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3.00 Credits
Staff. Introduction to the method, theory, and techniques of prehistoric archaeology. Relationship of archaeology to other disciplines, how and why archaeologists work, archaeological records, dating, analysis and interpretation of artifacts, sites, and environments. Consideration of selected case studies.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Masquelier. Religions, ideas, ritual, and organization of primitive peoples; nativistic and messianic movements; function of religion in social systems. Note: See ANTH 635.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Truitt. This course focuses on anthropological approaches to cities and urban life. Topics include the cultural meanings of public space and the built environment, processes of social differentiation and class formation, the role of capital, and the emergence of social movements. The second half of the course is organized around a comparison of four ethnographic case-studies of cities outside the United States and Europe. Throughout the semester, studies will also discuss how anthropological approaches may be applied to New Orleans.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Truitt. This course examines contemporary Southeast Asia. As one of the most diverse regions in the world, the region confounds easy characterization. The first part of the course provides students with a broad overview of the social, cultural, and political institutions of the region with a focus on Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The second part turns to contemporary issues including political and economic development, religious change, and cultural constructions of identity. Readings include academic essays, short stories, and full-length ethnographies.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Hill. An exploration of the development in the western tradition of ideas concerning culture, its variation, and change. The courses focuses on the specific insights of anthropology with regard to the study of change processes such as innovation, directed culture change, nativism, and revitalization. The relevant contributions of other social sciences will also be considered.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Maxwell. Language, the complex symbolic system of our species, has the power to index, refer to, frame and reframe social reality. Cultures, shared symbolic and interactional systems, both shape and are shaped by language and its use. This course will explore speech communities around the world, their social practices and the language schemata which ground them: the quotidian instance of “asking for a drink†in Indonesia, the ritual of trading insults in inner city Detroit, the routine of formal and phatic greetings among the Kuna.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Maxwell. Introduction to language variation both geographically and socially. The course looks at the history and methods of dialectology as well as the ways speakers demonstrate identity through speech patterns.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Jack. Pre- or Corequisite: ANTH 314 or ANTH 376. This course focuses on the development, design, analysis, and presentation of research on behavior using observational methods. While these methods can be used on captive populations (zoo, research center) they are also appropriate for studies of free-ranging animals, including human beings. The student will be exposed to the specific challenges of observational research, and learn appropriate levels of analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Professor Verano, Professor Jack. This course will serve as a broad introductory survey to biological (or physical) anthropology. Biological anthropology is a science dedicated to the study of human and nonhuman primate evolution and variation. As such, in this course we will investigate the current state of knowledge, as well as ongoing debates, in the disciplines of hominid evolution, nonhuman primate adaptation, evolution, and behavior, human biological variation, human skeletal biology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology. Upon completion of this course, the student will have gained a more solid understanding of biological anthropology as a science.
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3.00 Credits
Professor Masquelier Islam is a fundamental human experience in diverse socio-historic and cultural milieux. Ethnographies of Muslim communities highlight the heterogenity of Islamic perspectives and traditions. Focus on culturally situated Islamic practices and belief systems fosters a critical understanding of the emergent Islamic identities and their historico-cultural underpinnings.
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