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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 107A.) The formation and expansion of the Inca state as a large multiethnic confederation, interrupted by the arrival of the Spaniards. Negotiations and adaptations during the colonial period; the proliferation of survival strategies allowing indigenous peoples to maintain their social organization; indigenous rebellions to recuperate land, local spiritual values, and central government. Emphasis is on the indigenous perspective. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric documents and findings that reflect events and thoughts from the conquest to the 20th century. 3-5 units, Win (Karp-Toledo, E)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 109.) Focus is on issues dealing with rights to land and the past on a global scale including conflicts and ethnic purges in the Middle East, the Balkans, Afghanistan, India, Australia, and the Americas. How should world cultural heritage be managed Who defines what past and which sites and monuments should be saved and protected Are existing international agreements adequate How can tourism be balanced against indigenous rights and the protection of the past 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues. (HEF IV; DA-A) 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 113, BIO 166, BIO 266.) The analysis of fossil animal bones and shells to illuminate the behavior and ecology of prehistoric collectors, especially ancient humans. Theoretical and methodoloigcal issues. The identification, counting, and measuring of fossil bones and shells. Labs. Methods of numerical analysis. 5 units, Spr (Klein, R)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 114.) Archaeologists rely on an understanding of stone tools to trace much of what we know about prehistoric societies. How to make, illustrate, and analyze stone tools, revealing the method and theory intrinsic to these artifacts. Prerequisites: 3 or 6 or other instructor-approved archaeology course work. 5 units, Spr (Rick, J; Robertson, I)
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 116A, ARCHLGY 110, ARCHLGY 310.) How human beings make sense of their worlds. The naturalness of ideas, human relations to the natural and supernatural, and dichotomies of West and other, sacred and secular, and faith and skepticism. The material-historical constitution of different of modes of thought. Sources include classic and contemporary theoretical readings in archaeology, anthropology and science studies. Archaeological and ethnographic case studies from different world regions and historical periods. 4-5 units, Aut (Aldrich, C)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Why and how people of N. America developed. Issues and processes that dominate or shape developments during particular periods considering the effects of history and interactions with physical and social environment. Topics include the peopling of the New World, explaining subsequent diversity in substance and settlement adaptations, the development of social complexity, and the impact of European contact. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul 3-5 units, Aut (Truncer, J)
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4.00 Credits
(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Decipherment of classic Maya writing. Principles of archaeological decipherment. Maya calendrical, astronomical, historical, mythological, and political texts on stone, wood, bone, shell, murals, ceramics, and books (screenfold codices). Archaeology and ethnohistory of Maya scribal practice and literacy. Related Mesoamerican writing systems. The evolution of writing and the relevance of writing to theories of culture and civilization. GER:DBSocSci, EC-GlobalCom 4 units, Spr (Fox, J)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 130B.) How GIS and spatial tools can be applied in social research. Case studies and student projects address questions of social and cultural relevance using real data sets, including the collection of geospatial data and building of spatial evidence. Analytical approaches and how they can shape a social and cultural 0interpretation of space and place. 4 units, Win (Engel, C)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 134.) Human-object relations in the processes of world making. Objectification and materiality through ethnography, archaeology, material culture studies, and cultural studies. Interpretive connotations around and beyond the object, the unstable terrain of interrelationships between sociality and materiality, and the cultural constitution of objects. Sources include: works by Marx, Hegel, and Mauss; classic Pacific ethnographies of exchange, circulation, alienability, and fetishism; and material culture studies. 3-5 units, Aut (Meskell, L)
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