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3.00 Credits
The cultural development of the indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada from the earliest settlement until European conquest. Emphasis on archaeological evidence for historical reconstruction and on cultural adaptations to the physical environment.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 3201 or consent of department. Detailed instruction on the cleaning, preservation, description, classification, and curation of artifacts. The comparative analysis of archaeological materials, both historic and pre-historic and the preparation of preliminary and final site reports. Two hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: credit or concurrent registration in ANTH 3201 and consent of department. Instruction in the supervision of excavation, conduct of exploratory surveys, planning of laboratory analysis and preparation of excavation reports. Offered summer only.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the theory and practice of ethnographic research methods, including ethnographic interviewing, participant observation, photography, and qualitative approaches to the analysis of cultural data. Special focus on the ethics of ethnographic fieldwork. Student engage in enthographic research.
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3.00 Credits
The civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and their predecessors; neighboring cultures with whom they were in contact; the continuing influence of these societies in modern times.
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3.00 Credits
The cultural development of the first inhabitants of South America from the initial occupation to the European conquest. Particular attention is devoted to the rise of complex civilizations in the central Andes and adjacent Pacific coast culminating in the Inca empire. The continuing influence of these societies in modern times is also considered.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the sociocultural systems of the indigenous peoples north of Mexico. Histories, ecologies, economies, social relations, kinship, and belief systems, including colonialism, culture contact, change, and cultural survival. Contemporary and applied issues of the First Nations.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the cultures and societies of the contemporary Carribean. A critical reading of recent ethnography will be used to examine themes such as colonial and post-colonial social structures, creolization, ethnicity, and the formation of national and pan-Carribean identities. Particular attention will be given to popular religion, tourism, music, the growing Carribean diaspora in North America and Europe and to ethnographic research methods in urban and applied contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnographic survey of the sociocultural systems developed by the indigenous peoples of Amazonia and other lowland forests. Ecological factors, subsistence practices, social organizations, politics, cosmology, ethnohistory, myths, and belief systems. Contemporary issues of colonialism, contact, change, continuity, resistance, and cultural survival, as well as issues of human rights and the destruction of the Amazonian rain forest will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnographic and ethnohistorical survey of the peoples and cultures of Mesoamerica, especially the Maya, Aztec, and their presentday descendents. Texts, narratives, documents, and ethnographic accounts are interpreted in light of critical theory and analysis, employing the approaches of ethnology, ethnohistory, archaeology, and literature. Colonial history, colonialism, representation, indigenous "voices," and strategies of resistance and cultural survivalwill be examined.
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