College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Anthropology Courses

For Undergraduates

Advanced Courses

General Anthropology

Area Studies

113:107 Gendering India	3 s.h.
Aspects of Indian culture, including nation, family, sexuality, work, and religion, through the lens of gender; Hindu India, differences in region, caste, and class. Prerequisite: 113:003 or 131:010. Same as 131:107.

113:110 Indians of North America	3 s.h.
History, culture of American Indian peoples; emphasis on North America. GE: cultural diversity. Same as 149:110.

113:112 Understanding Africa	3 s.h.
Introduction to anthropological study of sub-Saharan Africa; continuing impact of colonialism and globalization, identity and nationalism, political and economic organization, belief systems, family life, environment, art, music, religion.

113:113 Africans in the New World	3 s.h.
Social, cultural history of African descendants in the New World; emphasis on continuity, change in U.S. populations; contemporary African American societies, emphasis on cultural unity, variation, liberation themes.

113:118 North Korea--Finding Neverland	3 s.h.
History, social structure, and everyday culture of the hidden kingdom of North Korea.

113:119 Artisans and Global Culture	3 s.h.
The role of skilled handwork in the creation of culture and society; how the act of producing things with one's hands structures ways of acting in the world.

113:120 Popular Culture in South Asia	3 s.h.
Popular cultural forms (films, calendar art, music, comics, advertising) and their role in formation and expression of collective identities based on gender, ethnicity, caste, religion, and so forth in South Asia. Same as 039:119.

113:125 Japanese Society and Culture	3 s.h.
Cultural anthropology of Japan, including historical tradition, religious ethos, social organization, human ecology, educational and political institutions; emphasis on how these aspects relate to and influence one another. GE: foreign civilization and culture. Same as 39J:125.

113:126 Japanese Ethos: Narrative and Performance	3 s.h.
Japanese attitudes, relationships, and perceptions as expressed through various forms of narrative and performance, including myth, ritual, dance, theater, folklore, literature, and film. Prerequisite: 39J:125 or 113:125 or consent of instructor. Same as 39J:126.

113:127 South Asian Sexual Cultures	3 s.h.
How sexuality is embedded in kinship, economics, nation, and religion in South Asia, with focus on India; chastity, celibacy, romance, arranged marriage, nonnormative sexualities associated with courtesans and hijras. Prerequisite: 113:003 or 113:010 or 131:010 or consent of instructor. Same as 131:127.

113:129 Language/Politics of Culture in South Asia	3 s.h.
Key moments in the sociolinguistic history of premodern, colonial, and postcolonial linguistic communities in South Asia; roles of language in mediation of cultural and political processes. Same as 039:122.

113:131 Latin American Economy and Society	3 s.h.
Development, present structure of Latin American economy and society; emphasis on rural regions in context of national development; focus on area as a whole. GE: foreign civilization and culture.

113:132 Latin American Studies Seminar	3 s.h.
Interdisciplinary (anthropology, history, political science, Spanish and Portuguese). Same as 035:176, 038:176, 048:153, 130:176.

113:134 Gender and Indian Diaspora	3 s.h.
General theories of diaspora, which have expanded from the Jewish experience to explain African and Asian diasporas; theories in context of Indian diaspora populations and their relationship to the homeland. Prerequisite: 113:003 or consent of instructor. Same as 131:134.

113:152 Japan and Other Cultural Constructs	3 s.h.
Key texts in postwar Anglo-American anthropological studies of Japan; wartime enemy studies, national character studies, culture and personality school as represented by Ruth Benedict, and more. Prerequisite: 113:003 or 113:010.

Sociocultural Anthropology

Archaeology

113:117 The Maya: Archaeology and Ethnohistory	3 s.h.
The Maya of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, and Mexico from the end of the Pleistocene to the 19th century C.E.; achievements in art, science, religion, and social and political systems.

113:130 Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula	3 s.h.
Introduction to archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, from earliest human occupation through period of Romanization.

113:150 Tribes and Chiefdoms of Ancient Europe	3 s.h.
Archaeology of European societies between the Mesolithic and Iron Age; how ideas about Europe's prehistoric past have been used for political purposes. Prerequisite: 113:012 or graduate standing or consent of instructor.

113:157 Foodways and Cuisine in the Past	3 s.h.
Anthropological and archaeological perspective on cuisine; present-day links between food and culture; past cuisines viewed through written documents and archaeological data; histories of different foods.

113:158 Animal Bones in Archaeology	3 s.h.
Use of faunal material in interpretation of archaeological remains, including skeletal anatomy, identification, taphonomy, determination of age and sex, seasonality, quantification, sampling, breakage and cutmarks, interpretations; laboratory sessions. Prerequisite: 113:012.

113:159 Southwestern Archaeology	3 s.h.
Anthropological overview of prehistoric cultures of the American Southwest; emphasis on understanding archaeological arguments concerning major processes in the past. Same as 149:159.

113:160 Introduction to Archaeological Ceramics	3 s.h.
Basic analytical techniques for archaeological ceramics, applied primarily to ceramics from midwestern and western North America; raw materials, manufacture, decoration and style, craft specializtion, use, and discard. Prerequisite: 113:012 or consent of instructor.

