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1.25 Credits
Comparative and evolutionary anatomy of human performance. Examines locomotor systems and their underlying structure and evolution through videos, skeletons, and dissections in a variety of mammals, primates, and humans. Students are billed a materials fee. Anthropology of Movement.) Prerequisite(s): courses 102A or 107 or 185; or by interview. Enrollment limited to 20. A. Zihlman
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1.25 Credits
Reviews the environmental, physiological, behavioral, and cultural ways that humans interact with their physical surroundings. The effects of human culture on the environment and of the environment on the shape of human culture is emphasized. Will be offered in the 2008-09 academic year. N. Dominy
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1.25 Credits
Examines the human life cycle using an evolutionary framework. Examines key aspects of the human life stages using findings and concepts from developmental biology, physiology, nutrition, evolutionary ecology, and life-history theory. Prerequisite(s): course 1. L. Milligan
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1.25 Credits
An introduction to some of the central theoretical issues in psychological anthropology. Psychoanalytic, cognitive, and relativist perspectives on the link between person and society are discussed and compared. D. Linger
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1.25 Credits
Study of the phenomenon of religion as manifested in ethnographic literature, with special attention to traditional and recent modes of analysis of religious behavior. Special topics include myth, religious healing, witchcraft and sorcery, ritual, and millenarian movements. A. Pandey
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1.25 Credits
The meaning and social processes associated with sexuality in selected societies. Examination of variations in sexual expressions and control of sexuality, and in economic and political organizations, highlights the interrelationship of sex and society. Prerequisite(s): course 2. C. Shaw
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1.25 Credits
Challenges approaches to capitalism that treat it as socio-economic relations separable from "culture." Readings include ethnographies demonstrating the inextricability of cultural meanings from capitalist practices. Topics include capitalism's relationship to colonialism, nationalism, socialism, gender, and the commodification of aesthetics. Will be offered in the 2009-2010 academic year. L. Rofel
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1.25 Credits
Study of contemporary, American, born-again Protestant discourse using ethnographic materials and interpretive theories. Topics include biblical literalism, Christian conversion and self-fabulation, charismatic gifts, preaching, sacrificial giving, prosperity theology, apocalypticism, creationism, pro-family and pro-life rhetoric, and tel-evangelism. (Formerly Born-Again Religion and Culture.) S. Harding
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1.25 Credits
Survey of sub-Saharan societies. Analysis of principles of social organization and factors of cultural unity of selected western, eastern, central, and southern African peoples. (General Education Code(s): E.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Examines Brazilian culture and its link to interpersonal relationships, religion, politics, and psychological experience. Will be offered in the 2009-2010 academic year. (General Education Code(s): E.) D. Linger
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