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3.00 Credits
From 12,000 years ago to the present. Archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography.
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3.00 Credits
The rise and fall of the Inca state in the Southern American Andes. Inca society, agriculture, economy, warfare, ancestor worship, mummies, and royal wealth. Imperial expansion, the role of the feasting in Inca politics, and place of ecology in Inca religion. Destruction of the empire during the Spanish conquest; persistence of pre- Columbian culture among Inca descendants in Peru and Bolivia.
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3.00 Credits
(Also listed as History 283) Concepts of the human body from historical and cross-cultural perspectives. Exploration of experiences, representations, and medical theories of the body in birth, death, health, and illness in Western and non-Western societies. Comparison of methodologies of anthropology and history.
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3.00 Credits
Linguistic analysis of Classic Maya Hieroglyphs from A.D. 100-1000. Methods of decipherment, reading, and interpreting an ancient script. Role of socioeconomic status in literacy.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of methods and approaches in linguistics and the cognitive sciences. Exploration of culture and thought; how culture affects our ways of reasoning.
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3.00 Credits
Conflicting views on the origins of morality and values. Ethical beliefs as deriving from culture or as reflecting a global human nature. Consideration of human universals such as the incest taboo, marriage and family, and religion. Efforts to interpret values and ethical principles as reflecting human biology and evolution, self-interest, altruism and cooperation.
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3.00 Credits
How personality and culture affect each other. Socialization and the life cycle, the definition of sex roles, individual psychology and group aggression, religion and group personality, and the nature of mental illness and normalcy in non- Western societies.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural comparison of women’s roles and status in western and non-Western societies. Role of myths, symbols, and rituals in the formation of gender identities and the politics of sexual cooperation, conflict, and inequality. Case studies from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Melanesia.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural study of death rituals. Mortuary archaeology and anthropology of death and the body. Biological and social perspectives on the corpse and living body, and their treatment in ritual and everyday life. The body as biological specimen and social artifact. Nature of beauty, body modification, and adornment.
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3.00 Credits
Structural, social, and cultural issues involved in protracted contact between speakers of different languages. Bilingualism and multilingualism, lexical and structural borrowing, nativization, code switching, and Pidgins and Creoles. Linguistic psychosocial theories regarding common contact patterns. The sociocultural meaning of language contact in different societies. Case studies.
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