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4.00 Credits
A scientific examination of crosscultural differences in the definition of sex and gender and of the behavior associated with specific gender categories. Topics covered include the distinction between sex and gender "Third Genders" household economy and organization monogamy, polygyny, and polyandry infanticide violence and aggression gender stratification circumcision and subincision and the evolution of gender roles in human society. Prerequisite: ATH 112 Cultural Anthropology or SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology Meets general academic requirement W.
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This course employs an anthropological approach in examining the symbols and rituals of Haitian Vodou as well as their relationship to larger economic, political, and cultural issues of peasant life. Students will draw on ethnographic sources in order to gain an understanding of the construction of the Vodou cosmology and humanity's unique place within it amid the spirits and specters of the invisible world. Attention will be paid in particular to rites of zombification and other acts of sorcery and their instrumental role in effecting social control in the Haitian countryside. The course will also address the diffusion of Vodou cults into the Haitian diaspora communities of North America. Prerequisite: ATH 112 Cultural Anthropology or permission of instructor Meets general academic requirement D or R.
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4.00 Credits
Selected courses with a specialized focus on topics that are not contained within the regular anthropology curriculum. Topics covered might include Economic Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Kinship. Prerequisite: ATH 112 Cultural Anthropology
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4.00 Credits
This course provides experience in the design and implementation of sociological research. It covers qualitative techniques for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data. We examine the epistemological issues that underlie social research, the ethical questions involved in research, and the assumptions on which various research strategies are based. We evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the most commonly used methods. Students will design an original research project. Taught every fall semester. Recommended Prerequisite: SOC 205 Sociological Theory or ATH 205 Anthropological Theory Meets general academic requirement W.
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4.00 Credits
A continuation of Research Methodology I. This course focuses on quantitative methods. Students will learn how to use statistics to address research questions in sociology and anthropology. Students will use popular statistical packages such as SPSS to analyze data. Taught every spring semester. Prerequisite: ATH 311 or SOC 311 Research Methodology I and MTH 104 Statistical Methods Meets general academic requirement W.
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4.00 Credits
This course uses food as a central axis for considering issues of health/nutrition, subsistence economy, gender roles/relations, ritual/ceremonial life, social inequality, and political power in past societies. These issues will be addressed through an examination of the archaeological residues of food remains and food consumption. Thus, the course has a dual emphasis on anthropological issues and archaeological methods of "food analysis". Understanding past food practices requires consideration of a variety of archaeologicalevidence, including the food remains themselves, food containers and serving wares, areas of food preparation and consumption, and the human skeleton as a record of consumption. After several weeks considering the methods for analyzing these types of evidence, the course considers the above issues more in depth through case studies dealing with topics like cannibalism, feasting, luxury foods, status, gender, and ethnicity. Prerequisite: ATH 115 Archaeology
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4.00 Credits
A fourweek intensive analysis of a particular archaeological site. Utilizing the methodological and theoretical concepts of anthropological archaeology, students will be required to participate in every phase of the scientific research process. Typically offered during the summer sessions only. Prerequisite: ATH 115 Archaeology
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the significance of children in diverse social, political, and economic contexts. It will situate childhood as a dynamic site of cultural construction and interpretation while considering the broad crosscultural definitions and uses of children in local and global discourse. Topics may include historical constructions of childhood, crosscultural definitions of childhood, the relationship of child to kin group, surrogacy, invitro fertilization, infanticide, issues in pediatric care, children's rights, domestic child abuse, child soldiers, street youth, and adolescent involvement in politics and violence. Prerequisite: ATH 112 Cultural Anthropology Meets general academic requirement B
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the role that the political economy plays in the origin and evolution of religious movements. Several specific religious movements are examined in order to illustrate both the pervasiveness of this type of social movement and the commonality underlying such movements. Movements examined include the Ghost Dance among the Plains Indians, Cargo Cults among South Pacific islanders, the Kimbangist and Mau Mau movements in Africa, selected Islamic Movements in Africa and the Middle East, Mormonism in the United States, the Jesus Movement in Roman Palestine, and the contemporary rise of religious fundamentalism. Taught every other year. Prerequisite: ATH 112 Cultural Anthropology Meets general academic requirement W.
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4.00 Credits
A crosscultural analysis of the definitions, causes, and resolutions to social violence and conflict and the anthropological theories and methods used to study them. The goal of this course is to impart analytical thinking with regard to situations of collective violence in diverse cultural milieus through an intensive study of contemporary ethnographic fields of conflict. Emphasis will be placed on the critical dissection of the cultural, economic, and political strategies and social factors influencing actors in their negotiations of dispute and strife. Topics to be examined include warfare, terrorism, political violence, riot, insurrection, torture, and mechanisms of social control. Prerequisite: ATH 205 Anthropological Theory or permission of instructor Meets general academic requirement W.
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