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3.00 Credits
This course will discuss the 19th century concept of folklore and its application in Ireland. ´Irish folklore´ is usually understood in terms of three main and related domains: ´folk narrative´ (or oral literature), ´folk belief´ (or popular religion) and ´material folk culture´. These will be examined with special emphasis placed on narrative. Representative oral narrative texts from the Gaelic tradition will be studied in translation.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, primarily of Ancient Greece and Rome, from prehistoric times to Late Antiquity. Students will learn how archaeologists interpret material remains and reconstruct past events. Discussions of stratigraphy, chronology, and material evidence will introduce students to the fundamental principles of archaeology. Archaeological methods and theory will be studied in relation to field excavation and intensive surface survey. Students will assess the architecture of important sites, such as Troy, Mycenae, Athens, Pompeii, and Rome, and will learn how to analyze material artifacts from the Greco-Roman world, including ceramics, coins, glass, inscriptions, paintings, sculpture, and metalwork. The course aims to teach students how to evaluate the material culture of the ancient world on the basis of archaeological research and historical and social context.
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3.00 Credits
How Latinos are racialized often defies the common understanding of race as either Black or White. This course attempts to complicate this debate by exploring the historical, political, economic and social structures that determine the ethnic and racial stratification of Latinos in the United States. Topics include the multigenerational experience of Latinos, contemporary immigration, Latino youth and gender.
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3.00 Credits
This course approaches human evolution from a theoretical point of view that combines both biological and cultural processes into a cohesive bio-cultural model. It begins by tracing the development of modern evolutionary theory and the place of evolutionary studies in anthropology, especially in the sub-field of bioanthropology. These concepts provide the framework for understanding the many lines of evidence that anthropologists use to explore and explain human evolution. These include studies of our primate relatives, through the intricacies of the fossil record, to archaeological evidence for the invention of material culture from the simplest stone tools to the complex cultural world that we live in today. Modern human variation can only be explained as the result of evolutionary forces acting on the complex interplay of biology and culture over millions of years. We continue to be affected by these forces, and this course not only provides information about where we came from, it also provides the scientific backgrounds to help us understand where we might be going as our species continues to evolve.
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3.00 Credits
This course approaches human evolution from a theoretical point of view that combines both biological and cultural processes into a cohesive bio-cultural model. It begins by tracing the development of modern evolutionary theory and the place of evolutionary studies in anthropology, especially in the sub-field of bioanthropology. These concepts provide the framework for understanding the many lines of evidence that anthropologists use to explore and explain human evolution. These include studies of our primate relatives, through the intricacies of the fossil record, to archaeological evidence for the invention of material culture from the simplest stone tools to the complex cultural world that we live in today. Modern human variation can only be explained as the result of evolutionary forces acting on the complex interplay of biology and culture over millions of years. We continue to be affected by these forces, and this course not only provides information about where we came from, it also provides the scientific backgrounds to help us understand where we might be going as our species continues to evolve.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the methods, goals, and theoretical concepts of archaeology, with a primary focus on anthropological archaeology practiced in the Middle East, North America, and Europe. The field of archaeology is broadly concerned with material culture (at times combined with textual information) that can be employed to generate interpretations about past human societies. The challenge of this social science is to interpret past societies and anthropological behavior using the fragmentary, but nonetheless rich and complex, data base of the archaeological record. Lecture topics will include the methods and goals of archaeological excavation; analytical techniques employed in material studies; and the problems and challenges in the interpretation of past human behavior. Case studies of survey, excavation, and analytical techniques will focus on recent or on-going investigations of archaeological sites in North America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the field of social-cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropologists are primarily interested in exploring issues of human cultural diversity across cultures and through time. This course will explore key theoretical, topical, and ethical issues of interest to cultural anthropologists. We will examine diverse ways in which people around the globe have constructed social organizations (such as kinship, and political and economic systems) and cultural identities (such as gender, ethnicity, nationality, race, and class) and we will consider the impact of increasing globalization on such processes. Throughout the course we will consider how different anthropologists go about their work as they engage in research and as they represent others through the writing of ethnographies.
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3.00 Credits
Language is fully embedded in human culture and society. It has both meaning and efficacy; that is, it both means things and does things. Our goal in this course is to become aware of some of the ways language functions in social life, often below the level of awareness of its users. Students will engage in a number of practical exercises that demonstrate some of the more astonishing features of language all around us. Topics include: the nature of language, including language origins, nonverbal communication, and electronic communication; language, culture, and thought (linguistic relativity); speech acts and what we do with words; conversational analysis; language and identity (class, race, gender); and language in the world (multilingualism, language endangerment and revitalization, language and education).
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3.00 Credits
This course will present the theoretical and empirical bases of biocultural anthropology, the integration of biological and cultural anthropology. Dichotomies such as nature versus nurture and mind versus body will be reconsidered in a biocultural perspective.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine not only the diversity of nonhuman primate species, including their behavior, ecological context, and evolution, but also the importance and implication of primatology's role in understanding our own species. Primates live in communities with other species. Therefore, they must be considered as apart of a broader ecological system that includes both animal and plant species. We will explore the various interactions that primates have with these other species and the various roles that they play in the larger ecological community. Using the comparative approach, this course will demonstrate that many facets of human evolution are basically elaborations (albeit nuanced) of general trends in primate evolution. In addition, despite the fact that nearly half of all known primate species are threatened with the possibility of extinction, our genetic next-of-kin are routinely displaced from their habitats, hunted for meat, captured for trade, housed in zoos, made to perform for our entertainment, and used as subjects in biomedical testing. We will examine the general pattern of processes related to impending extinction crisis, and discuss the specific conservation strategies and tactics, including the impacts (both positive and negative) of primate field research, eco-tourism, and ex-situ approaches such as captive breeding programs. Finally, students will examine critically the notion that successful understanding of what it means to be human is only possible through knowing what it means to be nonhuman. This very endeavor, however, will be shaped by how we proceed, how we perceive our place in nature, and how we will treat the subjects of our inquiries.
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