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.
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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.
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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.