Overview of major ideas and approaches to the study of cultures around the world. Surveys kinship, social organization, political economy, religious beliefs, language and other aspects of non-Western cultures. Read More »

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Introduction to archeology and bioanthropology. Explore issues and debates in human biological evolution, prehistory and social change, as well as lab and field methods for understanding archaeological remains. Read More »

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002 Unearthng Past:Prehst Cult Evo — Justin Patrick Lowry — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Robinson B222

Examines fossil evidence for human evolution, the origins of human cognition, and human culture. Explores contemporary issues and debates in human biological and social evolution. Read More »

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001 Becoming Humn: Evol, Cogn/Cu — Justin Patrick Lowry — 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM TR — Robinson B220

Exploration of native North American cultures and selected aspects of Indian-white historical relations. Emphasizes cultural persistence as well as change. Read More »

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Section 001 — Alexander V Benitez — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Robinson B224

Examination of South Asia, with emphasis on India. Includes general overview of prehistory and history; impact of colonialism; contemporary Indian culture, including the changing relations of caste and class, family organization, and the roles of women, religion, and ideology; and current trends in economic development and socioeconomic differences in different parts of the country. Read More »

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Section 001 — Rashmi Sadana — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW — Robinson B203

Survey of the ethical and legal dimensions of conducting archaeological research. Examines historical and contemporary debates about the responsibilities archaeologists have to the communities they study. Explores appropriate methods of artifact preservation, excavation, and the interpretation of data. Read More »

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001 Dig/Deal Dead Ethcs Archaeolgy — Alexander V Benitez — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR — Robinson B105

Inquiry into the biological dimensions of humans as culture- bearing animals. Topics include altruism, aggression, primate social organization, morphology, comparative ethnology, and microevolutionary genetic differentiation. Read More »

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001 Evolution, Sex and Society — Beatrix Arendt — 03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR — Thompson Hall 2022

First of a two-course sequence that reviews the major theoretical traditions and schools of thought in anthropology. Read More »

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001 Theories, Methds, Iss I — Linda J Seligmann — 01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR — Robinson B105

Topic of contemporary interest in anthropology, focusing on social science topics of interest. Read More »

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001 Iss in Anth: Social Sci — Kimberly A Urban — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T — Planetary Hall (formerly Science & Tech I) 224

Examines selected topics with emphasis on the integration of different kinds of knowledge and the balancing of alternative ways of assessing meaning and relevance. Topics usually drawn from issues of global economic processes, civic rights and responsibilities, ethics, museums, public policy, the environment, and migration. Read More »

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001 Synthesis Seminar — Kimberly A Urban — 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR — Art & Design Building L008

Topic of contemporary interest in anthropology, focusing on social science topics of interest. Read More »

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001 Iss in Anth: Social Sci — Kimberly A Urban — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T — Planetary Hall (formerly Science & Tech I) 224

Field project or study abroad experience leading to the production of a written report

Topic of contemporary interest in anthropology, changing from semester to semester, and focusing on topics such as sex roles, anthropology and ethics, and primate social organization.

Examines some of the major theorists of 19th- and early 20th-century cultural theory. Marx, Freud, Durkheim, and Weber are surveyed as foundational thinkers for reading the works of such 20th-century theorists as Boas, Malinowski, Benedict, and Sapir. Read More »

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002 Anth/Human Condition: Sem I — Andrew Bickford — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M — East Building 134

Human societies have always engaged in complex political relations and economic exchanges. The cultural meanings people create are shaped by, and in turn shape, systems of power. Political economy is the attempt to understand the relationship between politics and economics, at the juncture of local meanings and global histories. Course reviews major works and models of political economy, especially as they relate to social and cultural analysis. Read More »

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Section 001 — Jana fortier — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T — Robinson A250

In-depth study of peoples and cultures of a specific world region (Latin America, East Asia, the Pacific, or United States). Content may include cultures defined by diaspora, migration, and other global forces and processes. Read More »

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Section 001 — Rashmi Sadana — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Krug Hall 209

Explores different approaches to understanding the interaction of nationalism, transnationalism, and states given the apparently simultaneous dissolution of demographic, economic and cultural borders, and modernist social science paradigms. Read More »

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001 Natlsm/Transnatlsm/State — John G. Dale — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T — Thompson Hall 2022

Considers anthropological approaches to the study of history, the ways in which people construct their histories, and social historians' effort to incorporate anthropological and ethnographic orientations into their accounts. Attention to tensions between culture and power in the constitution of historiography and to methodological challenges of interpreting qualitative and quantitative data. Read More »

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Section 001 — Linda J Seligmann — 04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R — East Building 134

In-depth study of peoples and cultures of a specific world region (Latin America, East Asia, the Pacific, or United States). Content may include cultures defined by diaspora, migration, and other global forces and processes. Read More »

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Section 001 — Rashmi Sadana — 07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W — Krug Hall 209

Explores current issues and debates in sociocultural anthropology.