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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to archaeology and to world prehistory. It will provide students with a basic understanding of what archaeology is, how it is done, and what it has produced. Fundamental principles of archaeological theory and practice will be illustrated by examples from throughout the world in order to introduce important themes such as the origins of food production, the rise of cultural complexity, the peopling of the world, and the development of technology. The course covers cultural evolution from the invention of the first stone tools through the rise of ancient civilizations such as those of the Maya, Incas, Egyptians, and Near East.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on key anthropological concepts, such as kinship, ritual, political economy, mortuary practices, cultural contact, and the future of Egyptian archaeology, by exploring case studies that highlight the extraordinary archaeological heritage of Egypt.
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3.00 Credits
This course looks at the archaeology of ancient cities and states, with a special emphasis on those of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. It also explores theories about why ancient civilizations rose and fell.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the rich prehistoric and early historic archaeology of the southern Levant, the region encompassing modern Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. The course will explore the archaeology of the region chronologically, and topics will include the origins of agriculture, the emergence of towns and cities, international seafaring and exchange, the Philistines and Sea Peoples, and the influence of neighboring empires.
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3.00 Credits
Taught at Saint Mary's College - Maynooth, Ireland program.
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1.00 Credits
Students who are enrolled in ANTH 20360 and have completed the Notre Dame language requirements in Spanish are eligible to register for this additional 1-credit discussion section as part of the Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) initiative in the College of Arts and Letters. Students will carry out additional reading in Spanish (approximately 10 to 15 pages a week) and meet once a week with the professor in a Spanish-language discussion. There will be additional brief writing assignments.
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3.00 Credits
Social and cultural anthropology (or ethnology) is the discipline of human and social sciences that works on the detailed knowledge of singular cultures and on the comparison of cultures. Historically, ethnology started by studying so-called "primitive" societies. It has progressively expanded its investigations to western societies: the rural world, then all groups or social phenomena that tended to manifest an original culture. In the end, it is always the "modern" society that is questioned through a sideways glance at "l'autre différent": claim to superiority, standardization of behaviors, disappearance of cultures... As much for its perspective, privileged objects, observation methods as for its theoretical approaches, social and cultural anthropology is a simultaneously independent and complimentary discipline to other human sciences. The objectives of this course are to supply general knowledge of social and cultural anthropology: history, methods, major themes, principal concepts, to discover the cultural relativity of "the ways of doing of thinking and of feeling" and to allow each student to question his/her own cultural roots and to initiate the process of taking a necessary distance in order to understand "l'autre différent".
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4.00 Credits
Assessment is based on participation and three assignments that ask students to research and reflect upon certain aspects of Japanese culture and their experience as a foreign student studying in Japan. Students on the academic or calendar year program may opt not to take this course during the second semester.
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3.00 Credits
Description and analysis of social and cultural characteristics and problems of contemporary Arab Society, taking into consideration the specific historical, economic, and ideological forces that shape it. The social basis for Arab unity and identity. Introduction to basic concepts and principles for understanding social phenomena.
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3.00 Credits
Cultural Geography, with its emphasis on landscapes, is one of the most dynamic fields of study within contemporary human geography. This module introduces you to cultural geography: its development, its concepts, and its practices. By the end of the module you should be familiar with historical and contemporary developments within cultural geography; understand the importance of the concept of landscape within cultural geography; and be familiar with issues of identity, representation and power within cultural geography. You should also be able to link the concepts addressed in the course to your own experiences.
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