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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural study of belief systems concerning health and illness, practices of diagnosis and treatment, and roles of patients and practitioners. Several non-Western health care systems are studied in detail. Prerequisite: junior/senior standing or instructor's consent.
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3.00 Credits
The Anthropology of Gender introduces the student to the variation in the relationships between male and females; and between men, women, and other genders from around the world. The different approaches to understanding and modeling gender are discussed, as are specific case-studies from many different cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Course provides a critical evaluation of anthropological explanations of various forms of traditional religious behavior such as magic, shamanism, divination, ritual, mythology, and witchcraft. The anthropological explanations examined range from nineteenth century classics to the current approaches of today. Prerequisites: ANTHRO 2030, ANTHRO/REL ST 2100, or instructor's consent.
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3.00 Credits
Interrelations between language, thought, culture, and society; role of language in cognition; methods and concepts of linguistics in cultural analysis. Prerequisite: ANTHRO 2040/LINGST 2040 or instructor's consent.
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3.00 Credits
Relationship among gender, language, nonverbal communication, and culture. Prerequisite: junior standing or departmental consent.
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3.00 Credits
Methods of tracing the history of languages by glottochronology, and by comparative and internal reconstructions; cultural and linguistic implications of such reconstructions and of areal linguistics. Prerequisites: junior/senior standing or instructor's consent.
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5.00 Credits
History and theory in the study of human paleontology. Prerequisites: ANTHRO 2050/2052 or instructor's consent. Satisfies A&S foundation requirement in Biological Sciences.
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3.00 Credits
Human biological variation both among and within living populations. Evolutionary, genetic, ecological, demographic and especially cultural factors which contribute to biological variation. Prerequisites: ANTHRO 2050/2051 or BIO SCI 1010 and MATH 1100/1120. Satisfies A&S foundation requirement in Biological Sciences.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of modern evolutionary theory are applied to medical problems. Topics include: function of symptoms (fever, nausea, etc.); strategies of pathogens; senescence; cancer; phylogenetic constraints; mental disorders. Ideas will be actively discussed in class. Prerequisites: lower level course in Biology or Biological Anthropology, junior/senior standing or instructor's consent.
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3.00 Credits
Specific content varies with student interest, faculty availability. Will concentrate on peoples and cultures of one area such as East Asia, South Asia, Africa, North America, Mesoamerica, Oceania, Europe. Amplifies ethnographic knowledge gained in lower-level survey courses. Prerequisites: junior standing or instructor's consent.
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