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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 2 hours; extra reading, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduces the historical development of anthropological thought in the United States as a manifestation of class and state formation. Clarifies various intellectual currents in contemporary anthropology and their relationships to intellectual and social developments in the broader society.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 2 hours; extra reading, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An examination of the dynamics of class and state formation. Explores the consolidation of class structures and state institutions and practices in the context of kin/civil conflict, the distortion and dissolution of nonexploitative social relations, and the constitution of gender, ethnic, and racial hierarchies. Considers ethnogenesis and the construction of state and mass cultures.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or ANTH 003 or ANTH 005; upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines alternative theories of society, change, and development, as well as the assumptions and premises on which they are based. Considers how they are used to explain capitalist development, imperialism, colonial encounters, nationalism, decolonization, socialist revolution, modernization, unequal exchange, uneven development, globalization, and postcolonialism.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Familiarizes students with the content and process of "U.S. Mexican Cultures." Stresses the manner in which Mexican populations have long survived the stresses and strains of transmigration, cultural "bumping," humanadaptation, and creating viable cultural systems of survival and expression largely within the U.S. Southwest.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An introduction to the many varied native cultures of the Greater Southwest. Major differences as well as similarities in the forms of language, social organization, religion, and material culture occurring in the Greater Southwest will be defined and described. The peoples of the Greater Southwest are considered, not only in terms of the ethnographic present, but also through a diachronic perspective, from the prehistoric past through the Spanish colonial era to the present.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. A survey of the life-ways of Indian peoples of California at the time of Euro-American contact, the history and effects of contact, and contemporary conditions.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A number of African cultures are carefully examined in terms of three or four anthropological topics, such as: subsistence patterns, social organization, and religious systems. The treatment of these cultures follows a brief overview of the geography, history, and linguistic patterns of Africa.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H, upper-division standing; or consent of instructor. Provides an overview of Andean society, past and present. Examines the colonial matrix in which Iberian and Andean social, political, and cultural forms came together. Uses ethnographies, indigenous narratives, and film about contemporary Andean society to address issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and the politics of representation.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or consent of instructor. Overview of the cultures and contemporary issues facing the people of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Examines the contribution of Oceanic studies to anthropological theories of kinship and exchange, gender, development studies, and indigenous knowledge systems. Emphasizes how Pacific Islanders draw on their cultural heritage in emerging from formal colonialism to establish new island nations.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Survey of the cultures and societies of Mexico in historical and global perspective. Emphasis on agrarian communities and the contributions of Mesoamerican ethnography to general anthropological theory.
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