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ANTH
100X
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Individual,
Society
and
Culture
(3+0) s
An
examination
of
the
complex
social
arrangements
guiding
individual
behavior
and
common
human
concerns
in
contrasting
cultural
contexts.
Also
available
via
Independent
Learning.
ANTH
101
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Introduction
to
Anthropology
(3+0) s
Human
societies
and
cultures
based
on
the
findings
of
the
four
subfields
of
the
discipline:
archaeological,
biological,
cultural
and
linguistic.
Also
available
via
Independent
Learning.
ANTH
105
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Introduction
to
the
History
and
Culture
of
the
Seward
Peninsula
(1+0)
(Cross-listed
with
HIST
105)
Cultural
history
of
the
Seward
Peninsula
peoples
for
the
last
10,000
years
using
physical
anthropology,
ethnography,
ethnohistory,
linguistics,
archaeology,
ecology
and
climatology.
Eskimo
and
Euroamerican
cultures
which
have
existed
in
western
Alaska.
ANTH
111
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Ancient
Civilizations
(3+0) s
Major
civilizations
of
the
Old
and
New
World
from
a
comparative,
anthropological
perspective.
Antecedents
and
influences
of
these
civilizations
on
their
neighbors.
Economics,
science,
religion,
and
social
organization
of
these
civilizations.
(Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
123
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Origins
of
Alaska's
Native
Peoples
(3+0) s
Origins
and
affinities
of
Alaska
Native
peoples
from
an
archaeological
perspective.
Prehistory
examination
of
Yup'ik,
Inupiaq,
Aleut,
Tlingit,
and
Athabascan
groups.
ANTH
210
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
New
World
Prehistory
(3+0) s
Culture
history
of
Native
Americans
from
earliest
times
(excluding
Alaska
and
Canada)
including
those
in
Mexican
and
Peruvian
states.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
211
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
211
(3
Credits)
Fall
Fundamentals
of
Archaeology
(2+3) s
Methods
and
techniques
of
archaeological
field
and
laboratory
research.
ANTH
212
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Old
World
Prehistory
(3+0) s
The
archaeological
record
for
the
development
of
human
culture
from
the
very
beginnings
of
humankind
to
the
rise
of
civilization.
(Prerequisites:
ANTH
211
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004
-
05.)
ANTH
215
(3
Credits)
Spring
Fundamentals
of
Social/Cultural
Anthropology
(3+0) s
Introduction
to
the
basic
concepts,
subfields
and
techniques
of
social/cultural
anthropology.
Includes
non-Western
and
Western
ethnographic
topics,
and
discussion
of
career
options.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
100X.)
ANTH
221
(3
Credits)
Fall
Introduction
to
Biological
Anthropology
(3+0)
n
Survey
of
genetics,
evolutionary
mechanisms,
adaptation,
primate
studies,
the
human
fossil
record
and
human
variation.
Provides
a
basic
understanding
of
humans
from
a
biological,
evolutionary
and
temporal
perspective.
ANTH
230
(3
Credits)
Fall
The
Oral
Tradition:
Folklore
and
Oral
History
(3+0) h
Study
and
collection
of
folklore
and
oral
history.
Importance
of
oral
tradition
in
human
communication
and
the
advantages
and
disadvantages
of
recording
and
studying
it.
Sociocultural
anthropology
and
anthropological
linguistics
in
relation
to
oral
traditions.
Methods
of
folklorists,
historians
and
academicians.
Field
project
required.
ANTH
242
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Native
Cultures
of
Alaska
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
242)
The
traditional
Aleut,
Eskimo,
and
Indian
(Athabascan
and
Tlingit)
cultures
of
Alaska.
Eskimo
and
Indian
cultures
in
Canada.
Linguistic
and
cultural
groupings,
population
changes,
subsistence
patterns,
social
organization
and
religion
in
terms
of
local
ecology.
Pre-contact
interaction
between
groups.
Also
available
via
Independent
Learning.
ANTH
301
(3
Credits)
Spring
World
Ethnography
(3+0) s
Cultural
heritage,
social
systems,
modes
of
economic
adaptation
and
culture
change
for
human
populations
in
major
geographic
regions
of
the
world.
