printer friendly pageANTHRO 22: Archaeology of North America
Why and how people of N. America developed. Issues and processes that dominate or shape developments during particular periods considering the effects of history and interactions with physical and social environment. Topics include the peopling of the New World, explaining subsequent diversity in substance and settlement adaptations, the development of social complexity, and the impact of European contact.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
ANTHRO 31: Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health
Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health Human ecology, environments, adaptation and plasticity, and their relationship to health and well-being considered in the broad comparative context. Topics include human population history, subsistence ecology, demography, reproductive decision making, urbanization, migration, infectious disease, the physiology of stress and the inflammatory response, social capital and social networks, nutrition, nutritional deficiencies, growth, and social inequalities. No prior course work in ecological or medical anthropology required.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 90D: Social Theory in the Anthropological Sciences
Required of majors. Foundational course in the history of social theory in anthropology from the late 19th century to the present. Major approaches to human culture and society: symbolic, social, material, and psychological. Questions about the role of theory in anthropology and how it can be applied to human issues. (HEF IV)
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 101: The Aztecs and Their Ancestors: Introduction to Mesoamerican Archaeology
The prehispanic cultures of Mesoamerica through archaeology and ethnohistory, from the archaic period to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 103: The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism
Seminar. Urbanism as a defining feature of modern life. The perspective of archaeology on the history and development of urban cultures. Case studies are from around the globe; emphasis is on the San Francisco Bay Area megalopolis. Cities as cultural sites where economic, ethnic, and sexual differences are produced and transformed; spatial, material, and consumption practices; and the archaeology of communities and neighborhoods.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 105: Ancient Cities in the New World (ANTHRO 205)
Preindustrial urbanism as exemplified by prehispanic New World societies. Case studies: the central and southern highlands of Mesoamerica, and the Maya region. Comparative material from highland S. America.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 109: Archaeology: World Cultural Heritage (ANTHRO 209)
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?
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 121: Language and Prehistory (ANTHRO 221)
Language classification and its implications for human prehistory. The role of linguistic data in analyzing prehistoric populations, cultures, contact, and migrations. Comparison of linguistic and biological classifications. Reconstruction, proto-vocabularies, and culture. Archaeological decipherment and the origins and evolution of writing. Archaeological and genetic evidence for human migrations. (DA-A; HEF II,III)
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 134: Object Lessons (ANTHRO 234)
Human-object relations in the processes of world making. Objectification and materiality through ethnography, archaeology, material culture studies, and cultural studies. Interpretive connotations around and beyond the object, the unstable terrain of interrelationships between sociality and materiality, and the cultural constitution of objects. Sources include: works by Marx, Hegel, and Mauss; classic Pacific ethnographies of exchange, circulation, alienability, and fetishism; and material culture studies.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 135: Cultural Studies (ANTHRO 235)
Identity, community, and culture; their interactions and formation.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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