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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Graduate seminar. Specialized topics in human health, illness, and healing from anthropological perspectives. Topics based upon faculty and graduate student research interests and current issues. Students present topical research and analyses from published sources; required journal-quality paper. The history, theories, and methods of research. Recommended: courses in medical anthropology. (HEF I, IV; DA-C) 3-5 units, not given this year
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 171.) Language as an evolutionary adaptation of humans. Comparison of communicative behavior in humans and animals, and the inference of evolutionary stages. Structure, linguistic functions, and the evolution of the vocal tract, ear, and brain, with associated disorders (stuttering, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia) and therapies. Controversies over language centers in the brain and the innateness of language acquisition. Vision, color terminology, and biological explanation in linguistic theory. 4-5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 175, HUMBIO 180.) The human skeleton. Focus is on identification of fragmentary human skeletal remains. Analytical methods include forensic techniques, archaeological analysis, paleopathology, and age/sex estimation. Students work independently in the laboratory with the skeletal collection. 5 units, Win (DeGusta, D)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 175B.) Skeletal analytical methods such as paleopathology, taphonomy, osteometry, and functional and evolutionary morphology. Strategies for osteological research. Students conduct independent projects in their area of interest. 5 units, Spr (DeGusta, D)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 177, HUMBIO 114.) The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV. (HEF III; DA-C) 3-5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 77.) Focus is on power, identity, and the politics of knowledge production. How transnational interactions influence Japanese identity. How anthropological knowledge has contributed to understanding Japanese culture and society. Gender, race and class; contemporary ethnographies. Modernity and globalization. Cultural politics, domestic work, labor management, city planning, ad images, anime, martial art, fashion, theater, leisure, and tourism. 5 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
The prehistory and ethnology of New Guinea and Australia. Regional climate, environment, and pre-European history. Ethnography of the contact period focusing on theoretical problems central to the development of anthropological theory. Contemporary sociopolitical issues. Films. GER:DB-SocSci 4 units, Win (Bird, D)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 180A.) Human sexuality, gender, and reproductive behavior using evolutionary and crosscultural framework. Themes such as the potential biases scientists bring to the study of sexuality, how findings are portrayed by the popular media, and the implications biological findings should or should not have on how contemporary society approaches gender issues. 4 units, Win (Glover, S)
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 82.) Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversity and social suffering, and the interface between medicine and science. 4-5 units, Win (Kohrman, M)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 186.) Focus is on current research of guest lecturers. Topics this year include prehistoric impacts of El Ni o, human sacrifice in prehispanic Peru, and mortuary archaeology on the north coast of Peru. Prerequisite: 142/242 or equivalent or consent of instructor. 1-3 units, not given this year
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