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3.00 Credits
Provides a broad overview of the history of cultural anthropology, from its beginnings in the Enlightenment to the present. We combine two approaches in this course: (1) an intellectual history approach, and (2) an approach that examines particular ethnographic accounts as exemplars of various paradigm shifts through time.
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3.00 Credits
Origin and evolution of agriculture, comparative analysis of current agricultural issues, and alternative approaches to sustainable food production, emphasizing anthropological perspectives and case studies. Includes farming systems, indigenous knowledge, agrobiodiversity, globalization, farmer-scientists collaboration, interdisciplinary research, and role of anthropology in sustainable agriculture.
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3.00 Credits
The fossil record of human evolution. The class uses a hands- on, empirical approach to understanding the morphology and taxonomy of our zoological family. Central questions of human evolution are addressed through study of high-quality casts of fossil specimens and extensive readings of the scientific literature.
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3.00 Credits
The influence of the environment on human behavior and analysis of common adaptive responses among human populations to particular environments, emphasizing the role of culture in the ecological process.
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3.00 Credits
Anthropology is the study of human diversity. Economics is the study of how people make decisions about resources. Economic anthropology examines the diversity of peoples' preferences, choices, behaviors, habits, activities, customs, and institutions relating to resources.
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3.00 Credits
Change and continuity in human life in North America's greater southwest, from the end of the Pleistocene to the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
Folk systems of knowledge, with an emphasis on how people in different societies culturally identify, define, label, and classify phenomena such as color terms, plants, animals, and other environmental resources.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of different theoretical approaches to the evolutionary study of human behavior, from Darwin through the development of ethology, sociobiology, human behavioral ecology, dual inheritance theory, and behavioral economics. Examination of topics such as influence of genes versus culture on behavior, cooperation, subsistence decisions, mate choice, reproductive and parenting choices.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Archaeological reconnaissance, survey, excavation, laboratory preparation and analysis of collected materials.
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4.00 Credits
Animal remains recovered from archaeological sites, studied in light of zoological and archaeological methods and theories and interpreted in terms of human and animal behavior.
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