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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Anthropological perspectives of sociocultural change in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Emphasis on the economic and political relationships established between these areas and industrial societies.
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Explores global climate change from the perspectives of biological anthropology, archaeology, bio-archaeology, cultural anthropology, and medical anthropology. Compares anthropology's major findings about the human causes and consequences of climate change in the past and present. Considers the practical relevance and ethical implications of these findings for addressing climate-related issues in the contemporary world.
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3.00 Credits
This course takes a cross-cultural approach to understanding one of the greatest challenges of the modern era: environmental sustainability. We begin from the premise that climate change, pollution, resource depletion, and environmental racism are social problems rooted in human relationships to the natural world. What can we learn about these problems and potential solutions from looking at how diverse societies relate to nature and manage resources? What can we learn from indigenous peoples, social movements, and intentional communities whose values and practices offer alternative visions for how to organize human-environment relations? This course draws on anthropological methods and research findings to examine diverse ways of defining "sustainability" and living sustainably. We apply these findings to critically examine current debates and approaches to environmental issues, from the United Nations Climate Change accords to corporate sustainability platforms and environmental justice movements.
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3.00 Credits
Social institutions and cultural traditions of Africa; political, economic, legal and kinship systems, and modes of thought.
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3.00 Credits
The origins and formation of the cultural, social, economic and political characteristics of Argentina. The historical construction of an Argentinian national identity provides students with an opportunity to understand one example of the sources and forces of historical change in ideas, beliefs, institutions, and cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Types of Indian cultures in contemporary South America. Cultural traditions and social institutions of Indian communities, especially the tribes of the tropical forest.
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3.00 Credits
Arts and crafts technological processes invented by or available to tribal societies of South America. Artistic and technical achievements in ceramic and textile.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with hands-on training in the fundamentals of archaeological research and its conduct in the real world. Topics covered focus on methods used to organize the collection and study of various kinds of archaeological data as they pertain to the research questions archaeologists hope to answer. Specific topics include: archaeological research design, quantitative analysis and issues in archaeological sampling, analysis of lithic and ceramic artifacts, paleoenvironmental reconstructions and geoarchaeology, the development and testing of quantitative predictive models, and the application of these methods in cultural resource management.
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3.00 Credits
Archaeological perspectives on issues of concern in contemporary American culture, including the environment, multiculturalism, war, gender, technology and production, and class.
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3.00 Credits
Reproduction is more contested than ever, and is both shaped by and shaping the diverse cultural backgrounds and beliefs of people everywhere. Reproduction is a topic and experience that cuts across multiple political and personal issues: it is at once a deeply intimate and highly public process with implications for both individuals and societies. In this course we identify, examine, and explore dominant narratives about motherhood and reproduction from cross-cultural perspectives, and the personal stakes and political scales at which different experiences of motherhood impact. We focus specifically on motherhood since it is the relationship between mother and child that is predominantly politicized in various configurations of power both historically and contemporaneously, although we do examine topics related to parenthood more broadly. Through the study of ethnographic research, we look critically and cross-culturally at topics related to: contraception, family planning, fertility, pregnancy, birth, early childhood, motherhood, parenthood, child welfare interventions, media and popular cultural representations of motherhood, and labor and work, especially as these topics intersect with concerns related to nationhood, gender, sexuality, racism, class, socio-economic status, religion, politics, ethnicity, and cultural background.
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