printer friendly pageANTHRO 209: Archaeology: World Cultural Heritage (ANTHRO 109)
Focus is on issues dealing with rights to land and the past on a global scale including conflicts and ethnic purges in the Middle East, the Balkans, Afghanistan, India, Australia, and the Americas. How should world cultural heritage be managed? Who defines what past and which sites and monuments should be saved and protected? Are existing international agreements adequate? How can tourism be balanced against indigenous rights and the protection of the past?
ANTHRO 209A: The Origins of Food Production and Village Life: Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East (ANTHRO 109A, ARCHLGY 116, ARCHLGY 316)
Major transformations in human lifeways from ca 18,000 - 6,000 B.C.E. in the Near East, including the Levant, Anatolia, and Cyprus. The transition from hunting-gathering to agro-pastoralism, the emergence of sedentary lifeways, plant and animal domestication processes, the appearance of first villages and towns, and the social consequences of novel economic and settlement practices.
ANTHRO 210: Examining Ethnographies
Eight or nine important ethnographies, including their construction, their impact, and their faults and virtues.
ANTHRO 211: Archaeology of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender (ANTHRO 111)
How archaeologists study sex, sexuality, and gender through the material remains left behind by past cultures and communities. Theoretical and methodological issues; case studies from prehistoric and historic archaeology.
ANTHRO 213: Faunal Analysis: Animal Remains for the Archaeologist (ANTHRO 113, BIO 166, BIO 266)
The analysis of fossil animal bones and shells to illuminate the behavior and ecology of prehistoric collectors, especially ancient humans. Theoretical and methodoloigcal issues. The identification, counting, and measuring of fossil bones and shells. Labs. Methods of numerical analysis.
ANTHRO 214: Prehistoric Stone Tools: Technology and Analysis (ANTHRO 114)
Archaeologists rely on an understanding of stone tools to trace much of what we know about prehistoric societies. How to make, illustrate, and analyze stone tools, revealing the method and theory intrinsic to these artifacts.
ANTHRO 218: Literature, Politics, and Gender in Africa
Intersections of gender, power, and desire; the politics of colonialism and Christianity; and nationalism and postcoloniality. Emphasis is on the politics of writing and critical imagination in historical and social context. Readings include novels and other texts by African writers.
ANTHRO 223: Readings in Linguistic Anthropology (ANTHRO 123)
One or two major related works on language in its cultural context. Works for 2007-08 involve attempts to correlate linguistic and non-linguistic data for analysis of prehistoric human contact and migrations. May be repeated for credit.
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for credit
ANTHRO 239: Ethnography of Africa (ANTHRO 139)
The politics of producing knowledge in and about Africa through the genre of ethnography, from the colonial era to the present. The politics of writing and the ethics of social imagination. Sources include novels juxtaposed to ethnographies.
ANTHRO 241: The State in Africa
Postcolonial African states in historical and ethnographic context. Focus is on contemporary African states not as failures, but as the products of distinctive regional histories and political rationalities.
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