Culture
areas
covered
different
semesters
are
contingent
on
available
faculty
expertise.
Course
may
be
repeated
for
credit
when
content
varies.
(Prerequisites:
A
cultural
anthropology
course
and
junior
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
302
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Anthropology
of
Siberia
(3+0) s
Native
cultures
of
Siberia
including
the
Russian
Far
East.
Information
from
all
subfields
of
anthropology
covered
with
emphasis
on
contemporary
perspectives.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
100X
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
303
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Gender
in
Cross-Cultural
Perspective
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
WMS
303)
Gender
as
both
cultural
construction
and
social
relationship
is
examined
through
readings
in
comparative
ethnographies
portraying
gender
roles
in
a
broad
variety
of
societies,
from
hunter-gatherer
to
industrial.
New
theoretical
and
methodological
approaches
in
anthropology
for
exploring
and
understanding
women's
experiences
in
their
cultural
variety
are
presented.
(Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
304W,O
(3
Credits)
Fall
Social
Organization
I
(3+0) s
Social
aspects
of
human
existence
ranging
from
religious
to
economic
activities.
Emphasis
on
core
concepts
of
kinship
and
political
organization.
Includes
social
relations,
age,
gender
and
human
interaction
with
the
natural
environment.
(Prerequisites:
ANTH
215;
COMM
131X
or
141X;
ENGL
111X;
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
308W,O
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Language
and
Gender
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
LING
308W,O
and
WMS
308W,O)
Examination
of
relationships
between
language
and
gender,
drawing
on
both
ethnographic
and
linguistic
sources.
Topics
include
power,
socialization
and
sexism.
(Prerequisites:
COMM
131X
or
141X;
ENGL
111X.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
ANTH
309
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Circumpolar
Archaeology
(3+0) s
Archaeology
of
the
circumpolar
world
from
initial
occupations
through
the
historic
period.
Cultural
and
chronological
variability
in
human
adaptation
to
high
latitudes.
Causes
and
consequences
of
population
movement,
environmental
change,
and
cultural
interaction
in
the
old
and
new
world,
as
understood
through
archaeology.
(Prerequisite:
Permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
ANTH
315
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Human
Biology
(2+3)
n
Biology
of
recent
and
modern
human
populations,
including
systematics,
behavior,
ecology
and
inter-
and
intrapopulation
genetic
and
morphological
variations.
Human
adaptations
to
heat,
cold,
high
altitudes,
and
changing
nutritional
and
disease
patterns.
Human
skeletal
biology,
including
metrical
and
non-metrical
variation,
aging
and
sexing
skeletal
remains,
and
paleopathology.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
221
or
BIOL
103X.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
317
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Human
Growth
and
Development
(3+0)
n
Life-span
approach
to
physiological
(and
cognitive)
growth
and
development
in
fossil
through
modern
humans.
Begins
with
a
summary
of
human
biology
and
genetics.
Proceeds
through
major
phases
in
life:
prenatal,
infancy,
childhood,
adolescence,
adult
and
old
age.
Includes
detailed
soft
and
hard
tissue
developments
in
these
phases
of
life.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
221.)
ANTH
320W
(3
Credits)
Spring
Language
and
Culture:
Applications
to
Alaska
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
320W)
Language,
ethnicity,
and
their
interrelationships.
Communicating
ethnic
identity.
Patterns
of
language
use
which
affect
communication
between
ethnic
groups.
Applicability
of
these
concepts
to
Native/non-Native
communication
patterns.
(Prerequisite:
ENGL
111X,
LING
101,
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
351
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Archaeological
Analysis
and
Interpretation
(3+0) s
Archaeological
analysis,
procedures
and
report
writing.
Examination
of
archaeological
collections
and
research
problems
pertaining
to
those
collections.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
211.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
ANTH
360
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Indigenous
Art
and
Culture
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
ART
360)
Overview
of
the
aesthetic
expressions
of
the
cultures
of
Africa,
Oceania
and
Native
North
America.
Cultural
and
social
factors
will
be
studied
through
the
visual
art
from
these
areas.
