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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. The evolution of rural Mexico: from origins of Mesoamerican agriculture to the rise of high civilizations; from the establishment of the colonial system to the demise of colonial agricultural institutions; from the revolution of 1910 to the enactment of land reform and development programs. The role of peasantry in the making of the modern state is emphasized.
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Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing in Anthropology; consent of instructor. A study of the skills necessary for design and development of databases for anthropological and archaeological data. Covers assessing requirements for, planning, designing, and constructing databases that are easily connected to and used by database management and geographic information systems software.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing in Anthropology; consent of instructor. Provides students with a focused background in geographic information systems (GIS) theory and practical software applications for anthropology. Addresses spatial ontological concepts and showcases how they have been applied to anthropological issues around the world. Includes hands-on experience in the use of GIS and related software.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores the relationship between Western medicine and women, racial minorities, and non-Western citizens. Investigates how gender ideology, racial inequity, and colonialism shape the medical representation of bodies, sexuality, and pathology. Examines how patients have renegotiated their relationships with medicine through health movements and alternative healing practices. Cross-listed with WMST 185.
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Lecture, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. An overview of huntergatherer cultures including a survey of selected ethnographic cases with special emphasis on the relevance of the hunting-gathering way for anthropological theory. Topics will include: subsistence strategies, the organization of bands, and models for prehistoric populations.
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Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): WMST 001 or consent of instructor. Examines the field of sexuality studies using a comparative, cross-cultural approach. Emphasizes the relation between culture, history, and political economy in the emergence of sexual practices and sexualized identities. Examines theories of sexuality and identity, with particular attention to violence, human rights, and political agency. Cross-listed with WMST 103.
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Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002 or PSYC 002. Considers social organization and behavior in monkeys and apes, with emphasis on the adaptive aspects of social patterns and the relevance of primate studies to human evolution. Cross-listed with PSYC 146.
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Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Examines reproductive policies, politics, and practices from a cross-cultural and historical perspective. Discusses political and economic processes and sociocultural dynamics, population control, sex preference, infanticide and neonatal neglect, adoption and foster parenting, abortion, technologically assisted conception, and gestational surrogacy. Cross-listed with WMST 140.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; outside research, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the various meanings of gender as it is articulated in, reproduced by, and shaped within the state. Discusses gender-state relations, the engendering of politics, state functions, policy, and politics in various historical, political, cultural, and social contexts. Cross-listed with WMST 150.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): WMST 001. Examines theories of gender and kinship, the formulation of gender hierarchies and their uneven development, and the dynamics of "family" and gender in stratified social formations.Analyzes the relationship between family forms and political and economic processes. Cross-listed with WMST 149.
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