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Anthropology (ANTH)Head of Department: Professor Sally McBrearty For major requirements, see the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences section of this Catalog. (100) Either semester. Three credits. A survey of the development, contributions, and contemporary social problems of selected non-Euroamerican peoples and cultures. CA 2. CA 4-INT. (100W) Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. CA 2. CA-4-INT. 1001W. Anthropology through Film (101W) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. An introduction to cultural anthropology, approached through the medium of ethnographic film. Particular attention is given to how films represent humans' varied beliefs and behavior. CA 1. CA 4-INT. 1006. Introduction to Anthropology (106) Either semester. Three credits. Two class periods and one 1-hour discussion. 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. CA 2. CA 4-INT. (193) Either semester. 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. (195) Either semester. Credits, prerequisites, and hours as determined by the Senate Curricula and Courses Committee. May be repeated for credit with a change in topic. 1500. Great Discoveries in Archaeology (220) Either semester. Three credits. 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. CA 2. CA 4. (220W) Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. CA 2. CA 4. 2501. Introduction to Archaeology (214) Either semester. Three credits. The concepts, methods and practice of anthropological archaeology. (233) Either semester. Three credits. 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. 2510. Methods in Maritime Archaeology (289) Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 2501. Methods and techniques in underwater archaeology covering both maritime (ships, ports, etc.) and submerged settlements archaeology. Overview of the aqueous environment, underwater archaeological methods, geophysical/geotechnical surveying and data interpretation, diver and ROV-based documentation and excavation techniques survey methods. 3002. Culture, Language, and Thought (244) Either semester. Three credits. 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. 3003. Field Research in Social Settings (249) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 1000 or ANTH 1006. Methods and techniques of field research in social settings, including observational procedures, interviewing, and the construction and use of questionnaires. (268) Either semester. Variable (1-3) credits. The theoretical foundations and basic methods used to collect and analyze cultural data. 3021. Contemporary Latin America (221) 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. 3022. Peoples and Cultures of South America (222) Either semester. Three credits. The history, ecology, and culture of the native peoples of South America. (225) (Also offered as AFAM 3025.) Either semester. Three credits. Africa since its partition in 1884. Urbanization, social stratification, racial and ethnic conflict. 3026. Peoples and Cultures of North America (226) Either semester. Three credits. 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. 3027. Contemporary Native Americans (270) Either semester. Three credits. 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. 3028. Indigenous Rights and Aboriginal Australia (228) (Also offered as HRTS 3028.) Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 2000. An introduction to the study and understanding of Aboriginal ways of life and thought. An exploration of the complexity of contemporary indigenous social orders and land rights issues. CA 4-INT. (229) Either semester. Three credits. Peoples and cultures of the Caribbean region. 3030. Peoples of the Pacific Islands (230) Either semester. Three credits. 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. CA 4-INT. 3038. Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East (238) 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. 3041. Latin American Minorities in the United States (241) (Also offered as PRLS 3241.) Either semester. Three credits. Emphasis on groups of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin, including treatment and historical background, social stratification, informal social relations, ethnic pereptions, relations and the concept of Latino identity. 3090. Directed Field Research in Anthropology (296) Either semester. May be repeated, but credits may not exceed 12 by graduation. Hours by arrangement. Prerequisite: ANTH 3003 or instructor consent. The investigation of a sociocultural and/or archaeological problem in some domestic or foreign field location. (293) Either semester. 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. (298) Either semester. Credits and hours by arrangement. Open only with consent of instructor. With a change of content, may be repeated for credit. (295) Either semester. Three credits. With a change in topic, may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites, required preparation, and recommended preparation vary. (299) Either semester. Credits and hours by arrangement. Open only with consent of instructor. With a change in content, may be repeated for credit. 3101. Culture, Power, and Social Relations (247) Either semester. Three credits. Comparative and historical analysis of the sources and consequences of power in human populations. (215) Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 1000 or ANTH 1006. 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. 3150W. Migration (235) Either semester. Three credits. An introduction to the comparative study of economic life in contrasting pre-industrial, tribal and peasant economies. 3152. Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (275) (Also offered as AFAM 3152.) 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. CA 2. CA 4. 3153W. Human Rights in Democratizing Countries (280W) (Also offered as HRTS 3153W.) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800; Open only with consent of instructor. Human rights, political violence, political and legal anthropology, prosecutions of human rights offenders, truth and memory, reconciliation, international justice. CA 4-INT. 3200. Human Behavioral Ecology (236) Either semester. Three credits. 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. (246W) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. 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. CA 4. (232) Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 3002. 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. 