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This course uses the anthropological approach to study schools and to understand the relationship between learning, teaching, schooling, and culture. It offers a holistic view of educational processes by exploring biological and cultural aspects of the acquisition, transmission and production of knowledge. It uses a comparative framework to analyze the connection between educational systems and socio-cultural contexts, and to explore the roles schools play as agents of continuity, conflict, and change in situations of cultural contact and in the new global order. Through field-based projects, students will apply the anthropological perspective to explore their own interests in education and to gain a first-hand understanding of the challenges and rewards of teaching in contemporary schools.
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Introduces students to the scientific study of extinct societies. Research design, site survey and excavation, data recording and interpretation, artifact identification and treatment, and cultural resource management are among the topics covered. Prerequisite: ANTH 130
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The course presents the African continent and its diverse environmental settings. Archaeological evidence from the multiple sites in eastern South Africa is employed to address human and cultural evolution theories and implications. Evidence for ancient civilizations, permanent settlements, beginnings of farming, and local iron-smelting technology is critically addressed.
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This course explores the nature of culture and the various ways in which anthropologists study, understand, and explain cultural phenomena. Students will gain familiarity with diverse cultural theories and methods by examining anthropological literature on selected topics and conducting brief ethnographic and comparative projects. While developing skills typically associated with Cultural Anthropology, students will learn of the forces that shape human experience and of the value of the anthropological approach in addressing contemporary human problems around the globe. Prerequisite: ANTH 130
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Words are at the center of the human experience. This course focuses on the uniquely human capacity to use language. Students explore topics including the evolutionary roots of language, the historical development and diffusion of languages past and present, and the diverse and universal elements of language structure. Students also engage in an ethnographically oriented study of language as a social phenomenon and the fundamental relationship that exists between language, society, thought, and culture. Prerequisite: ANTH 130
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Visual anthropology examines image, behavior, and society in an holistic context.
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Exploration of individual and cultural behavior from the perspective of evolutionary biology and the human fossil record. Anthropology 163
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Examines sex and taboo from a cross-cultural perspective. Focuses on how and why sex differences, sexual behavior, and attitudes about sex vary from culture to culture.
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Examines myths as providers of introspective patterns of moral values, social order, customs, and religious beliefs. Traditional folklore (stories, riddles, songs) and modern folklore (mass media, urban cultures) are examined.
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This course is designed as an introduction to everyday life and popular culture in South Asia, a region that includes the nation-states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Maldives. The course examines key anthropological concepts and debates from South Asian material to inquire into the nature of modernity. Some of the themes that will be addressed include changing institutions of family and kinship, castes and communities, urban spaces and global cities, religions in practice, the media revolution and youth, and challenges to modernity emerging from the violence of development, gender/sexuality, caste, globalization, and communalism. Prerequisite: ANTH 130 or ASN 201 or ASN 280
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