Either semester. Three credits. 

A survey of the development, contributions, and contemporary social problems of selected non-Euroamerican peoples and cultures.

Either semester. Three credits. Two class periods and one 1-hour discussion. Students should ordinarily take this course in the fall semester. 

This course is concerned with the biological and cultural development of humans from their origin to the present. A brief survey of human evolution is followed by a comparative study of behavior and beliefs of our own and other societies.

Either or both semesters. Credits and hours by arrangement. May be repeated for credit (to a maximum of 17). Consent of Department Head is required before departure. May count toward the major with the consent of the advisor. 

Special topics taken in a foreign study program.

Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 220. Recommended for seniors. 

Historical and contemporary theories in social and cultural anthropology.

First semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Dewar, McBride

The concepts, methods and practice of anthropological archaeology.

Second semester, alternate years. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 100 or ANTH 106. 

The social, cultural and economic causes and consequences of internal and international migration in the modern era. Topics include migrant selection, social adaptation, effects on home and host societies, and cultural identity.

First semester. Three credits. McBrearty

The origin of humanity in Africa, hunters and gatherers of the Paleolithic, the origins of agriculture and the transition to settled life, and the emergence of civilizations in Africa, Asia and the Near East.

Second semester. Three credits. 

The entry of early hunters into the New World, the origins of agriculture and sedentary life, and the rise of complex civilization in Mesoamerica and South America.

Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Not open for credit to students who have passed ANTH 200. 

A comparative study of social structure including an analysis of kinship, marriage, community organization, political and economic institutions, and the role of the individual in these institutions.

(Formerly offered as ANTH 200.) Open to sophomores.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Survey of anthropological contributions to the study of contemporary Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Hispanic Caribbean. Special focus on the comparative analysis of recent ethnographic case studies and local/regional/national/international linkages.

Either semester. Three credits. 

The history, ecology, and culture of the native peoples of South America.

First semester. Three credits. 

A survey of African society and history prior to and including the Atlantic slave trade.

Second semester. Three credits. 

Africa since its partition in 1884. Urbanization, social stratification, racial and ethnic conflict.

Either semester. Three credits. Bee

A survey of representative Native American cultures as they existed prior to the twentieth century, together with a view of the changing life of modern Native Americans.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Analysis and interpretation of interrelated economic, political and cultural processes in the contemporary social life of Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico borderland. Draws broadly on the social science literature with a special focus on anthropological contributions.

Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 220. Dussart

An introduction to the study and understanding of Aboriginal ways of life and thought. Social relations, modes of thought and belief that are particularly Aboriginal and which show continuity with the past. Notions of identity and the relationship of various indigenous communities to the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Peoples and cultures of the Carribean region.

Either semester. Three credits. Linnekin

Survey of the indigenous societies and cultures of the Pacific Islands, from the first settlement to the postcolonial period.Topics include prehistoric canoe voyaging, modes of subsistence, political forms, ritual and religion, ceremonial exchange, gender ideologies, European colonization, and modern indigenous nationalism. Ethnographic examples will be drawn from Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia.

(Also offered as WS 231.) First semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Dussart

Major conceptual and historical problems in the study of gender in anthropology. Women's roles in different historical and contemporary settings, and new understandings of family, kinship, power, and cultural ideologies. (Crosslisted with Women's Studies 231)

Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 244. Boster

The study of how the content of thought or knowledge, is created, organized, and distributed in human communities. Topics include cultural models of the mind, emotions, personality, and relationships.

Second semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. McBrearty

The processes and events leading to the origin of human beings. Human physical and cultural development from its beginning to the dawn of settled life, through the approaches of physical anthropology and archaeology.

Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 106 or consent of instructor. Dussart

Religion as a social institution, with emphasis on the social and psychological functions of religious beliefs and practices. Materials are drawn from a wide range of historical and contemporary societies.

Either semester. Three credits. 

An introduction to the comparative study of economic life in contrasting pre-industrial, tribal and peasant economies.

Either semester. Three credits. Sosis

The application of the theory of natural selection to the study of human culture and behavior, with emphasis on the interaction between humans and their environment.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Cross-cultural overview of critical issues regarding the relationship between individual personality and sociocultural systems, and mental health and illness.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Selected social and cultural features of past and contemporary Middle Eastern social forms, and the origins and varieties of Western perceptions of these features.

First semester. Three credits. Bee

Interrelations among cultural, social and psychological factors influencing the process of cultural growth and change.

(Also offered as PRLS 241.) First semester. Three credits. 

Emphasis on groups of Mexican and Puerto Rican and Cuban origin, including treatment and historical background, social stratification, informal social relations, ethnic pereptions, relations, and the concept of Latino identity.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Sociological and anthropological analysis of the development and persistence of Afro-American culture.

Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: SOCI 107 (required for sociology majors) or ANTH 106. Not open for credit to students who have passed SOCI 225. 

The nature of the foreign situation encountered by past and present overseas Americans and their responses to it.

Either semester. Three credits. Boster

Anthropological contributions to the study of language, culture, and their relationship. Topics include the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the application of cognitive anthropological methods and theory to the study of folk classification systems.

(Also offered as HDFS 245.) Offered every third semester. Three credits. 

Theory and research on major dimensions of parenting in the U.S.A. and cross-culturally: parental warmth, control, and punishement.

