| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Anthropology (X) |
The nature of culture: survey of the range of cultural phenomena, includingmaterial culture, social organization, religion, and other topics.
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An introduction to archaeology and the prehistory of humankind from the earliest times up to the advent of literate civilization and cities, also processes of cultural change. Partly self-paced learning.
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Introduction to archeology and the prehistory of humankind from the earliest times up to the advent of civilization and cities, also processes of cultural change.
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Human evolution: evolutionary theory, basic genetical concepts, primate evolution and behavior, fossil man, evolution of human behavior and mind.
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An introduction to our evolved, universal human nature, the evolution of the human mind, and how they shape behavior, social life, and culture. Topics include friendship, mate choice, incest avoidance, cooperation, revenge, status, jealousy, emotions, group formation, and intergroup aggression.
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Examines historiographically and sociologically the Japanese state's various engagements in violent acts during war and peace times.
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Introduction to research in Anthropology. Independent research under the guidance of a faculty member in the department. Course offers exceptional students the opportunity to undertake independent research or work in a research group.
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A survey of important archaeological methods of excavation, analysis, and interpretation. Focus will be on the problems and promise of various approaches to the explanation of past human behavior.
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An analysis of the archaeology of Africa from 10,000 years ago to AD 1500, with special reference to the emergence of food production, indigenous states, and the development of long-distance trade. Major emphasis on the self-paced learning.
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Anthropological approaches to the study of modern media with emphasis on non-Western societies. Topics: media reception; media as text; political economy of media; national and transitional media; gender and sexuality; consumer culture. Focus on television, film, and new information technology.
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Critical examination of the relations among women, culture and development. Topics include colonialism, violence, globalization, and the state, health and reproduction, biotechnology, representation, and resistance movements.
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Critical examination of the interrelationships among women, culture, and development through individual research projects.
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This workshop for sophomores and juniors intending to major in Anthropologydevelops an understanding of anthropological texts, and the skills necessary to undertake such projects as the undergraduate honors dissertation.
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Analysis of the interrelated social, demographic, economic, political, and environmental crises occurring in Central America from an anthropological perspective. Emphasis on the evolution of contemporary problems, current conditions and future prospects for the region.
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An examination of traditional race concepts contrasted with an approach to human variation through the analysis of biologically adaptive traits.
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An account of the intellectual traditions of anthropology, the main figureswho shaped these traditions, and the issues that both divided and united anthropologists at different periods of time.
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Drawing from recent publications from the fields of ethnology, primatology, palaeoanthropology, neurobiology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, Neo-Darwinian studies, and robotics, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and artificial life, this seminar examines the fundamental question of what makes us human.
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Focuses on the link between ritual and violence in archaic and/or traditional societies. Attention is also given to the persistence of this link in the contemporary context.
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Field from Freud and Mead to present; how human nature (universal psychological mechanisms) and culture interact to form individual psychologies, identities, genders, social attitudes, worldviews, and traditions; how cognitive development shapes belief systems, reasoning and symbolism; emotions, preferences, thinking, and pathologies in cross- cultural perspective.
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We look at different educational projects, such as Indian boarding Schools, English-only laws, the "indirect rule" of the British colonies. We address the not-always-clear line between education as a form of social control or as a form of liberation.
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A critical overview of those characteristics of human psyche, behavior, society, and culture that are allegedly found among all peoples: the constants of human nature.
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Theories of technological evolution and innovation. Meanings of technology.The social and cultural impact of technology on our everyday lives, including automobile culture, industrial farming, the telephone, and technologies of the body.
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Theories of technological evolution and innovation. Meanings of technology. The social and cultural impact of technology on our everyday lives, including automobile culture, industrial farming, the telephone, and technologies of the body.
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Critical survey of different anthropological approaches of food production and consumption: biological implications of diet; relations between agricultural forms and political systems; the meanings of feasting; cooking, class and gender; food and national identity.
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A survey of research in the field of bioarchaeology including studies of paleodemography, paleopathology and their relevance to testing about the biological and cultural adaptations of earlier human populations and interpreting behavior from the human skeleton.
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