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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course examines anthropological work that understands human individual and collective life to consist centrally of processes of signification, or the making and shaping of meanings. Traditions considered include structuralism, symbolic anthropology, and linguistic/semiotic anthropology (applied beyond language alone). Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines structures of interaction between tourists and communities they visit. Topics addressed include authenticity, commodification, primitivism, photography, travel writing, television, stereotypes that tourists and visited peoples hold about each other, and tourism’s links to sociocultural conditions of modernity. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course looks cross-culturally at jokes, monsters, and other actions or relations in which people make otherness central to their lives. We ask how these phenomena relate to anthropological understandings of culture as collective norms of communication and evaluation. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines societies and cultures of the Caribbean in anthropological and historical perspective. Topics include slavery, emancipation, indentureship, kinship, race, ethnicity, class, gender, politics, multiculturism, religion, music, festivals, popular culture, migration, globalization, and tourism. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Formerly known as ANRG 110.) Credit not allowed for both ANRG 110 and ANSC 110.
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2.00 Credits
A weekly forum for presentation and discussion of work in linguistic anthropology by faculty, students, and guest speakers. Note: majors may only apply eight units of approved P/NP credit toward the major, and minors may only apply four units of P/NP credit toward the minor. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the languages and cultures of speakers of the Mayan family of languages, with emphasis on linguistic structures, ethnography, and the social history of the region. The course will concentrate on linguistic and ethnographic literature of a single language or sub-branch, emphasizing commonalities with the family and region as a whole. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
A critical introduction to the study of cultural patterns of thought, action, and expression, in relation to language. Topics include semiotics and structuralism, cognition and categorization, universal vs. particulars, and ethnopoetics. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of cultural patterns of thought, action, and expression, in relation to language. We consider comparatively semiotics and structuralism, cognition and categorization, universals versus particulars, ideologies of stasis and change, cultural reconstruction, and ethnopoetics. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
The course is an introduction to a flourishing area of research that connects linguistic communication to alternate and complementary modalities—manual gesticulation, the face, the body, and aspects of the “lived environment” (spaces, tools, artifacts). Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Credit not allowed for both ANSC 119GS and ANSC 119.)
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4.00 Credits
A critical examination of research on gesture and “body language” in comparative perspective, considering cognitive, interactive, and ethnographic bases of “body language” as communication, and the relationship of gesture to speech. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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