Evolution, Cognition, and Culture

Boster

ANTH 1006 Introduction to Anthropology

This course is concerned with the biological and cultural development of humans from their origin to the present. A brief survey of human evolution is followed by a comparative study of behavior and beliefs of our own and other societies.

ANTH 3250 Cognitive Anthropology

The study of how the content of thought or knowledge, is created, organized, and distributed in human communities. Topics include cultural models of the mind, emotions, personality, and relationships.

ANTH 3251 Psychological Anthropology

Cross-cultural overview of critical issues regarding the relationship between individual personality and sociocultural systems, and mental health and illness.

ANTH 3002 Culture, Language, and Thought

Anthropological contributions to the study of language, culture, and their relationship. Topics include the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the application of cognitive anthropological methods and theory to the study of folk classification systems.

ANTH 3004 Cultural Research

The theoretical foundations and basic methods used to collect and analyze cultural data.

ANTH 3022 Peoples and Cultures of South America

The history, ecology, and culture of the native peoples of South America.

ANTH 5332 Cognitive Anthropology

The study of how the content of thought or knowledge, is created, organized, and distributed in human communities. Topics include cultural models of the mind, emotions, personality, and relationships.

ANTH 5335 Psychological Anthropology

The seminar explores theoretical and empirical relationships between the individual and sociocultural systems, and it seeks to identify worldwide principles of human behavior.

ANTH 5343 Anthropological Linguistics

Interrelations of language and culture and applications of linguistic theory and techniques to analysis of ethnographic data.

ANTH 5382 Universals in Human Behavior

Examination of evidence regarding cross-cultural universals in human behavior. Selected topics within the following domains may be reviewed: culture, social and emotional behavior; cognitive behavior and development; language and language acquisition.

ANTH 5xxx Evolution and Cognition

An introduction to recent work exploring the variety of ways in which we can understand human cognition as a product of evolution.

 

Handwerker

ANTH 1000/1000W Other People's Worlds

A survey of the development, contributions, and contemporary social problems of selected non-Euroamerican peoples and cultures.

ANTH 2000/2000W Social Anthropology

A comparative study of social structure including an analysis of kinship, marriage, community organization, political and economic institutions, and the role of the individual in these institutions.

ANTH 3102 Cultural Dynamics

An analysis and comparison of contemporary anthropological theories of sociocultural dynamics, with an investigation of selected problems in the study of change and persistence.

ANTH 5xxx Violence and Human Rights

This seminar surveys theory and observations bearing on the nature, sources and consequences of traumatic stress, stressors, and social support in human populations.

ANTH 5375 Ethnographic Methods Laboratory

Intensive study of selected tools for ethnographic data collection and analysis. Design and implementation of specialized ethnographic inter views; protocols, event histories, life histories, censuses, identity construction. OLS and logistic regression, demographic methods, triads tests, consensus analysis, ProFit analysis, multidimensional scaling, cluster and factor analysis, scale construction and validation, and text analysis.

ANTH 5375 Quick Ethnography

Theoretical foundations and basic tools used to conduct professional field studies in anthropology. Research design; moral and ethical dimensions of field work; designing and conducting informal, semistructured and structured interviews (one-on-one and in groups); managing field notes, questionnaires, and data; computer data management; summary statistics and graphics; identifying and interpreting random variation; modeling and testing explanations.

ANTH 5389 Human Dimensions of Sustainability

This seminar surveys theory and observations bearing on the causes and consequences of changes in fertility and mortality rates, and in the configuration of causes of mortality and morbidity in human populations.

Sosis

ANTH 1000/1000W Other People's Worlds

A survey of the development, contributions, and contemporary social problems of selected non-Euroamerican peoples and cultures.

ANTH 3200 Human Behavioral Ecology

The application of the theory of natural selection to the study of human culture and behavior, with emphasis on the interaction between humans and their environment.

ANTH 3400 Culture and Religion

Religion as a social institution, with emphasis on the social and psychological functions of religious beliefs and practices. Materials are drawn from a wide range of historical and contemporary societies.

ANTH 5306 Human Behavioral Ecology

This seminar will apply the theory of natural selection to the study of human behavior in an ecological setting, with particular focus on the adaptive features and biological design of human behavior.

ANTH 5312 Seminar: Contemporary Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 5334 Culture and Religion

Theories and problems in the analysis of nonwestern religious systems.