ANTH
365
(3
Credits)
Fall
Native
Art
of
Alaska
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
365
and
ART
365)
Art
forms
of
the
Eskimo,
Indian
and
Aleut
from
prehistory
to
the
present.
Changes
in
forms
through
the
centuries.
(Prerequisite:
Advanced
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
366
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Northwest
Coast
Indian
Art
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
366
and
ART
366)
Arts
of
the
Northwest
Coast
Indians
and
the
place
of
art
in
their
culture.
(Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
367
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Eskimo
Art
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
367
and
ART
367)
Eskimo
art
from
Alaska,
Canada
and
Siberia
beginning
with
the
earliest
known
pieces
to
the
beginning
of
the
20th
century.
(Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
380
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
The
People
of
Alaskan
Southwest:
Aleuts,
Kodiak
Islanders
and
the
Chugach
(3+0) s
Cultural
heritage
and
present
conditions
of
Aleuts,
including
people
of
the
Aleutian
archipelago,
Kodiak
Islanders,
people
of
the
Alaska
Peninsula
and
the
Chugach
of
Prince
William
Sound.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
242
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
ANTH
381
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
The
Inupiaq
and
Yup'ik
Peoples
(3+0) s
Contemporary
conditions
and
traditional
heritage
of
the
Inupiaq
and
Yup'ik
peoples
including
the
impact
of
Euroamericans
on
these
populations
and
cultures.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
242
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
382
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
The
People
of
Alaskan
Southeast
(3+0) s
Tlingit,
Haida
and
Tsimshian
societies
in
the
framework
of
Northwest
Coast
culture-area.
Impact
of
Russian
penetration
and
of
historical
factors.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
242
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
383
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Athabascan
Peoples
of
Alaska
and
Adjacent
Canada
(3+0) s
Contemporary
conditions
and
traditional
heritage
of
the
Athabascan
populations
of
Alaska
and
Canada.
Impact
of
Euroamericans
on
these
populations
and
cultures.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
242
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
ANTH
402
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Anthropology
of
Art
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
602
and
cross-listed
with
ART
402)
Anthropological
study
of
art
in
cross-cultural
perspective.
Social
context
of
art
production
and
use,
cross-cultural
variations
in
definition
of
an
artist's
role.
(Prerequisites:
Senior
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
403W,O
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Political
Anthropology
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
603)
Political
systems
and
the
law.
Case
studies
from
nonindustrial
societies,
developing
nations,
and
parapolitical
systems
or
encapsulated
societies,
such
as
native
peoples
in
the
U.S.
Political
structures
and
institutions;
social
conflict,
dispute
settlement,
social
control
and
the
law,
political
competition
over
critical
resources;
and
ethnicity.
(Prerequisites:
ANTH
215;
COMM
131X
or
141X;
ENGL
111X;
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
404W,O
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Social
Organization
II
(3+0) s
Continuation
of
Social
Organization
I.
Focus
on
issues
of
power
and
social
ordering
(mechanisms
of
social
control,
resistance
and
plural
systems
of
ordering).
Includes
the
intersection
of
power
with
kinship,
gender
relations,
religion,
and
social
groups
and
boundaries.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
304;
COMM
131X
or
141X;
ENGL
111X;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
ANTH
405
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Archaeological
Method
and
Theory
(2+3) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
605)
Archaeological
methods
and
analysis
as
the
framework
for
different
perspectives
in
archaeology.
Application
to
specific
research
problems.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
211.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
407
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Kinship
and
Social
Organization
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
607)
Forms
and
function
of
family
and
household
organization,
kinship
and
marriage
in
diverse
human
sociocultural
systems.
Case
studies
from
tribal
and
complex
societies
including
contemporary
United
States.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
215
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
409
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Anthropology
of
Religion
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
609)
Religion
or
supernatural
belief
from
the
perspective
of
anthropology.
Religion
in
the
context
of
"primitive"
society
as
well
as
its
role
in
complex
society.
Religious
practitioners,
ritual,
belief
systems,
and
the
relationship
of
religious
behavior
to
other
aspects
of
social
behavior.
(Prerequisite:
Junior
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
411O
(3
Credits)
Spring
Senior
Seminar
in
Anthropology
(3+0) s
The
integrated
nature
of
anthropological
inquiry.
