Fall 2019

ANTH 1115 The Caribbean in Post-Colonial Perspective

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ANTH 1115 The Caribbean in Post-Colonial Perspective Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:50

This course introduces students to the varied peoples and cultures in the Caribbean region, including the historical, colonial, and contemporary political-economic contexts, as well as the religious, migratory, and other cultural practices. The Caribbean is composed of several islands united by the experiences of indigenous decimation, European colonization, and re-population largely by imported laborers from Africa and/or Asia. The colonial/linguistic group will serve to organize our understanding of the multiple experiences in the region, however the longstanding experiences of West/non-West intermingling is the umbrella that unites the region even into the present post-colonial era of U.S. dominance of the region.

Professor Kaifa Roland

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ANTH 2100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

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ANTH 2100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:39

What does it mean to think anthropologically? This course will provide an overview of the history and foundations of anthropological thought, with a special focus on the key method of anthropology: ethnography. Drawing on both classical and contemporary anthropological texts from a broad range of international settings, we will analyze the meaning of the categories we use to organize our experiences and social relationships. Topics will include: the "culture" concept, particularly in relation to ideas of difference, relativism, translation, and individual and group identity; the role of language, narrative, and interpretation in the constitution of the self and the social world; symbols, metaphors, and ideologies as forms of power and vehicles for social transformation; ethnographic methods, ethics, and techniques of anthropological research and fieldwork; and cross-cultural comparisons of systems of kinship, gender/sex/sexuality, labor and economic exchange.

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ANTH 2200 The Archaeology of Human History

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ANTH 2200 The Archaeology of Human History Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:30

Where did human beings come from?

How did we come to inhabit the world?

Why don’t we eat wild foods anymore?

How did complex urban societies rise and fall?

All this and more…..

Professor Douglas Bamforth

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ANTH 3000 Primate Behavior

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ANTH 3000 Primate Behavior Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 09:40

While we humans tend to focus on ourselves, the goal of this course is to examine the natural history and behavior of your closest relatives, the nonhuman primates. Through lectures, streaming videos and web based materials, you will explore the diversity of primates from an evolutionary, biological and ecological perspective. Topics will include a broad survey of primate taxonomy and adaptations, primate ecology, social behavior, life history and cognition. By the end of the course you will 1) have a working knowledge of primate taxonomy; 2) understand the basic primate biology and adaptation and the ecological and social context that selects for these traits and 3) better understand yourself as a mammal, a primate and a human! This course is approved for the arts and sciences core curriculum in the natural sciences.

Professor Michelle Sauther

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ANTH 4470 / 5470 Practicum: Collections Research in Cultural Anthropology

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ANTH 4470 / 5470 Practicum: Collections Research in Cultural Anthropology Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 09:05

Designed as a practicum, this course will introduce students to research and practice in museum anthropology, utilizing our extensive anthropology collections in the CU Museum of Natural History. Students will conduct subject matter and collections research, engage in collaborative methods, and produce narrative stories for exhibit content development. Class time will be spent listening to mini-lectures about contemporary practice and techniques, working with collections items and associated records, providing project status reports, collaborating with team members, and troubleshooting. Students will also create a public display of the outcomes of their research.

Professor Jen Shannon

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ANTH 4525 Global Islams

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ANTH 4525 Global Islams Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 09:00

Current popular, official and academic representations of Islam in the US frequently circulate two fundamentally opposite attributes of the religion and its associated culture: either Islam is provincial and hyper-traditional, or it is threateningly global and transnational. Both perceptions rest on the notion of Islam as singular, and as originating in and synonymous with the Middle East. Through an analysis of the history of Islamic trade and migration to Southeast Asia, the early historical conceptions of a global Islam, European colonialism, questions of nationalism, and contemporary conceptions of the ummah, we will study the relationship between globalization and Islamic identity in the 21st century.

Professor Carla Jones

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ANTH 5780 Core Course - Cultural Anthropology

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ANTH 5780 Core Course - Cultural Anthropology Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/26/2018 - 08:50

This course is an exploration of key theoretical readings in cultural anthropology from the foundations of anthropology in the 19^th century up to the late 1960s. Most of the materials we read are primary sources from one of the three major traditions in 20^th century anthropology – American cultural anthropology, British social anthropology, and French structural anthropology. Our goals in this course are to understand the similarities and differences among these three traditions – to understand why certain questions were being asked at certain times – and the ways that the various traditions informed one another.

Professor Jerry Jacka

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