| source University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (X) |
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department Anthropology (X) |
Anthropology was first envisioned a holistic discipline, combining insights from the study of human anatomy and evolution, from research on material remains of human settlements and from the analysis of social interaction in language and other cultural practices. Following this tradition, this course explores the questions about where humans came from, how societies live and communicate, and why human cultural groups are both similar to each other and yet unique.
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Introduction to and survey of human origins and evolution, physical anthropology, race and racism, archaeology, and the beginning of human civilization. Recommended, though not required, to be taken with
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Presents the fundamental areas of anthropological analysis through a series of comparative cases that emphasizes social and cultural relations in global contexts. Directs attention to the anthropological history of global empires and colonial states, their cultural exchanges, and contemporary studies of culture, society, and globalization. This course can be used to fulfill either Western or Nonwestern general education categories, but not both.
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Introduction to linguistic anthropology, focusing on the role of language in the creation and maintenance of society and culture and on a person's concept of self within that culture. Demonstrates how language use within a community can serve as the foundation for the analysis of cultural practices. Same as
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Using archaeological data, traces our prehistoric heritage and the processes which led to the evolution of agriculture, settled villages, and civilization in many areas of the world; lectures range from the earliest Homo sapiens to Sumeria, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
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Explores recent theoretical, methodological, and thematic, developments in historical archaeology in North America and the Caribbean. The temporal coverage is 1500-1900 AD. Examines how historical archaeologists use artifactual, documentary and oral history evidence in interpreting the past, and how historical archaeology can contribute to our understanding of the ways by which material culture can be used to study race, class, gender, and ethnic identities. Same as
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Survey of Egyptian archaeology from prehistoric times through the New Kingdom; includes lectures on modern archaeological techniques developed in Egypt to presentations on the history, life, gods, and architecture of this ancient civilization. Prerequisite:
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Critical consideration of data and information bearing on current controversies and ideas concerning the antecedents of selected aspects of human behavior. Topics to be discussed include communication; social organization; and parental, sexual, and aggressive behavior. Same as
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Designed for non-anthropology majors; survey course of prehistory as seen through the eyes of novelists, science fiction writers, as well as visual media; covers 2 million years of prehistory examining what happened in the past as well as the interface between fact and fiction and past and present.
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Traces the prehistory of Illinois from the first entry of people into the region more than 113,000 years ago until the 17th century and the beginning of historical records; examines subsequent cultural changes up to the 19th century and statehood from an archaeological and ethnohistorical perspective.
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Course considers how anthropological theory and methods enhance our understanding of contemporary social and political issues, including immigration, education, affirmative action, and welfare. It examines the relationship between social policy and social science knowledge, and the juxtapositioning of anthropological, policy, and other analytical approaches to contemporary issues. It assesses the strengths and limits of anthropological knowledge (its qualitative, ethnographic, and narrative character) for addressing these issues.
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Survey of the Holocaust as a cultural symbol and crucial reference point for debates on morality, ethics and the lessons of history. Traces the Holocaust as a symbol in its historical and cross-cultural dimensions through text and film.
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Develops understanding of the rich diversity of languages and cultures found among Native North American peoples from the perspectives of sociocultural and linguistic anthropology. Same as
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Examines the ways in which the ancient past has been interpreted, appropriated, represented, used, and misused for a variety of reasons by political parties, national governments, and religious and ethnic groups living in the present.
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Cross-cultural introduction to the celebration of death across time and space. Examines the anthropological and archaeological literature on death, particularly in terms of death ritual and burial practices. Students study popular films on death in different cultures, and carry out a field project at a local cemetery.
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Latin America considered as a theater of conflict and cultural experimentation among Native American, African, and Iberian peoples; their survival and transformation as reported in selected ethnographies and eyewitness sources; and some modern theories and controversies about their experience.
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Surveys the heterogeneity of contemporary Asian American communities. Explores the core concepts of "culture" and "social organization" through the variety of experiences in the family, churches, business establishments, schools, and other public institutions. Same as
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An introduction to the environment, history and cultures of the Pacific with special attention to transformations in lifeways as people, ideas and products flow into the islands from other world regions and flow out from Oceania to diasporic communities world wide.
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Examines American Jewish experience in its cultural and historical diversity. Introduces the approaches of cultural anthropology in order to investigate how an ethnic group has elaborated and continues to elaborate its identity in American culture and society through strategies of individual and collective behavior. In this way, American Jewish identities emerge as the products of specific interactions between Judaism's overarching cultural system and local American cultural formations.
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Introduces basic anthropological and sociological methods, concepts and approaches to the study of the social and cultural dimensions of food. Explores issues including gender roles, religious influences, family relationships, community sharing, nationalist rituals and global processes in the production, distribution and consumption of food. Film, ethnographies, and other social science studies will be examined. Same as
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