signaling theory to human cultural phenomena. Prerequisite: 01:070:204 or permission of instructor.
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Cultural and biological aspects of hominid evolution during the Pleistocene. Prerequisites: 01:070:102, 105 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
African, Asian, and European cultural developments after the Pleistocene, including origins of farming, village life, and complex society. Prerequisite: 01:070:105 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Prehistory of Australasia in its worldwide perspective, with special reference to Asian origins, impact of human colonization, and interpretative models based on modern aboriginal hunter-gatherer behavior. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.
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3.00 Credits
Prehistory of North America from the appearance of humans on the continent to European discovery. Varieties of adaptation, cultural interrelationships, developmental trends. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.
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3.00 Credits
Archaeology of post-Colombian European colonial spread worldwide, with particular reference to North America and Africa. Strong focus on practical laboratory work, specifically analysis of colonial artifacts, including ceramics, glass, pipes, and fauna. Prerequisites: 01:070:105, 208.
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