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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines the history and culture of both mainland and island Southeast Asia, emphasizing kinship, religion, and political systems, as well as art forms.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Uses an ecological and cultural perspective to study human disease, stress, and adaptation. Topics covered include the ecology and epidemiology of disease; genetic, physiological, and cultural adaptation; nutrition; stress; culture change; and health repercussions of economic development and modernization. While the course is more ecological than ethnomedical, there are supplementary readings and films on ethnomedical use of hallucinogens and altered states of consciousness, as well as cooperation between indigenous healers and biomedically trained personnel.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Cross-cultural survey of beliefs and practices relating to health, illness, and treatment. Emphasizes understanding the cultural and social foundations of ethnomedical systems, including ethnomedical systems in the United States. Examines contemporary biomedicine as a cultural system.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Topics vary. May be taken more than once for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces anthropological thought on peasants and peasantries in complex society, including the nature of peasant communities, relations between peasants and non-peasants, agrarian/peasant movements, and depeasantization.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: permission of instructor Corequisites: None Type: LEC Involves field exploration of some of the most important cities of the ancient Maya. Together with the instructor, students visit the vast and mysterious ruins of ancient Maya: Tikal, Iximiché (Guatemala), Copan (Honduras), Tulum, Cobá, Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Labná, Kabáh, Sayil, Dzibilchaltún, and Edzná (Mexico). Students meet and discuss recent investigations at these sites with Mexican and North American archaeologists who work in the Maya area. Important museums in Guatemala and Mérida are also visited, along with contemporary Maya communities. The overseas portion of this course lasts approximately two weeks and is conducted in January, before the beginning of spring se
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM A first-level step-by-step introduction to research, which involves coming up with a question, background reading, methods design, data collection, and data analysis. The course is open to anyone with an interest in learning how to do research. Fulfills the practicum requirement for anthropology majors.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Studies systems of social organization throughout the animal kingdom; general principles of social behavior that may have relevance to humans.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Involves an overview of ways research on the social development of animals contributes to current approaches to the study of early human social development.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Social scientific, psychological, and psychiatric materials on normal and abnormal behavior in a variety of cultural settings; social and cultural change and personality; group functioning; forms of deviancy.
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