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Examines the roles of the past in the present: Why study the past, and why preserve it? How has the materiality of the past been represented in different historical and cultural contexts and for what purposes? How do the global realities of indigenous, ethnic, and nationalist struggles shape current archaeological practice? The course uses case studies from around the world to explore the conflicts in the intrepretation and presentation of the past and their broader implications. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, First Year Seminar Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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This course attempts to understand the nature of colonialism in Africa and India. Comparative methodological approach to the study of colonial cities introduces the students to a multiple and interlocking idea and symbols used by colonial power to create in their images, cities which reflect their own image. For first year students only. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, First Year Seminar Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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This course explores the diversity of families and households. It investigates the diversity of families, both between cultures and within cultures; changes in family forms over time, changing experiences of family over the life course, the diverse meanings, metaphors, and values of "family"; and current controversies about what families are and what they should be. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: First Year Seminar Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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Looks at famous land and sea expeditions, including Marco Polo, Cheng Ho, James Cook, Samuel Hearne, Elisha Kane, Ernest Shackleton and others. Whether the voyage was inspired by a specific intellectual inquiry, mapping, exploration of a new land, establishing a new trade route, friendly alliance, or a colonial expansion, these expeditions changed the views people had about the world, peoples, and places. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: First Year Seminar Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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In this course we raise and examine questions about healers (Who becomes a healer? Why? How? What happens to them during their training?) and healing (What do healers do? What must they do? Why do they do what they do? What does the patient do? Who is the patient? Etc.) It will consider why healers are difficult to study, and how healing has been studied by anthropologists and sociologists. We will borrow from the social sciences literature and introduce discussions of (among other things) power, legitimacy, authority, ritual, rhetoric and persuasion, symbols and rationality to our examinations of healers. The course will have a mostly anthropological and sociological attitude, and we will read sociological and ethnographic studies from widely diverse cultures. It will borrow from other disciplines, including sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, rhetoric and semiotics, to try to make sense of what happens when healer and sufferer meet. The primary project of the course will be an independent, ethnographic study of a healer (of your choice). 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: First Year Seminar, Liberal Learning Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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We will retrace the development and impact of the 2000 UN Protocal to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Human Trafficking, especially women and children. This set of norms was created as a supplement to the UN Convention against International Organized Crime. This course will deal with the protocol as both a legal as a living document, with a history and ongoing political relevance. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: First Year Seminar, Liberal Learning Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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Examines from an anthropological perspective efforts to address global poverty that are typically labeled as "development." The enterprise of development is considered critically, both with regard to the intentions and purposes that underlie the actions of wealthy countries, donor organizations, and expatriate development workers and with regard to the outcomes for the people who are the intended beneficiaries. Privileging the prespectives of ordinary people in developing countries, but also looking carefully at the institutions involved in development, the course relies heavily on ethnographic case studies that will draw students into the complexity of one of the greatest contemporary global problems: social inequality. In a highly participatory seminar, students will read, discuss, and write about ethnographies that combine theoretically sharp and experience-near accounts of poverty and development in a range of world areas and across numerous specific development problems such as the environment, public health, gender inequality, agriculture, population and economic transformation. Reserved for First Year students. Enrollment limited to 20. FYS DVPS LILE 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, First Year Seminar, Liberal Learning Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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This course is designed to address the postcolonial identities and the cross cultural issues of women through anthropology and women's writings. Identifying select cases from Africa and Asia. We will analyze the cross-cultural issues and meaning of gender, the cultural construction of gender, the significant ideology that defines the paradigm through which we come to understand a woman's domain, agency and empowerment, and the modes of behavior in the spheres of everyday life. S/NC only. Reserved for First Year students. Enrollment limited to 20. FYS LILE 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, First Year Seminar, Liberal Learning Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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An introduction to music and language in cultural context. Drawing on case studies from around the world, we consider how music and language are intimately connected. Topics covered include cannibals' singing in colonial Brazil, music and electoral politics in Texas, working class culture and country music, singing and society in the Amazon, whistle speech and songwriting in indigenous Mexico, Apache identity and popular music, modernity and classical Indian music, music and mass advertising in the United States, and the politics of Zulu music production in South Africa. Reserved for First Year students. Enrollment limited to 20. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: First Year Seminar Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course will focus on the cultural area known as Greater Mexico, incorporating Mexicans resident south of the Rio Grande, as well as the approximately 25 million Mexicans living permanently or for at a time in the United States. Specific topics to be covered in the class include: urban peasants and rural proletarians, recent challenges to gender conventions, national and international migration, nationalism and the changing meanings of the Conquest and colonial periods, land and indigenous rights, everday violence, machismo, popular culture, and protest and rebellion. Limited to first-year students. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, First Year Seminar, Liberal Learning Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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In all human societies, people exchange goods and services, From Adam Smith onwards, economists have emphasized the central importance of the "free" market, where self-interested individuals strike bargains, and simultaneously expand humanity's "common stock." Yet costly practices-expensive weddings, charitable donations, corporate hospitality-still flourish, which appear designed to build human relationships rather than generate hard profits. And in today's global economy, personal gifts remain an essential part of doing business in places like China, Japan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Where mainstream economistic analysis sees inefficiency or corruption, this course explores classic and contemporary alternative understandings of gift-giving's cultural significance. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: First Year Seminar Return to Previous New Search
