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4.00 Credits
This course examines beliefs about illness, healing, and the body across cultures. We will examine how the body, illness, health, and medicine are shaped not only by cultural values, but also by social, political, and historical factors. The class will draw attention to how biomedicine is only one among many culturally constructed systems of medicine. Prerequisite: Anthropology 104 or permission of instructor. TAPIAS.
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A comparative survey of the taxonomy, behavior, and ecology of nonhuman primates. Topics include demography and life-history patterns, feeding behavior and competition, social organization, sexual behavior, infant development, communication, and cognition. Prerequisite: Anthropology 104 or permission of instructor. BENTLEY-CONDIT.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the interaction of genetics and culture with our understanding of human evolution through a) an examination of human differentiation and genetic variation between and within human groups and b) an exploration of how human evolution has been shaped by this interaction. Possible topics include: simple and complex inheritance, population genetics, human migration, gene frequencies, genetics and disease, genetics and IQ, race, gene therapy, designer babies, cloning, and the Human Genome Project. Prerequisite: Anthropology 104 or permission of instructor. BENTLEY-CONDIT.
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4.00 Credits
Also listed as American Studies 235. Focus on the U.S. American cultural meanings about national identity and citizenship, intersections of race and class consciousness, and the power of media to shape social attitudes, values, lifestyles, and political opinions. Prerequisite: American Studies 130, or Anthropology 104, or permission of instructor. GIBEL MEVORACH.
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4.00 Credits
Reviews various cultural anthropology approaches to understanding human/ environment interactions. Focus placed on case studies of small-scale societies from distinct environmental regions, the adaptations to those environments, how subsistence practices relate to other aspects of culture, and how these cultures and environments are affected by increasing integration into the world system (e.g., such as through globalization). Prerequisite: Anthropology 104, or Global Development Studies 111, or permission of instructor. ROPER.
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4.00 Credits
A cross-cultural and historical survey of attempts to achieve social harmony by creating small communities. Topics include: ideological foundations, alternative economic and political arrangements, experiments with sexuality and gender roles, responses of the wider society, and reasons for success and failure. Groups include the first century Essenes, the Shakers, Amana, the Hutterites, the Amish, the kibbutzim, Japanese communes, hip communes, monastic groups, and New Age communities. Prerequisite: Anthropology 104 or permission of instructor. ANDELSON.
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4.00 Credits
Peoples and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa. Emphasis on the thought systems that underlie specific economic, political, and religious expressions in agricultural, pastoral, and gathering and hunting cultures. An overview of the continent and its peoples along with close study of a few peoples. Prerequisite: Anthropology 104 or permission of instructor. ROPER.
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4.00 Credits
The modern Middle East in anthropological and historical perspective. Topics include nomadic, village, and urban lifestyles; ethnic interactions; Islam and its role in the social and political systems; the role of women; and cultural change. Prerequisite: Anthropology 104 or permission of instructor. KAMP.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of community and regional studies on such topics as gender relations, rural depopulation, ethnic relations, regionalism, urbanization, and urban planning. Appropriate for student preparing for off-campus program in Britain or Europe. Prerequisite: Anthropology 104 or permission of instructor. FRENCH.
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4.00 Credits
Historical and ethnological survey of aboriginal cultures of North American Indians and the impact of European civilization. Indian history, ethnography, and the contemporary situation. Prerequisite: Anthropology 104 or permission of instructor. ANDELSON.
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