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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 34780
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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 34781.
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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 34782.
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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 34783.
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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 34784.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the anthropology of gender and the issue of gender and popular culture. Studying gender in cultures throughout the world, the course will cover the diversity of the cultural construction of gender. It will look at the material division of labor, power, and property between the sexes, and the idea of gender being understood as a symbolic system. Societies examined include the Aborigines, Trobriand Islanders, contemporary Morocco, and the Andean peoples of Peru and Bolivia. It looks at both at the roles of both men and women across different cultures and the recent concern with gender as one of a multiplicity of differences that upset the centrality of cultural difference in traditional anthropology. The course will also specifically look at the cultural construction of gender in contemporary 'western' society.
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3.00 Credits
Contemporary theories of development as they apply to and illuminate the problems of development in underdeveloped countries. The approach will be interdisciplinary.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural study of religion as a symbol system and its relationship to social action. Major anthropological theories as they relate to primitive and historic religions and to contemporary trends in religious expression. Cosmology and symbol systems, ritual and power, values, ecstatic religion. The individual and belief, and the relationship between religion and culture as a shared system of meaning.
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3.00 Credits
An anthropological perspective on the politics in Muslim societies, with an emphasis on the Middle East. The relationship between religion and society, especially the cultural construction of gender hierarchies within the discourses of Islam and the realities of Muslim women's lives. The articulation of the impact of modern states on gender hierarchies. This course deals with issues in the politics of gender in Muslim societies. More specifically, it focuses upon how actors use culture and religion to construct 'new' realities in the political context of these societies.
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3.00 Credits
"Interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of development as a process and as a historical phenomenon. Critical evaluation of economic, political, social and cultural technological and managerial factors that structure developmental change. "
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