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This course introduces current and historical debates in the study of human evolution. Primate studies, genetics, the fossil record and paleoecology are drawn upon to address such issues as the origins and nature of human cognition, sexuality, and population variation. Ms. Johnson.
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An introduction to central concepts, methods, and findings in cultural anthropology, including culture, cultural difference, the interpretation of culture, and participant-observation. The course uses cross-cultural comparison to question scholarly and commonsense understandings of human nature. Topics may include sexuality, kinship, political and economic systems, myth, ritual and cosmology, and culturally varied ways of constructing race, gender, and ethnicity. Students undertake small research projects and explore different styles of ethnographic writing. Ms. Varghese, Ms. Kaplan.
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This course provides the student with a practical introduction to structuralist methods of linguistic analysis. There is a focus on both theoretical discussions about, and practical exercises in, the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of natural human languages. Additional topics include: the acquisition of linguistic and communicative competence; the relationship between human language and other animal communication systems; and cultural and social dimensions of language variation (including the study of regional and social dialects, code switching and mixing, speaking styles, registers, and idiolects). The course is intended both as the College's general introduction to formal linguistics and as a foundation for more advanced courses in related areas. Mr. Tavárez, Mr. S. Mercado.
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This course provides the student with an introduction to anthropology through a focus on a particular issue or aspect of human experience. Topics vary, but may include Anthropology through Film, American Popular Culture, Extinctions, Peoples of the World. The department. Open only to freshmen. Satisfies requirement for a Freshmen Writing Seminar. Not offered 2008/09.
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In this course we explore the history of intellectual innovations that make anthropology distinctive among the social sciences. We seek to achieve an analytic perspective on the history of the discipline and also to consider the social and political contexts, and consequences, of anthropology's theory. While the course is historical and chronological in organization, we read major theoretical and ethnographic works that form the background to debates and issues in contemporary anthropology. Ms. Kaplan. Prerequisite or co-requisite: Anthropology 140.
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1.00 Credits
(Same as Music 212)
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1.00 Credits
An examination of topics of interest in current archaeological analysis. We examine the anthropological reasons for such analyses, how analysis proceeds, what has been discovered to date through such analyses, and what the future of the topic seems to be. Possible topics include tools and human behavior, lithic technology, the archaeology of death, prehistoric settlement systems, origins of material culture. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Prerequisite: prior coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Topic for 2008/09a: Field Archaeology. In this course students learn archaeological survey, excavation, and analytical techniques through working on a local archaeological site. Survey methods include both surface survey and mapping with an Electronic Total Station. We also perform test excavations both to ground test our results and to date the features encountered. Lectures and readings provide students a basic understanding of the archaeology of New York State and the theories that drive its study. In 2008 we continue our fieldwork on the Shawangunk Ridge. Ms. Johnson. Special Permission. Friday 8:30-5:30, weather permitting. When the weather is inclement, we work in the lab from 9:00 a.m. until the collections have been processed.
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1.00 Credits
This course covers topics within the broad field of biological (or physical) anthropology ranging from evolutionary theory to the human fossil record to the identification of human skeletal remains from crime scenes and accidents. Bioanthropology conceptualizes cultural behavior as an integral part of our behavior as a species. Topics covered in this course may include human evolution, primate behavior, population genetics, human demography and variation, or forensic anthropology. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Prerequisite: prior coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Not Offered in 2008/09.
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1.00 Credits
This course is a detailed, intensive investigation of archaeological remains from a particular geographic region of the world. The area investigated varies from year to year and includes such areas as Eurasia, North America, and the native civilizations of Central and South America. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Prerequisites: Prior coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Not Offered in 2008/09.
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Detailed study of the cultures of people living in a particular area of the world, including their politics, economy, world view, religion, expressive practices, and historical transformations. Included is a critical assessment of different approaches to the study of culture. Areas covered vary from year to year and may include Europe, Africa, North America, and India. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Topic for 2008/09a: The Indian Ocean. This course is an introduction to the multiple cultures and peoples of the Indian Ocean. Using historical works, ethnographies, novels and film, we explore the complex trade networks and historical processes that have shaped the contemporary economies, cultures, and social problems of the region. Although the course concentrates on the southwest Indian Ocean, we approach the region as a cultural, economic, and political sphere whose various regions were closely interconnected. Topics include: colonialism, labor and trade migrations, religion, race, gender, and creolization. Ms. Lowe. Topic for 2008/09a: Envisioning Europe. Mr. Mercado. Topics for 2008/09b: Anthropology of the United States. This course turns a lens on anthropology within and of the United States. We consider the history of the discipline as one that studied the "other" and what it then means when it is used to study the United States. First, we explore the American tradition in Anthropology to examine who was identified as an appropriate anthropological subject in the United States. In this section, we consider the ways that this project both challenged and shored up racial and ethnic hierarchies. Second, we read recent anthropological work that is based in the United States to understand how concepts earlier used to understand the ethnographic other have been used /can be used/ to understand ourselves. Throughout the course, particular attention is given to how the United States is constructed as a nation through the anthropological project. Ms. Varghese. Mesoamerican Worlds. ( Same as Latin American and Latino/a Studies 240) An intensive survey of the culture, history, and politics of several neighboring indigenous societies that have deep historical and social ties to territory now located in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. This course explores the emergence of powerful Mesoamerican states with a cosmology tied to warfare and human sacrifice, the reconfiguration of these societies under the twin burdens of Christianity and colonial rule, and the strategies that some of these communities adopted in order to preserve local notions of identity, and to cope with or resist incorporation into nation-states. The course also introduces students to a selection of historical and religious texts produced by indigenous authors. After a consideration of socio-religious hierarchies, and writing and calendrical systems in Precolumbian Mesoamerica, the course focuses on adaptations resulting from interaction with an evolving colonial order. The course also investigates the relations between native communities and the Mexican and Guatemalan states, and examines the representation of indigenous identities, the rapport among environmental policies, globalization, and local agricultural practices, and indigenous autonomy in the wake of the EZLN rebellion. Students proficient in Spanish will be encouraged to use original sources for course projects. Mr. Tavárez.
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