ANTH 101-01 10886 |
General Anthropology |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Jane Holmstrom
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Details
This course is an introduction to the discipline of anthropology as a whole. It presents students with a theoretical grounding in the four major subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. In this class the emphasis is on the holistic nature of the discipline. Students will be challenged with some of the countless links between the systems of biology and culture. They will explore key questions about human diversity in the past, present, and future. Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who've taken ANTH 111.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 101-01 10886 |
General Anthropology |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Jane Holmstrom
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Details
This course is an introduction to the discipline of anthropology as a whole. It presents students with a theoretical grounding in the four major subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. In this class the emphasis is on the holistic nature of the discipline. Students will be challenged with some of the countless links between the systems of biology and culture. They will explore key questions about human diversity in the past, present, and future. Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who've taken ANTH 111.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 111-01 10083 |
Cultural Anthropology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Hilary Chart
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Details
The cultural perspective on human behavior including case studies, often illustrated by ethnographic films and slides, of non-Western and American cultures. May include some field interviewing. Includes the cross cultural treatment of economic, legal, political, social and religious institutions and a survey of major approaches to the explanation of cultural variety and human social organization. Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who've taken ANTH 101.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 111-01 10083 |
Cultural Anthropology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Hilary Chart
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Details
The cultural perspective on human behavior including case studies, often illustrated by ethnographic films and slides, of non-Western and American cultures. May include some field interviewing. Includes the cross cultural treatment of economic, legal, political, social and religious institutions and a survey of major approaches to the explanation of cultural variety and human social organization. Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who've taken ANTH 101.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 111-02 10084 |
Cultural Anthropology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Hilary Chart
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Details
The cultural perspective on human behavior including case studies, often illustrated by ethnographic films and slides, of non-Western and American cultures. May include some field interviewing. Includes the cross cultural treatment of economic, legal, political, social and religious institutions and a survey of major approaches to the explanation of cultural variety and human social organization. Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who've taken ANTH 101.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 115-01 10085 |
Biological Anthropology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: CARN 06B
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Instructor: Jane Holmstrom
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Details
This class is a broad survey covering topics such as genetics, evolutionary mechanisms, adaptation, primate studies, the human fossil record, and human variation. All of these areas will be placed within the framework of the interaction of humans within their environment. The course is divided into three sections: human genetics, human ecology and primatology, human evolution and adaptation.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Natural science and mathematics
Course Materials
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ANTH 206-01 10536 |
Endangered/Minority Languages |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: OLRI 301
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Instructor: Marianne Milligan
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*First day attendance required; cross-listed with LING 206-01*
Details
Language loss is accelerating at alarming rates. In fact, Linguists predict that only five percent of the six thousand languages currently spoken in the world are expected to survive into the 22nd century. In this course, we will examine the historical, political, and socio-economic factors behind the endangerment and/or marginalization of languages in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. We will also concentrate on the globalization of English (and other major languages), which plays a primary role in language endangerment and marginalization. Additional topics include: linguistic diversity, language policy, multilingualism (in both nations and individuals), global language conflict, and language revitalization. Students will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about these issues by interviewing speakers of an endangered and/or minority language.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 230-01 10086 |
Ethnographic Interviewing |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: CARN 05
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Instructor: Arjun Guneratne
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Details
An introduction to ethnographic field interviewing learned in the context of individually run student field projects. Focuses on the anthropologist-informant field relationship and the discovery of cultural knowledge through participant observation and ethnosemantic interviewing techniques. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 111 or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 239-01 10087 |
Medical Anthropology |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Ron Barrett
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Details
This course examines issues of health, illness, and healing from a variety of anthropological perspectives. From a cross-cultural perspective, we will examine the diversity of beliefs about human health and sickness, and a variety of healing practices by which people treat them. From the perspective of critical epidemiology, we will wrestle with recurrent problems of socioeconomic inequalities, ecological disruptions, and their impact upon the differential distribution, prevention, and treatment of human diseases. Previous courses in anthropology are recommended but not required.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 240-01 10088 |
Human Osteology and Paleopathology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 06B
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Instructor: Jane Holmstrom
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Details
The study of the human skeletal system is basic to the disciplines of biological anthropology, forensic science, medicine and even archaeology. This class will examine the fundamentals of osteology. It will also explore numerous pathological conditions associated with both infectious and non-infectious diseases in addition to those caused by traumatic events. Students will learn to identify and analyze human bone and pathological conditions of the skeleton to aid in the reconstruction of life histories from human remains. Prerequisite(s): One of the following: ANTH 101, ANTH 112, ANTH 115, ANTH 223, BIOL 112, BIOL 190, or BIOL 200.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Natural science and mathematics
Course Materials
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ANTH 248-01 10887 |
Defense Against the Dark Arts |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Ron Barrett
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Details
This course uses the lens of cultural anthropology to examine witchcraft and magical traditions around the world. Major topics include psychosomatic healing, the social roles of shamans and possession mediums, recurring themes in witchcraft accusations, and the psychoanalysis of Harry Potter. Throughout these topics, we will wrestle with the distinctions between science, religion, and magic while gaining an appreciation of historically marginalized beliefs and practices. The course employs a combination of lecture and film as well as small group discussions and research presentations. Prerequisite(s): A prior course in cultural anthropology is recommended but not required.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 251-F1 10089 |