Includes
a
four-field
approach
to
anthropology
in
a
discussion-intensive
setting.
Student
may
focus
on
an
interdisciplinary
theme
or
a
topic
other
than
their
own
specialization.
(Prerequisites:
COMM
131X
or
141X;
anthropology
major
with
senior
standing;
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
414
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Environmental
Archaeology
(3+0)
n
Quaternary
environmental
reconstruction
through
the
integration
of
geological,
archaeological,
botanical,
and
zoological
data.
(Prerequisite:
A
course
in
archaeology
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
ANTH
415
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Zooarchaeology
and
Taphonomy
(2+3)
Identification
of
bones,
how
vertebrate
bone
remains
may
be
used
to
study
archaeological
site
formation
processes,
site
organization,
subsistence
practices
and
animal
procurement
strategies.
Preservation
in
modern
depositional
environments,
paleoecology,
vertebrate
mortality
profiles
and
demographic
structure,
site
seasonality,
bone
breakage,
taphonomy
and
faunal
remains
and
human
land
use
practices.
(Next
offered:
2004
-
05.)
ANTH
418
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Historical
Archaeology
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
618)
Historical
archaeology
of
the
Americas
examines
colonial
and
frontier
archaeology
as
experienced
by
Euroamericans,
in
addition
to
contact
and
post
contact
archaeology
of
Native
North
Americans.
Current
perspectives
in
American
historical
archaeology,
including
a
review
of
goals,
problem
orientation,
and
the
manner
in
which
archaeological
and
documentary
data
are
used
for
anthropological
interpretation.
(Prerequisites:
ANTH
405
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
419W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Material
Culture
Analysis
in
Archaeology
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
619)
Analysis
of
material
culture
recovered
from
archaeological
sites.
Different
types
of
analysis
relevant
to
particular
kinds
of
archaeological
problems
(i.e.
lithic
use-wear)
are
conducted.
Includes
archaeological
materials
from
the
UA
museum.
(Prerequisites:
ANTH
211
and
351;
ENGL
111X;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
ANTH
420
(3
Credits)
Fall
History
of
Anthropology
(3+0) s
Major
theoretical
approaches
in
anthropology
chronologically
from
formulation
of
the
discipline
of
anthropology
to
current
theory.
Nature
of
the
discipline,
its
goals
and
methods,
and
the
relevance
of
theoretical
perspectives
to
interpretations
in
anthropology.
(Prerequisite:
Junior
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
422
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Human
Osteology
(Stacked
with
ANTH
625)
Human
skeletal
analysis:
bone
biology,
skeletal
anatomy,
aging
and
sexing,
metric
and
non-metric
traits
of
skeleton
and
dentition,
paleopathology,
and
paleodemography.
Inferences
on
genetic
relationships
between
and
patterned
behavior
within
prehistoric
groups
derived
from
skeletal
material.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
221
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered
2003-04.)
ANTH
423O
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Paleoanthropology
(2+3)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
623)
Analysis
of
the
Plio-Pleistocene
hominid
fossil
record,
including
comparative
primate
and
hominid
skeletal
and
dental
anatomy,
systematics,
taphonomy
and
long-term
biobehavioral
adaptations.
(Prerequisites:
ANTH
212
or
221;
COMM
131X
or
141X;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
ANTH
424
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Analytical
Techniques
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
624)
Classification,
sampling,
collection
and
analysis
of
anthropological
data:
parametric
and
nonparametric
significance
tests
and
measures
of
association,
analysis
of
frequency
data,
estimating
resemblance
using
multiple
variables,
computer
simulations
and
analysis.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
211
or
221;
and
any
college
level
mathematics
course
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004
-
05.)
ANTH
428W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Ecological
Anthropology
and
Regional
Sustainability
(3+0)
n
Biological,
environmental
and
cultural
factors
and
their
interplay
in
defining
the
human
condition,
with
examples
from
Arctic
and
other
populations.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
Junior
standing,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
432
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Field
Methods
in
Descriptive
Linguistics
(3+0) h
(Stacked
with
ANTH
632
and
cross-listed
with
LING
431)
Introduction
to
general
issues
in
language
field
work
and
to
issues
specific
to
working
with
little
studied
and/or
endangered
languages
in
particular.
