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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes ethnographies on the cultures and the societies of the South American rain forest peoples, and evaluates the scholarly ways in which anthropology has produced, engaged, interpreted, and presented its knowledge of the ‘Amerindian.’
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3.00 Credits
Ethnographic coverage of the Apaches, Pueblos, Pimans, and Shoshoneans of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Northwestern Mexico. Topics include prehistory, socio-cultural patterns, and historical development.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an anthropological perspective of modern American society. Traces the development of individualism through American historical and institutional development, using as primary sources of data religious movements, mythology as conveyed in historical writings, novels, and the cinema, and the creation of modern American urban life.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the histories and politics that have shaped the nations and dependencies that are geographically and politically defined as Caribbean, including French, English, and Spanish. Takes a regional and a national perspective on the patterns of family and kinship; community and household structures; political economy, ethnicity and ethnic relations; religious and social institutions; and relations between Caribbeans abroad and at home.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the myths of Native Americans north of Mexico and their roles in Native American cultures. Students research and write a paper on the place of mythology in a particular culture, or on the forms and uses of a particular type of myth.
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3.00 Credits
The study of visual means of representation in Anthropology. (Y) Credits: 3
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3.00 Credits
Explores the cultural life of media and the mediation of cultural life through photography, radio, television, advertising, the Internet, and other technologies.
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3.00 Credits
This is an upper-level anthropology course which is intended to engage students in the study of Native American art as well as the history and current debate over the representation of Native American culture and history in American museums. After a thorough review of the literature on those topics, the class focuses specifically on the Astor collection owned by the University of Virginia.
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3.00 Credits
Following the social history of three of the major world commodities the course situates the current discourse on globalization within a socio-historical and cultural context. It offers a comparative analysis of the cultural dynamics associated with the production, exchange and consumption of sugar, coffee and tobacco as they have unfolded in different times and places. (Y) Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission. Credits: 3
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the anthropological study of production, exchange, consumption, and globalization by exploring the cultural life-cycle of particular commodities in different places and times.
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