3251. Psychological Anthropology (237) Either semester. Three credits. Cross-cultural overview of critical issues regarding the relationship between individual personality and sociocultural systems, and mental health and illness. (277) Either semester. Three credits. An introduction to the theory, method, and content of medical anthropology. (261) Either semester. Three credits. One 3-hour class period. Recommended preparation: ANTH 3300. 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. 3303. Parent-Child Relations in Cross-Cultural Perspective (245) (Also offered as HDFS 3310.) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: Open to juniors or higher. Theory and research on major dimensions of parenting in the U.S.A. and cross-culturally: parental warmth, control, and punishment. 3350. Anthropological Perspectives on Women (231) (Also offered as WS 3350.) Either semester. Three credits. 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. (281) Either semester. Three credits. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis of biological sex, gender, sex roles, and sexuality. (234) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 1000 or 1006. Major theories and approaches in the study of religion as a social institution and cultural system. Topics include myth, ritual, taboos and pollution beliefs, shamanism, magical practices, fundamentalism and religion in modern society. (269) Either semester. Three credits. A survey of religious belief systems, both polytheistic and monotheistic, from around the world. CA 1. CA 4-INT. (273) (Also offered as WS 3402.) Either semester. Three credits. 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. (274) (Also offered as WS 3403.) Either semester. Three credits. Gender issues in the world's religions. Survey of women's theological standing, ritual activities and participation in a cross-cultural sample of religions, both monotheistic and polytheistic. 3450. Anthropological Perspectives on Art (285) Either 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. (252) (Also offered as ARTH 3715.) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: Open to juniors or higher. A topical survey of the arts of Native American culture in the United States and Canada. (217) Either semester. Three credits. 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. (218) Either 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. CA 4-INT. 3506W. Laboratory Techniques in Archaeology (262W) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. The analysis, interpretation, and presentation of archaeological data sets including lithics, ceramics, floral and faunal remains and spatial information from excavated sites. (264) Either semester. Three credits. 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. 3513. Near Eastern Pre-history (257) (Also offered as HIST 3300.) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: Open to juniors or higher. 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. (209) Either semester. Three credits. Interdisciplinary survey of the archaeological, biological, cultural, and behavioral evolution of prehistoric humans and their societies across Europe and portions of western Asia. (294W) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 2501; ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. Consent of instructor required. Historical development of archaeology and theoretical controversies, past and present, that shape the field. 3522W. Ecological Anthropology Seminar (292W) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. Interdisciplinary study of the ecology of humans, integrating ecological and anthropological theory with archaeological, historical, and contemporary case-studies. 3523. The Origins of Agriculture (287) Either semester. Three credits. The origins and spread of agriculture worldwide. Economic, social, and ideological ramifications of the agricultural transition. Processes of plant and animal domestication. (267)Either semester. Three credits. 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. (266) Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 2502. 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. 3703. Zooarchaeological Method and Theory (286) Either semester. Three credits. Method and theory of archaeological faunal analysis, including training in the identification of skeletal materials, the formation of the zooarchaeological record, and the interpretation of zooarchaeological data. 3704. Experimental Archaeology (288) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 2501. Method and theory of experimental archaeology, including hands-on study of past human behavior through experimentation with modern material cultural, and the execution of an experimental research project addressing an archaeological question. 3704W. Experimental Archaeology (288W) Prerequisite: ANTH 2501; ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. (265) Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 2501, 2502, or 3503. 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. 3902. North American Prehistory (253) Either semester. Three credits. Prehistoric cultures of North America from the earliest traces to European contact, with emphasis on the region east of the Mississippi. CA 4. 3903. Archaeology of Eastern North America (254) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 3902 or instructor consent. Prehistoric cultures of the eastern United States and Canada from their earliest appearances to the arrival of the Europeans. Laboratory and field work projects. 3904. Ethnohistory of Native New England (263) Either semester. Three credits. Combines archaeological and ethnohistorical data to reconstruct the lifeways of the Native Americans of New England from the prehistoric period to the present. CA 4. 3904W. Ethnohistory of Native New England (263W) Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. CA 4. 3990. Field Work in Archaeology (297) Summer session. Variable credits. Open only with consent of instructor. Training in the techniques of archaeological site excavation; mapping; recording; field conservation, and preliminary analysis of materials. 4001W. The Development of Anthropological Theory (212W) Either semester. Three credits. Prerequisite: ANTH 2000; ENGL 1010 or 1011 or 3800. Recommended for seniors. Historical and contemporary theories in social and cultural anthropology. (216) Either semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ANTH 1500, 2501, or 2502. Adler An interdisciplinary consideration of the biological, cultural, technological, and behavioral evolution of the Neanderthals and their societies. 4801. Quantitative Methods for Archaeologists (279) Either semester. Three credits. Quantitative methods appropriate to the analysis of artifacts data, radiocarbon dating, and the spatial distribution of sites.
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