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ANTH 5660: Conquest of the Americas
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Explores the power and personhood specifically related to the Americas. Topics include cultural frontiers; culture contact; society against the state; shamanism and colonialism; violence; and resistance.
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ANTH 5710: Anthropology of Ritual and Religion
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Overview of anthropology’s approach to ritual during a century of diverse speculation on the nature and origins of religions, with discussion of such figures as James Frazer, A.M. Hocart, Claude Levi-Strauss, Max Gluckman, and Victor Turner. Focuses on topics announced prior to each semester relating those issues to the whole tradition of interpretation of ritual in anthropology. Topics have included the nature of sacrifice, the expression of hierarchy in ritual, and the compatibility of historical approaches with ritual analysis.
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ANTH 5720: Ritual Experience and Healing
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Studies the ritual of different cultures, using not only anthropological terms of analysis but also examining the viewpoint of the cultures themselves. Examines changing attitudes in the study of ritual, along with the problem of the wide variability of religious expression. Explores new directions in the anthropology of experience in the light of recent work healing and spirit possession.
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ANTH 5750: Buddhism, Politics and Power
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Discussion of the political culture of Buddhist societies of South and Southeast Asia.
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ANTH 5760: Tibetan Religion in Anthropological Perspective
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
This seminar approaches a complex, major religious tradition, Tibetan Buddhism in its larger sociocultural contexts, from an analytical, anthropological perspective. Through ethnographies, a selection of comparative and theoretical elements, and film, we analyze the diverse array of Tibetan religious forms, and address larger anthropological issues and debates on religion and society (or politics), ritual, and the anthropology of texts.
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ANTH 5800: Archaeology Laboratory
1.00 - 12.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Field and laboratory training in the collection, processing, and analysis of archaeological material. Because subject matter varies from semester to semester, course may be repeated.
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ANTH 5807: History of Archaeological Thought
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Considers how archaeological thinking reflects, and is related to, more general ethnological theory.
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ANTH 5808: Method and Theory in Archaeology
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Investigates current theory, models, and research methods in anthropological archaeology.
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ANTH 5810: Archaeology of the Eastern United States
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Studies the prehistory of the eastern woodlands region, emphasizing cultural development and change. Discussions of archaeological field techniques and methods, and examination of sites in the vicinity of the University.
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ANTH 5820: Archaeology of the Southwestern United States
3.00 Credits
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Studies the prehistory of the American southwest, emphasizing cultural development, field techniques, and particular sites.
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