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ANTH G4148: Human Skeletal Biology II
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
Recommended for archaeology and physical anthropology students, pre-meds, and biology majors interested in the human skeletal system. Intensive study of human skeletal materials using anatomical and anthropological landmarks to assess sex, age, and ethnicity of bones. Other primate skeletal materials and fossil casts used for comparative study (Enrollment limit 12 and Instructor's Permission required)
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ANTH V1002: The Interpretation of Culture
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
The anthropological approach to the study of culture and human society. Case studies from ethnography are used in exploring the universality of cultural categories (social organization, economy, law, belief system, art, etc.) and the range of variation among human societies. Discussion Section Required.
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ANTH V1007: The Origins of Human Society
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
An archaeological perspective on the evolution of human social life from the first bipedal step of our ape ancestors to the establishment of large sedentary villages. While traversing six million years and six continents, our explorations will lead us to consider such major issues as the development of human sexuality, the origin of language, the birth of "art" and religion, the domestication of plants and animals, and the foundations of social inequality. Designed for anyone who happens to be human.
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ANTH V1008: The Rise of Civilization
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
The rise of major civilization in prehistory and protohistory throughout the world, from the initial appearance of sedentism, agriculture, and social stratification through the emergence of the archaic empires. Description and analysis of a range of regions that were centers of significant cultural development: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River Valley, China, North America, Mesoamerica. Lab Required. Global Core.
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ANTH V1130: Africa and the Anthropologist
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
Students are expected to write and submit three literature reviews (5-7 pages each) and one research paper (approx. 20 pages). The literature reviews will cover the readings and materials discussed in class. The research essay will require reading beyond the syllabus and for the student to create their own research question based on what they have learnt in the course. Global Core.
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ANTH V2004: Introduction to Social and Cultural Theory
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
Introduces students to crucial theories of society, paying particular attention to classic social theory of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Traces a trajectory through writings essential for an understanding of the social: from Saussure, Durkheim, Mauss, Marx, Freud, and Weber, on to the structuralist ethnographic elaboration of Claude Levi-Strauss, the historiographic reflections on modernity of Michel Foucault, and contemporary modes of socio-cultural analysis. Explored are questions of signification at the heart of anthropological inquiry, and to the historical contexts informing these questions. Discussion Section Required.
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ANTH V2005: The Ethnographic Imagination
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
Introduction to the theory and practice of ethnography the intensive study of peoples lives as shaped by social relations, cultural images, and historical forces. Considers through critical reading of various kinds of texts (classic ethnographies, histories, journalism, novels, films) the ways in which understanding, interpreting, and representing the lived words of people at home or abroad, in one place or transnationally, in the past or the present can be accomplished. Discussion Section Required.
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ANTH V2010: Major Debates in the Study of Africa
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
This course will focus on key debates that have shaped the study of Africa in the postcolonial African academy. We will cover six key debates (a) history before external impact; (b) agency and responsibility in different kinds of slave trade; (c) State Formation (conquest, slavery, colonialism); (d) underdevelopment (colonialism and globalization); (e) nationalism and the anti-colonial struggle; (f) pan-Africanism and globalization. The approach will be multidisciplinary and readings will be illustrative of different sides in the debate. Global Core.
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ANTH V2013: Africa in the 21st Century: Aesthetics, Culture, Politics
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
This course explores the relationship between indigenous and twenty-first century aesthetics, social, economic and political relationships in Africa. Students will be encouraged to examine aesthetic traditions in terms of the individual and social aspirations they embody, commerce through the geographies of exchange that articulate with specific resources, and politics through the diverse modes of sociality that prevail in different regions. Global Core.
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ANTH V2016: Gendered Migration in Transnational Asia
3.00 Credits
Columbia University in the City of New York
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