Politics of Memory in Latin America |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Olga González
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*First-Year course only*
Details
This course examines and critically analyzes various approaches to the study of how different individuals and communities in particular historical and cultural scenarios in contemporary Latin America create meanings about their past experience with political violence. The course addresses questions related to the tension between remembering and forgetting, the presence of conflicting memories and truths and how these are negotiated or not through distinct forms of representation. The cultural analysis of different means of representation: human rights and truth commissions’ reports, testimonials, film, art and memorials will be the basis for class discussions on different notions of truth and different forms of truth-telling. A close examination of these forms of representation will reveal the extent to which they can conflict with each other while at the same time feed on each other, creating “effects of truth” and leaving room for secrecy as a mode of truth-telling. Finally, the course will also compel students to think about what consequences the politics of memory in postwar Latin America.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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ANTH 251-F1 10089 |
Politics of Memory in Latin America |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Olga González
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*First-Year course only*
Details
This course examines and critically analyzes various approaches to the study of how different individuals and communities in particular historical and cultural scenarios in contemporary Latin America create meanings about their past experience with political violence. The course addresses questions related to the tension between remembering and forgetting, the presence of conflicting memories and truths and how these are negotiated or not through distinct forms of representation. The cultural analysis of different means of representation: human rights and truth commissions’ reports, testimonials, film, art and memorials will be the basis for class discussions on different notions of truth and different forms of truth-telling. A close examination of these forms of representation will reveal the extent to which they can conflict with each other while at the same time feed on each other, creating “effects of truth” and leaving room for secrecy as a mode of truth-telling. Finally, the course will also compel students to think about what consequences the politics of memory in postwar Latin America.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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ANTH 294-01 10953 |
Anthropology of Work |
Days: W
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: CARN 05
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Instructor: Hilary Chart
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*Open to all current students*
Details
There is much discussion about the changing terms of employment, and related concerns have only intensified in the wake of the pandemic. Entrepreneurs, gig workers, online contractors and now an unprecedented number of telecommuters are challenging conventional models of the nine-to-five job. But nine-to-five has hardly been the norm throughout history, nor does it describe the typical work experience around the world today. This course takes an anthropological approach to consider the contemporary diversity of working worlds and worker experiences, as well as important historical shifts that have brought us to this moment, are currently underway, and will carry us into new working futures. Gender, race, class, and age are all deeply implicated in unequal systems here, as are powerful environmental, economic and political forces. Who has to work? Who gets to work? Who is able to work safely? Who is empowered by it and who is exploited? Why do we work? What work is most valued? When will the robots come for our jobs? What might a world without work look like? Drawing on examples from around the world, and materials ranging from ethnographic writing and film to popular media, u/dystopian fiction, this seminar dives deep to take a comparative approach to these and other pressing questions raised by today’s diverse and shifting worlds of work.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 335-01 10506 |
Global Generosity |
Days: M W F
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim
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*Cross-listed with INTL 335-01*
Details
From Italian Mafia dons to famous American philanthropists; from the knitting of "trauma teddies" in Helsinki to gift shopping in London; and from ceremonial exchange rings in Melanesia to the present day global refugee crisis: this course will investigate how generosity is understood and practiced in global perspective. We'll begin the semester by examining key debates surrounding reciprocity, gifts, and exchange, theories of altruism and generosity, and patron-client relations. We'll then explore the birth of the "humanitarian spirit," and the complicated ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention. We will compare diverse religious traditions' approaches to giving, including Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Jainism. And we'll explore contemporary debates surrounding volunteerism within sectarian and neoliberal political regimes.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 363-01 10091 |
Anthropology of Development |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 05
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Instructor: Arjun Guneratne
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Details
The goal of this course is to develop an anthropological understanding and critique of development. It aims to examine both the discourse of development and its practice. The course focuses on the construction of the Third World as an "underdeveloped" area, and discusses the dominant theoretical paradigms of development and modernization. It assesses the reasons for the general failure of development programs based on these models to bring about meaningful and substantive change in societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and discusses possible alternatives to "development" as it is currently practiced. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 111.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 487-01 10093 |
Theory in Anthropology |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: THEATR 101
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Instructor: Olga González
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*First day attendance required*
Details
This course introduces students to the broad range of explanations for social and cultural phenomena used by anthropologists since the emergence of the discipline in the 19th century. The course focuses on the development of three broad theoretical approaches: The American school of cultural anthropology, British social anthropology, and the French school that emerged from the work of Durkheim and his followers. The course also examines theoretical approaches such as cultural materialism, and symbolic and interpretive approaches to the study of culture. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing. Students should have at least two courses in anthropology including ANTH 101 or ANTH 111, or the permission of the instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 494-01 10908 |
Advanced Archaeology Seminar |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: MAIN 011
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Instructor: Andrew Overman
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*Cross-listed with CLAS 482-01*
Details
Archaeology, CRM, courses focusing on material culture, or through conservation or preservation work, or excavations. And for those who sense they may be inclining toward work in or exploring archaeology, conservation work, or museum related studies.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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