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Offers an archaeological survey of Anatolian civilization including an analysis of the settlements, history, art, architecture, and characteristics of specific sites and their artifacts, from prehistoric to Hellenistic periods. 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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An introduction to the relationship between language and culture. Questions we consider include: how does language create social realities? How does language construct us as individuals and mark us as members of groups? What role does language play in processes like socialization, globalization, and domination? Topics we cover include theories of language as a symbolic system, language differences and inequality, political speech, and creative use of language in performance, literature, advertising, and mass media. We also consider language use in specific social contexts, such as classrooms, courtrooms, medical and scientific settings, policy debates, and political campaigns. DVPS 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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Communities around the world have been affected in different ways by the HIV-AIDS pandemic. This course is concerned with cross-cultural variation in knowledge, perception, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS in the world. Instructor permission required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives, Liberal Learning Restrictions: May not be enrolled as the following Classification(s): Semester Level 04 Semester Level 03 Semester Level 01 Semester Level 02 Return to Previous New Search
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Explores the social and cultural bases of African American families in the U.S. Historical materials demonstrate how the field of anthropology in the early 20th-century helped formulate scholarly investigations in this regard. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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An examination of the traditional and modern lifeways of native peoples across the Arctic and subarctic from European Lapland through Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Topics covered are society; ethnic relations; religion (Shamanism); art; and politics, including issues of land claims and home rule. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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Western ideas of Africa are dominated by images of a primitive and timeless past and of a present characterized by poverty, AIDS, famine, and violence. In reality, Africa is a vast continent with a rich history and a population of half a billion people who live in very varied physical, economic, political, and cultural environments. In this course we will read detailed ethnographic accounts and general depictions of the continent by Western and African scholars. We will also read some fiction by African authors, see some African films, look at some African art, and listen to some African music. The goals of the course are: 1) To learn about the lives of a variety of Africans at particular times and in particular places, 2) To know the outline of the history that has formed the African present, 3) To understand specific world views and patterns of belief that have been described as typically African, and 4) To investigate the possibility, and the problems, of generalizing about Africa. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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 area studies paradigm continues to provide solid information about "culture areas," and the rich ethnography and archaeology of Andean societies is no exception. Particular strengths emerging from this literature include studies of land use, religious syncretism, textiles, and collateral themes: continuities and recognizable features of "Andean culture" ( lo andino ), gender relations, migration, and politics. Throughout, we will analyze the ways that history, ecology, and the broad notion of reciprocity ( ayni ) cross-cut each of these. The result will be a close and in-depth study of cultural practices within three Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia), the majority populations of which continue to be indigenous (predominantly Quechua- and Aymara-speaking). These are countries within which recent political and social changes have produced far-reaching transformations. Prerequisite: one course in either Anthropology or Classics. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Examines the diverse cultures and history of the Americas - especially Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Topics include the organization of labor, cultural and artistic practices, changing conventions of gender and family, international migration, national and local identities, indigenous rights, and protest and rebellion. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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 anthropological overview on the history and cultures of Native North American peoples from the prehistoric times to the present. Where did Native North Americans come from? What were their traditional lives like? What was their relationship with newcomers of European extraction, including anthropologists? What challenges do they face today? Indigenous and anthropological insights will be brought to bear on these and other questions. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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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Drawing on the rich North American Indian collections of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, the goal of this course is to examine theoretical approaches to the artifacts of indigenous people and analytical strategies for their research and interpretation. Insights from anthropology, art history, American Indian perspectives, and conservation are explored. Meets at the museum. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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An examination of the process of land alienation of Native Americans through the enactment of federal laws to settle the frontiers and protect the wilderness. Through the use of oral history, ethnographies, film, historical documents, and the public record, the course compares Native American and Euro-American perspectives on the ownership of land and rights to resources. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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The United States is often described as "multi-cultural". This course examines dominant cultural values such as equality, choice, privacy, and responsibility. It also investigates aspects of the social structure of the United States such as inequality, power, race/ethnicity, kinship, and gender. Individual lives illustrate the ways that people living in the United States negotiate cultural values and confront social institutions. