Lower-Division

Survey of the position and roles of women in African societies with different social, political, and economic organizations.

Introductory level course in basic analysis of human remains for the medico-legal profession. Course covers development of the field of forensic anthropology, introduction to human osteology, how age, sex, ancestry, and stature are determined from skeletel material, and how skeletel trauma is evaluated.

Present-day values and social life of selected sub-Saharan African people examined using anthropological studies and African literature.

Uses anthropological concepts and skills to critically interrogate the ways in which people and social groups are involved in creating, critiquing, and negotiating various aspects of science and technology.

Explores exotic (including extreme, adventure, ethnic, and eco) tourism and journalism using writings, photography, and web sites. It is, in effect, a series of virtual exotic tours, each one centered around an itinerary drawn from actual tours. Will be offered in the 2008-09 academic year.

Introduces key issues in the anthropology of Latin America, with emphasis on identity formation, cultural practices, and power. Major themes include race, class, and gender as intersecting forms of oppression, violence, and terror and indigenous social movements.

Introduces current issues in cultural anthropology using film as a medium with which to explore culture. Raises questions about visual representations and the portrayal of cultural difference in the context of global inequalities.

Addresses cross-cultural attitudes to the human body and its everyday biological concerns—sleeping, eating, breathing, sex, and defecation.

Examines traditional medicine, ethnomedicine, alternative healing, and biomedicine as cultural systems in both local and transnational contexts.

Introduces anthropological concepts and approaches to historical and contemporary globalizations. Using ethnographies, films, and other cultural productions, raises questions about the impacts of transnational capitalism, colonialism, migration/movement, and media on local and global identities, cultures, and communities.

A survey course on anthropological approaches to environmental questions that covers the history of anthropology's engagement with environmental politics. Considers the various ecologies, cultural, symbolic, historical, political, and the types of analyses these have enabled.

Explore cultures and politics of drug use, development, and science. Analyze the deeply racial and national character of drug science as well as ways that licit and illicit drugs construct bodies and body-politics.

Examines contemporary American religious rhetorics and narratives as they register and constitute the transition to late modern capitalist culture. Topics vary each year and include born-again Christianity, apocalypticism, New Age, UFOs, and alien abductions.

Examines the many ways in which organized groups engage in political protest against those whom they understand to dominate them. The course first establishes the framework for the discussion of power, politics, and protest, and then examines a variety of forms taken by political protests worldwide.

Examines cultural constructions of meaningful living, with emphasis on ethnographic analysis, through comparative studies of how societies assign value to different formations of everyday life. Topics include: cultivation of taste; pleasure; hierarchies of values; social justice; and distinctions between work and leisure.

Devoted to the culture and dance of Bollywood, a popular genre of film representation of cultures and peoples of India. The course combines both theory and practice by showing films on selected themes and having students learn this dance style and music.

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