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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationFulfills a course requirement in the Graphic Design Core ConcentrationCultural Anthropology examines the diversity of beliefs, values,structures and practices in the vast range of human social life inthe contemporary world. This course introduces the principalconcepts, methods and ethics that anthropologists employ to studyculture and cross-cultural diversity by engaging ethnographic casestudies, films and practical research exercises. Specific topics mayinclude economic adaptation, political organization, kinship, gender,ethnicity, language, art religion and issues in applied anthropology.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ANTH 100A survey of native North American peoples. One group from each ofthe ten subculture areas is considered ethnographically. Topics mayinclude Kwakiuti of the Northwest Coast, the Cheyenne of the Plainsand the Iroquois of the Eastern Woodlands. The course introducescontemporary social problems related to the reservation system andurban migration.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core Concentration.This course is a cross-cultural exploration of religious belief, myth,and ritual. The course emphasizes anthropological research andperspectives, but also draws on interdisciplinary sources. Specifictopics include the origins and functions of religion in society, diverseinterpretations of the supernatural, the symbolic meanings of mythand ritual, the roles of religious specialists, and religious experience.Assignments examine religious belief and practice within particularcultural contexts as well as in comparison to other cultures in theglobal context.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ANTH 100Field methods: offered in conjunction with pre-approved study abroadprograms. Emphasizes methodologies for collecting data.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ANTH 100Study of the role of culture in the formation of personalityand the problems of individual adjustments to the demands ofculture.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ANTH 100Explores the principles through which non-human environmentsshape human cultures and cultures in turn affect their environments.Students will become familiar with how a range of societiescomes into relation with their environments both through theirmaterial transformations of ecosystems and the ideological andsymbolic frameworks through which peoples envision humannatureinteractions. Topics will include indigenous environmentalknowledge, sustainable development, interspecies relations,environmental governance regimes, gender relations, and the globalenvironmental movement.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ANTH 100An overview of questions of power and politics through ananthropological perspective, with special attention on inequalityand violence in the non -Western world. Anthropologists have longbeen concerned with how different cultures organize themselvespolitically; in this course, we build from classical topics towards aninvestigation of how differences in power and political inequalitiesmanifest themselves in the daily lives of people throughout theworld. The course material blends a broad range of theoreticalapproaches to studying power with the close detail of ethnographiccase studies.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ANTH 100Ethnology is a study of human cultures from a comparativeperspective. This course surveys global diversity by examining culturaldifferences and similarities in a variety of societies across the world.Through systematic cross-cultural comparisons of specific dimensionsof society (e.g. family structure, gender roles) students will gain anunderstanding of the role culture plays in shaping human thought,behavior and social organization.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationThis course is an introduction to anthropology of sport. In thefirst third of the course students will learn about history ofthe anthropology of sport and see how each of five subfields ofanthropology examines sport. During the rest of the course studentswill examine a variety of case studies through books and films, not onlyabout North American sports and culture but also outside our borders,including Europe, South America and Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ANTH 100How do anthropologists investigate culture? What makes anthropologyunique as a social science? The aim of this course is to providean overview of perspectives and trends in cultural and socialanthropology. Students will be introduced to some of the majortheories that inspire and inform anthropological analysis and discoverwhat makes anthropology distinctive among the social sciences. Whilethe course is historical and chronological in organization, our centralconcern will be with how anthropologists have defined the field, thekinds of questions they have asked, and the methods used to attemptto answer those questions.
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