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  • ANTH 2430: Historical Archaeology of Latin America

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This seminar examines the historical archaeology of Latin America after 1492. Topics to be studied include the archaeology of the contact period, the impact of European colonization, missions and acculturation, colonial fortifications, nautical archaeology, the African diaspora, maroon communities, plantations, coastal communities, and the emergence of capitalist economies. While courses in Historical Archaeology and Latin American History are recommended, there are no prerequisites; limited to 15.
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  • ANTH 2450: The Anthropology of Performance

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This course is designed to provide background in anthropological approaches to performance as developed primarily through studies in ritual and theater. Students will work from a wide-ranging bibliography that addresses interdisciplinary theoretical interests, beginning with the Harlem Renaissance-era efforts by anthropologists Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham to present cultural concepts through performance. Attention will focus on framing relationships between audience and performer in cultural context. A consistent theme in this course will be the strengths and difficulties inherent in (re)presenting people, beliefs and practices beyond their historical or cultural settings and interpreting them for contemporary audiences. Challenges shared by anthropology, literature and theater will be studied through exposure to primary texts, theoretically framed discussion and observation of artists who are drawn to perform what they have discovered.Previous course work in anthropology and/or theater and permission of the instructor required.
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  • ANTH 2455: Anthropology and Literature: Building Utopian and Dystopian Worlds

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    Fictional worlds that hold together for readers include beliefs, practices, social structures, economies and technologies that create and sustain recognizable cultural wholes. From Ursula LaGuin's Kesh tribes to journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates' and anthropologist Elizabeth Chin's takes on Wakanda, this seminar will offer a combined ethnographic and literary critical approach to analyzing and appreciating how works of speculative fiction, science fiction, and Afrofuturism build communities that audiences find compelling and credible. Drawing from a wide range of essays, fiction, and graphic renderings, students will explore thick description, cultural construction, narrative voice, stylistic devices, and issues of representation. Prerequisites: none. Seminar is limited to 15 students.
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  • ANTH 2460: Early Cultures of the Old World

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This course offers an intensive survey of Old World Prehistory, from the end of the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the emergence of civilization. We will focus on several topics, though specifically on the processes that led to 1) the spread of modern humans, 2) the origins of food production, and 3) the development of regional cultures. We will examine these issues through case studies and surveys in Africa, Europe, and Asia, and, in the last section of the course we will review the prehistory of the Pacific. Special emphasis will be placed on the past and present theoretical interpretations of the significance, causes, and effects of these processes. No prerequisites, limited to 15.
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  • ANTH 2500: Introduction to African Studies

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This course provides an interdisciplinary survey of African lives and livelihoods, incorporating scholarship from anthropology, history, geography, political science, ecology and literature, with an emphasis on reflecting the diversity of the African continent. Topics to be considered include rural and urban livelihoods, democratization, political conflict, colonialism, economic development, environment and conservation, health and medicine, witchcraft, music, literature,and art. This is a writing intensive course structured to help develop critical writing and research skills.
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  • ANTH 3100: Language, Culture and Society

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This course provides an introduction to the anthropological study of linguistics. Students will gain familiarity with the historical, descriptive, generative and social approaches used by anthropologists to trace the significance of symbolic communication in the early development of human communities and in the contemporary world. Readings will focus on the effective use of contemporary linguistic models and data in ethnographic description, and on the role of linguistic theory in analyzing social relations within environments of increasing diversity. This course fulfills a requirement option for students who are concentrating in anthropology.Introductory level background in cultural anthropology and/or archaeology or permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 25.
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  • ANTH 3150: Cultures of the Contemporary USA

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This course is designed to provide a foundation for the analysis of issues confronting students of contemporary cultures in the United States. Anthropological theories of social organization, political economy, communication, and the interpretation of symbols will be used to compare the goals and realities of basic institutions, with critical emphasis on the presence of structured inequality and the ongoing influence of social policy on cultural systems. Changing perceptions of childhood, family, and the relationship between the individual and the workplace will also be explored. Assigned material will include selections from the social sciences, 20th century American fiction, polemical literature and film. Students will evaluate the role of the anthropologist in formulating and implementing approaches to contemporary issues and the dissemination of anthropological knowledge across a range of media platforms Social Sciences LAC, Diversity
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  • ANTH 3165: Medical Anthropology

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    Broadly speaking, medical anthropology is the cross-cultural study of the body, illness and health. This course will examine the cultural, social, and political dimensions of biomedicine globally. We will cover a diversity of topics, including illness narrative; pain and disability; ethno medicine; diagnosis; reproduction; modification and commodification; pharmaceuticals; subjectivity and citizenship, end of life, etc. We will explore the ways in which ethnographic research and writing contributes to deeper understandings of these topics. Students will gain critical perspectives on how conceptions of the body, illness and health intersect with social difference. Enrollment is limited to 20.
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  • ANTH 3200: African Ethnography

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This course explores contemporary ethnographic research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Though often essentialized in western media, Africa is a large and diverse continent, encompassing a variety of cultural, political, economic, historical, and ecological circumstances. While not minimizing the challenges Africa faces, this course will move beyond the stereotypes to look through an anthropological lens at some of the complex and dynamic experiences of modern Africa. Ethnographic reading for the course will explore the themes of identity, gender, intimacy, violence, witchcraft, urbanization, development, corruption, health, and globalization.
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  • ANTH 3210: East African Anthropology

    4.00 Credits
    New College of Florida

    This course is an intensive survey of the anthropology of East Africa. While much of the course will reference historic and contemporary cultural anthropology, readings will also span the fields of archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Issues of focus will include settlement and migration, colonialism and its legacy, multi-party democracy, traditional and contemporary music, the changing forms and explanations of witchcraft, and struggles over nature conservation and indigenous rights.
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