Spring 2018

The body, illness and healing from a cultural perspective, including comparative studies of folk healing systems, curing rituals and Western biomedical practices.

Foundations of the human species. Examination of scientific evidence from Darwinian theory, primate behavior, fossils, and the behavior of modern people. Laboratory. Duplicates credit in former ANTH 200Lg.

Archaeology as the means of investigating our shared human past, from the origins of humanity to the foundations of current civilization.

Concepts of social anthropology using filmic representations ofsocieties throughout the world in contrast to written ethnography.

Survey of the performance of healing in cross-cultural perspective. The course culminates in field research to Spiritist centers outside the United States.

Active learning course enables students to acquire and experience survival skills devised in pre-modern times and to apply this knowledge in an experimental context.

Behavior and ecology of living nonhuman primates, with an emphasis on field studies of apes and monkeys. Topics include aggression, communication, reproduction, and cognition. Recommended preparation: HBIO 200Lg. (Duplicates credit in former ANTH 306.)

North American Indian societies, their major cultural themes,ethnological significance, and comparability with Western Europeancultural forms; lectures, visual, and indigene demonstrations.

Archaeology and global heritage debates, laws, ethical conundrums, and stakeholder perspectives reveal goals and guiding values of societys exploration of the past.

Methods for field research in international settings include ethnography, archival work, surveying and documentation; preparation for overseas research and senior thesis. Recommended preparation: ANTH-205.

Examination of violence, identity, law, religion, nationalism, development, caste, kinship, gender, and the South Asian diaspora.

Introduction to folklore as a discipline, including folklore research methods and theory. Core course for the minor in Folklore and Popular Culture.

Cross-cultural notions of the body, health, and healing; historic and cultural variability of ideas of reproduction, birth, sexuality, mental illness, and disability.

An introduction to the field of food studies, as a historical and cross-disciplinary study of the place of food in culture and society.

Examination of one's life within its sociocultural context; study of family history, autobiography, diary, journal, and film; research and writing of a life history.

Youth gang dynamics and their effects on institutions. Comparative analysis of Asian, African, and Mexican American gangs.

Analysis of the practices of witches and witch doctors, priests, diviners and traditional healers in Western and non-Western societies, relating their practices to religion and medicine.

Evaluation of cultural impact of policy and program designed to stimulate change in traditional communities. Fieldwork assignments in education, health, and development.

Interdisciplinary examination of social, personal meanings of masculinity; variety of male experience by social class, race, sexuality, and age; emerging masculinities of the future.

Historical and theoretical approaches to major issues in the field of human evolutionary biology. Capstone course in which students will undertake an original independent research project. Prerequisite: HBIO 200Lg.

Survey of anthropological methods for acquiring and analyzing data. Implementation of the field project.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Individually guided research and readings culminating in the production of an honors thesis. prerequisite: 3.0 gpa; 201g plus 8 units of upper division ANTH courses.

Continuation of 501, focusing on current models, methods and issues in social anthropology.

Women and immigration, employment, and household and family relations in the context of the global economy; women's social and political movements in diverse cultural contexts.

A hands-on laboratory based survey of post-production technologies, including editing both new and older footage. Students should be finishing their own documentaries.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded C/NC.

The cultural construction of body image, embodied practice, race, sexuality and healing.