Either semester. Three credits. One 3-hour class period. Erickson

Cross-cultural analysis of ethnomedicine, major medical systems, alternative medical systems, curing and healing illness and social control, gender and healing, and the role of traditional and cosmopolitan medical systems in international health.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Comparative and historical analysis of the sources and consequences of power in human populations.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Methods and techniques of field research in social settings, including observational procedures, interviewing, and the construction and use of questionnaires.

(Also offered as ARTH 256.) Either semester. Three credits. Not open for credit to students who have passed ARTH 256. One three-hour class period. Valentino

A topical survey of the arts of Native American culture in the United States and Canada.

Either semester. Three credits. McBride

Prehistoric cultures of North America from the earliest traces to European contact, with emphasis on the region east of the Mississippi.

Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 253 or consent of instructor. McBride

Prehistoric cultures of the eastern United States and Canada from their earliest appearances to the arrival of the Europeans. Laboratory and field work projects.

(Also offered as HIST 212W.) Either semester. Three credits. Not open for credit to students who have passed HIST 212W. 

From the earliest hunter-gatherers to the rise of the state: the transition from food gathering to food production and the development of complex societies in the Near East.

First semester, alternate years. Three credits. Dewar

The development of cultures in China, Japan and Southeast Asia from their earliest beginnings until the historical period.

Second semester. Three credits. 

Technology of pre-industrial and non-industrial societies from the first evidence of tool-making to the present, emphasizing materials, processes, and products of simple crafts.

Either semester. Three credits. One 3-hour class period. Recommended preparation: ANTH 277. Erickson

Anthropological perspectives on the interrelationships between culture, biology, environment, and disease. Major topics include ecology and adaptation, population dynamics, nutrition, reproduction, disease in sociological context, health seeking behavior, and the complexity of the interaction of western and non-western medical systems.

Second semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 214. McBride

The analysis, interpretation, and presentation of various kinds of archaeological artifacts, floral and faunal remains and sedementary contexts from excavated sites.

Either semester. Three credits. McBride

Combines archaeological and ethnohistorical data to reconstruct lifeways of the Native Americans of southern New England from the prehistoric period to the present.

Either semester, alternate years. Three credits. McBrearty

The African archaeological record from first artifacts to historic times. The stone age, the domestication of crops, the ways of life of early herding societies, the development of metal working, and the rise of early African kingdoms.

Either semester, alternate years. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 214, 217, or 233. McBrearty

Fossil evidence for the evolution of the human family, Hominidae. Anatomical features, behavior, and evolutionary relationships of extinct hominids; the use of biological, geological, and archaeological evidence to reconstruct past hominid adaptations.

Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 233. McBrearty

Human skeletal anatomy from an evolutionary and functional perspective. Identification and interpretation of bones of the human skeleton, methods for aging, sexing, and identifying pathologies.

Either semester. Three credits. McBrearty

The properties of stone tools - the primary evidence of human behavior for humanity's first 2.5 million years _ and the processes of their manufacture. Analysis of prehistoric tools and tool replication.

Either semester. Variable (one to three) credits. Boster, Handwerker, Linnekin

The theoretical foundations and basic methods used to collect and analyze cultural data.

Either semester.  Three credits. 

A survey of religious belief systems, both polytheistic and monotheistic, from around the world.

Either semester. Three credits. Bee

Analysis of Native American reservations and urban communities and their relationship to the larger U.S. society. Special focus on federal policy and economic development, cultural identity, and politics of Native Americans.

(Also offered as WS 273.) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: INTD 294. 

An introduction to Biblical interpretation from a feminist perspective, examining how women are represented in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. Issues of authorship, translation, point of view, cultural context and language. 

(Also offered as WS 270.) Either semester. Three credits. Linnekin

The theological standing and ritual activities of women in a cross-cultural sample of the world's religions. Overview of selected topics and current issues relevant to the study of women and religion, such as comparative gender ideologies, feminist hermeneutics, feminist theology, and fundamentalism.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Popular and scholarly theories of human group identity and diversity, in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Topics include: an overview of `race' and `ethnicity' in Western thought, ethnic group formation and transformation, political mobilizations of group identity, and systems of inequality.

Either semester. Three credits. Sosis

The influence of ecology on the evolution of the human life course, with emphasis on men's and women's reproductive decisions.

First semester. Three credits. Erickson

An introduction to the theory, method, and content of medical anthropology.

Either semester. Three credits. 

Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis of biological sex, gender, sex roles, and sexuality.

Second semester. Three credits. 

Approaches to cultural creativity and aesthetics in the graphic and plastic arts of pre-state societies. Examples from North America, Oceania, and Africa.

Either or both semesters. Credits and hours by arrangement. May be repeated for credit. Consent of Department Head required, normally to be granted prior to the student's departure. May count toward the major with consent of the advisor. 

Special topics taken in a foreign study program.

Either semester. Three credits. With a change in topic, may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites and reccomended preparation vary.

Either semester. Course may be repeated, but credits may not exceed 12 by graduation. Hours by arrangement. Prerequisite: ANTH 249 or consent of instructor. 

The investigation of a sociocultural and/or archaeological problem in some domestic or foreign field location.

Summer session. Variable credits. Open only with consent of instructor. McBride

Training in the techniques of archaeological site excavation; mapping; recording; field conservation, and preliminary analysis of materials.

Either semester. Credits and hours by arrangement. Open only with consent of instructor. With a change of content, may be repeated for credit.

Either semester. Credits and hours by arrangement. Open only with consent of instructor. With a change in content, may be repeated for credit.