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anthropology studies humans as biological organisms (members of the Primate Order). This course provides an overview of the three major divisions of physical anthropology: anatomical and behavioral characteristics of living non-human primates; the fossil evidence for human evolution, including discussion of the origins of culture as a major adaptive characteristic of humankind; and examination of human variability today, including a discussion of race. (Nicholas, offered alternate years)
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course explores the intriguing question of whether it is possible, functional, and normal for people to live outside the structures of monogamous marriage and the nuclear family that have been so idealized recently in the West. Through in-depth case studies of several very different cultures, students seek a greater understanding of how and why some peoples have managed to organize their lives without emphasizing these two key institutions. Students also examine how the forces of social and economic change and colonial and post-colonial government policies have impacted diverse kinship systems around the world, as well as how various African, Asian, Caribbean, and Native American peoples have tried to cope with imposed changes and the challenging conditions that they face. No prerequisites. Anthropology 110 is helpful but not required. (Dillon, offered alternate years)
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anthropology treats the research problems and strategies of anthropologists in a wide variety of urban situations. The course corrects some popular myths and misconceptions about crowding, size, poverty, and class. It also treats issues such as rural/urban migration and interethnic relations. An analysis of crucial social, economic, and political relationships in Third World and Western contexts is provided. (Staff, offered alternate years)
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course is concerned with the theory and policy associated with the concept of work in traditional, transitional, industrial, and post industrial societies. Special attention is given to the changing role of family, kin, and gender in labor, and the impact of industrialization and the new international division of labor on the work experience, the workplace, and the labor process. Open to students in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, women's studies,economics, Africana studies, and Latin American studies. Prerequisite: ANTH 110 or by permission of instructor. (Staff, offered every three years) Note: Students may obtain anthropology seminar credit by enrolling in this course as ANTH 471 Seminar: Jobs, Power, and Capital.
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3.00 Credits
course considers the practice, problems, and analysis of field and library research in social and cultural anthropology. It examines the theoretical background and social and political role of ethnographers, and gains an understanding of the basic skills and qualitative methods of inquiry, including participant observation, interviewing, photography, life history, ethnohistory, and network and structural analysis. Students conduct research projects locally. Prerequisite: ANTH 110. (Maiale, Spring, offered alternate years) Note: Majors should plan to take this alternate year only course at the earliest opportunity in order to complete their programs.
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3.00 Credits
subject of ecological studies in cultural anthropology is the study of the interaction between human populations and their environments. These populations-hunters, gatherers, farmers, herders, and city dwellers-are examined in diverse habitats or settings: tropical forests, flooded rice plains, highland pastures, deserts, and cities. Attention is focused on ecological concepts and human adaptations and implications of these for present dilemmas in our own troubled environments. What lessons are there to be learned about resource management from "primitive" people (Maia le, offered alternate year
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The course is a survey of the experiences and sociocultural systems of past and present indigenous American peoples north of Mexico. Examined are relationships between ecological factors, subsistence patterns, modes of social organization, language, architecture, art, gender relations, ways of knowing, and religious beliefs. Also studied are historical and contemporary issues of political-legal relations, survival strategies, social activism, economic development, cultural identity, language renewal, land rights, cultural vitality, resource rights, and artistic creativity. (Anderson, offered 2008-09)
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primates are humankind's closest relatives, the study of primate behavior holds a special fascination for us. This course uses films and readings to examine the various behaviors of representative prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes. It looks primarily at studies of natural primate behavior in the wild but also reviews some examples of lab research. The focus is on locomotion, subsistence, social behavior, and intelligence within an evolutionary framework. The course concludes by considering the light which study of non human primates might shed on the evolutionary origins of our own species. (Nicholas, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
Pharaohs, Fellahin, Fantasy: Ancient Egypt fires the imagination. This course examines Egypt of the Pharaohs: their forebears and their descendants to the present day. Just as the Nile links Africa, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, a stream of culture links the Egyptian past to the present, and as a great river meanders, carves new banks but still flows from source to sea, so too, Egyptian culture has changed through conquest and innovation but remains, at some level, recognizable. Students explore gender and economic relations, how we know what we know, and how to recognize occult or romantic fantasy. ANTH 102 or 206 are recommended but not required. (Nicholas, offered every 2-3 years)
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3.00 Credits
This course considers African societies and cultures from both the insider's and the outsider's points of view. Anthropological works and short stories by Africans are used in an attempt to understand the African cultural experience. The course explores the various world views and adaptations represented by traditional African cultures as well as the transformations that these cultures have undergone during the colonial and independent eras. No prerequisites. (Dillon , offered alternate years)
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