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ANT 227: Peoples of the North
3.00 Credits
Adelphi University
3 credits Explore the range of human adaptations in a harsh environment: the arctic and sub-arctic areas (Canadian, American, Nordic, and Siberian). Focus on the material culture, ingenious technological innovations, and development of worldviews and related political, economic, kinship and marriage systems. Examine the changing environment and responses by various cultural groups.
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ANT 229: Humankind,Culture,and Environment
4.00 Credits
Adelphi University
4 credits Cross-listed with Environmental Studies. This course examines influences that varying environments have on human and biocultural adaptations. Focus will be given to settlement patterns and population size of ancient and modern man, and the effect migration has on ancient and modern populations. Field trips and laboratory activities supplement classroom work. Twenty-five hours of laboratory/fieldwork are required.
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ANT 238: Culture,Family,and Marriage
3.00 Credits
Adelphi University
3 credits Varied forms of social organization in tribal societies. These include kinship groupings such as family and clan, as well as groups organized by age and sex into secret societies and age grades. Topics and emphasis will vary with the instructor.
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ANT 241: Icons of Power
3.00 Credits
Adelphi University
3 credits Identifies and defines (with emphasis on artistic and ritual form) the basic religious and cultural value systems of the peoples of our modern world. Extensive use will be made of both American and Diaspora shrines, churches, museums, and other culturally invested institutions in the metropolitan area. (Field trips required.)
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ANT 244: Origins of Civilization and the State
3.00 Credits
Adelphi University
3 credits Prerequisite: ANT 111 or permission of the instructor. An understanding of how and why the first civilizations emerged in the Old and New Worlds. We study the preconditions necessary for state development: the domestication of plants/animals, the development of early farming communities, the first cities, and the religious ideologies which served early leaders as they consolidated power and began military expansion. Case studies from Mesopotamia, China, Peru, Mexico, and Egypt.
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ANT 245: Peoples and Cultures of Mexico
3.00 Credits
Adelphi University
3 credits Prerequisite: ANT 111 or permission of the instructor. A critical examination of the many identities of the Mexicans through time in order to understand the reality of modern Mexico, a multicultural country with the many indigenous cultures playing dynamic roles in the redefinition of what it means to be Mexican. We must understand the roots of this cultural pluralism, attitudes of different ethnic groups and the political, economic, and religious elements of Mexican society as it has changed since the arrival of the Europeans.
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ANT 246: The Archaeology of Mesoamerica
3.00 Credits
Adelphi University
3 credits This course focuses on understanding the nature of the major Mesoamerican civilizations flourishing at the time of the arrival of the Europeans: the Maya, Aztec, and Zapotec. We will examine the rich archaeological record, the abundant ethnohistorical material, as well as original fieldwork data. The shared, distinctly Mesoamerican ideologies, which define their world views as expressed in ritual behavior, their complex economic systems, and their varied political structures will be analyzed.
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ANT 248: Culture and Health
3.00 Credits
Adelphi University
3 credits The thematic focus of this course is the current would crisis in health and healthcare. This situation will be examined from several perspectives, including the ethno-medical belief systems embedded in all cultures; demographic imbalances generated by sudden changes in local economies; and the ethics of public health administration, disaster relief, starvation, and persistent malnutrition.
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ANT 249: The Raw and the Cooked:Changing Perceptions of The Primitive
3.00 Credits
Adelphi University
3 credits Prerequisite: ANT 111 or permission of the instructor. Post-modern societies play with many distorted images of “the savage” (noble or brutal), barbarians, primitives, heathens, and similar fantasies of “otherness” in public art, fashion, discourse, politics, and religion. At the same time the contacts between post-modern peoples and actual primitive peoples have become everyday and often brutal occurrences. This course will examine both aspects of this rope—how western societies fantasize about the primitive, and what anthropology can tell us about the lives, cultures, and circumstances of actual primitive peopl
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ANT 250: Special Topics:Primate Social Behavior
4.00 Credits
Adelphi University
4 credits This course will examine the ecology, biological adaptions, population structure, ethology, and behavioral potential of nonhuman primates. Primate social patterns and evolutionary theory will be discussed and applied to an understanding of the origins of human behavior. Twenty-five hours of lab/fieldwork required.
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