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Detailed analysis of the rise of civilizations in the Mediterranean basin from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Comparative course focusing on the regions of the Balkans, Egypt, Greece, the Levant, and Italy. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 210 or consent of department. Credits: 3
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Description of social systems; exploration of the regularities and variations in the several facets of social structure emphasizing the interrelatedness of the parts of culture and culture as a functioning entity. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 120 or ANTH 220. Credits: 3
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Detailed analysis of conceptions of gender across Southeast Asia. Review of theoretical approaches in gender studies and ethnographic material from the region. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 120 or ANTH 220, or consent of department. Credits: 3
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Human adaptation to the natural environment, including interconnections between ideologies, social systems, economics, political structures, and ecology. Historical development of environmental studies in anthropology, particularly ecological anthropology, up through and including the emergence of political ecology and environmental anthropology. Topics include ecological adaptation of non-industrial societies, communal resources, world food and population, industrial food systems, contemporary environmentalism, and the relationship between science, policy and the state. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 220 or consent of the department. Credits: 3
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Political activities and how they articulate with other institutions. Presentation of various interpretations and theories that have been applied to the data. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 220. Credits: 3
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Analysis of economic behavior and institutions and how they articulate with other aspects of culture. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 220. Credits: 3
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In-depth examination of the approaches, theories, and methodologies in the anthropological study of ritual and myth. Topics include the feasibility of distinguishing ritual from non-ritual both cross-culturally and within particular societies, most recent studies of ritual focusing on sacrifice, ritual as performative action, ritual symbolism, ritual function vs. form, types of rituals, the study of myths, structural-symbolic analysis of sacred myths, phenomenological-symbolic analysis of myths, myths of origin and myths of death, and the relationship between myth and ritual. Ritual and myth also considered in relation to ideas about the maintenance of cosmological and sociopolitical systems. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 220 or consent of department. Credits: 3
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Examination of relationship between human mind and human culture. Critical analysis of major areas of cognitive anthropological research in kinship, ethnobiology, cultural models, distributed cognition, and spacial relationships. Consideration of the interface of contemporary cognitive anthropology and general cognitive science. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 230 or consent of department. Credits: 3
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Crosslisted as GEOG 435X. Exploration of how various languages express spatial relationships by using different parts of speech, how culture shapes ways of organizing and using space in daily and ritual behavior, and the mental organization of spatial knowledge, with emphasis on universal patterns that generate cultural and individual realizations. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 230 or consent of department. Credits: 3
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Cultural models as intermediary mental organizations of meaning that stand between universal concepts and culturally bound realizations. Origin of the concept in various disciplines such as anthropology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and cognitive psychology. Research on cultural models in various cultures. Prerequisites & Notes PRQ: ANTH 230 or consent of the department. Credits: 3
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