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3.00 Credits
Africa is known as the cradle of humanity and has the longest record of "human" activity of any continent. Yet it is also the least understood in terms of its past. The discipline of anthropology has the primary field of study used to understand the development of societies and cultures of Africa. In this course, students will learn and critically apply techniques drawn from biological anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, history and linguistic anthropology for understanding the evolution of human societies within Africa, and the inter-connections between Africa and the rest of the world from the earliest times to the present era. Topics covered in the readings, lectures, practical laboratory work, and assignments will include the beginnings of cultural development (tool-making and social networks), the interactive development of agriculture, pastoralism and foraging, the rise of social complexity, urbanism and states within Africa, colonialism, and post-colonial African states.
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3.00 Credits
How do people in immigrant-receiving countries shape their attitudes toward immigrants? What are the differences between refugees and other migrants? How is immigration related to urban "immigrant riots?" And what can anthropological studies of borders and national policies tell us about the transnational world in which we live? We will examine these and related questions, and more generally the causes, lived experiences, and consequences of migration. We will acquire a sound understanding of migration in its social, political, legal, and cultural facets. Fieldwork accounts from countries of origin and from the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Japan will enable us to appreciate both global and U.S. distinctive trends. Rather than merely learning a collection of facts about immigrants, we will address how migration intersects with gender and class, the mass media, border enforcement, racism, the economy, territory and identity formation, and religion.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways people interact with digital and new media both for communication and for entertainment. Using anthropological concepts, we look into such phenomena as cell phones (for talk and text), Facebook and other social networking sites, music downloading and issues of intellectual property and creativity, e-mail, the Internet, wikis, YouTube, Twitter, censorship and political mobilization, and more. There will be class projects, group projects, blogs, and other new forms of writing, along with more traditional ways of presenting knowledge and thought.
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3.00 Credits
Taught in the Saint Mary's College Seville, Spain program through The Center for Cross-Cultural Study, Inc.
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3.00 Credits
This class explores the ethical, legal, and practical dimensions of modern archaeology through a consideration of the following topics: archaeology as a profession; archaeological ethics; the relationship between archaeology and others (the public, ethnic groups, avocational archaeologists, collectors, etc.); international and national approaches to archaeological heritage management; the antiquities market; maritime law, underwater archaeology, and treasure hunting; cultural resource management in the United States; and archaeological education.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A museum internship is available to anthropology majors and minors at the Northern Indiana Center for History (NICH), South Bend, Indiana. This internship will teach students about the array of documentary and other resources that archives curate, including issues of acquisition, conservation, proper care and handling, systems of organization and management, etc. The facility's association with an historic museum will also familiarize students with the varied constituencies served by NICH, gain experience with public education and outreach, and develop other valuable skills. The intern will work with the archivist to prepare digital versions and transcriptions of early historic records, especially those pertaining to the fur trade and the founding of South Bend. Interns will also observe and learn about the operation of an archive and a historical museum. They will also have the opportunity to conduct their own research project in conjunction with the archival work. The internship is unpaid and can be taken during either semester of the academic year. Grading will be S/U with variable credit (from 1 to 3 credits; interns are expected to commit at least 3 hours for every hour of credit given). The interns' work at the NICH will be supervised by the Mr. Scott Shuler, Archivist and a course grade will be assigned by the supervising Notre Dame professor after consultation with the archivist. Interns must provide their own transportation.
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3.00 Credits
Have you ever pondered how people live(d) in a world without television, YouTube, iPhones, Lady GaGa, and cellphones? Why have bellbottoms come and gone twice in the last 50 years? Will we be forced to relive the fashion mistakes of the 1980s? What new stuff will people invent and sell next? In asking and answering these questions, we must focus on one underlying query: What does our stuff really say about who we are and who we want to be? This course combines lectures, discussions, and interactive small group activities to explore the nature and breadth of peoples' relationships with their things. We will investigate why and how people make and use different types of objects, and how the use of these material goods resonates with peoples' identities in the deep past, recent history, and today. Since everyone in the class will already be an expert user and consumer of things, we will consider how people today use material objects to assert, remake, reclaim, and create identities, and compare today's practices to those of people who lived long ago. Class members will learn about how anthropologists, including ethnographers (studying people today) and archaeologists (studying past peoples) think about and approach the material nature of our social, economic, and political lives. We will discuss why styles and technologies change through time, and why, in the end, there is very little new under the sun in terms of human behaviors and the way people produce and consume goods. The topical breadth of this workshop encompasses most social science disciplines, including history, economics, psychology, and anthropology, and resonates with classics, art history, and gender studies.
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3.00 Credits
Four weeks of practical instruction in the methods and theory of archaeological survey, excavation and laboratory analysis. Students learn field techniques and apply them to investigations of both prehistoric and historic archaeological materials by working with artifacts collected during the field course. There are no prerequisites for this course, but prior exposure to an introductory course in anthropology or archaeology is helpful. In addition to tuition, this course requires payment of a laboratory/transportation fee. Includes a week-long cultural study in Ireland.For application please email Dr. Rotman at: drotman@nd.edu
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the cultural and historical trajectory of the archaeology of Ireland through a series of richly illustrated lectures, organized chronologically, that trace cultural, social, and technological developments from the Neolithic through the Viking period. Integrated with this lecture series, and running concurrently on alternate days, will be a series of seminar and discussion classes focused upon a number of anthropological and archaeological issues related to each of these periods of time. This includes the emergence of the unique systems of communities, and the development of systems of metallurgy in the Iron Age. Other classes will touch upon the topics of regionalism, identity and contact at different periods of time; mortuary practices and ritual; and discussion of village life in ring forts during the Bronze Age.
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3.00 Credits
Three weeks of practical instruction in the methods and theory of archaeological survey, excavation and laboratory analysis. Students learn field techniques and apply them to investigations of both prehistoric and historic archaeological materials by working with artifacts collected during the field course. In addition to the basic archaeological techniques the class will introduce modern remote sensing methods, including lessons on how to use a total station (laser transit) and equipment for magnetic and resistivity surveys. Student teams will learn how to operate the geophysical survey instruments and will use the instruments to conduct geomagnetic and soil resistivity surveys of a portion of the archaeological features present, and the field school excavations will be designed to evaluate their theories. There are no prerequisites for this course, but prior exposure to an introductory course in anthropology or archaeology is helpful. In addition to tuition, this course requires payment of a laboratory/transportation fee.
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