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1.00 Credits
(same as Classics 302) Topic for 2008/09b: An Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics. Mr. A. Mercado.
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An examination of such topics as primate structure and behavior, the Plio-Pleistocene hominids, the final evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens, forensic anthropology, and human biological diversity. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Prerequisite: Anthropology 232 or by permission of the instructor. Topic for 2008/09: Plio-Pleistocene Hominids. At some point during the Pliocene Epoch, the hominids split into branches which became today's humans, chimpanzees and gorillas. We begin by examining the early hominids and the paleo-ecological and behavioral factors which influenced this evolutionary event and then move to examining the subsequent evolutionary path of the hominins. Major focus is on the australopithecines and early homos, the theoretical and political bases and ramifications of various taxonomic schemes and the technicalities of hominid phylogeny. Ms. Johnson.
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The theoretical underpinnings of anthropological archaeology and the use of theory in studying particular bodies of data. The focus ranges from examination of published data covering topics such as architecture and society, the origin of complex society, the relationship between technology and ecology to more laboratory-oriented examination of such topics as archaeometry, archaeozoology, or lithic technology. Prerequisites: 200-level work in archaeology or by permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Topic for 2008/09b: Technology, Ecology and Society. ( Same as Science, Technology and Society 331) Examines the interactions between human beings and their environment as mediated by technology focusing on the period from the earliest evidence of toolmaking approximately up to the Industrial Revolution. Student research projects often bring the course up to the present. Includes experimentation with primitive technologies and field trips to local markets and craft workshops. Ms. Johnson. 3 hour class; 2 hour lab.
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This seminar provides the advanced student with an intensive investigation of theoretical and practical problems in specific areas of research that relate language and linguistics to expressive activity. Although emphasizing linguistic modes of analysis and argumentation, the course is situated at the intersection of important intellectual crosscurrents in the arts, humanities, and social sciences that focus on how culture is produced and projected through not only verbal, but also musical, material, kinaesthetic, and dramatic arts. Each topic culminates in independent research projects. May be repeated for credit if the topic has changed. Prerequisite: previous coursework in linguistics or by permission of instructor. Topic for 2008/09a: Indigenous Literatures of the Americas. ( Same as Latin American and Latino/a Studies 351) This course considers a selection of creation narratives, historical accounts, poems, and other genres produced by indigenous authors from Pre-Columbian times to the present, using historical, linguistic and ethnographic approaches. We examine the use of non-alphabetic and alphabetic writing systems, study poetic and rhetorical devices, and examine indigenous historical consciousness and sociopolitical and gender dynamics through the vantage point of these works. Other topics include language revitalization, translation issues, and the rapport between linguistic structure and literary form. The languages and specific works to be examined are selected in consultation with course participants; they may include English translations of works in Nahuatl, Yucatec and Quiché Maya, Quechua, Inuit, and/or other American indigenous languages. Mr. Tavárez. Topic for 2008/09b: Advanced Topics in Sociolinguistics: Plurilingualism. One of the quintessential empirical objects in linguistic anthropology is the relationship between language contact and the constitution of human groups. This seminar is an intensive examination of contact linguistics, code-switching, and the ethnography of multilingualism. Several languages are examined with an emphasis on Spanish-English contact in the US. Students learn how to analyze naturally occurring speech in plurilingual contexts through their own ethnographic participant-observation and transcript analysis. Topics include (but are not limited to): youth language, code-switching, sociolinguistic methods, English-only debate, US dialects, Spanglish, and language policy and politics. Mr. S. Mercado.
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Covers a variety of current issues in modern anthropology in terms of ongoing discussion among scholars of diverse opinions rather than a rigid body of fact and theory. The department. May be repeated for credit if topic has changed. Prerequisites: Previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Topic for 2008/09a: Diaspora and Migration. Using theory, ethnography, film, and music, this course highlights aspects of globalization that have put waves of people, information, ideas and money on the move, paying specific attention to diaspora and migration. Theories of globalization, diaspora, and transnationalism help students better understand why and when peoples move in and across state boundaries, and analyze the push and pull factors influencing movements from the South to North, and from East to West and vice versa. Ethnographies help students visualize how such flows are experienced locally, and how "culture" is continually made in and through movement and as a consequence of contact. The question that animates and organizes our inquiries is: How do global flows of human interaction challenge or substantiate our understandings of constructs such as "culture," "race," and "nation-state" Ms.
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An examination of classic and recent work on the culture of consumption. Among the topics we study are gender and consumption, the creation of value, commodity fetishism, the history of the department store, and the effect of Western goods on non-Western societies. Ms. Goldstein. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor.
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This seminar examines the influence of culture on two categories of difference that are presumed to be natural: race and gender. The course explores the contributions of anthropologists to understandings of race and gender by focusing on related debates, public policies, and medical discourses, as well as how the content and form of these distinctions vary across space and time. Using ethnographies, various theoretical perspectives, historical documents and films, we think critically about how, when, and towards what ends race and gender are deployed, and about the relationship between these constructs. Attention is also given to the related concepts of ethnicity and sexuality. Ms. Lowe. Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as International Studies 363) How do conditions of globalization and dilemmas of post-coloniality challenge the nation-state Do they also reinforce and reinvent it This course engages three related topics and literatures; recent anthropology of the nation-state; the anthropology of colonial and post-colonial societies; and the anthropology of global institutions and global flows. Ms. Kaplan. Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor.
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Recreational travel to distant places to experience other cultures is becoming big business as tourism achieves the status of one of the leading growth industries world-wide. This course explores this trend, emphasizing the history of tourism, the role played by and the impact of tourism in the process of development, the relationship between tourism and constructions of national and cultural identities and negotiations for power, and the concept "tourist" as it applies to the experience of recreational travelers and ethnographic study and representation alike. Students use ethnographic case studies, novels, essays, historical travel journals, travel brochures, advertisements, and personal narratives, to prepare in-depth analyses and accounts of tourism. Ms. Cohen.Prerequisite: previous coursework in Anthropology or by permission of instructor. Not offered in 2008/09.
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3.00 Credits
Individual or group project of reading or research. May be elected during the college year or during the summer. The department.
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