Training
in
techniques
of
linguistics
field
work
commonly
used
to
determine
the
grammar
of
an
unknown
and/or
unwritten
language.
Topics
will
include:
definition
of
research
problem
and
research
program;
considerations
in
selecting
consultants;
ethics
and
responsibilities
involved
in
field
work
and
human
research;
data
elicitation,
analysis,
reporting
and
interpreting,
and
archiving.
Students
will
work
intensively
with
a
primary
consultant
who
is
a
native
speaker
of
a
non-Indo-European
language.
(Prerequisites:
LING
318,
LING
320,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
ANTH
433
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Culture
and
History
in
the
North
Atlantic
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
633
and
NORS
633)
Ancient
Norse
culture
and
society.
Includes
readings
of
Old
Norse
poetry
and
Icelandic
sagas
in
translation,
with
secondary
analyses
and
archaeological
background.
Includes
Greenlandic
myths
and
contemporary
ethnographic
accounts
of
Iceland,
Greenland
and
the
Faroe
Islands.
May
be
repeated
once
for
credit.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
100X.
Recommended:
ANTH
215.)
ANTH
446
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Economic
Anthropology
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
646)
Relationships
between
economic
and
other
social
relations.
Pre-industrial
societies.
Relevance
of
formal
economics
to
small-scale
societies
and
developing
nations.
Exchange,
formal
and
substantive
economics,
market
economics,
rationality,
political
economy
and
the
economics
of
development.
(Prerequisite:
A
cultural
anthropology
class
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
451
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Quaternary
Seminar
(3+0)
(Cross-listed
with
GEOS
452
and
stacked
with
ANTH
651
and
GEOS
651)
Discussion
of
the
Quaternary
Period
(relatively
recent
past
--
spanning
the
past
two
million
years)
in
order
to
gain
a
better
understanding
of
the
landscape,
biota,
and
climate
of
the
present
day.
Quaternary
studies
are
concerned
with
the
historical
dimension
of
the
natural
sciences.
This
seminar
will
range
widely
over
diverse
interdisciplinary
subjects
of
Quaternary
interest,
such
as
paleoclimatology,
paleobiogeography,
vertebrate
paleontology,
and
sedimentology.
(Prerequisites:
GEOS
215,
304,
322,
graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
453W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Current
Perspectives
in
Cultural
Resource
Management
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
653)
Cultural
resource
management.
Includes
historic
preservation
and
environmental
law.
Reviews
pertinent
legislation
pertaining
to
the
protection
of
historic
properties,
and
presents
a
series
of
real
world
problems
confronted
by
archaeologists.
Cultural
resource
management
will
be
treated
historically
within
a
context
of
the
development
of
American
archaeology.
Emphasis
on
practical
aspects
of
career
development.
(Prerequisites:
ANTH
210
and
ANTH
211;
ENGL
111X;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
ANTH
465
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Geoarchaeology
(3+0)
(Cross-listed
with
GEOS
465)
Geological
context
of
archaeological
sites
and
the
geologic
factors
that
affect
their
preservation,
with
emphasis
on
Alaska.
Includes
a
one
or
two-day
weekend
field
trip
in
late
April
or
early
May.
(Prerequisite:
GEOS
101X,
an
introductory
course
in
archaeology,
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
470
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Oral
Sources;
Issues
in
Documentation
(3+0) h
(Stacked
with
ANTH
670
and
NORS
670)
Preparation
for
recording
and
use
of
oral
resources.
Examines
how
meaning
is
conveyed
through
oral
traditions
and
personal
narratives
and
the
issues
involved
with
recording
and
reproducing
narratives.
Includes
management
of
oral
recordings,
ethical
and
legal
considerations,
issues
of
interpretation
and
censorship,
and
the
use
of
new
technologies
to
access
and
deliver
recordings.
(Prerequisite:
At
least
one
undergraduate
ANTH
course
and
one
undergraduate
HIST
course,
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
602
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Anthropology
of
Art
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
402
and
ART
402)
Anthropological
study
of
art
in
cross-cultural
perspective.
Social
context
of
art
production
and
use,
cross-cultural
variations
in
definition
of
an
artist's
role.
