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3.00 Credits
How does the mind shape culture? How does culture shape the mind? An introduction to language and symbolism, and to human concepts -- of space and time, of living things and supernatural beings, of mind and emotion -- across cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Additional work required of graduate students. This course reviews the classic theories, models, and ethnographies in anthropology as well as the recent findings on symbolic communication in anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and cognitive studies with examples ranging from prehistory to the contemporary Western culture. Course examines the symbolism of colors, food, animals, human body, gender, art, myth, ritual, and politics across cultures, as well as the symbolic meanings in the worldviews of the native Pueblos of the American Southwest, China, India, Mexico, central and South Africa, Iceland, Jewish culture, Polynesia, and Western cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Murder, war, capital punishment, human sacrifice: why people resort to violence, and how they avoid it, in societies ranging from tribunal New Guinea to the modern United States.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the peoples and cultures of Latin America. It begins with an overview of the cultural geography of Latin America and the people of this region. The course examines how European and African contact and the mixing of cultural, economic, and political values have shaped this geographic space. Current Latin American issues are presented in a historical context. A major theme throughout the course is that anthropological methods and theory can be used to frame and solve contemporary Latin American issues.
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3.00 Credits
Every society in the world is currently experiencing rapid economic, social, political and technological changes in response to expanding market economies and diffusion of information. Due to the extent of contemporary migration, society is being shaped by immigrants and the children of immigrants. Migration is highly selective and the outcomes of migration are diverse. This course will enable the student to confront these issues through lectures, readings, discussions and assignments. As students learn of the causes and effects of migration in prehistory and in the contemporary, they will gain a broad understanding of human mobility as a force for social evolution.
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3.00 Credits
Theories of settlement, distinctive features of island cultures, social and political organization and stratification, and integrative mechanisms such as trading, feasting, warfare, and marriage alliance.
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3.00 Credits
Anthropological perspective on people of African descent in the United States, Caribbean, Latin America, and South Africa. Begins by looking at the three sides of Atlantic slavery: Western Europe, West and Southern Africa, and slave societies of the New World and South Africa. Examines maroon societies founded by fugitive slaves, the threat of slave revolution in the age of American revolutions, and politics of racial categorization and stratification in the aftermath of slavery. Finally, we take a comparative approach to language, the family, sexuality, conflict and class, religion, arts and ideologies among these cultures.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the culture of Brazil. Consideration of Brazil as a multicultural society, comparing it to other major settler societies of the New World, including the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. We will consider Indian societies before and after contact, and we will compare slavery in the U.S. and Brazil. Why have race relations and definitions of race developed differently in the two countries? We will look at authority, class, and violence. We will examine the culture of religion, sexuality, Carnival, music, and the media.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced treatment of human biological variation at individual and population levels. Patterns of physiological and genetic variation as adaptive responses to local ecological conditions, disease, and diet. Prerequisites: ANTH1010 OR ANTH1020 OR ANTH1050 OR BIOL1030 OR BIOL1610 OR BIOL1620.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced treatment of hominid fossil record from Miocene to recent. Related data in archaeology, geology, geochronology, taphonomy, and paleoclimatic reconstructions. Prerequisites: ANTH1020 OR ANTH1030.
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