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3.00 Credits
Exploration of a different topic within economic anthropology each time that it is offered, according to instructor and student interest. Topics may include anthropological applications of judgment and decision-making, game theory, political economy, poverty, and wealth. Students will read and discuss original source material.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of a different topic within evolutionary studies of human behavior each time that it is offered, according to instructor and student interest. Topics may include cooperation, cultural evolution, foraging theory, perception and cognition, social learning, or reproductive decisions. Students will read and discuss original source material.
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical population ecology applied to human populations. Biocultural aspects and multiplicity of causality in discussion/assessment of topics such as: human demography and population regulation; disease ecology and epidemiology in human populations; interrelationships of human nutrition, social inequity, resource exploitation, and population mobility/migration/spatial organization.
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of concepts relevant to an ecological analysis of the formation, maintenance, and change of human social groups, considering in turn cultural, biocultural, structural, and neo-Marxist perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
Evolutionary perspectives on the cultural and biocultural mediation of human-environment relations from the Plio-Pleistocene to the recent past, analyzed in terms of human ecosystem structures and functions, including cybernetics and flows of energy/matter and information; persistence and change as evolutionary and ecological concepts.
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3.00 Credits
Topics in human environmental and ecological systems, including factors that contribute to emergence and maintenance of those systems.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar exploring evolutionary approaches to human behavior.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the key concepts in the human dimension of biodiversity conservation and analysis of the complementarity between generic and cultural variability. This seminar will expose students to current scientific, legal, and ethical debates and promising methodologies relevant to the problem. Ethnographic fieldwork will occur in Georgia's homegardens, farms, markets, restaurants, and agricultural research stations to map out the interface between culture and biodiversity.
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3.00 Credits
Review of the basic concepts and methods of ethnoecology, assessments of current developments in the field, particularly aspects related to variation, change and practice, and analysis of their relevance to issues of resource allocation and use.
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3.00 Credits
Contemporary conservation is characterized by an ongoing debate about the merits of top-down vs. bottom-up approaches in the effort to achieve balance between effectiveness, equity, and justice. This course examines a series of issues related to the anthropological study of conservation through attention to specific case studies.
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