(Prerequisites:
Senior
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
603
(3
credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Political
Anthropology
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
403W,O)
Political
systems
and
the
law.
Case
studies
from
nonindustrial
societies,
developing
nations,
and
parapolitical
systems
or
encapsulated
societies,
such
as
native
peoples
in
the
U.S.
Political
structures
and
institutions;
social
conflict,
dispute
settlement,
social
control
and
the
law,
political
competition
over
critical
resources;
and
ethnicity.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing.)
ANTH
605
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Archaeological
Method
and
Theory
(2+3)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
405)
Archaeological
methods
and
analysis
as
the
framework
for
different
perspectives
in
archaeology.
Application
to
specific
research
problems.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
211
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
606
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Folklore
and
Mythology:
Anthropological
Perspective
(3+0)
Intensive
introduction
to
anthropological
theory
concerning
oral
traditions
and
the
verbal
arts.
Attention
is
paid
to
classic
historical
approaches,
but
discussion
of
contemporary
focus
on
context
and
performance
is
highlighted.
Students
will
research
topics
of
individual
interest.
(Prerequisites:
Upper
division
undergraduate
anthropology
course
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
607
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Kinship
and
Social
Organization
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
407)
Forms
and
function
of
family
and
household
organization,
kinship
and
marriage
in
diverse
human
sociocultural
systems.
Case
studies
from
tribal
and
complex
societies
including
contemporary
United
States.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
608
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Classics
in
Anthropology
(3+0)
Landmark
contributions
in
anthropological
literature,
ethnographies
and
theoretical
works,
will
be
discussed.
(Prerequisite:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructors.)
ANTH
609
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Anthropology
of
Religion
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
409)
Religion
or
supernatural
belief
from
the
perspective
of
anthropology.
Religion
in
the
context
of
"primitive"
society
as
well
as
its
role
in
complex
society.
Religious
practitioners,
ritual,
belief
systems,
and
the
relationship
of
religious
behavior
to
other
aspects
of
social
behavior.
(Prerequisite:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
610
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Northern
Indigenous
Peoples
and
Contemporary
Issues
(3+0)
(Cross-listed
with
NORS
610)
This
course
examines
a
number
of
issues
affecting
northern
indigenous
peoples
from
a
comparative
perspective,
including
perspectives
from
Alaska,
Canada,
Greenland,
and
the
Soviet
Union.
Issues
include
the
impact
of
the
alienation
of
land
on
which
these
peoples
depend;
the
relationship
between
their
small,
rural
microeconomies
and
the
larger
agroindustrial
market
economies
of
which
they
area
a
part;
education,
language
loss,
and
cultural
transmission;
alternative
governmental
policies
towards
indigenous
peoples;
and
contrasting
world
views.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing,
or
upper
division
with
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
612
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Paleoecology
(3+0)
Advanced
study
of
Quaternary
environments.
The
influences
of
climatic
change
and
the
interrelationships
of
physical
and
biological
factors
on
the
distribution
and
evolution
of
biota
including
humans
will
be
discussed.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
613
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Seminar:
Problems
in
Arctic
Archaeology
(3+0)
A
seminar
which
focuses
in
depth
upon
topics
of
current
interest
in
North
American
Arctic
archaeology
including
Beringian
prehistory,
interior
archaeology,
coastal
archaeology,
past
arctic
adaptations,
etc.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
614
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Archaeology
of
Siberia
(3+0)
A
thorough
survey
of
the
Paleolithic,
Mesolithic,
Neolithic,
Bronze
and
Iron
ages
of
Siberia
through
an
examination
of
key
archaeological
sites.
Data
from
archaeology,
ethnology,
linguistics
and
paleoanthropology
will
be
applied
to
ancient
population
changes
and
the
ethnogenesis
of
Siberian
peoples.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
ANTH
618
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Historical
Archaeology
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
418)
Historical
archaeology
of
the
Americas
examines
colonial
and
frontier
archaeology
as
experienced
by
Euroamericans,
in
addition
to
contact
and
post
contact
archaeology
of
Native
North
Americans.
