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3.00 Credits
Human growth processes from conception to old age; biological aspects of growth, with consideration of secular trends, individual and population variations, and cultural factors that may influence biological growth processes. Prerequisite: ANTH 111 or 168.
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3.00 Credits
Fossil evidence for human evolution. Evolutionary mechanisms and systematics. The earliest hominids from Africa, the emergence of genus Homo and the evolution of humans in the Pleistocene. Lecture and laboratory sections. Prerequisite: ANTH 111 or 168.
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3.00 Credits
Human skeletal anatomy, including interpopulation comparisons, sex and age determination, pathology, osteometry, statistical treatment of measurements; applications to paleodemographic population reconstruction. Laboratory sessions arranged. Prerequisite: ANTH 111 or 168.
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3.00 Credits
Processes controlling biological variation in modern populations, interaction of environmental factors with genetic material of populations, human adaptation to climate, altitude, population density and stress. Prerequisite: ANTH 111 or 168.
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3.00 Credits
Biology and behavior of the non-human primates. Classification, ecology, function and comparative anatomy of prosimians, monkeys and apes. Paleontology of the order is considered, along with the evolution of social behavior. Prerequisite: ANTH 111 or 168.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how historical archaeologists analyze the material culture of the Europeans and European Americans who colonized and occupied the North American continent from the 17th through early 20th centuries. Emphasis on the manufacturing processes involved in the production of different classes of material culture and their use by European Americans and non-European Americans. Prerequisites: ANTH 167 and 169 or another course in archaeology.
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3.00 Credits
Investigations of human biocultural evolution and adaptations during Old Stone Age, primarily in Old World; hunter-gatherers as models, kinds of Paleolithic data; how archaeologists research, excavate, reconstruct the past. Prerequisite: ANTH 125 or 167, or any archaeology area course.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the power of the visual to produce gender, racial and ethnic differences. Focuses particularly on three interlinked spheres of imagery ? ethnographic film, world's fairs and museums ù to explore the ways in which "difference" is produced and rendered intelligible. Attention is paid to the ways in which specific anthropological approaches have been taken up within each of these domains.
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3.00 Credits
Examines productions of gender difference in varying cultural and historical contexts; processes through which gender difference is tied to social power and subordination; relationships between gender and other differences ("race," sexuality, class, nation); roles of colonialism, capitalism and other transnational processes in shaping productions of gender and power. Prerequisite: ANTH 126 or 166 or WOMN 100, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Social, political and economic change in the Third World. Articulation of rural production systems with world market. Analysis of rural and urban development, famine, population, poverty, inequality and powerlessness. Economic and environmental impacts of United Nations, World Bank and other development organizations.
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