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3.00 Credits
This course covers the complex and sometimes “awkward” relationship between feminism and anthropology. We explore topics such as the place of feminist theory and politics within the discipline of anthropology, the problems involved in being a feminist and an anthropologist, and the creation of feminist ethnography. Goluboff.
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3.00 Credits
This class introduces students to some of the dominant themes, values, beliefs, and practices found among the religions of North America’s Indian peoples. The first part of the course explores the importance of sacred power, landscape, and community in traditional Indian spiritualities and rituals. It then examines some of the changes that have occurred in these traditions as a result of western expansion and dominance from the 18th through early 20th centuries. Lastly, the course considers some of the issues and problems confronting contemporary American Indian religions. Markowitz.
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4.00 Credits
This class focuses on the religious, cultural, and historical dimensions of the Lakota Sioux’s ties to their lands as they found expression in the beliefs and practices of pre- and post-reservation Lakota communities. The specific themes that the seminar will address are: 1) Lakota Lands, Culture, and Cosmology; 2) Lakota Lands, Subsistence, and Ceremony; and 3) Land in Lakota History - 1851 to the Present; 4) Sacred Landscape and Contestation. Markowitz.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the experience of childhood cross-culturally. It investigates how different societies conceptualize children, and our readings will progress through representations of the life cycle. Beginning with the topic of conception, the course moves through issues pertaining to the fetus, infants, children, and adolescents. Discussions of socialization, discipline, emotion, education, gender, and sexuality are included and special attention is given to the effects of war, poverty, social inequality, and disease on children and youth. Goluboff.
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3.00 Credits
A discussion of a series of topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topics for Winter 2011:
ANTH 290A: How Islands Explain the World: Archaeology of the Pacific Islands (3). No prerequisites. In this class, we learn about the diverse and fascinating cultures of the islands of Oceania, a region stretching from Australia in the southwest to Hawaii in the Northeast, and encompassing all of the islands in-between. The course examines exploration, anthropology, and archaeology in the region. We look at the insights that the landscapes and material culture of past peoples have provided for scholars studying this unique region. As one scholar remarked about one of the areas we study, “Within a time frame of 600 years, Polynesians had colonized an oceanic environment that was 995 parts water to 5 parts land”. It is this story of colonization and local developments that we explore, while also considering the lessons that islands can teach the wider world about human social dynamics and the relationship between people and the environments in which they live. Flexner.
ANTH 290B: Medical Anthropology (3). No prerequisites. Despite radical differences in theory and procedure, the diagnosis and treatment of diseases are human cultural universals. This seminar first examines the beliefs and practices that comprise the medical systems found among a wide variety of non-western peoples. It then investigates the responses of a number of non-Western communities to the introduction of Western, biomedical practices. Lastly, we consider such ethical issues as whether or not non-Western peoples who supply Western doctors and pharmacologists with knowledge of curing agents should be accorded intellectual property rights over this information; in what situations, if any, should Western medical personnel impose biomedical treatments on populations; and the flap caused by Napoleon Chagnon’s use of Yanomami Indians as medical subjects. Markowitz.
Topics for Fall 2010:
ANTH 290A: Economic Anthropology (3). No prerequisites. This course presents a cross-cultural survey of economic practices throughout time and around the world. Using classic and contemporary anthropological studies, we seek to understand how people have organized production, exchange, and consumption, and how these processes articulate with community dynamics such as religious beliefs, ethical codes, social networks, and gender roles. With case studies ranging from prehistoric foragers to early-modern farmers and 19th-century mariners, we investigate culturally diverse and socially embedded understandings of commodities, gifts, property, success, and wealth. Bell.
ANTH 290B: Seminar in American Indian Ethnohistory (3). No prerequisites. One of the major goals of modern ethnohistory is to use historical and anthropological methods to uncover the understandings that non-western peoples have of their own histories. This seminar introduces students to the theoretical and methodological principles of ethnohistorical research and their application to North American Indian peoples. Participants first study American Indian conceptions of time and their relationship to the criteria by which tribal communities selected and comprehended the events comprising their histories. The seminar then examines how Indian tribes from different parts of North America, including the Southwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Plains interpreted, evaluated, and responded to their encounters with colonial and the United States governments. Markowitz.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the discipline of historical archaeology from developmental, theoretical, methodological, and substantive perspectives. Beginning with the age of European exploration and continuing through modern times, this course surveys archaeological approaches to understanding social relations, class structures, and economic strategies among people of diverse ethnicities in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Students become familiar with prominent theoretical orientations within historical archaeology, debates about archaeologists’ ethical obligations, and methodological developments in fieldwork and artifact research. Bell.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 101. A consideration of the development of social and cultural theory from an anthropological perspective. A discussion of the major contributors to the field is pursued. Required of all majors in anthropology and sociology. Goluboff.
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4.00 Credits
Additional special fees. Some financial aid may be available through departmental funds. Fieldwork in archaeology. The student participates in all phases of ongoing archaeological projects. Students who have successfully completed ANTH 205 are assured of a place in ANTH 377. With the supervision of the instructor, students may take ANTH 377 more than once. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Bell, Devlin.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. The course will be designed to provide the student with an opportunity to engage in archaeological field survey in Rockbridge County. Classroom meetings concerning the theory and methods of modern archaeological survey are supplemented by field research concerning sites of historic and prehistoric significance. Bell.
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or permission of the instructor. Preference given to students who have completed ANTH 210. This course is designed to give students firsthand experience with fieldwork in cultural anthropology. Classroom meetings focus on the methods and theories of fieldwork and the techniques of writing ethnographies. Topics include writing field notes, choosing informants, analyzing and synthesizing information, coping with problems in the field, writing styles, and the politics of ethnography. Students apply what they learn by engaging in their own ethnographic projects in the local area. Goluboff.
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