| ANTH 100-01 |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Instructor: Karen Weinstein
Course Description:
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of biological anthropology. We will examine the development of evolutionary theory. We will then apply evolutionary theory to understand principles of inheritance, familial and population genetics in humans, human biological diversity and adaptations to different environments, behavioral and ecological diversity in nonhuman primates, and the analysis of the human skeleton and fossil record to understand the origin and evolution of the human family.
Three hours classroom and three hours laboratory a week. Offered three semesters over a two-year period.
|
09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 115
01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 115 |
| ANTH 101-01 |
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Instructor: James Ellison
Course Description:
This course is a comprehensive introduction to how cultural anthropologists study culture and society in diverse contexts. We will use ethnographic case studies from across the world to examine the ways people experience and transform social relationships and culture in areas including families, gender, ethnicity, health, religion, exchange, science, and even what it means to be a person. We will examine how culture and society are embedded within, shape, and are shaped by forces of economics, politics, and environment.
Offered every semester.
|
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 304 |
| ANTH 205-01 |
Listening Across Cultures
Instructor: Jamie Reuland
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MUAC 209-01. Is music a "universal language"? How might we listen to, consume, and participate in music across a diverse cultural spectrum without engaging in "cultural tourism" or appropriation? Can we listen across cultures? Working with a wide range of approaches to these questions, this course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of ethnomusicology (the study of music and sound in relation to social life). Students will study sound recordings and ethnographic films, read widely, and examine material objects (like musical instruments) drawn from socio-politically and geographically diverse case studies. No previous musical training or note reading skills are necessary.
|
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
WEISS 235 |
| ANTH 212-01 |
Development Anthropology
Instructor: Amalia Pesantes Villa
Course Description:
Sociocultural change, development, and modernization in both Western society and the Third World are examined in terms of theory and practice. Emphasis is on the planning, administration, and evaluation of development projects in agriculture, energy, education, health, and nutrition. The increasingly important role of professional anthropologists and anthropological data is examined in the context of government policies and international business.
Offered every other year.
|
09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 204 |
| ANTH 220-01 |
Ethnography
Instructor: James Ellison
Course Description:
Ethnography is a unique form of research through which we learn about peoples experiences in the world and their own perspectives in their everyday lives. Ethnographic research is done in any context, from rural farms, to urban train systems, from medical tourism networks, to nuclear power plants. This course examines ethnographic scholarship with attention to the methods of research. Students learn about the methods ethnographers employ in their work, how they use them, and the kinds of results those methods yield. Examples draw from ethnographic work on diverse topics and in varied contexts throughout the world. Students develop brief projects using some of the methods that are examined. Prerequisite: 101
|
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| ANTH 261-01 |
Archaeology of North America
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 261-01. This course reviews Pre-Columbian landscapes north of Mesoamerica. We consider topics including the timing and process of the initial peopling of the continent, food production, regional systems of exchange, development of social hierarchies, environmental adaption and the nature of initial colonial encounters between Europeans and Native Americans. These questions are addressed primarily by culture area and region.
This course is cross-listed as ARCH 261. Offered every two years.
|
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 103 |
| ANTH 290-01 |
Archaeological Methods
Instructor: James Ellison, ANTH STAFF
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 290-01. This course focuses on archaeological field and laboratory methods through readings, lectures, and hands-on experiences and the data these practices generate. It will cover the essential field methods employed in archaeological survey (pedestrian, aerial, and geophysical) and excavation. This will include the fundamentals of documentation including note-taking, drawing, photography, and map-making. It will also introduce how archaeologists organize and analyze the large quantities and wide range of data recovered in these processes with particular attention to the use of computer databases, especially Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It will provide a general overview of different types of laboratory analysis including lithics, ceramics, metals, plant and animal remains, and discuss the available dating methods. Students will have the opportunity to practice many of the field and lab methods in the Simulated Excavation Field (SEF), and, when available, archaeological sites in the Cumberland Valley. Through these experiences and interactions with a range of archaeological datasets, students will learn how the archaeological record is formed and what its patterns can teach us about ancient human livelihoods. Finally, students will learn to synthesize and present the results of field and laboratory research in reports, a critical genre of writing in the discipline.This course is cross-listed as ARCH 290. Prerequisite: Any ARCH course at 100- or 200-level.
|
01:30 PM-04:30 PM, M
ARCH LAB |
| ANTH 345-01 |
Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Citizenship, Indigeneity and Interculturality
Instructor: Amalia Pesantes Villa
Course Description:
Cross-listed with LALC 300-03. The goal of this course is to analyze contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America through a historic and ethnographic lens. We will explore and discuss the key demands of indigenous peoples, their strategies to negotiate at the national level as well as the policies that have been developed in response to indigenous activism in the region. We will discuss the various levels of success indigenous movements have accomplished in different countries, and analyze the explanations given to understand such differences. Using texts from a range of Latin American countries, this course will begin by doing a historical analysis of the position of Indigenous peoples after independence, during the nation-building processes, and their strategies to resist assimilation. We will discuss the particularities of indigenous identity in a region where the colonial hierarchies based on class and ethnicity persists and shapes privilege of lighter skinned Latin Americans and discrimination towards indigenous peoples. We will analyze contemporary intercultural policies in both education and health to learn about the possibilities and limitations of the concept of "interculturalidad." This approach, meant to improve the recognition of indigenous perspectives and culture has oftentimes resulted in the cooption of indigenous peoples demands.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| ANTH 345-02 |
Life on the Edge: The Archaeology of Borderlands and Frontiers
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 345-02. We are all familiar with borders, the immutable lines on maps that define "us" and "them" and shape territory. For those living in these regions, however, life is more often defined by flux than stability. This course explores borderlands and frontiers as dynamic zones of cultural encounter, negotiation, exchange, and, at times, conflict and violence. Rather than treating borders as fixed lines, we examine them as socially produced landscapes. Using anthropological and archaeological case studies spanning ancient empires, colonial expansions, and modern nation-states, students will investigate how borderlands and frontier zones have been experienced by diverse communities materially and socially. We will engage with key theoretical approaches to borders and frontiers, emphasizing identity, inequality, and hybridity. By integrating these perspectives, students will gain a critical understanding of how borderlands and frontiers both reflect and challenge dominant political and cultural narratives, past and present.
|
01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DEAL 1 |
| ANTH 400-01 |
Senior Colloquium
Instructor: James Ellison
Course Description:
Offered every fall semester, senior anthropology majors will meet to learn about professional career opportunities in anthropology as well as a write a research paper that incorporates primary sources in anthropological writing and/or original anthropological scholarship involving fieldwork or laboratory research.Prerequisite: Research in Anthropology course and at least one Anthropology subdiscipline course (cultural, biological, or archaeology).
|
03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 212 |