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This course begins from the premise that no society has reduced the margins of human life its beginnings and endings to simple facts of nature. Thus, this course examines the different ways in which human societies have defined "life" and "death," how they have structured social relations around the establishment of opposition or communion between the living and the dead and the ritualized practices establishing definitive belonging in the categories of those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who have never lived. Credits: 3 hours
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Sexual differences around the world are culturally elaborated into gender-specific behaviors, normed relations between gender-coded people and objects, and various ideologies supporting the differences. In this course, biological and cross-cultural data will be used to explore the foundation of this process and the social, cultural, and psychological consequences of gender coding on men and women in different cultural settings. Credits: 3 hours
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A survey of developments in the midcontinent from the arrival of human populations during the Ice Ages to the point of European contact. Emphasis will be on changing adaptive requirements of the environment over time as reflected in subsistence-settlement behavior, interaction through exchange, and societal complexity. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100 or consent of instructor. Credits: 3 hours
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This course deals with the analysis and interpretation of early technologies and technological organization and their relationship to social, political, and economic dimensions of cultural systems. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100 or consent of instructor. Credits: 3 hours
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Current interpretations of Native American lifeways in the western Great Lakes from the Paleo-Indian through Early Historic periods will be reviewed, with special attention to the State of Michigan. Cultural patterns observed by explorers, traders, and missionaries entering this region in the 17th century provide the frame of reference for an examination of changing strategies for survival reflected especially in the distribution of sites (communities) across the landscape and the nature of activities undertaken from them during the past 10,000 years. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100 or consent of instructor. Credits: 3 hours
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Employing ethnographies about South America, this course is designed to acquaint students with various methodological, theoretical, and topical orientations in ethnographies of the region. Specific issues to be considered may include the cultures of indigenous peoples, religious practices and conversions, the lives of women in indigenous and cosmopolitan settings, ethnicity and race, and the effects of "modernization'' on families, children, and health. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student's curriculum. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2400. Credits: 3 hours
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Examines various methods, problems, and issues in ethnographic research and writing, as well as the interaction between ethnographic practice and the development of anthropological theory. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student's curriculum. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2400 or consent of instructor. Credits: 3 hours
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An advanced survey of the primates. Topics include: primate characteristics; taxonomy, constraints of body size on locomotion and diet; and primate social behavior in an ecological context. The behavioral ecology of individual species will be explored through readings, films, and when possible, direct behavior observation at a zoo. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student's curriculum. Prerequisite: ANTH 2500 or consent of instructor. Credits: 3 hours
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What do vampires, the devil, and cannibals have to do with money or commodities? This course explores the diverse ways in which individual societies have dealt with money and commodities. How money finds its way into practices ranging from weddings to spirit possession will be examined as well as how money and goods are gendered in different societies. The course also explores the ways in which money and goods, and often the whiteness associated with their introduction, can have literally monstrous connotations. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2400. Credits: 3 hours
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Alcohol is the most widely used drug, and drinking is often a highly ritualised social event. The goal of this seminar is to explore the role alcohol has played historically in politics, society, and the economy from a comparative cross-cultural perspective. Using a wide range of historical, archaeological, and ethnographic evidence, we will identify common themes in the social uses of alcohol and interpret the symbolic meanings societies attach to drinking. Moreover, alcohol is a prism through which to view broader cultural issues, especially class, race, gender, power, and sociability. In the early sessions, students will be introduced to the relatively new field of alcohol studies. Students will also be given some instructions in basic historical and anthropological methods. Throughout the course there will be in-depth discussion of the assigned reading, and each student will eventually discuss his or her research with the class. Credits: 3 hours
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