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  • ANTH 45856: Pottery in Archaeology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    In many archaeological sites, pottery is the most common type of artifact recovered. The analysis and interpretation of ceramic remains allow archaeologists to accomplish several goals: establish a chronological sequence, track interaction between different areas, and suggest what types of activities people may have conducted at the site. This course will focus on the ways that archaeologists bridge the gap between the analysis and the interpretation of ceramic data.
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  • ANTH 45857: Archaeological Materials Analysis: Lithic Technology

    4.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Prehistoric stone tools represent the oldest form of human technology. Much of human prehistory worldwide and throughout ancient times is decipherable primarily through stone tools. Experimental replication of stone technologies is viewed as an essential method to understanding past technologies. Organized as a series of practical laboratory exercises, in this class we deal with a broad survey of the fundamental concepts of stone tool technology, including mechanical properties of tool stone, stone heat treatment, prehistoric quarrying and mining strategies and elementary concepts of flaking stone. Students gain familiarity with these topics in a laboratory context by participating in flint knapping practice and working intensively with several archaeological collections. In addition to the laboratory exercises, students will present the results of a team project based on hands-on manufacture of tools, or analysis of materials from archaeological collections.
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  • ANTH 45858: Archaeological Field School

    6.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Six 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.
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  • ANTH 45860: Food and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    All humans eat, but the variations in what, how, and why we eat are dazzling. This course examines the many roles that food played in a variety of cultures. We consider food choices and taboos, religious and symbolic meanings of food, dining and social interactions, obesity and thinness, and the political and industrial issues of fast food and the slow food movement. There will be practical and field studies associated with the course.
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  • ANTH 45862: Anthropology of Emotion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Do people within different cultural and historical contexts "feel" in the same ways? Are the emotions we recognize universal, or are they learned? How has language shaped the way we define and think about emotions, and what role do these ideas play in shaping our thinking about personhood and gender, our perceptions of the body, and our experiences of health and illness? This course addresses these questions by surveying the most important anthropological, historical, and psychological approaches to the study of emotion. We will also think about affect as that quality or state which exceeds or escapes being captured by categories, including nameable "emotions," and which can never quite be completely controlled. The course will conclude with specific ethnographic and historical case studies, including examinations of love, anger, jealousy, sympathy, and shame. Course requirements include active class participation, several short exercises in methods, presentations, a midterm exam, and a final research paper on a course-related topic of each student's choice.
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  • ANTH 45865: Anthropology of Childhood and Education

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Concepts of human growth vary extraordinarily across time and space. When children become full-fledged persons, when they can reason, when or whether they should be independent from their parents, and how all this happens are variable and illuminating. Education - either formal or informal - reflects and also constitutes a society's view of childhood. This course provides a selective cross-cultural survey of childhood and education, looking at stages from pregnancy and infancy to late adolescence. Students will devise and conduct projects of their own.
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  • ANTH 45870: Terrorism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Looking at terrorism through the anthropological lens means studying violent actors close up and face-to-face. It also means exploring the culture of counter-terrorism, with its own discourse, belief system, and rituals. This course questions basic assumptions of the "war on terror," using ethnographic literature to challenge conceptions and policies on terrorism today. Is "terrorism" in fact a definable term? How can we use the experience-near methods of anthropology to study people cognitively and politically placed as irretrievably distant? Differences among terrorism, crime, and revolution are explored through examination of specific cases. Building peace in a climate of violence is the ultimate aim of our study.
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  • ANTH 45875: Anthropology of Poverty

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    What is poverty? What does it mean to be poor, destitute and powerless? Does poverty in the developed world refer to the same conditions and factors that determine poverty in developing and undeveloped countries? What does genteel poverty mean? Does the ability to possess material goods and to consume indicate lack of poverty? What is the cycle of poverty? Can one break out of it? This course will address these and other questions on poverty through anthropological analysis. The course is divided into two parts: a) poverty in the pre-industrial era, and b) poverty in contemporary societies. Topics covered in the first part include the beginnings of poverty and social inequality in the earliest complex urban societies of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, urbanism, production, distribution and poverty in various time periods including classical Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, and slavery, colonialism and poverty. The second part will address issues such as the relationship between industrialism, colonialism and poverty in 19th and 20th centuries, instituted poverty in post-colonial and post-industrial societies, and global manifestations of poverty in the 21st century. The course materials include readings from anthropology (archaeology, cultural anthropology, and biological anthropology), history, economics, theology, political science, as well as documentaries and films.
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  • ANTH 46100: Directed Readings in Biological Anthropology

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Intensive independent readings on a special problem area in biological anthropology about which the student will be expected to produce a detailed annotated bibliography and write a scholarly paper.
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  • ANTH 46200: Directed Readings - Medical Anthropology

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Intensive independent readings on a special problem area in medical anthropology about which the student will be expected to produce a detailed annotated bibliography and write a scholarly paper.
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