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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Reviews anthropological concepts and methods for students preparing for community service careers and health professions; also applies anthropological methods to contemporary health concerns of North America.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: junior/senior standing Corequisites: None Type: LEC Understanding the nature of magic and the anthropology of sorcery and witchcraft beliefs around the world and throughout history offers insights into some fundamental aspects of human belief and behavior. Considers primitive beliefs as representative of universal beliefs and as background to the course s consideration of occult interests and fears in contemporary America.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Explores the ethnography of symbolic form and process in myth and ritual. Also examines metaphor and the problem of meaning in the structuralist, dramatistic, hermeneutic, and semantic approaches of Claude Levi-Strauss, Victor Turner, Clifford Geertz, Edmund Leach, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Surveys the indigenous societies of cultures and South America, including both highland Andean and lowland Amazonian people. Provides a perspective on the prehistory, history, and contemporary situation of native South Americans, examining traditional anthropological topics as well as current political issues surrounding indigenous rights, integration into national societies, and environmental destruction.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the development of modern Latin American culture, from aboriginal southeast European and African roots; gives attention to community studies and other approaches to the study of contemporary people.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Compares religious beliefs, rituals, and organization; also considers relationships of religion to other aspects of culture and society, and religion as a dynamic system.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Surveys the contemporary religions and healing practices of Native South Americans through the ethnographies of a variety of South American groups. Explores Native South American concepts of time, space, power, order, destruction, and renewal and their manifestations in birth, initiation, healing, and death rituals. Attempts to understand different worldviews and practices that help us rethink our way of conceiving the world and our role in it.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC For those with some background in anthropology and, particularly, urban anthropology. Involves research projects formulated, planned, and carried out in the Buffalo area.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Reviews the growth of anthropology as a scientific discipline. Analyzes in detail major anthropological approaches and theories.
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM In recent decades, Europe has become a major area of investigation for cultural anthropologists. In this seminar, we ask both what an anthropological perspective can contribute to our understanding of European peoples and also what a consideration of European peoples can contribute to anthropological theory and method. Europe is not the kind of place traditionally associated with anthropology; it is not non-Western, it is not nondeveloped, it is not nonliterate, it is most certainly not without history, and perhaps most significantly, it is not the exclusive investigatory turf of anthropologists. The course focuses on issues of identity, history, and power as these shape and are shaped by social forms and local practices.
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