Current
perspectives
in
American
historical
archaeology,
including
a
review
of
goals,
problem
orientation,
and
the
manner
in
which
archaeological
and
documentary
data
are
used
for
anthropological
interpretation.
(Prerequisites:
ANTH
405
or
605
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
619
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Material
Culture
Analysis
in
Archaeology
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
419W)
Analysis
of
material
culture
recovered
from
archaeological
sites.
Different
types
of
analysis
relevant
to
particular
kinds
of
archaeological
problems
(i.e.
lithic
use-wear)
are
conducted.
Includes
archaeological
materials
from
the
UA
museum.
(Prerequisites:
Upper
division
undergraduate
anthropology
course
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
ANTH
623
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Paleoanthropology
(2+3)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
423O)
Analysis
of
the
Plio-Pleistocene
hominid
fossil
record,
including
comparative
primate
and
hominid
skeletal
and
dental
anatomy,
systematics,
taphonomy
and
long-term
biobehavioral
adaptations.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
ANTH
624
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Analytical
Techniques
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
424)
Classification,
sampling,
collection
and
analysis
of
anthropological
data;
parametric
and
nonparametric
significance
tests
and
measures
of
association,
analysis
of
frequency
data,
estimating
resemblance
using
multiple
variables,
computer
simulations
and
analysis.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
in
Anthropology.)
ANTH
625
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Human
Osteology
(Stacked
with
ANTH
422)
Human
skeletal
analysis:
bone
biology,
skeletal
anatomy,
aging
and
sexing,
metric
and
non-metric
traits
of
skeleton
and
dentition,
paleopathology,
and
paleodemography.
Inferences
on
genetic
relationships
between
and
patterned
behavior
within
prehistoric
groups
derived
from
skeletal
material.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
315,
graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered
2003-04.)
ANTH
629
(3
Credits)
Fall
Structures
of
Anthropological
Argument
(3+0)
Reading
and
analysis
of
examples
from
various
paradigms
in
anthropology,
past
and
present.
Presents
a
thorough
grounding
in
forms
of
anthropological
argument
and
preparation
for
the
research
and
writing
process.
Includes
evolutionary,
Boasian,
structural-functional,
structural
as
well
as
subdisciplinary
linguistic,
archaeological
and
biological
forms
of
argument.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
630
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Anthropological
Field
Methods
(3+0)
Concentration
on
the
practical
concerns
and
aspects
of
doing
anthropological
field
research.
Includes
the
relevant
literature
and
significant
discussions
on
the
different
aspects
of
fieldwork.
In
addition,
students
will
gain
practical
experience
in
the
problems,
techniques
and
methods
of
fieldwork
involving
people
from
similar
or
distinct
cultural
backgrounds.
The
preparation
of
research
proposals
is
also
given
attention.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
in
anthropology
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
631
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Language
and
Culture
Seminar
(3+0)
In-depth
examination
of
the
interrelation
between
language
and
culture
in
the
context
of
the
theories
of
human
communication,
semiotics,
and
maintenance
of
cultural
boundaries.
In
particular,
the
influence
of
the
Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis
in
anthropological
thinking
today
and
the
field
of
ethnoscience
will
be
examined,
as
well
as
language
change
in
contact
situations
with
emphasis
on
emergence
of
pidgin
and
Creole
languages
and
effects
of
the
introduction
of
writing.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing;
previous
credit
in
anthropological
or
descriptive
linguistics,
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
632
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Field
Methods
in
Descriptive
Linguistics
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
432
and
LING
431)
Introduction
to
general
issues
in
language
field
work
and
to
issues
specific
to
working
with
little
studied
and/or
endangered
languages
in
particular.
Training
in
techniques
of
linguistic
field
work
commonly
used
to
determine
the
grammar
of
an
unknown
and/or
unwritten
language.
Topics
will
include:
definition
of
research
problem
and
research
program;
considerations
in
selecting
consultants;
ethics
and
responsibilities
involved
in
field
work
and
human
research;
data
elicitation,
analysis,
reporting
and
interpreting,
archiving.
Students
will
work
intensively
with
a
primary
consultant
who
is
a
native
speaker
of
a
non-Indo-European
language.
