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4.00 Credits
Overview of the study of language in its cultural and social contexts. Topics may include the formation and maintenance of speech communities, variation of language within and across speech communities, how languages change in contemporary social contexts, the range of uses of language in social context, the verbal arts, oral folklore, and the development of writing systems. This course does not presume a background in either linguistics or anthropology. Cross-listed with LIN 260.
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4.00 Credits
Focus on the social and cultural ecology of contemporary black communities in America; includes an examination of how cultural history shapes present activities, attitudes, and beliefs. Specific topics include family organization, sex roles, child development, and social and religious movements.
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4.00 Credits
Course examines some of the great mysteries of the human past. It explores unconventional claims, including the ancient astronauts' assertion, the idea that a number of early civilizations were founded by alien visitors from outer space. It debunks these notions and considers the historical, social, economic, political, religious, racist, and even psychological motives behind them. Real wonders of the ancient world are also surveyed, such as Easter Island, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, and the Great Zimbabwe. In the process, students learn the basic scientific concepts and approaches of anthropology and archaeology.
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4.00 Credits
Anthropology and science fiction both seek to expand our vision by examining either parts of our world that we know little about (in the case of anthropology) or other worlds that exist in our fantasies or imaginations (in the case of science fiction). This course examines how each proceeds in this attempt through an examination of their interrelationships in subject, vision, and manner. The course involves reading and analysis of text and exegesis in both the "anthropology of science fiction" (i.e., the analysis of science fiction using anthropology) and the "science fiction of anthropology" (i.e., the creation of science fiction involving anthropological subjects and material).
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4.00 Credits
The nature and processes of adulthood and aging are examined in a cross-cultural perspective. Examination of differences in culture, ethnicity, environment, and ecology as they influence the experience of growing old in selected modern and traditional societies around the world.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Topics reflect material of special or timely interest, such as food and culture, multimedia software, Mesoamerican art, expressive culture, the anthropology of music, forensics, and human anatomy. May be repeated up to 12 credit hours when topics vary. No more than 12 credit hours of ANT 293 / 493 maybe counted towards any ANT degree.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 101 Human Biocultural Evolution or equivalent. Emphasis on two fundamental areas of human biological evolution: human population genetics and reproductive fitness and the adaptive significance of contemporary human biological variation. Topics explore the extent to which environmental factors such as geographic location, climate, attitude, diet and disease influence the growth, development, nutritional status, and demographic characteristics of extant human groups.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 101 Human Biocultural Evolution. A detailed consideration of archaeology, its principal methods and issues today. Major themes include the nature of archaeology, its history, and field and laboratory techniques, along with ethical and other topics, such as looting, the conflict between archaeologists and native peoples over human remains, and graduate and career opportunities in the field. Emphasis is placed on illustrating these subjects via their application to real archaeological problems and data.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 102 Study of Culture. Overview of the developmental history of method and theory in social and cultural anthropology. Topics include structural-functionalism, symbolic anthropology, cultural materialism, structuralism, and post-modernism. The methodology of ethnographic fieldwork is also addressed in detail.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 102, Study of Culture, or ANT/LIN 120, Introduction to Language Linguistics, or ENG 311, Elements of Linguistics, or permission of instructor. Introduction to the study of language, culture, and society. Topics include principles of linguistic analysis (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), the ethnography of speaking, quantitative sociolinguistics, language contact and change, language and expressive culture, and language and gender.
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