| source UC San Diego (X) |
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department Anthropology (X) |
[This course is conjoined with ANSC 142.] This course will examine the overarching legacies of colonialism, the persistence of indigenous peoples and cultures, the importance of class and land reform, the effects of neoliberalism, and citizensâ efforts to promote social change in contemporary democracies. Undergraduates will be evaluated on the basis of a midterm and final; graduates will do additional reading and will write a twenty-page research paper. [Formerly known as ANRG 142.] Credit not allowed for both ANRG 142 and ANSC 142.
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An introduction to the anthropological approach to understanding human behavior, with an examination of data from a selection of societies and cultures. [Formerly known as ANLD 1.] Credit not allowed for both ANLD 1 and ANTH 1.
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This course focuses on the debate about multiculturalism in American society. It examines the interaction of race, ethnicity, and class, historically and comparatively, and considers the problem of citizenship in relation to the growing polarization of multiple social identities. [Formerly known as ANLD 23.] Credit not allowed for both ANLD 23 and ANTH 23.
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This class examines humans from a comparative perspective; if we ignore culture, whatâs left? How do culture and biology interact? And how does biology inform cultural debates over race, sex, marriage, war, peace, etc.? (
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A systematic analysis of social anthropology and of the concepts and constructs required for cross-cultural and comparative study of human societies.
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The origins and development of early cities in the Old and New Worlds are compared and contrasted from an archaeological anthropological perspective.
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The archaeolo
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Course explores modern legacy of Darwinâs ideas in light of his 2009 bicentennial. It provides an accessible forum to current knowledge of evolution. This one-time offer is structured around a series of lectures by experts from UCSD and beyond. Students taking the course for one unit must take it P/NP.
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Major stages of human evolution including the fossil evidence for biological and cultural changes through time.
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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 tourismâs links to sociocultural conditions of modernity.
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A weekly forum for presentation and discussion of work in linguistic anthropology by faculty, students, and guest speakers.
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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.
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The course is an introduction to a flourishing area of research that connects linguistic communication to alternate and complementary modalitiesâmanual gesticulation, the face, the body, and aspects of the âlived environmentâ (spaces, tools, artifacts). [Credit not allowed for both ANSC 119GS and ANSC 119.]
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A critical examination of research on gesture and âbody languageâ in comparative perspective, considering cognitive, interactive, and ethnographic bases of âbody languageâ as communication, and the relationship of gesture to speech.
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[Same as HMNR 101.] Interdisciplinary discussion that outlines the structure and functioning of the contemporary human rights regime, and then delves into the relationship between selected human rights protectionsâagainst genocide, torture, enslavement, political persecution, etc.âand their violation, from the early Cold War to the present.
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Examines the role of culture in the way people perceive and interact with the natural environment. Combines reading of select anthropological studies with training in ethnographic research methods. Students develop a research project and analyze data. Limit: fifteen students.
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Weekly or bimonthly talks by a variety of scholars on varying analytical approaches to social sciences problems. Talks originate either at UCSD, UCLA, UCR, or UCI. Participants include graduate students and faculty from those four campuses.
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This seminar is an in-depth analysis of cult
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Recent decades have witnessed the dramatic rise of religious movements worldwide, posing challenges to secular models of modernity. We will study the sociocultural and political implications of this phenomenon comparatively, focusing especially on new forms of Islamic and Christian practice.
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Examines religion and morality in South Asia from an anthropological perspective. The seminar explores the role of religion in social life and the formation of religious and ethical subjectivity by reading selected ethnographic studies of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.
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[This course is conjoined with ANSC 142.] This course will examine the overarching legacies of colonialism, the persistence of indigenous peoples and cultures, the importance of class and land reform, the effects of neoliberalism, and citizensâ efforts to promote social change in contemporary democracies. Undergraduates will be evaluated on the basis of a midterm and final; graduates will do additional reading and will write a twenty-page research paper. [Formerly known as ANRG 142.] Credit not allowed for both ANRG 142 and ANSC 142.
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