(Prerequisites:
LING
318,
LING
320,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
ANTH
633
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Culture
and
History
in
the
North
Atlantic
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
ANTH
433
and
cross-listed
with
NORS
633)
Ancient
Norse
culture
and
society.
Includes
readings
of
Old
Norse
poetry
and
Icelandic
sagas
in
translation,
with
secondary
analyses
and
archaeological
background.
Includes
Greenlandic
myths
and
contemporary
ethnographic
accounts
of
Iceland,
Greenland
and
the
Faroe
Islands.
May
be
repeated
once
for
credit.
(Prerequisite:
ANTH
100X,
graduate
standing,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Recommended:
ANTH
215.)
ANTH
637
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Methods
in
Ethnohistorical
Research
(3+0)
In
the
seminar,
students
of
anthropology
are
introduced
to
the
methods
of
historical
research,
particularly
the
critical
evaluation
of
written
documents,
problems
of
archaic
language
and
paleography,
and
methods
for
assessing
art
and
folklorist
tradition
as
sources
of
history.
Oral
history
and
the
data
of
language
and
archaeology
are
considered.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
in
anthropology
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
646
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Economic
Anthropology
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
446)
Relationships
between
economic
and
other
social
relations.
Pre-industrial
societies.
Relevance
of
formal
economics
to
small-scale
societies
and
developing
nations.
Exchange,
formal
and
substantive
economics,
market
economics,
rationality,
political
economy
and
the
economics
of
development.
(Prerequisite:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
650
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Anthropological
Perspectives
on
Russian
America
(3+0)
An
in-depth
study
of
Russian
penetration
in
North
America,
Russian
institutions,
and
Russian
impacts
on
the
Aleut,
Tlingit,
and
Yup'ik.
(Prerequisite:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
651
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Quaternary
Seminar
(3+0)
(Cross-listed
with
GEOS
651
and
stacked
with
ANTH
451
and
GEOS
452)
Discussion
of
the
Quaternary
Period
(relatively
recent
past
--
spanning
the
past
two
million
years)
in
order
to
gain
a
better
understanding
of
the
landscape,
biota,
and
climate
of
the
present
day.
Quaternary
studies
are
concerned
with
the
historical
dimension
of
the
natural
sciences.
This
seminar
will
range
widely
over
diverse
interdisciplinary
subjects
of
Quaternary
interest,
such
as
paleoclimatology,
paleobiogeography,
vertebrate
paleontology,
and
sedimentology.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.)
ANTH
652
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Research
Design
and
Professional
Development
Seminar
(3+0)
How
to
develop
problem-based
research
in
anthropology
and
prepare
research
proposals,
grant
proposals,
and
publications
along
with
critical
evaluations
of
similar
material.
Topics
include
preparation
of
oral
presentations
for
professional
meetings,
lectures
and
seminars;
curriculum
vitae
preparation;
and
project
budgeting.
(Prerequisites:
Upper-division
anthropology
course
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
ANTH
653
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Current
Perspectives
in
Cultural
Resource
Management
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
ANTH
453W)
Cultural
resource
management.
Includes
historic
preservation
and
environmental
law.
Reviews
pertinent
legislation
pertaining
to
the
protection
of
historic
properties,
and
presents
a
series
of
real
world
problems
confronted
by
archaeologists.
Cultural
resource
management
will
be
treated
historically
within
a
context
of
the
development
of
American
archaeology.
Emphasis
on
practical
aspects
of
career
development.
(Prerequisites:
Graduate
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
ANTH
670
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Oral
Sources;
Issues
in
Documentation
(3+0)
(Cross-listed
with
NORS
670
and
stacked
with
ANTH
470)
Preparation
for
recording
and
use
of
oral
resources.
Examines
how
meaning
is
conveyed
through
oral
traditions
and
personal
narratives
and
the
issues
involved
with
recording
and
reproducing
narratives.
Includes
management
of
oral
recordings,
ethical
and
legal
considerations,
issues
of
interpretation
and
censorship,
and
the
use
of
new
technologies
to
access
and
deliver
recordings.
(Prerequisite:
At
least
one
undergraduate
ANTH
course
and
one
undergraduate
HIST
course,
or
permission
of
instructor.)
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