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In an era characterized by globalization, by the increasing and rapid flows of ideologies, information, money, goods, and people across national borders, how do individuals, families, and communities grapple with the new forms of existence brought forth by migration? This course will go beyond macro-economic explanations of why migration happens to explore what migration does: the effects of mobility on a range of practices that include parenting, health, gender roles, marriage, politics, and anthropological research itself. We will consider three overlapping issues: the everyday practices of transnational living in a variety of cross-cultural settings; the theory and methodology anthropologists use to better understand local experiences of migration; and the ways in which migration has been effectively politicized. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: First Year Seminar, Liberal Learning Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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The seminar is intended to engage first-year students in discussion and analysis of one of the perplexing questions of the modern age. Why, with globalization and an attendant world-view shaped by the technological revolutions of communication that appeal to commonalities, we find more emphasis on local differences, more conflicts related to identities determined by opposition to "the other"? A concordant question will be: how do different disciplines address the concept of identity? 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: First Year Seminar Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classification(s): Semester Level 02 Semester Level 01 Return to Previous New Search
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This course examines what it means to be human in different cultures. We will study a range of theories and methods used to study culture, including ethnography, the intensive and personal study of cultures that is a hallmark of anthropology. We will learn how anthropology contributes to understanding social problems like racism, genocide, disease, militarism, and social inequalities of all kinds. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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The course introduces anthropology approaches to some of the central problems humans face around the world, including environmental degradation and cultures of consumption, hunger and affluence, war, racial division and other forms of inequality. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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The goal is to challenge our beliefs about some taken for granted assumptions about human behavior and psyche by examining cultures with different conceptions of self and cognition. We will examine the issues of the role of nature and nurture in development, the nature of intelligence, coming of age, the association of psychological characteristics with gender and the naturalness of emotions. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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An introduction to Medical Anthropology, the course explores the complex interaction of culture and biology as it affects human health. Examines the social construction of health and illness across cultures using ethnographic case studies representing a wide range human experience in domestic and international contexts. Emphasizes the social, political, and economic context in which health and behavior and health systems must be understood. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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This class explores how the production of medical knowledge and the provision of health care are gendered through close readings of ethnographic case studies of care delivery, reproduction, and aging. Theoretical readings in medical anthropology and feminist science studies will consider the scientific principles upon which sex dimorphism is based and the diverse practices that gender health and illness. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Examination of theory and evidence on human evolution in the past, present and future. Topics include evolution and adaptation, biocultural adaptation, fossil evidence, behavioral evolution in primates, human genetric variation and contemporary human biological variation. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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Explores the complex issues of growing up as an ethnic, bicultural, or a multicultural person and how these dual or multiple identities affect or interact with individual behavior, priorities, the sense of self, and how individual identity is formulated and defined. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches combining anthropology, comparative human development, interethnic communication, life history, and literary works are used. Instructor permission required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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This course will examine the representations of Chinese Americans in Twentieth Century films with a special focus on the internationally renowned Chinese American actress Ms. Anna May Wong from an anthropological perspective (emphasis on comparative method, culture, holistic approach, etc.). With this in mind, students will focus on the following topics: late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chinese American history, Chinese American cultural depictions in United States popular culture, and the life of Ms. Anna May Wong and her career as a member of the early to middle Twentieth Century Hollywood community. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course is an introduction to the biological origins and cultural developments of mankind over the past 4 millions years. In particular we shall address the following: human evolution, the methods and aims of archaeological research, human dispersal throughout the world, first from Africa to Eurasia, and from there to North and South America, Australia and the Pacific. We will look into hunting and fishing and gathering lifeways. We will study the beginnings and results of settled life, agriculture, and animal domestication, the evolution of complex societies and rise (and fall) of Civilization. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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This class examines the relationship between the Western world and African indigenous cultures, heritage, and ideas of the past. By looking at the history of science in reference to the treatment of Africans and African material culture, we will question who owns the rights to an indigenous past. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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Examines the history, culture, and society of the Classic Maya, with special emphasis on Preclassic precursors, dynasties, environmental adaptation, imagery, architecture, urban form, and the Maya Collapse. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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