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3.00 Credits
Intensive graduate seminar designed to help students develop skills in ethnographic data collection and analysis. The aim of the course is to explore the processes through which anthropologists collect data and then transform materials of ethnographic research into analyses and interpretations. We will give careful consideration to the process of writing and issues specific to writing ethnography. Prereq: Graduate standing in Anthropology or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar discussion and guided individual student research covering the relationship between theory, methods, and reality; how to better design anthropological inquiry. Prereq: One year of graduate work in Anthropology and consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A critical analysis of the concepts, methods, and practices of farming systems research. Design and carry out an FSR project. Prereq: Graduate standing in the social or agricultural sciences. (Same as SOC 684.)
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Practical experience in aspects of the cultural resource management process are provided through a one-semester rotation of work in the Office of State Archaeology (OSA), Museum of Anthropology (UKMA), and the program for Cultural Resource Assessment (PCRA). Students are assigned tasks at each work assignment rotation during the semester and are evaluated on the basis of work performance and a journal summary of this experience by a committee of their supervisors. Prereq: Graduate standing in anthropology or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar discussion and individual or group research in the applications of social anthropology theory and methods to the solution of institutional, community, regional or national problems. Attention will be given to ethics, to the role attributes of the applied anthropologist, and to the history of applied anthropology. Prereq: ANT 601 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of approaches to the study of American material culture by various academic disciplines such as history, geography, anthropology, interior design, folklore and architecture. First half of course will review how the various disciplines study material culture. Second half will present ways in which various approaches can be combined to restore, interpret, furnish, and landscape historic structures and sites. Specific examples will be provided on a case study basis. (Same as HP 726.)
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical frameworks for the analysis of political systems and processes. The seminar explores politics as action and systemic process in contemporary, prehistoric, and historical contexts. Students are expected to formulate research questions and discuss current theory in a critical fashion. Prereq: ANT 601 and 602 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of interrelationship among populations, organization, environment, technology and symbols. The course focuses on recent anthropological contributions to the understanding of ecological relationships both now and in the past, including how peopleexploit the environment and how resource exploitation results in environmental change. Prereq: Completion of ANT 601 and ANT 602 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar in the development of anthropological approaches to cultural meaning in actions, thought, and language from the 1960s. Includes the social structural approach to symbolism and ritual, cognitive approaches to meaning, the anthropology of experience and expression, interpretive and post-modern approaches, and topical applications of these approaches. Prereq: ANT 601 and 602 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical frameworks for the analysis of economic systems and processes. The seminar explores the interaction between economic phenomena and other aspects of social and political organization both as action, structure, and systemic process in contemporary, prehistoric, and historical contexts. Students are expected to formulate research questions and discuss current theory in a critical fashion. Prereq: ANT 601 and 602 (ANT 538 is recommended) or consent of instructor.
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