Departmental Courses - Page 2

ANTH 2810 - Native Craft Production in the Non-Western World
Exploration of the economic, social, political, and religious context of native craft production in selected non-Western societies.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3000 - Anthropology of Tourism
The interaction of host and visitor cultures in foreign tourism; an exploration of the effects of tourism on the host culture; the expectations of the visitors; discussion of the relationship to development and the various levels of needs of the tourists. 4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3010 - World Food/World Hunger
An examination of issues of world hunger, international agribusiness, and food aid in an attempt to understand how food-producing resources are controlled and manipulated in the developing world.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3020 - Native Religions
A cross-cultural survey of concepts of the supernatural and associated behavior.  Topics include responses of indigenous peoples to attempted missionization; shamanistic techniques of controlling and channeling supernatural power; sacred places and their significance; myths and symbols in their cultural contexts;  initiation rites; and gender relationships; divination and political power; the rise of state religions, grand religious traditions, and ethnonationalism.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3050 - Ethnicity, Power and Identity
Concepts of ethnicity and identity in relation to structures of power and dominance.  Construction and usage of these concepts in Western social science, colonialist ideologies, and nationalist rhetoric, as well as in post-colonialist critiques and resistance struggles.  4 qtr. hrs.

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ANTH 3100 - The Neolithic Revolution
Explores the transitions of different human groups from a hunting and gathering subsistence through the domestication of crops to the origins of city-states and great civilizations in Asia, Europe and the New World.  Considers theories about social evolution, the migration of agriculture people and the spread of their agricultural technology, and the collapse of early civilizations.  4 qtr. hrs. Prerequisite:  SOCS 1010, ANTH 1103, or AHUM 1910.

ANTH 3130 - Women in Prehistory
The class will consider the present interpretations of women’s role in prehistoric societies, and whether (or to what extent) the data from archaeological excavations support these interpretations.  Topics include uncovering hidden assumptions, primate females, early hominids, female figurines, matriarchies, women as rulers, the division of labor.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3150 - Origins of Civilization
Comparison of beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, Mexico, and Peru, emphasizing processes that make them similar.  4 qtr. hrs.  Prerequisite: SOCS 1010, ANTH 1103, or AHUM 1910.

ANTH 3170 - Applied Heritage Management
The role of archaeology in preservation and the management of cultural resources in terms of legislation, ethics and practical application, with emphasis of the utility, necessity and reality of doing archaeology today in the public sector.  Site report writing, governmental regulations and the business side of archaeology will be stressed.  Archaeological information from site reports and artifact analysis will be compiled and presented in a digital format.  4 qtr. hrs.  Prerequisite:  ANTH 1103, AHUM 1910, or instructor’s permission.

ANTH 3220 - The Evolution of Culture
The development of human, social and political organization from the simplest foraging family groups to highly complete centralized state societies. Using both ethnographic and archaeological materials, the class examines such topics as the origins of ethnic diversity, competition, warfare and government.  4 qtr. hrs.

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ANTH 3280 - Native American Craft Production
Examines economic, social, political, and religious context of native craft production in selected North American Indian societies.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3290 - Art and Anthropology
Study of the concept of art and its multiple roles in society from a cross-cultural and historical perspective.  Topics covered include the commodification of culture through tourism; impact of the global art market; arts of resistance and survival, and cultural expression and community development.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3350 - Latin American Archaeology
Covers the prehistory of the Western Hemisphere south of the Mexico-US border, from initial colonization of the hemisphere by Paleoindian people to the origins of agriculture and the rise of civilixation.  Olmec, Mayan and Aztec cultures will be covered in detail.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3360/4360 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
This class is designed to confront questions about women's lives and women's status in global perspective.  It addresses issues such as why women have been subordinate to men in so many cultures, how one actually measures dominance and subordination, and whether there is some biological basis for gender inequality.  Broad theoretical questions on the status of women will be discussed and will form the basis for the analytical inquiry which follows.  4 qtr. hrs.  Prerequisite:  SOCS 1010.

ANTH 3380/4380 - Women and Developments
A case study approach to understanding women's status and the problems of combining productive and reproductive responsibilities in developing countries.  4 qtr. hrs.

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ANTH 3390 - Geoarchaeology
The use of geological methods to interpret archaeological sites.  Ancient landscape reconstruction, the study of environmental change and human habitation.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3400 - Ethnology of China
Anthropological study of contemporary Chinese society including birth, life and death; gods, ghosts, and ancestors; men and women; families and marriage; urban and rural life; and Han and ethnic minorities. 4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3430 - Visions, Utopias, and
Messiahs in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Ghost dance, peyote religion, cargo cults, peasant revolutions, primitive rebels, charismatic leaders, messianic movements in cross-cultural perspective; roles played by cultural systems, historical circumstances, and social conditions in generating social movements.  4qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3460 - Peasant Culture and Society
The problems, evolution, and variable organization of peasant society cross-culturally.  Emphasis on causes of persistence and change in economic, social and ideological aspects of peasantry.  4 qtr. hrs.

ANTH 3470 - Applied Anthropology
The practical application of cross-cultural knowledge and awareness to the solution of social and cultural problems. Ethnographic methodologies, a review of the history of applied anthropology; and a consideration of the ideological and ethical components of applied anthropology are covered.  4 qtr. hrs.

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