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3.00 Credits
As the world becomes more interconneted and linked globally, our society is increasingly faced with beliefs, practices, ideas, and ways of life that at times baffle us and discomfort us. Current conflicts in the world point to a need to actually go beyond stereotypes and understand both sameness and difference when it comes to cultures. This course seeks to look beyond common stereotypes of the Middle East and focus on daily life experiences of families and individuals who live in the region through applying an anthropological lens and reading ethnographic studies.
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3.00 Credits
Between two-thirds and three-quarters of the world's people may be classified as peasants and out of this, the third world comes today's principal revolutionary potential. Spring semester of even numbered years. Between two-thirds and three-quarters of the world's people may be classified as peasants and out of this, the third world, comes today's principal revolutionary potential. Spring semester of even-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the prehistory of societies in both the old and new worlds: critically examining the rise of civilization in terms of several theoretical models of interpretation, including warfare, trade, population increase, stratification, specialization and domestication. Students will also be introduced to archaeological methods and the analysis and exhibition of artifacts. Spring semester of odd numbered years. This course will examine the prehistory of societies in both the old and new worlds: critically examining the rise of civilization in terms of several theoretical models of interpretation, including warfare, trade, population increase, stratification, specialization and domestication. Students will also be introduced to archaeological methods and the analysis and exhibition of artifacts. Spring semester of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Course suveys the archaeology of Indian settlements in the New England area, emphasizing the prehistoric cultural time periods from 12,000 years ago to just prior to European contact in the late sixteenth century. Course focus is upon how archaeologists use site data and documentary records to interpret the past. Fall semester of odd numbered years.
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6.00 - 8.00 Credits
Course consists of evaluating local archaeological sites through survey, excavation, analysis and interpretation. The course has two components: approximately three weeks of field survey and excavation and approximately two weeks of laboratory analysis and interpretation. Students will be expected to devote six to eight hours a day in both the field and laboratory. Summer session only.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of religion as a universal aspect of human culture expressed as belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers and forces. The function of religion in society. Fall semester of even numbered years. Analysis of religion as a universal aspect of human culture expressed as belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers and forces. The function of religion in society. Fall semester of even-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Course examines the cross-cultural background of sex and gender, tracing the configurations of gender from egalitarian hunting and gathering societies through gender-stratified horticultural, pastoral, agricultural and industrial societies. The course will address gender issues, such as the feminization of poverty, gender as portrayed by the media, and contemporary theoretical perspectives about the dialectics of power. Not open to first-year students. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the principal ethnographic characteristics of major indigenous faith traditions of India (and of the Himalayan region) and their role in Indian culture and society. Special emphasis will be placed upon an examination of the operative aspects of Indian religions as anthropologists and sociologists study these within the social and cultural context of the region of India. Spring semester of odd numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a fundamental understanding of the societal context and cultural principles of a major world religion. The course surveys the major events and personalities in Buddhism, and provides a basic understanding of the religion in several of its main "streams" or traditions. Principally, the course seeks to provide for students a foundational understanding of Buddhism and Buddhistic societies through an ethnographic approach. Topically, the course considers Therevada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Pure Land, Zen and Bon. Spring semester of even numbered year. This course offers a fundamental understanding of the societal context and cultural principles of a major world religion. The course surveys the major events and personalities in Buddhism, and provides a basic understanding of the religion in several of its main "streams" or traditions. Principally, the course seeks to provide for students a foundational understanding of Buddhism and Buddhistic societies through an ethnographic approach. Topically, the course considers Therevada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Pure Land, Zen and Bon. Spring semester of even numbered year.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the broad range of primate behavior and what it means to be human. The course depicts the trajector of human evolution, and emphasizes the biology and behavior or primates. Particular attention will be paid to the higher primates, like chimpanzees and gorillas. Do these animals have a culture or is culture the exclusive product of human societies Offered periodically.
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