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3.00 Credits
This course examines the presence and contributions of people of African descent outside the African continent. While we generalize about the Black diasporic experience across continents, we also pause to examine the ways that stories unfold in particular places and at specific historical moments. Because most representations of Africa and her descendants have left Africans on the margins of world history, in this course we pay particular attention to alternative ways of understanding Black diaspora. We draw upon case studies from the United States, the Caribbean, Brazil and Europe during different historical periods. Cross-listed with American Studies and Sociology. Offered every other year.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the borderlands shared by states in upland Southeast Asia, such as Thailand, Burma and Laos, with China. It looks at dimensions of contemporary migrations and transnationalism among populations historically marginalized, such as the Hmong, and among populations that have a strong identification with states. Linked to political economies and global markets, nationalism and other ideologies defining peoples and their cultures are explored with an eye toward understanding how ideas about race and the other take shape. Offered every other year.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the theory and methods of social science research, beginning with an examination of the philosophies underlying various research methodologies. The course then focuses on ethnographic field methods, introducing students to the techniques of participant observation, structured and informal interviewing, oral histories, sociometrics, and content analysis. Students design their own field projects. Prerequisite: At least one course in Sociology, Anthropology, or American Studies. This course is cross-listed as SOCI 240.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on quantitative data analysis. Students learn how to design, code, and analyze interviews and surveys. Selected databases and statistical programs are used to analyze current social issues and compare samples. Prerequisite: At least one course in Sociology, Anthropology or American Studies.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to fieldwork in anthropological research, a set of methodological practices informed by a number of theoretical assumptions. The course focuses on the fundamental techniques of field work in ethnographic inquiry and writing, including participant observation, structured and unstructured interviewing, designing a project, taking and coding field notes, locating archival sources, interpreting and analyzing data, and writing an ethnographic story. Students will conduct field projects in the local area. Cross-listed with Sociology. Prerequisite: at least one course in Anthropology, Sociology or American Studies. Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
Courses offered on an occasional basis that cover special topics such as African women in development, theories of civilization, anthropology and demography, or anthropological genetics.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines global connections in the intersections of culture and power that underlie contemporary issues in eastern Africa. The globally marketed indigenous cultures and exotic landscapes of eastern Africa, like current dilemmas of disease and economic development, are products of complex local and transnational processes (gendered, cultural, social, economic, and political) that developed over time. To understand ethnicity, the success or failure of development projects, the social and economic contexts of tourism, responses to the AIDS crisis, the increasing presence of multinational corporations, and other contemporary issues, we will develop an ethnographic perspective that situates cultural knowledge and practice in colonial and postcolonial contexts. While our focus is on eastern Africa, the course will offer students ways to think about research and processes in other contexts. Offered every two years.
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3.00 Credits
Food is a biological necessity, yet food preferences and dietary practices are culturally determined and highly variable across time and space. This course examines nutrition and dietary variation from an anthropological perspective. We will first study the basics of food and nutrition, including the nutritional composition of food, nutritional requirements across the human life cycle, and standards for assessing dietary quality in individuals and populations. We will then examine the evolution of human dietary practices and we will explore how dietary variation is at the interface of biology, health, culture, and the environment. We will also learn about the effects of globalization and the commoditization of food on dietary choices, the health consequences of under- and over-nutrition, and the social and historical constraints on food production and consumption in different societies. Prerequisite: At least one course in anthropology or health studies, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an intensive examination of the evolution of the human family, from our earliest ancestors to the origin and dispersal of modern humans. We use skeletal biology, geology, and archaeology to understand the human evolutionary record. Prerequisite: Any of the following: 100, 216, 218, 229 or Biology 100-level course. Offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines some of the social and cultural effects of economic and political restructuring, otherwise known as "globalization," that have been occurring around the world since at least the 1970s and have accelerated during the past decade. We will focus on the increasing participation of women in the international division of labor, expanding migrations, growing economic and political polarization within and between countries, the racialization of certain populations, commodification and the spread of consumerism, the relationship between the "local" and the "global," and various forms of social resistance. Our explorations will include examination of the historical and theoretical discussions of globalization, gender, and race, and ethnographic examples from various parts of the world, including, but not limited to, parts of Europe, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, the United States, and parts of Africa. Prerequisite: at least one course in Anthropology or Women's Studies. Offered every other year.
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