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3.00 Credits
The location of Notre Dame's Fremantle campus in Western Australia's famous port city abides well for this subject that explores the archaeology of maritime societies and industries. It examines the range of underwater and terrestrial archaeology resources available, including shipwrecks and their contents, submerged settlements, Indigenous maritime sites, evidence for past trade, defence and navigation networks, as well as canals and sites on inland waters. Various techniques for archaeological, documentary and ethnographic research on maritime themes are reviewed. In particular, the notion "maritime landscapes" - using Western Australian maritime sites - is considered as a means of investigation and interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will familiarize students with the characteristics of contemporary New Zealand and help gain a sense of the way that social issues, social policy and social justice is reflected, informed, and articulated in the social dynamics of modern life in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It offers an opportunity to map the relatively rapid social changes that New Zealand has experienced and to explore how life in New Zealand is inflected by class, ethnicity and gender. To look at the present and future of Aotearoa New Zealand it is important to first have a sense of the history both in terms of Maori settlement and the later settler history and indeed the legacy of both. Given the importance of the Treaty of Waitangi in contemporary political, economic and social life this will also be looked at. To better capture some of the distinctive features of New Zealand there will be some focus on current public policy and debate around "targeted groups" (largely Maori and Pacific peoples).
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the field of psychological anthropology. Psychological anthropology seeks to understand the relations between personal and sociocultural phenomena - between such things as individual behavior, on the one hand, and society and culture, on the other. This course is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the study of culture and personality. This school of psychological anthropological research draws extensively on Freudian models of personality, looking at such issues as culturally constituted defense mechanisms, child-rearing practices, psychological functions of religion, and the like. The second part of the course shifts the focus to cognition and culture, examines the formation of perceptions, thought, self, and emotion. The last part is composed of three case studies.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to an anthropological perspective to Chinese culture and society. The course will focus on differences among the Chinese, fundamental structures and values at the core of Chinese cultural traditions, and contemporary transformations under the impacts of both China's socialist state and the global capitalism. The aim of this course is to help students think about what it means to be Chinese and how basic building blocks of culture may or may not evolve in time. Through our discussions, students are encouraged to critically think about taken-for-granted concepts of China, Chinese culture, society, and people.
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3.00 Credits
Basic structure of contemporary societies and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, with special emphasis on the Arab population. Problems of ecology, economics, social organization, law and politics, religion, and patterns of social change.
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3.00 Credits
A history of the discipline, focusing on the principle currents of thought contributing to the ongoing revision of theoretical and methodological paradigms with which we approach human realities. The latter portion of the course will address the themes of multiculturalism and the politics of culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an overview of the major developments contributing to the formation, growth, and co-existence of the principal communities that occupy the contemporary Middle East. In addition to providing general historical background, amounting to a general survey of the emergence and spread of the region's three great monotheistic traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, attention will focus on the economic structures, the political institutions, the social dynamics, and the cultural patterns that mark significant epochs and locations. The role of religion as an integral component of legal, intellectual, moral, and spiritual life will also be examined from multiple perspectives. With respect to time frames, emphasis will be placed on the modern period, leading up to the twentieth century formation of nation-states and extending up to the present day. Readings, discussions, guest lectures, and field excursions will include direct engagement with exemplary cases of relevant topics and reflecting contested points of view. Combining anthropological inquiry with approaches from several other disciplines, the course concludes with a supervised capstone project on a related topic which each student chooses according to their own interests.
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3.00 Credits
The broad and varied region that includes the modern nations of Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, as well as portions of Egypt and Iraq forms a composite of geography and culture that reflects a continuous succession of civilizations dating from the beginnings of agriculture and the rise of cities. This area also represents the site of origin for the world's three great monotheistic religions. The early cultural patterns of this substratum have recently been studied with exponential increases in understanding due to the introduction of systematic archaeological techniques and the monumental advances in the decipherment of ancient languages. This course examines the foundations and the subsequent development of these complex societies while attending to a number of prominent issues in the field of Near Eastern archaeology with an emphasis on the implications of these discoveries for knowledge based on historic written sources, such as the Bible, hieroglyphic and cuneiform evidence. In addition, this course examines the social and culture dynamics of many contemporary peoples who occupy this region, including Arabs, Israelis, Kurds, Berbers, and Turkic groups. Attention is focused on their social order, economic structure, political functions, and artistic expression as well as religious belief and practice. The different ecological adaptations and the impact of modern ideas and technologies on these societies will also be discussed. In addition to lectures and readings expounding the ethnographic, historical, and religious features, site visits, field excursions, and direct contacts with representatives of these different communities will form an important aspect of the syllabus.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines issues of race, class, and gender in Brazil, with emphasis on the Northeastern region, one of the most culturally diverse regions in the Americas. Focus is on Afro-Brazilians, and a profound analysis is made of the historical, political, and cultural realities of Blacks and other ethnic groups in Brazilian society.
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