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3.00 Credits
Monkeys and apes are regularly featured in nature documentaries and their behavioral antics inspire awe and amusement in zoo visitors around the globe. This course focuses on wild primates and uses an evolutionary approach to understand why these animals behave as they do. Because primates are among the most social of animals, understanding social behavior is emphasized. Some topics include social organization and mating systems, foraging behavior, reproductive strategies, competition and cooperation, behavioral development, parenting, communication, and cognition. Laboratories emphasize field and analytical methods for conducting observational research. The course includes at least one Saturday field trip. Prerequisite(s): Biology 270. Not open to students who have received credit for Biology 348. Enrollment limited to 24. [S] [L] S. Kahlenberg.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of a wide variety of social and cultural phenomena. The argument that the reality we inhabit is a cultural construct is explored by examining concepts of race and gender, kinship and religion, the individual life cycle, and the nature of community. Course materials consider societies throughout the world against the background of the emerging global system. Enrollment limited to 50 per section. Normally offered every semester. L. Danforth, S. Kemper, H. Lindkvist.
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3.00 Credits
Archeology is anthropology that looks into the past by examining the remains left by earlier or extinct cultures. This course introduces the theories, methods, and techniques employed by modern archeologists. It examines such issues as what is left behind, how we find and interpret it, and what it all means to us today. Using hands-on lab exercises, films, computer simulations, and field trips, this course reveals this often-hidden dimension of human culture. Enrollment limited to 32. Normally offered every year. B. Bourque.
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Humans evolved to their modern form under conditions very different from those we live in today. Thus, a well-informed perspective on modern humanity must be based upon an understanding of our deep biological and cultural history. This course explores what we are learning about that history, from the appearance of the primates to modern times. Students look at how biology and culture evolved together, how humans came to dominate the earth, and at the true nature of our similarities and differences today. Using hands-on lab exercises, films, and computer simulations, this course explores our rapidly developing understanding of these basic human issues. Enrollment limited to 32. Normally offered every year. B. Bourque.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the diverse cultures of North America, and examines the ways in which these cultures have changed as a result of colonialism, American and Canadian government policies, and public understandings of Native Americans and First Peoples. Through Native American perspectives, students gain a holistic understanding of histories and current issues in Native America today. Additionally, the ways in which Native peoples have resisted colonialism and detrimental policies through war, cultural survival, social movements, and activism are explored. Enrollment limited to 50. One-time offering. K. Feldhousen-Giles.
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3.00 Credits
Most Americans have "seen" Africa only through non-African eyes, coming to "know" about African society through such characters as Tarzan and such genres as the "jungle melodrama" or the "nature show." In this course, films from the North Atlantic are juxtaposed with ethnographic and art films made by Africans in order to examine how to read these cinematic texts. Related written texts help to answer central questions not about "Africa" but rather about the politics of representation: What are the differences in how African societies are depicted Why are particular issues and points of view privileged Recommended background: two or more courses from the following fields: anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, or film. Not open to students who have received credit for First-Year Seminars 172. Enrollment limited to 25. Normally offered every year. E. Eames.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the field of linguistic anthropology, with specialattention to sociolinguistics. In the evolution of language from primate call systems to modern-day texting and email, language has been vital to cultural development. Today, language is fundamental to virtually every aspect of human society and interaction. This course explores the often hidden meanings of everyday language, and how language is a critical part of identity, race, gender, social and economic class, and belief systems. How are cultural understandings of race, gender, and class embedded in language in subtle ways How can language reinforce class systems, and how can language work to change these aspects of culture Enrollment limited to 35. One-time offering. K. Feldhousen-Giles.
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3.00 Credits
Within the American context and in much of the West, biomedicine prevails as the dominant ethnomedical system. However, diverse systems of belief and practice about health, illness, and treatment exist within and outside the United States. Students examine how concepts such as health, illness/disease, and the body are culturally constructed and socially produced. Through readings, lectures, and assignments students engage the theories and methods medical anthropologists use to understand the relationship between individual bodies and the social world. Recommended background: course work in anthropology. Enrollment limited to 30. H. Lindkvist.
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3.00 Credits
Columbus's "discovery" of America was a major event in human history because it put Old and New World populations in contact after millennia of isolation. This course examines factors leading up to the "discovery" and the calamitous impact of early colonization upon Native Americans while assesing the environmental impact of colonization. Not open to students who have received credit for Anthropology 322. B. Bourque.
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3.00 Credits
African societies are often characterized as emphasizing the importance of duties to the group-communal ownership and collective responsibility-rather than individual rights or personal conscience. The course focuses on postcolonial tensions between communalism and individualism, and explores indigenous and imported notions of power and corruption, prosperity, and disease as they are lived and understood within contemporary West and Southern Africa. How do kin-ordered social systems respond to the incursions of global capitalism and the advent of the nation-state How have such new organizational forms as political parties, religious congregations, ethnic groups, and occupational associations been constructed under changing historical conditions Open to first-year students. Normally offered every year. E. Eames.
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