Focuses on human skeletal biology, the identification of elements, physiology of hard tissue formation, growth, and maintenance. Students are required to show competence in skeletal identification to pass this class. Prerequisite(s): course 102A or permission of instructor. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 5.
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An overview of primate evolution and review of the major groups of primates in terms of their ecological, locomotor, dietary, and social adaptations. Theoretical frameworks, such as behavioral ecology, sexual selection, and life history, are evaluated from long-term studies of primate behavior. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 106. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Study of the human body from molecules to organ systems, emphasizing evolution and medical applications. Students cannot receive credit for this course, course 107, and Biology 135. Concurrent enrollment in course 207L required. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Study of the human body using dissection and comparative anatomy exercises for advanced anatomy students. Students are billed a laboratory fee. Students cannot receive credit for this course, course 107L, and Biology 135L. Concurrent enrollment in course 207 required. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Introduces graduate students to the practice of fieldwork. Students design and carry out a quarter-long research project exploring a range of methods and producing an analytical case study. Readings and discussion emphasize both methodological critique and successful implementation. Enrollment restricted to anthropology graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Provides students with hands-on training with a variety of audiovisual equipment. Through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on field exercises, and review of students' media exercises, students learn the fundamentals of photography, video production, and audio recording in the field. Concurrent enrollment in course 208A required. Enrollment restricted to anthropology graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Reviews environmental, physiological, behavioral, and cultural ways that humans interact with their physical surroundings. Effects of human culture on the environment, and of the environment on the shape of human culture will be emphasized. Will be offered in the 2008–2009 academic year. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Examines the human life cycle using an evolutionary framework. Examines key aspects of the human life stages using findings and concepts from developmental biology, physiology, nutrition, evolutionary ecology, and life history theory. These stages include: gestation, infancy, childhood, juvenile and adolescent periods, and senescence. Each stage of the life cycle is compared and contrasted with the developmental life of nonhuman primates and mammals. Other related topics include developmental plasticity and epigenetics. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Topical methodologies in physical anthropology. Particular emphasis placed on the use of molecular techniques, spatial pattern analysis, morphometrics, stable isotopes, and Bayesian statistics. Contact time structured as a weekly three-hour meeting. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Devoted entirely to writing grant proposals. Students either work on their graduate education fellowships or their doctoral dissertation grants or both. Reading materials consist of granting agency documents plus examples of successful applications. Enrollment restricted to anthropology graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. May be repeated for credit.
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Discusses centrality of the idea of "regions" in studies of culture, the history of "locating" social theory, and debates about area studies. Students develop area of transregional bibliographies. Primarily for second- or third-year anthropology graduate students reading "area" literatures. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Advanced graduate seminar in environmental anthropology and science and technology studies, focusing on how nature is produced in the modern world and what political and practical significance this has in different contexts. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Examines how feminist anthropology has created its object of knowledge: gender differentiation in cross-cultural perspective. Reading across feminist theory and ethnography, focuses on nature/culture, post-colonial debates, the intersection of gender with race and nationalism, and gender and transnationalism. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Introduction to selected themes in political economy, stressing the work of Marx. Topics include the development of capitalism, colonialism, dependency, world systems, state formation, class consciousness, commodity fetishism, the nature of late capitalism, post-modernism, and the aesthetics of mass culture. Through political economy's interlocutors, raises questions about gender, race and ethnicity, and post-structuralist critiques. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Explores narratives of nature and their practical consequences in contests over "wild places" and their resources. Readings focus on the histories of forests and on analytic frameworks—ecology, social history, interpretation, cultural studies—with which to investigate competing constructions of the environment. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Major figures, ideas, and writing in 19th- and 20th-century cultural anthropology surveyed. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Examines cultural anthropology's interdisciplinary practices of knowledge formation at an advanced level. Drawing on various types of theoretical texts, the course elaborates on the relationship between culture and power, taking up different themes each time it is taught. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Examines secularism as a practice of government with a concomitant set of ethics. Topics include: the notion of religion necessary for secularism; forms of moral and political inclusion/exclusion enacted by secular governance; and the kind of ethical subject secularism engenders. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Explores theoretical and methodological issues in the field of international development, with an emphasis on ethnographic analysis. Topics include hierarchies of value, altruism and philanthropy, geographies of dependency and responsibility, ethics of compassion, and public anthropology. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Historical review of prehistoric archaeology from antiquarianism to the present. Emphasis on the development of archaeological theory, its relation to evolutionary and anthropological theory, and themes ongoing over time. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 170. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Tutorial on archaeology of Africa, from 2.5 million years ago to emergence of African pastoralism and farming. Weekly examination of disciplinary models and assumptions in historic context, emphasizing overarching themes in prehistoric archaeology. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 175A. (Formerly
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Graduate tutorial on the archaeology of precolonial African kingdoms and states. Particular attention paid toward the origins of social inequality and the evolution of centralized polities. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 175B. Prerequisite(s): Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Graduate tutorial on African diaspora archaeology. Focuses on the cultural, social, economic, and political lives of Africans and their descendants in the New World and West Africa from the 15th through 19th centuries. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 175C. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year. Prerequisite(s): Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Advanced readings and discussion in Africanist archaeology. Focus to be guided by the needs of advanced students. This course does not replace the 275-series and should only be taken by students who have successfully completed at least one of these courses. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year. Prerequisite(s): course 275A or 275B or 275C. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. May be repeated for credit.
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In-depth examination of development of Native cultures in North America from end of last ice age to time of European contact. Focuses on specific regional trajectories and problems of social change. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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