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3.00 Credits
The study of human skeletal remains from contexts with legal implications - crimes, unexplained deaths, mass disasters, etc. The fundamental questions of human identification (age at death, sex, ancestry, and living stature), other characteristics used to identify people, estimating time since death, cause and manner of death, and the limitations of methods used in these investigations. Legal and ethical considerations are examined. Emphasis on case studies and laboratory analysis. (Limited to 15 students.) Prerequisite: 201 or 202 or consent of instructor; Statistics suggested. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Social structure and behavior of various non-human primates. Contrasts made between behavior as free-living forms in natural habitats and in captivity. Physiological characteristics and environmental adjustments of primates explored. Inferences about social life of earliest humans made from behavior of contemporary non-human primates. Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 or consent of instructor, statistics recommended. 1 unit - Fish.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the role of museums as educational institutions in preserving and presenting cultural products and heritages. Emphasis on the interpretation of material culture and the presentation of the cultures of the Southwest. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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Problems on the frontier of anthropology or on the frontiers between anthropology and other disciplines. Examples may be primitive government or religion, cognition, folklore, cultural ecology. Block 4: Topics in Anthropology: Medical Anthropology. Focuses on the study of health and illness in a cross-cultural and evolutionary context. Topics include the definitions of "normality" and "abnormality" in various cultures; how individuals and communities experience, explain, diagnose, and treat illness; the relationship between patient and healer; the variety of belief systems and healing (including religiously based healing, psychiatry, shamanism, alternative health care, and biomedicine); and the use of multiple systems for healing (medical pluralism). The primary objective of the course is to sensitize the student to the cultural embeddedness of health, illness, and healing (including the political economy of health care) so that accurate assessments and interventions can be planned and implemented. The course will have a strong applied focus - using case studies to examine successful and less successful interventions and health programs. Valuable course for anyone considering a career in the health fields or social work. 1 unit - Scandlyn.
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3.00 Credits
Problems on the frontier of anthropology or on the frontiers between anthropology and other disciplines. Examples may be primitive government or religion, cognition, folklore, cultural ecology. Block 5: Topics in Anthropology: Language and Power. Examines how language, language use, and speech styles create and maintain social identities and relations of inequality as well as how they may challenge, undo, or remake them. Issues may include ways that language is used to enact particular relationships among speakers; how attitudes about languages or ways of speaking are implicated in wider social discourses about power and identity; how languages and ways of speaking express and encapsulate particular ideologies or social realities. Material is drawn from a variety of societies around the world, ranging from small communities and cultural groups to large complex societies. Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 or 102 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Jacobson.
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3.00 Credits
The intellectual history of sociocultural anthropology will form the foundation of this course. It will discuss the ideas and intellectuals who contributed to the development of anthropology as a scholarly discipline and will consider the following theoretical perspectives: evolutionism, functionalism, historical particularism, cultural materialism, and interpretive approaches. Also, it will examine field research strategies that shaped anthropology. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Montano.
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1.00 Credits
Focuses on a single topic examined from the perspective of multiple subfields of anthropology, including, but not limited to violence; warfare; domestication; evolution; expressive culture; gender, race and ethnicity; social complexity or globalization. Team-taught by faculty from distinct anthropological subfields. 1 unit - Torres-Rouff.
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3.00 Credits
Design, implementation, analysis and interpretation of archaeological field research. Students construct a research design and spend four weeks collection archaeological data in the field. Field techniques may include survey, mapping, artifact analysis, and excavation. Upon return to campus, students complete analysis and produce a written report detailing the results of their research. (Also listed SW 320.) Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary course based on history, culture, and water issues. It will explore the cultural heritage and creativity of groups whose historical experience has been shaped by the Rio Grande basin from its origin in Colorado to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. The course will engage a broad American and international public in the exploration of how the river basin and the people who live within it change, evolve, and develop together, and can affect each other. Limited to 12 students. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or consent of instructor. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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3.00 Credits
Ancient places were imbued with values, histories, and meanings that can tell archaeologists about many things, including political authority, social identity, and ritual practices. This course considers current theoretical and methodological approaches to the reconstruction of past social landscapes emerging from within archaeology, anthropology, and geography. Diverse landscapes are examined from across the ancient world. Field trip to the archaeological landscapes in the Southwest. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or consent of instructor. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Southwest Studies 308.) 1 unit - Wilshusen.
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