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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. Interrelations of health, disease and culture; cross-cultural comparisons of "health,""disease" and "curing" concepts; effects of culturbehavior on health and illness. Special focus on traditional societies and their belief systems, and on the effects of cultural change (historical and modern) on illness and curing.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A critical survey of recent anthropological and related research and theory concerning transnational and global sociocultural processes. Special emphasis on transnational, diasporan, and other unbounded communities; borderlands; and the impact of global media and communication and transnational migration on community and identity.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Discusses the role and contribution of Latin American and Caribbean women within their societies. The effects of national economic development policies upon their status and their participation in and integration into the policy-making process are emphasized. Cross-listed with LNST 164 and WMST 164.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. The structure of the knowledge of cultural domains; systems of knowledge in different cultures examined in the light of theories of how people learn them, store them, and use them.
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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. Examines how cancer has been perceived and described by biomedical and public health practitioners, anthropologists, and social scientists. Interdisciplinary approach focuses on the historical, political, and cultural dimensions that inform our understanding of cancer in particular and disease in general. Topics include illness narratives, risk, epidemiology, and unequal disease distribution and treatment.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): LING 020 or consent of instructor. An overview, from the original sources, of the contribution of major figures and schools in linguistics from Saussure through early Chomsky. Cross-listed with LING 167.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An overview of the Caribbean region from a historical, cultural, and political perspective. Emphasis on contemporary issues affecting the Caribbean, and the struggle of its people to maintain their identities. Cross-listed with ETST 148 and LNST 168.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; individual study, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or GBST 001 or GBST 002 or consent of instructor. An introduction to the peoples and societies of North Africa and the Middle East. Follows the travels of Ibn Battutah, Ibn Khaldun, and Rafik al Tahtawi. Topics include religion, migration, gender, political organization, the global Middle East, Orientalism, and cultural production. Cross-listed with GBST 169.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; seminar, 1 hour; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 104/BPSC 104, or consent of instructor. Introduces students to ethnobotanical research by reviewing selected ethnobotanical studies. Topics covered by lectures include fundamental principles of ethnobotany, the search for new medicines and other products made from plants, the role of humans in plant evolution, and the impact of plants on human cultures. Discussions focus on the past and present role of humans in plant conservation and the search for sustainable management practices in agriculture and forestry. Seminars by invited guests and enrolled students present selected topics in ethnobotany. Crosslisted with BPSC 170.
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4.00 - 12.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 3-6 hours; field, 3-24 hours. Prerequisite(s): either ANTH 003 or ANTH 005 and consent of instructor. Archaeological surveying and excavation, including training in site mapping, use of satellite-based Global Positioning Systems, natural resources surveying, and field laboratory techniques.
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