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This course presents an introduction to the field of anthropology and a survey of theories concerning the biological and cultural origins, nature, and development of humankind. It offers a perspective of humankind using cultural, ecological, and archaeological perspectives to create a holistic context. Typically offered Fall semester. Three credits.
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This course pursues the genetic, evolutionary, anatomical, and physiological inheritance of Homo sapiens. Also called Biological Anthropology, the course explores Primatology, the fossil record, Pleistocene man, human evolution, variation, and behavior as the basis on which human culture is predicated. Prerequisite: AN 121. Typically offered every other Spring semester (even-numbered years). Three credits.
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Holistic, comparative approach to the study of humankind that draws on a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology to understand the nature of culture. Topics include cultural diversity and adaptive strategies, language, social persona, marriage and kinship, religious beliefs and rituals, politics, economics, art, subsistence types, social change, and issues of cross-cultural contact and cultural survival. Typically offered Spring semester. Three credits.
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The course explores a variety of non-western economic strategies employed by societies in diverse environments with varying levels of technological skills. Systems of exchange based upon reciprocity rather than profit are discussed, as well as other alternative economic systems, giving the student a sense of the plasticity of markets. The symbolic significance of money and other forms of currency are analyzed. Symbolic uses of wealth (status, prestige, power) are examined as they interarticulate with cosmology and values of differing societies. Typically offered every other Fall semester (even-numbered years). Three credits.
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This course pursues the foundations of art and aesthetics throughout the world, based on humankind’s ideational, creative, and expressive nature. This is followed by an analysis of prehistoric, tribal (primitive and modern) culture in the arts. Media from mostly non-western art are emphasized. Typically offered every other Fall semester (even-numbered years). Three credits.
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This course explores the social-cultural dimensions of humankind before written history. Archaeology is introduced as the necessary tool of uncovering humankind's past. Cultures of earliest peoples, tribals, and moderns are viewed in their ecological, social, and symbolic context. Typically offered every other Spring semester (odd-numbered years). Three credits.
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The human race belongs to the Order Primates. Primatology is the science of the description of this complex order of mammals with an eye toward a better understanding of the profound embeddedness of humanity in its animal taxon. Taxonomy, communication, social plasticity, locomotion, tool capabilities, and the contrast of field observation and laboratory experimentation are topics within the course. Typically offered every other Fall semester (odd-numbered years). Three credits.
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A study of the origins, presuppositions and phenomena of the universal imperative of religion, as a subdivision of Cultural Anthropology. Early and modern theories are related to the ecological, social, ideational adaptations of peoples of all times and places. Typically offered every other spring (even-numbered years). Three credits.
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The theorists analyzed in this class represent three of the major schools of cultural anthropological theory that arose in the 19th and 20th centuries. Theorists will include Radcliffe-Brown of the British school, Claude Levi-Strauss of the French school, and Franz Boas, the founder of American Anthropology. Topics such as cultural origins, ritual behavior, art, sport, cosmology, kinship, economy, political organization, and symbolism will be analyzed in light of each paradigm. Theories will be placed in context of their development through history, leading to contemporary anthropological perspectives. Occasional offering. Three credits.
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Biblical Archaeology is the process of correlating archeological evidence with the Biblical record in order to illuminate the Biblical text. Topics covered include the environment, material culture, social organization, chronology and events of the Syro/Palestinian/ Egyptian Middle East - the context within which the Bible took its oral and written form. Some background in anthropology/archeology and Bible studies is expected and most helpful. Typically offered every Fall semester. Three credits.
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