printer friendly pageANTHRO 151: Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 251, HUMBIO 148W)
How do choices relating to bearing, nursing, and raising children influence women's participation in the labor force? Cultural, demographic, and evolutionary explanations, using crosscultural case studies. Emphasis is on understanding fertility and work in light of the options available to women at particular times and places.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
Instructors:
Brown, M. (PI)
ANTHRO 153A: Japan's Postwar Cultural History (ANTHRO 253A)
Cultural and social history of Japan since WWII. Falling birth rates, changing family structure, decreasing and then increasing divorce rates, coping with societal aging, expansion of higher education, solving new educational problems, increasing variability of work situation, introduction of foreign workers. Attention to the legacy of Tokugawa and pre-war Japan as antecedent to postwar developments.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Befu, H. (PI)
ANTHRO 161: Human Behavioral Ecology (ANTHRO 261)
Theory, method, and application in anthropology. How theory in behavioral ecology developed to understand animal behavior is applied to questions about human economic decision making in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Topics include decisions about foraging and subsistence, competition and cooperation, mating, and reproduction and parenting.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Bird, R. (PI)
;
Codding, B. (PI)
ANTHRO 161B: Human Ecology of the Amazon (ANTHRO 261B, LATINAM 202, LATINAM 302)
The ecosystems of the Amazon and their human inhabitants. The biotic and abiotic factors shaping human adaptation to the region. Ethnographic literature used to explore subsistence patterns and the resource use of native Amazonians. Current changes in these economies and lifeways due to acculturation and market forces, and the implications for conservation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Irvine, D. (PI)
ANTHRO 164A: Anthropology of Ecotourism
Ecotourism has been touted as a win-win scenario for both biodiversity conservation and the well-being of local residents. In practice, these lofty ideals of ecotourism have proven difficult to implement. The rapid development of ecotourism over the last two decades. Focus is on the scholarly literature relating to ecotourism from both supporting and critical perspectives.
ANTHRO 165A: People and Parks: Management of Protected Areas
As resources become scarcer, parks increasingly serve as ideological battlegrounds for contested core human values and often put livelihoods at stake. Their historical development and the complex array of present-day issues associated with the formal protection of biodiversity. The ideas behind parks and the evolution of these ideas.
ANTHRO 166: Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness (ANTHRO 266)
Seminar. The state, private sector, development agencies, and NGOs in development and conservation of tropical land use. Focus is on the socioeconomic and political drivers of resource extraction and agricultural production. Case studies used to examine the local-to-global context from many disciplines. Are maps and analyses used for gain, visibility, accountability, or contested terrain? How are power dynamics, land use history, state-private sector collusion, and neoliberal policies valued? What are the local and extra-local responses? Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Curran, L. (PI)
ANTHRO 171: The Biology and Evolution of Language (ANTHRO 271, HUMBIO 145L)
Language as an evolutionary adaptation of humans. Comparison of communicative behavior in humans and animals, and the inference of evolutionary stages. Structure, linguistic functions, and the evolution of the vocal tract, ear, and brain, with associated disorders (stuttering, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia) and therapies. Controversies over language centers in the brain and the innateness of language acquisition. Vision, color terminology, and biological explanation in linguistic theory.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Fox, J. (PI)
;
Satterthwaite-Phillips, D. (TA)
ANTHRO 173: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Resilence, Vulnerability, and Environmental Justice (HUMBIO 111)
The complexity of social and political issues surrounding global environmental change. Emphasis is on synergies precipitated by human-induced climatic change. Case studies and scenarios to explore the vulnerability and resilience in households, communities, regions, and nationmstates most affected by extreme weather conditions. Their concerns, livelihood changes, and diverse responses of rural smallholders, indigenous communities, the state, and local and regional migrants. Central theme is environmental justice.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Curran, L. (PI)
ANTHRO 175: Human Osteology (ANTHRO 275, HUMBIO 180)
The human skeleton. Focus is on identification of fragmentary human skeletal remains. Analytical methods include forensic techniques, archaeological analysis, paleopathology, and age/sex estimation. Students work independently in the laboratory with the skeletal collection.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
DeGusta, D. (PI)
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