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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical discussion of colonialism as a sociocultural process. Comparative colonialism in pre- and post-Hispanic contexts. Methodological consideration of archaeological and archival analyses and their complementary epistemological statuses. Pan-American case studies.
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3.00 Credits
Perspectives on globalization based on ethnographic case studies. The impact of new technologies on native cultures; different cultural meanings of global commodities; creation of new diaspora cultures; effects of neoliberal reforms on local economies; ethnic movements and terror networks.
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3.00 Credits
Modern and postmodern cultural organization of Western and non-Western economies. Crosscultural comparison of concepts of self-interest and rationality; relation of the growth of post-industrial (service and information) economies to economic strategies of ethnic groups; survey of indigenous alternatives to development. Theoretical issues grounded in case studies from our own and other cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Biocultural aspects of human adaptations to health, disease, and nutrition. Non-Western medical and psychiatric systems. Effects of cultures on the interpretation, diagnosis, and treatment of illness. Case studies from Africa, Oceania, Latin America, and the contemporary United States.
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3.00 Credits
Modern cultures and societies of Europe. Comparative survey based on ethnographic case studies; national differences and ethnic minorities; challenges of nationalism and globalization; rural and urban economic adaptations; transition of former socialist states.
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3.00 Credits
Historical and archaeological background, languages, economy, environment, and cultural adaptation of Andean peoples. Spanish and native American heritage. Religion, family structure, political organization, contemporary social issues, and economic background. Urban and rural traditions, social movements, and change.
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3.00 Credits
Origins of the Aztec peoples of central Mexico and their culture; history and structure of the Aztec empire; pre- Columbian social, political, and economic organization; warfare and religion; the Spanish conquest; colonial society in central Mexico; ethnographic study of modern descendants of the Aztecs.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the archaeology and peoples of ancient South America. Early hunters and gatherers, origins of agriculture and urbanism, and the rise and fall of the Huari and Inca empires.
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3.00 Credits
Native societies of Amazonia, the Orinoco basin, and other forest, savanna, and coastal regions of South America. Ecology, cosmology, social organization, and political relations in historical and contemporary populations. Government policies, human rights, environmentalism, sustainable development, and indigenous activism and advocacy.
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3.00 Credits
Ritual, symbols, belief, and emotion in health, illness, and therapeutic processes. Practices and politics of healing in western and non-western societies, including shamanism, faith healing, ecstatic religious experience, alternative medicine, and biomedicine. Mind-body interactions, medical pluralism, relations between patients and healers, and implications for improving medical care.
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