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Explores Shamanism, a religious belief system, in its most traditional settings. The shaman, an intercessory between human beings and the natural and spiritual world, brings healing to individuals and their communities. The focus is on Asian (Russian, Siberian, Mongolian, Korean, and Japanese), Native Arctic, and North and South American shamanism. The approach is comparative, noting continuity and change. 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 combination of lecture/seminars and field study tours in Australia, this course addresses major issues of Aboriginal culture history as known through anthropological, archaeological, and historical sources. Using unique outback landscapes and ecologies, as well as archaeological remains, we shall seek an awareness and appreciation of the Aborigines and their responses to European colonial contact. Can we learn from comparisons of Aboriginal experiences of colonial contact with those of other cultures? 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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Traces the development of North American Indian cultures through the comparative study of prehistoric archaeological remains. Topics include the origins of Native Americans, Native American hunting-gathering lifeways, and the rise of the Native American agricultural societies. Emphasizes analyses of subsistence modes, settlement patterns, and symbolic systems. 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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A course survey of the pre- and protohistoric archaeology of the eastern half of Asia. Topics include the origins and evolution of agricultural societies, the emergence of village and urban life, and the rise of states and kingdoms. The early states were often characterized and even reinforced by elaborate symbolic and religious systems expressed through ritual, art, and architecture-topics also covered by the course. 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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This course teaches students how scientists investigate ancient environments and climate change and how these are related to ancient people and culture history. Students will learn about methods ranging from pollen and soil analysis to climate reconstruction and ecology. The class will look at a number of archaeological case studies in which climate or environment are believed to have been integral in past cultural developments. Case studies include the Levant, Mesopotamia, Polynesia, the American Southwest, and the Maya area. Students will be evaluated on class participation, weekly writing assignments, and final research papers. Prerequisite: ANTH 0500 or instructor permission. 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 02 Semester Level 01 Prerequisites: Undergraduate level ANTH 0500 Minimum Grade of S Return to Previous New Search
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This course traces the development of North American Indians and culture through a comparative study of prehistoric archaeological remains. Some of the questions addressed will be: When where and why did people first migrate into North America? Were these people responsible for the mass animal extinction at the end of the last Ice Age? What accounts for the similarities and differences in the politics and adaptations of Native Americans? 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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A survey of archaeological sites in the ancient Near East from the Neolithic period to the early Roman Empire. Archaeology allows us to explore the development of agriculture, cities, and urban-based culture, as well as to make comparisons between cultures and examine issues of trade and commerce. We elvaluate sites in relation to theoretical and methodological issues in anthropological archaeology. 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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Addresses the question: to what extent can the concept of the ecosystem, as developed in evolutionary biology, explain variability in human behavior? Examines the literature on contemporary hunting and gathering societies, both human and nonhuman, as well as relevant findings in archaeology and human biology. Background in general biology and anthropology is helpful, but not required. 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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Reviews the current state of underwater archaeology and will evaluate its findings in relation to anthropological concepts and social history of human maritime adaptation. Prerequisite: ANTH 0500 or equivalent. 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 examines historical archaeology as a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the historic past. Draws in recent research from different parts of the world, including North America, South Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, and South America, to illustrate historical archaeology's contributions to interpreting peoples' everyday lives and the diversity of their experiences in the post-1500 era. 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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The course focuses on the study of material culture from historic-period archaeological sites. Through hands-on-learning, students will gain experience in identifying, analyzing, and interpreting historical artifacts and will have opportunities to conduct individual or team research projects. 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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Explores the study of death and burial from archaeology's unique comparative and long-term perspective. What insights does it provide about the human condition? How have human remains illuminated the lived experiences of people in the past? What do funerary objects reveal about beliefs and social relations? Gravestones and monuments about emotions and memory? Also examines current challenges to the excavation and study of graves. 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 course explores the colonial and capitalist transformation of New England's social and cultural landscapes following European contact. Using archaeology as critical evidence, we will examine claims about conquest, Indian Extinction, and class, gender and race relations by studying the daily lives and interactions of the area's diverse Native American, African American, and European peoples. 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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This course examines the archaeology of Mesoamerican civilizations. Students will learn the similarities and differences between such cultures ads the ancient Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec that inhabited this region from 1200 BC through the Spanish conquest. Readings and lectures will highlight the different ways in which scholars look at the past as they reconstruct ancient ways of life. 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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Nature and content of Mayan hieroglyphic writing, from 100 to 1600 CE. Methods of decipherment, introduction to textual study, and application to interpretations of Mayan language, imagery, world view, and society. Literacy and Mesoamerican background of script. 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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Course addresses the burgeoning literature on the human body, especially the meanings attached to it through time and across cultures. Anthropology, history, and archaeology offer the principal sources of evidence for this introduction to past ideas about the body. 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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Plants and animals were originally domesticated in several different parts of the world. Using archaeological evidence from Eurasia, Africa, North and South America, this course examines when, why and how domestication occurred. 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 introduction to the field of human behavioral ecology, the course provides an overview of the application of the theory of natural selection to the study of behavior in an ecological setting. Focus is on anthropological topics related to reproduction such as issues of mating and parenting, sex ratios and sex preferences, and timing of life histories events. 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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This course examines the fossil record of human ancestors and evidence for cultural origins in relation to evolutionary theory in biology. We will review studies of living primates as well as modern genetic and DNA research for measures of contemporary human variability. Finally, we will explore forensic applications and case studies. 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 investigation of the study of language and language behavior. Centers on the study of variation in language as seen in the social and cultural context of language use. This course will feature practice in writing fictional and dramatic dialogue based on real-life discourse. Presupposes some familiarity with basic linguistics (AN 80, CG 41, or equivalent). 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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This course considers how language and power relate to each other in social life. We first consider theoretical approaches to the politics of language use, such as Foucault on discursive formations, Bourdieu on language as social capital, and Bakhtin on the oppression inherent in standard languages. We then consider specific issues, including joking as linguistic resistance, language death and revitalization, the cochlear implant debate, and racializing discourses. We end with language use in the U.S. "culture wars," covering such topics as the Ebonics controversy, language and electoral politics, hate speech, and English language legislation. 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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Focuses on the formative years of the discipline of anthropology. Who were the significant figures? What were the significant questions and assumptions in the 19th and early 20th centuries? How did they shape the institution, theories, and methods that are the basis for understanding the dominant concerns in present-day anthropology? Prerequisites: two anthropology courses, including ANTH 0100. 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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Aims to provide a "capstone" to a concentration in anthropology through readings on, and critical discussions of, enduring and contemporary questions about our own society, about anthropology, and about reality. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Anthropology Department Prerequisites: Undergraduate level ANTH 1621 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ANTH 1900 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ANTH 1940 Minimum Grade of S or Undergraduate level ANTH 1950 Minimum Grade of S Return to Previous New Search
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