113:161 Prehistoric People of the Ice Age	3 s.h.
Hominid occupation of Old World during Pleistocene; hominid fossils, artifacts, settlement patterns, climatic reconstruction, evolutionary processes; survey and evaluation. Prerequisites: 113:012 and 113:168, or consent of instructor.

113:162 Practicum in Archaeology	arr.
Materials recovered by excavation; survey training. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

113:163 Archaeology of Mesoamerica	3 s.h.
Archaeological data related to the evolution of civilization in Mesoamerica; sequence from hunter-gatherers to A.D. 1519; emphasis on Central Mexico, Maya area, Oaxaca. Prerequisite: 113:012 or anthropology graduate standing or consent of instructor.

113:164 Comparative Prehistory	3 s.h.
Cultural evolution in Old World, New World; emphasis on developments from pre-agricultural societies to appearance of urban civilizations; focus on Mesoamerica, Central Andes, Near East, Egypt, Indus Valley, China. Prerequisite: 113:012 or anthropology graduate standing or consent of instructor.

113:166 The Aztecs, Their Predecessors, and Their Contemporaries	3 s.h.
Background for development of Aztec state, nature of civilization encountered by Spaniards in 1519, contemporary peoples affected by Aztecs. Prerequisite: 113:012 or anthropology graduate standing or consent of instructor.

113:167 North American Archaeology	3 s.h.
Prehistoric cultural development north of Mexico from initial occupation to European contact and conquest; emphasis on dynamics of culture change. Same as 149:167.

113:168 Method and Theory in Archaeology	3 s.h.
Current theoretical approaches, methods used to investigate the past; site formation processes, taphonomy, sampling and research design, typology and seriation, subsistence-settlement reconstruction, cultural evolution. Prerequisite: 113:012.

113:177 Celtic Archaeology	3 s.h.
Archaeology and ethnohistory of Celtic societies of Iron Age Europe; patterns and variation in economies, sociopolitical organization, religion; relationships between Iron Age Celts and modern descendants.

113:178 Hunter-Gatherer Ethnoarchaeology	3 s.h.
Variability in adaptations of hunter-gatherers on a global scale; emphasis on subsistence, mobility, social organization; archaeological record of prehistoric hunter-gatherers interpreted through study of modern societies. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

113:179 Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas	3 s.h.
Major themes in earliest human settlement of the Americas, including human mobility, subsistence, technology, human impacts on the environment.

113:181 Archaeology of the Great Plains	3 s.h.
Contrasting lifeways, diets, and technologies that humans used to survive on North America's Great Plains, from Ice Age hunter-gatherers to Euroamerican homesteaders.

113:189 Approaches to Geoarchaeology	3 s.h.
Geoarchaeology as a multidisciplinary framework for human paleoecology; natural processes that create the archeological record, approaches to reconstructing landscapes of the past as contexts for archaeological deposits; site, intrasite, and landscape scales in light of erosion, deposition, weathering, and biological and human activity; dynamic nature of archaeological landscapes through time. Prerequisite: 012:136 or 113:012 or consent of instructor. Same as 012:185.

113:192 Greek Archaeology and Ethnohistory	3 s.h.
Archaeology and ethnology of the Greek world, from end of Bronze Age to late Roman Empire; sociocultural processes that influence development and persistence of Greek civilization. Prerequisite: 113:012 or 113:013 or consent of instructor. Same as 20E:118.

113:193 Special Topics in Archaeology	3 s.h.

113:194 Roman Archaeology	3 s.h.
Archaeology and ethnology of Roman civilization from Iron Age eighth-century occupation of the Palatine Hill to the end of the Roman empire in the West, A.D. 476. Prerequisite: 113:012 or 113:013 or consent of instructor. Same as 20E:119.

113:196 The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt	3 s.h.
Introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt from predynastic times to Roman Egypt, including monumental architecture; patterns of everyday life; social, economic, and demographic considerations; history of archaeology in Egypt. Prerequisite: 113:012 or consent of instructor. Same as 20E:196.

113:197 Archaeology of Social Change	3 s.h.
Archaeological evidence for and explanations of population growth, migration, colonization, political centralization, stratification, conflict, regionalism, devolution, and specialization; case studies. Prerequisite: 113:012.

113:198 Special Topics in Archaeology	3 s.h.

113:199 Field Research in Archaeology	arr.
Beginning skills in site surveying and excavation, lab work, record keeping at nearby prehistoric sites. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

113:258 Seminar: Zooarchaeology	3 s.h.
Interpretation of faunal material in archaeology; intensive survey of classic and recent literature on taphonomy, skeletal anatomy, population parameters, seasonality, quantification and sampling, butchering patterns, ethnoarchaeology, social and economic inferences. Prerequisite: 113:158 or consent of instructor.

113:268 Seminar: Archaeological Theory and Method	3 s.h.
Development, current status of theory, method in Americanist archaeology. Prerequisite: anthropology graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Biological Anthropology

Linguistic Anthropology

Individual Reading and Research