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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the comparative study of religion based on anthropological research among native peoples and folk traditions. Topics may include: shamanism, peyotism, witchcraft, the genesis of religious cults, syncretism of native religions with major religious traditions, ritual processes. Consideration of major cultural theories arising from the study of religion and ritual. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. 1 unit.
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Introduces the principles of language change and linguistic reconstruction. Topics include mechanisms of change, sociocultural factors favoring the spread of changes, and methods for determining linguistic relationships. Considers reconstruction of an unattested language and possible inferences about the environment and culture of its speakers. Examples and problems from a wide range of families, including Indo-European, Austronesian, Bantu, Sino-Tibetan, and languages of native North America. Prerequisite: Anthropology 258 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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Investigates grammatical structures and their uses in a wide range of languages. Comparison of the varying ways in which meaning is encoded in grammar in languages of the Americas, Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and Europe. Emphasis on analysis and identification of recurring cross-linguistic patterns in morphology, syntax, and semantics. Prerequisite: Anthropology 258 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Watkins.
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This course will incorporate the work of anthropology and cultural studies to introduce students to how foreign cultures were experienced and represented by travelers, explorers, colonial administrators and anthropologists and will focus on forms of writing associated with conquest and colonialism. Students will then be introduced to the travel and tourism genre of representation and will analyze travel writing as cultural politics and the politics of tourism. The course will conclude with an examination of the new ethnography and writing cultures. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or consent of instructor. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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Emphasizes the interconnectedness and interpenetration of the world's peoples, offering an alternative to the atomized and bounded implications of concepts like "culture" and "society. " Course topics include: patterns of prehistorical expansion; forager vs. nomadic vs. sedentary societies; gypsies; the Navajo-Hopi land dispute; expatriate communities; and diverse cases of modern immigration and globalization. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative, holistic study of formal and informal politics in diverse societies. The course focuses on three major themes: examining diverse political systems with emphasis on the emergence of the state; the relationship between power, ideology, and symbolic systems; power and controlling processes, with special attention to dominance, hegemony and resistance. Emphasis on full-length ethnographies. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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Examines how people organize their material world to survive and to create meaningful systems of value. A variety of economic forms - small-scale societies with limited accumulation, gift economics, and commodity-based capitalism - are considered from a holistic, comparative perspective. The course concludes with as anthropological critique of colonialism, core-periphery relations, diverse forms of "capital," and globalization. This one-block course prepares interested students for a follow-up field course. Prerequisite: 102 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Hautzinger.
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity for students to engage in team-based, applied anthropological work on a focused project, this course is intended as a linked block that follows up advanced coursework in such areas of study as food, religion and ritual, political, economic, NAGPRA issues, or museum curatorial work. Sites for field-work will vary from year to year, but generally will be grounded in the Rocky Mountain West and/or Southwest Regions. Incorporates such hands-on activities as participant observation, interviewing, policy development and/or collections management, as well as training in qualitative and/or quantitative data analysis. Block 2: Community-Based Field Course. Continues the study of economic anthropology through team-based fieldwork and rigorous methodological training. Field sites for 2008-2009 are the San Luis Valley (commodification of spirituality and sustainability are foci) and Colorado Springs (focused on the economic impact of local military presence). Prerequisite: Corresponding 300-level course or consent of instructor. (Also listed as Southwest Studies 308.) 1 unit - Hautzinger.
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3.00 Credits
Student research projects, either independent or in collaboration with ongoing faculty research, based on field, laboratory or library research. Projects must be approved at least one block in advance of the actual block of research. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. 1 unit - Hautzinger, Montano, Torres-Rouff, Wilshusen.
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