printer friendly pageANTHRO 199: Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop (ANTHRO 299)
Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.
Terms: Win, Spr
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Units: 1-2
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Can, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 200B: Lifeways of the Ancient Maya (ANTHRO 100B)
This course engages with the world of the pre- and post-contact Maya people through scholarship that explores the material culture of daily life. We address how questions about the past are framed through ethnographic and ethnohistoric accounts of daily life, how diverse scientific methods and theoretical perspectives are used to address these questions, and how interpretations of daily life in the ancient Maya world are formulated. We consider how perceptions of the ancient Maya are marshaled in contemporary politics and policies. The course is designed to provide a broad overview of sites and materials in the Maya area, focusing on the dynamic interplay between the material and the social. Students will create interpretive frameworks for a public audience as a component of the final project
Terms: not given this year, last offered Autumn 2013
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
ANTHRO 201: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology (ANTHRO 1)
This course introduces basic anthropological concepts and presents the discipline¿s distinctive perspective on society and culture. The power of this perspective is illustrated by exploring vividly-written ethnographic cases that show how anthropological approaches illuminate contemporary social and political issues in a range of different cultural sites.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
ANTHRO 201B: Archaeology of Technology (ANTHRO 101B, ARCHLGY 100, ARCHLGY 200)
The course is an introduction to the social organization of material production and to the theoretical, ethnographic, and historical frameworks used by archaeologists to link the technologies of the past to salient sociocultural information about the people who employed them. Comparison of metallurgical, ceramic, lithic, and textile industries in different cultural and historical settings will inform critical discussions of how and to what extent analyses of artifacts, workshops, and industrial installations can provide insight into past societies.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Winter 2015
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
ANTHRO 202A: Ancient Civilizations: Complexity and Collapse (ANTHRO 102A)
How archaeology contributes to understanding prehistoric civilizations. How and why complex social institutions arose, and the conditions and processes behind their collapse. The development of monumental architecture, craft specialization, trade and exchange, and social stratification using examples from the archaeological record. (HEF II, III; DA-B)
Terms: not given this year, last offered Autumn 2010
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
ANTHRO 203A: Human Osteoarchaeology (ANTHRO 103A)
The course will cover the methodological and theoretical backgrounds to human osteoarchaeology, introduce the student to the chemical and physical characteristics of bone, and to the functional morphology of the human skeleton. Classes will consist of a taught component that outlines how osteoarchaeologists reconstruct individual life-histories based on age, sex etc.; this is combined with hands-on identification of different skeletal elements and the markers used to inform the analytical methods. Additional scientific methodologies are also introduced that increasingly form a major component of human osteoarchaeology.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Spring 2014
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
ANTHRO 204: Language and Culture (ANTHRO 4)
Comparative approach, using examples from many languages. Emphasis is on generally non-Western speech communities. Topics include: the structure of language; the theory of signs; vocabulary and culture; grammar, cognition, and culture (linguistic relativism and determinism); encodability of cultural information in language; language adaptiveness to social function; the ethnography of speaking; registers; discourse (conversation, narrative, verbal art); language and power; language survival and extinction; and linguistic ideology (beliefs about language).
Terms: not given this year, last offered Autumn 2014
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Units: 4-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
ANTHRO 205: Ancient Cities in the New World (ANTHRO 105)
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.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Winter 2011
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
ANTHRO 205A: Archaeological Fieldwork: Critical Analysis and Practical Application (ANTHRO 105A)
This introduction to archaeological fieldwork involves both field and seminarncomponents, each component meeting once per week. During the field sessions,nwe will investigate an archaeological site on campus using methods of survey,nmapping, testing, and excavation (digging, recording units/features, profilenillustration). In seminar, we will critically examine archaeological fieldworknthrough reading, writing, and discussion, exploring topics such as history ofnarchaeological excavation, production of archaeological knowledge, disjuncturenbetween theory and practice, reflexive methodologies, ethics, collaboration, andnspecialization. No experience necessary, but students with fieldwork experiencenare welcome.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Spring 2013
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Units: 2-3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
ANTHRO 206: Human Origins (ANTHRO 6, HUMBIO 6)
The human fossil record from the first non-human primates in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene, 80-65 million years ago, to the anatomically modern people in the late Pleistocene, between 100,000 to 50,000 B.C.E. Emphasis is on broad evolutionary trends and the natural selective forces behind them.
Terms: not given this year, last offered Spring 2013
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
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