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This course is designed to introduce students to the field of visual anthropology. It has two major strands: 1) it examines the use of visual material in anthropological research and in the presentation and consumption of anthropological knowledge, focusing particularly on photography and film, and 2) it addresses visuality itself as a domain of anthropological inquiry, exploring ways of seeing in culturally and historically specific contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the relationships between seeing, being seen, and modern formations of identity.
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3.00 Credits
Biocultural approach to health and disease in human populations. Health inspected from epidemiologic, genetic, environmental, child growth perspectives. Prerequisite: ANTH 111.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of how plagues and epidemics have shaped human history. Examines how social transformations such as sedentism, animal and plant domestication and urbanism have produced novel forms of human/disease interactions. How infectious disease has been conceptualized at different times and by different cultural groups and treated as a threat to the social order. Currently, epidemics of new, highly virulent infectious diseases are occurring globally. Causes of this phenomenon and its implications for the future health of humans are explored.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the multiple disciplines of forensic science in the U.S. Emphasis on forensic anthropology; also covers forensic DNA analysis, fingerprint and trace evidence, toxicology, entomology, pathology, engineering, odontology, criminalistics, psychology and questioned documents. Students also gain an appreciation for the law, rules of evidence and ethics in forensic science.
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3.00 Credits
The Pacific was the last major region of the globe to be colonized by humans. The settlement of Near Oceania (New Guinea and the Northern Solomon Islands) is dated to the Pleistocene, while Remote Oceania (the remaining portion of Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia) was not inhabited until the Holocene ( less than 3,500 years ago). This course examines the archaeological, linguistic and biological diversities of the people of the Pacific that have formed the basis of our understanding of the colonization of this region.
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3.00 Credits
Social economic and cultural changes in Southwest Asia and North Africa. Impact of labor migration on family life and traditional cultures in both urban and rural communities in the region. Myths and realities pertaining to Islam. Ethnicity and conflict in the area.
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3.00 Credits
Indigenous peoples and cultures in lowland areas of the South American neo-tropics. Emphasizes important features shared by indigenous inhabitants throughout the area, as well as distinctive regional differences. Topics explored include indigenous language, demography, religion, subsistence, kinship, warfare, trade, and the many internal and external threats that have historically affected indigenous peoples, and presently continue to imperil ethnic survival and self-determination. Emphasizes an understanding of neo-tropical ecology, an appreciation of indigenous perception and worldview, and the crucial importance of historical interactions that have affected indigenous existence since the arrival of Columbus and that necessarily continue to shape indigenous reality and self-determination today.
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3.00 Credits
Narrative of U.S. history emphasizing the dynamic relationship of Native American cultures and history to European Americans, African Americans and Latino Americans. Focus on aboriginal cultures of North America and social and cultural changes that resulted from interactions with other ethnic/racial groups in U.S. Comparison and contrast of dynamics and results of Native American cultures' interactions with other groups through time. Impact of Native American cultures on global and national processes of change. Role of Native Americans in American institutions, ideology and belief. No prerequisites.
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3.00 Credits
Area study of Europe as a cultural, political, economic, social entity. Case study approach, featuring cases from northern, southern, eastern and western Europe. Identity, religion, migration, urban and rural development.
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3.00 Credits
Prehistory of Native North American cultures, beginning with earliest known inhabitants of New World (pre-10,000 BC), ending with period of European contact and colonization (about AD 1600). Important archaeological discoveries in U.S. and Canada. Prerequisites: one from ANTH 111, 125, 167 or 256, or consent of instructor.
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