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Yale - Reproductive Technologies

TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required    
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Yale - Introduction to Medical Anthropology

MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas So Major theoretical orientations in medical anthropology. Examples of cross-cultural sickness, health, healing, and witchcraft.  
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Yale - Our Place in Nature: Introduction to Biological Anthropology

MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas Sc, So Introduction to human and primate evolution, primate behavior, and human biology. Topics include a review of principles of evolutionary and population biology, the evolution of primates and people, and current thinking about the evolution of human behavior.  
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Yale - Language, Culture, and Identity

MWF 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Introduction to the role of language in the constitution of gendered, class, ethnic, and national identities. Ethnographic and linguistic case studies are combined with theoretical and comparative approaches.  
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Yale - The Genesis and Collapse of Old World Civilizations

  Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu, So The archaeology of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley from early agriculture to class formation and the early cities and empires. How did these societies develop and why did they collapse? Earliest epics and contemporary ideologies, including the Bushes in Baghdad, examined in literature and film.  
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Yale - Great Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology

MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas So Examination of selected archaeological hoaxes, cult theories, and fantasies; demonstration of how archaeology can be manipulated to authenticate nationalistic ideologies, religious causes, and modern stereotypes. Examples of hoaxes and fantasies include the lost continent of Atlantis, Piltdown man, ancient giants roaming the earth, and alien encounters. Evaluation of how, as a social science, archaeology is capable of rejecting such interpretations about the past.  
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Yale - Molecular Anthropology

TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Areas Sc An introduction to the patterns and process of human genetic variation. Topics include human origins and migration; molecular adaptations to environment, lifestyle, and disease; ancient and forensic DNA analyses; and genealogical reconstructions.  
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Yale - Sex and Gender in the Black Diaspora

TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So A critical survey of images, rhetorics, experiences, and practices of gender and sexuality formation of black subjects in Africa, the Caribbean, western Europe, and the United States. Construction of class, nationality, race, color, sexuality, and gender.  
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Yale - Modern Southeast Asia

TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Introduction to the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the challenges of modernization, development, and globalization. Southeast Asian history, literature, arts, belief systems, agriculture, industrialization and urbanization, politics, ecological challenges, and economic change.  
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Yale - Japan: Culture, Society, Modernity

TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Skills WR Areas So Introduction to Japanese society and culture. The historical development of Japanese society; family, work, and education in contemporary Japan; Japanese aesthetics; and psychological, sociological, and cultural interpretations of Japanese behavior.  
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Yale - State and Society in Afghanistan

TTh 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Historical, political, and ethnographic examination of state and society in Afghanistan. Ecology and economy, social and political organization, and ethnicity and transnational networks explored as bases for understanding the causes and consequences of domestic political turmoil and foreign interventions over the last thirty years. Attention to contemporary reconstruction and the country's prospects for the future.  
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Yale - African Prehistory

MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Survey of the archaeological evidence for the original contributions of the African continent to the human condition. The unresolved issues of African pre-history, from the time of the first hominids, through the development of food production and metallurgy, to the rise of states and cities.  
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Yale - Archaeological Field Techniques

MW 4.00-5.15 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required An introduction to the practice and techniques of modern archaeology, including methods of excavation, recording, mapping, dating, and ecological analysis.  
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Yale - Archaeology Laboratory I

Sa 8.30-5.00 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Instruction in the field at an archaeological site in Connecticut. Stratigraphy, mapping, artifact recovery, and excavation strategy.  
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Yale - Sport, Society, and Culture

  Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Areas So An introduction to critical sports studies. The nature of sports, the emergence of modern sports, the organization of individual sports worlds, and the implications of sports for health, technology, ethics, gender, sexuality, class, race, and nationalism.  
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Yale - The State in Africa

MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So A discussion of African states that avoids the pitfall of characterizing them as failed, weak, fragile, or war-torn. Identification of what the states are, how they operate, and how they negotiate varying degrees of legitimacy and authority with the populations they govern.  
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Yale - Underwater Archaeology

MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Areas So Overview of major underwater archaeological discoveries, from shipwrecks to sunken cities. Technology and methods used to find, survey, excavate, and interpret submerged sites.  
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Yale - The Anthropology of Oratory and Rhetoric

MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Study of the relationship between language and political practice in ethnographic literature and in rhetorical analyses of classic and contemporary American oratory. Exploration of how language use, as both mode of social practice and object of ideology and political organization, can be understood as constitutive of political relations and social organization generally.  
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Yale - Human Functional Anatomy

  Fall 2009  Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas So Regional and systemic anatomy of the human body is explored from an evolutionary perspective. Examples from embryology provide a basis for understanding the similarity of human structure to the anatomy of other vertebrates. Discussion of the anatomical bases for functional disorders.  
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Yale - Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology

Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Exploration of the fundamentals of cultural anthropology methods. The foundations of fieldwork approaches, including methods, theories, and the problem of objectivity.  
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Yale - Mesopotamian Origins

Th 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Analysis of the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data for rain-fed and irrigation agriculture settlement, subsistence, and politicoeconomic innovation in Mesopotamia, from sedentary agriculture villages to cities and states to early empire. Focus on combinations of dynamic social and environmental forces that drove these developments.  
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Yale - Science, State, and Technology in India

  Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Historical and anthropological investigation of science, state, and technology in the making of colonial India, the transformation of India into a postcolonial nation, and India's rise to global prominence in the area of information technology. Topics include colonial medicine, the Gandhian critique of science, big dams, the Bhopal gas disaster, nuclear energy, and the Indian space program.  
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Yale - Markets and Cultures in Asia

T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Historical and contemporary movements of people, goods, and cultural meanings that have defined Asia as a region. Reexamination of state-centered conceptualizations of Asia and of established boundaries in regional studies. The intersections of transregional institutions and local societies and their effects on trading empires, religious traditions, colonial encounters, and cultural fusion. Finance flows that connect East Asia and the Indian Ocean to the Middle East and Africa. The cultures of capital and market in the neoliberal and postsocialist world.  
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Yale - South Africa: An Ethnographic Perspective

T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Review of attempts by anthropologists to define and understand key features of the new South Africa. Topics include bridewealth and polygamy, Christian churches, ethnic identities, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, migrant labor, social movements, witchcraft, and urban life. Attention to the relationship between politics and anthropology.  
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Yale - Transnational and Religious Movements

W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009  No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Study of transnational institutions and practices, with a focus on globalized religious movements in the late twentieth century. The rise and expansion of transnational institutions and faith-based practices involved in the development of new transnational religious alliances. Ways that new religious movements are facilitated by the expansion of global formations; how these forces of change are leading to new sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscapes.  
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