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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 the anthropological study of Southeast Asia. Emphasis is placed on understanding the diversity of cultures and societies through both space and time. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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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Aspects of Hindu society in contemporary India. Through the role of ideology in the social structure, the hierarchical system, caste and politics, family and kinship, and religious issues are examined. Ethnographies are used to illustrate and explore different Indian communities. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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An interdisciplinary overview of Japanese society drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, literature, history, political science and economics, but focusing on continuity and change in Japanese cultural tradition, and featuring the study of Japanese culture through performance traditions. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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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Three Asian countries-China, Thailand, and Myanmar-are unique national arenas to examine and compare specific definitions, representations, and contentions among nationalistic discourse, ethnic legitimization, and ethnonationalism as they are played out in response to cultural politics, national ideology, European colonial expansion, religious identity, and ethnic identity. Nationalistic movements, ethnic nationalism, and transnational politics are explored. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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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Familiarizes students with the societies and cultures of Europe from an anthropological perspective. Historical material provides for the understanding of current cultural, linguistic, religious, and ethnic variation. Major emphasis on the analysis of a range of contemporary communities from peasant to urban, from East to West, and from North to South. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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A seminar focusing on anthropological methods of analyzing and interpreting Middle Eastern cultures and societies. Emphasizes the study of kinship, tribal structure, social organization and gender relations, ethnic groups relations, and urban-rural distinctions. Draws upon insights from these topics as a basis for understanding contemporary social, economic, and political dynamics in the region. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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 course is an introduction to ethnographic studies of the Muslim Middle East, with particular focus on: religion, language, modernity, gender, and expressive culture. This is not a comprehensive survey of Middle Eastern history or politics. Rather, it is a critical examination of the ways in which anthropologists have sought to capture Middle Eastern life, and the problems that have pervaded anthropological representation, both methodologically and theoretically. Thus, in this course you will learn, through the ways in which American anthropologists have sought to depict Middle Eastern "others," the processes by which we come to understand cultural difference, as well as the ways in which this encounter can shed light on our own selves and practices. A previous course in anthropology is suggested. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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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Are there cultural differences in thought and perception? If so, what are these differences and to what are they attributable? Reviews the history of the controversy on "primitive thought," the influence of culture and environment on perception and concept formation, the development of cognitive operations, and differences in logical processes and decision making in other cultural contexts. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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The course explores how the behavior and psychological functioning of children are shaped by culture and how different cultures tend to produce children with characteristic personalities, selves, thought pattern and behaviors. Every cultural community provides developmental pathways for its children. These pathways are shaped by history, and by the goals of parents, communities and children themselves. The course will focus on how human knowledge is transmitted through multiple cultural channels in both informal and formal contexts. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Diversity Perspectives Return to Previous New Search
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Play enters all fields, from physics to human development, art to scientific experimentation. In all cultures, play figures centrally in rites of passage, child development, learning, and times of celebration. Central to this course is an understanding of the rules of play, its intentions in work, functions throughout human history, and role in formal education. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Covers specific cross-cultural issues of gender, cultural roles, the status of women, and their structural position in society. Themes of gender representations in the field of economics, ritual, and politics underline the concerns of the course. Though African and Asian communities are the primary focus, aspects of American society are drawn into consideration when relevant. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: 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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Contemporary anthropological and historical study of masculine identities and practices throughout the world, focusing on topics such as the cultural economies of masculinity, cultural regions and images of manhood, male friendship, machismo, embodied masculinity, violence, power, and sexual fault lines. Prerequisite: Prior course in Social Science or instructor's permission required. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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In all cultures people see themselves as related more closely to some people than to others and they usually experience that relation in terms of some shared substance such as blood. Beyond these generalizations there is an enormous variety of ways in which people live in, build, and maintain connections with others - in nuclear and extended families, peer groups, friends, ethnic groups, and so on. This course is about kinship as an idea, as an experience, and as an institution. In the midst of divorce and blended families, new reproductive technologies, and adoption we will investigate kinship and connection in our own lives, in a range of other cultures, and within the discipline of Anthropology. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Return to Previous New Search
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