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This course enables faculty and students to study a specific geographic or cultural area not normally covered in existing curricula. Anthropological perspectives will be applied to such topics as history, environment, family, religion, popular culture and the arts, and current issues in the area under study. Designation of specific area focus will be made at the time of the course offering. Foci, readings, and assignments will vary with instructor. May be repeated for credit with different area focus. Mode of Inquiry: Understanding Society Offering: On demand Instructor: Staff
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This seminar is designed to introduce students to the field of museum anthropology and to the theoretical and practical dimensions of museum studies. As an applied research experience, it offers the opportunity to do hands-on work with the Native American collection and exhibition program at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Topics include the application of contemporary anthropological theory to work in museums, particularly in terms of issues of cultural representation, ethics, fieldwork, and museum display. Students will learn and apply skills in collections and archival management, exhibition development, and museum public programming. Prerequisite: ANTH 231 or ANTH 351, and consent of instructor Offering: Spring Instructor: Dobkins
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This course focuses on a variety of visual texts, from documentary films about non-Western cultures to fiction films made in the U.S. Special emphasis is placed on questions about visual representations of other cultures, and the way audience responses to visual texts reflect cultural values. Students will carry out independent fieldwork projects, in some cases making use of video-recording technologies. Prerequisite: One previous anthropology course or ENGL 336; preference given to Anthropology Majors and Minors Offering: Every third semester Instructor: Wogan
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This course introduces students to medical anthropology. By exploring human health, sickness and healing from diverse theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives, students will learn how different peoples around the world: conceptualize the human body, explain the causes of disease, manage patients and healers, contend with stress, and articulate the meaning and origin of social suffering. The course has a service learning component. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology and/or consent of instructor Offering: Annually Instructor: Millen
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An examination of gender and sex cross-culturally and in evolutionary perspective. Some of the topics we may consider include women and men in prehistory; notions of masculinity, femininity; transgenderism and same-sex sexualities; love, marriage, and family; sexual divisions of labor and economic organization; women's and men's involvement in ritual and religion; and impact of sociocultural change and globalization of sex and gender. Prerequisite: No prerequisite, though ANTH 150 or courses in Women's Studies are recommended. Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Moro
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This course focuses upon environmental and human rights issues affecting indigenous peoples worldwide. Using the cross-cultural, comparative and field-based perspectives that distinguish anthropology, this course examines some of the most pressing problems facing the world's indigenous peoples, explores strategies used by these groups in facing human rights and environmental violations, and offers students the opportunity to study about and take action on these issues. Case studies of specific indigenous groups will be drawn from different world areas, including North and South America, Africa, Oceania and Asia. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons and Values; Indigenous Peoples and Cultures Cluster; Environmental Cluster Prerequisite: prior course work in Anthropology or Environmental Studies required Offering: Alternate years in Spring Instructor: Dobkins
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Religion is found in some form in every culture and the discipline of anthropology has been much concerned with exploring and understanding the global diversity of religious expression. This course introduces the cross-cultural study of myth, ritual and religion through case studies drawn from around the world. Prerequisite: Prior course work in Anthropology or Religion recommended Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Dobkins, Moro
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This course will critically examine anthropological theories about the causes, functions, and meanings of warfare, violence, and peace. In particular, the following topics will be addressed: 1) the causes and nature of warfare according to competing theories from materialist, functionalist, symbolic, and biological perspectives; 2) the function and meaning of headhunting, cannibalism, human sacrifice, torture, gang violence, and organized crime; 3) changes from violent to peaceful practices. Various case studies will be examined, with special emphasis on small-scale societies. Prerequisite: One previous course in anthropology Offering: On demand Instructor: Wogan
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This course introduces students to the major issues and methodologies in the study of language in its cultural context. In particular, the course focuses on linguistic questions related to the following: 1) gender; 2) power; 3) ethnic, racial, and national identifies; 4) literacy; 5) poetic, verbal performance; and 6) intercultural communication. Analysis often centers on video and cassette texts from films, conversations, and the students' own fieldwork data. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Prerequisite: Previous coursework in Anthropology recommended Offering: Every third semester Instructor: Wogan
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This course provides the flexibility to offer special topics of interest in anthropology. The course may study a particular subfield of anthropology, or a particular anthropological problem in depth. Prerequisite: ANTH 150 or consent of instructor Offering: On demand Instructor: Staff
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