Spring 2020

ANTH 1120 Pueblo Indians of the US Southwest

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ANTH 1120 Pueblo Indians of the US Southwest Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:40

Pueblo Indian communities are some of the most vibrant and distinctive native societies in the US today. In this course we will examine the archaeology, history, geography, social institutions and religious values of Pueblo Indian peoples. In the process, we will see how Pueblo cultures illustrate important ideas and debates in anthropology, including: the concept of culture; the influence of language on thought; the grounding of culture in human biology; belief vs. reason; oral tradition and history; and relationships between society and the environment.

Professor Scott Ortman

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ANTH 2100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

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ANTH 2100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:39

What does it mean to think anthropologically? This course will provide an overview of the history and foundations of anthropological thought, with a special focus on the key method of anthropology: ethnography. Drawing on both classical and contemporary anthropological texts from a broad range of international settings, we will analyze the meaning of the categories we use to organize our experiences and social relationships. Topics will include: the "culture" concept, particularly in relation to ideas of difference, relativism, translation, and individual and group identity; the role of language, narrative, and interpretation in the constitution of the self and the social world; symbols, metaphors, and ideologies as forms of power and vehicles for social transformation; ethnographic methods, ethics, and techniques of anthropological research and fieldwork; and cross-cultural comparisons of systems of kinship, gender/sex/sexuality, labor and economic exchange.

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ANTH 2200 The Archaeology of Human History

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ANTH 2200 The Archaeology of Human History Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:30

Where did human beings come from?

How did we come to inhabit the world?

Why don’t we eat wild foods anymore?

How did complex urban societies rise and fall?

All this and more…..

Professor Douglas Bamforth

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ANTH 4735 / 5735 Cuban Culture: Race, Gender, and Power

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ANTH 4735 / 5735 Cuban Culture: Race, Gender, and Power Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 08:40

This course seeks to ground students’ understanding of contemporary Cuba within the global context. How do those outside the island imagine Cuba and why? What are the realities? In a world of U.S. dominated globalization, we have only recently begun to relax a forceful economic blockade on the island: What does the U.S. mean in the Cuban imaginary, both in the past and in the present? To attend to global processes as they affect local (Cuban) experience, we will draw on texts from anthropology, history, policy, literature, film, and music. In the process, students will learn how longstanding patterns regarding race, color, class, and gender relations have evolved in(to) the socialist, and now the “post-socialist,” context.

Professor Kaifa Roland

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