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3.00 Credits
This paper examines the human species in a broad comparative perspective with two themes. The first is the extent to which humans share their biology and behavior with other animals, especially primates. The second perspective is concerned with comparisons between humans and the rest of the biological world in terms of similarities, differences, and uniquenesses. Material will be drawn from genetics, morphology, and socio-ecology. Companion course to ANTH 44100.
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3.00 Credits
This paper looks at the evolution of the human species from its origins among the great apes, to the evolution of modern humans, and the diversity that has taken place in the course of the last 10,000 years, leading to the processes of modernization. Material will be drawn from the fossil record, archaeology, genetics, and human population biology and ecology. Companion course to ANTH 44101.
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3.00 Credits
This paper looks at human biology and behavior from the perspective of development and ontogeny. From conception to death, human undergo a process of development that is shaped by both genes and environment. The patterns of such development can be framed in terms of life history theory, the role of nutrition, and the interactions between demography and threats to life such as disease, and the way in which reproduction is integrated into the lifespan. Companion course to ANTH 44102.
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3.00 Credits
The aim of the course is to explore aspects of human life cycles and their diversity from the perspective of life history theory, which interprets components of the life cycle such as gestation, growth and senescence as adaptations moulded by natural selection. Using mammals and primates as a comparative basis, the course discusses possible explanations for the unique features of human life history such as slow growth, large brain, extended longevity, as well as the origins and evolution of these traits in human ancestors: from Australopithecines to neanderthals. The course also explores the diversification of life history traits according to new selective pressures, after the origin of modern humans. Companion course to ANTH 44103
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3.00 Credits
Short of inventing a time machine, we can never know directly the origins of cultural evolution in our ancestors, but indirectly we can study our nearest living relations as models. Against a background of non-primate (cetaceans, birds) culture, we can look at its breadth (extent across taxa) and depth (complexity) in apes and monkeys. We will focus on the what (phenomenology), when (archaeology), who (especially macaques, capuchins, and great apes), how (transmission mechanisms), and why (adaptation) of cultural primatology in nature and in captivity, by observation and experimentation. Companion course to ANTH 44104.
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3.00 Credits
This course will give students an understanding of primate social systems and the factors that influence their maintenance and evolution. The course will begin with a brief overview of primate natural history (taxonomy of major primate groups and primate evolution). The remainder of the course will use various primate examples to explore the core topics of primate behavior and ecology, including: diet and nutrition, predation, social structure, kinship, mating behavior, social dominance, and cognition. Students will also have the opportunity to learn some of the basic data collection techniques used when studying non-human primate behavior.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the field of medical anthropology. Medical anthropology examines beliefs, practices, and experiences of illness, health, and healing from a cross-cultural perspective to show that illness, health, medicine, and the body are shaped by social relationships and cultural values from the local level of the family and community to the global level of international development and transnational capitalism. This course will consider the ways in which medical anthropology has historically been influenced by debates within the discipline of anthropology as well as by broader social and political movements. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of viewing biomedicine as one among many culturally constructed systems of medicine. Some of the key issues which we will explore are: medical pluralism and therapeutic choice; biocultural studies; medicalization; the political economy of health and disease; the anthropology of the body; the role of medicine and disease in colonialism and postcolonial movements; and applied medical anthropology.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on social science approaches to sickness and healing. The medical encounter is examined from anthropological perspectives. The course emphasizes the difficulties traditional biomedicine has in addressing patients' expectations for care. Students serve an internship as patient ombudsman in a local hospital emergency room four hours per week. Students MUST have access to transportation to participate in the ER internships. Students are required to sign a waiver, to present evidence of immunizations, and to receive a TB skin test.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes contemporary patterns of globalization drawing on recent ethnographies. We will briefly overview the historical antecedents of globalization, and then proceed to analyze globalization's cultural, socio-political, and economic complexity, often resulting in urbanization. In particular, we will tackle the global circulation of food, entertainment, fashion, capital, ideologies, violence, religious practice, migrant/trafficked labor, and even so-called "anti-globalization" movements. Examples of specific topics include youth and free trade in Latin America; cyber-politics among transnational Chinese, Eritreans, and others; McDonald's and consumerism in Moscow; Indian cinema and global media; outsourcing and the labor market. By locating global processes in everyday practice, including in our own communities, we will come to understand the interconnectivity sustaining globalization, and the resulting practices of resistance. More broadly, we will appreciate on the one hand how various cultures and societies become increasingly interconnected, and on the other how people around the world appropriate large-scale processes in culturally specific ways. The course emphasizes anthropology's role as a discipline that is globally relevant and publicly "engaged." Accordingly, we will focus on the discipline's methodological and theoretical contributions in the study of globalization and its inequalities, and toward a more socially just world. The course will enable you to participate in community-based-learning, orienting and equipping you to design and implement an original research project, and to write an ethnographic account based on such project.
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