Anthropology
ANTH 100X 3 Credits
Individual, Society and Culture (s)
An examination of the complex social arrangements guiding individual behavior
and common human concerns in contrasting cultural contexts. Also available
via Independent Learning. (3 + 0) Offered Fall, Spring
ANTH 101 3 Credits
Introduction to Anthropology (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. (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 105 1 Credit
Introduction to the History and Culture of the Seward Peninsula
(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. (1 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 111 3 Credits
Ancient Civilizations (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: 2005-06.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 123 3 Credits
Origins of Alaska’s Native Peoples (s)
Origins and affinities of Alaska Native peoples from an archaeological perspective.
Prehistory examination of Yup’ik, Inupiaq, Aleut, Tlingit and Athabascan
groups. (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 211 3 Credits
Fundamentals of Archaeology (s)
Methods and techniques of archaeological field and laboratory research. (2 + 3)
Offered Fall
ANTH 214 3 Credits
World Prehistory (s)
Explores the archaeological evidence from the Old and New Worlds for the development
of human culture, from the very beginning of humankind to the rise of ancient
urban societies. (Prerequisite: ANTH 100X. Next offered: 2005-06) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 215 3 Credits
Fundamentals of Social/Cultural Anthropology (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. (Recommended: ANTH 211.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring
ANTH 221 3 Credits
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (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. (3 + 0)
Offered Fall
ANTH 230 3 Credits
The Oral Tradition: Folklore and Oral History (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. (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 242 3 Credits
Native Cultures of Alaska (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. (3 + 0) Offered Fall, Spring
ANTH 245 3 Credits
Culture and Global Issues (s)
Introduces students to the anthropological study of globalization and global
issues including the deterritorialization of culture, global social movements,
culture and capital, immigration and culture, and modern and postmodern approaches
to the study of culture and society. Begins with the history of global ethnography,
but focuses primarily on contemporary issues. (Prerequisites: ANTH 100X.) (3 + 0)
Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 301 3 Credits
World Ethnography (s)
Survey of ethnographic research on peoples and cultures of selected geographic
regions of the world, in both historical and contemporary perspective. Content
of the course varies and is contingent on available faculty expertise. Course
may be repeated once for credit when content varies. (Prerequisites: ANTH 100X
or permission of instructor. Next offered: 200506.) (3 + 0) Offered
Alternate Spring
ANTH 302 3 Credits
Ethnography of Siberia (s)
Survey of ethnographic research on peoples and cultures of Siberia, including
the Russian Far East, in both historical and contemporary perspective. (Prerequisite:
ANTH 100X or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2004–05.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 308W,O 3 Credits
Language and Gender (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 and ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X or permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2005-06.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 309 3 Credits
Circumpolar Archaeology (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: 2005-06.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 313 3 Credits
Ethnography of Alaska (s)
Survey of ethnographic research on peoples and cultures of Alaska, in both
historical and contemporary perspective. Content of the course varies and may
cover Aleuts and other peoples of the Alaskan Southwest; Inupiaq and Inuit
peoples; peoples of the Alaskan Southeast; or Athabascan peoples. (Prerequisite:
ANTH 100X or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Fall
ANTH 315 3 Credits
Human Biology (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: 2005-06.) (2 + 3) Offered Alternate
Spring
ANTH 317 3 Credits
Human Growth and Development (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.)
(3 + 0) Offered As Demand
Warrants
ANTH 320W 3 Credits
Language and Culture: Applications to Alaska (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, ENGL 211X or ENGL 213, LING 101, or permission
of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring
ANTH 360 3 Credits
Indigenous Art and Culture (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. (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 365 3 Credits
Native Art of Alaska (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.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 366 3 Credits
Northwest Coast Indian Art (h)
(Cross-listed with ANS 366 and ART 366)
Arts of the Northwest Coast Indians and the place of art in their culture.
(3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 367 3 Credits
Eskimo Art (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: 2005-06.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 383 3 Credits
Athabascan Peoples of Alaska and Adjacent Canada (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: 2004-05.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 384 3 Credits
History of Anthropology (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: ANTH 215 or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0)
Offered Fall
ANTH 402 3 Credits
Anthropology of Art
(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.) (3 + 0)
Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 403W,O 3 Credits
Political Anthropology (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; ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X; or permission of instructor. Next offered:
200405.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 405 3 Credits
Archaeological Method and Theory (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: 2005-06.) (2 + 3) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 407 3 Credits
Kinship and Social Organization (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. Next offered: 200506) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Fall
ANTH 409 3 Credits
Anthropology of Religion (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: ANTH
100x and ANTH 215 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 200506) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 411O 3 Credits
Senior Seminar in Anthropology (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.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring
ANTH 415 3 Credits
Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy
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.) (2 + 3) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 422 3 Credits
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.)
ANTH 423 3 Credits
Paleoanthropology
(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 221; or permission
of instructor. Next offered: 2004-05.) (2 + 3) Offered Alternate
Spring
ANTH 424 3 Credits
Analytical Techniques
(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.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 426 3 Credits
Bioarchaeology (n)
(Stacked with ANTH 626)
Innovative methods for studying past interactions between biological and cultural
factors, as revealed through human and faunal skeletal and plant remains. From
these data sources, health, diet, social organization and interactions and
life histories of past populations, as well as the environments in which they
lived, are reconstructed and examined. (Prerequisites: ANTH 211; ANTH 221 or
equivalent. Next offered: 2005-06.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 428W 3 Credits
Ecological Anthropology and Regional Sustainability (n)
Biological, environmental and cultural factors and their interplay in defining
the human condition, with examples from Arctic and other populations. (Prerequisites:
ENGL 111X, ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X, Junior standing, or permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2005-06.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 432 3 Credits
Field Methods in Descriptive Linguistics (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.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Fall
ANTH 445 3 Credits
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (s)
(Stacked with ANTH 645 and Cross-listed with WMS 445)
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 and
men’s experiences in their cultural variety are presented. (Prerequisite:
ANTH 215 or WMS 201 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2005-06.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 446 3 Credits
Economic Anthropology (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. Next offered: 200405.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 451 3 Credits
Quaternary Seminar
(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.)
(3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 465 3 Credits
Geoarchaeology
(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. Course fee: $60. (Prerequisite: GEOS
101X, an introductory course in archaeology, or permission of instructor.)
(3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 470 3 Credits
Oral Sources; Issues in Documentation (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.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 472 3 Credits
Culture and History in the North Atlantic (s)
(Stacked with ANTH 672 and NORS 672)
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. (Prerequisite: ANTH 100X. Recommended:
ANTH 215. Next offered: 200405.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 602 3 Credits
Anthropology of Art
(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. (Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0)
Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 603 3 Credits
Political Anthropology
(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. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Next offered:
200405.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 605 3 Credits
Archaeological Method and Theory
(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: 2005-06.) (2 + 3)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 606 3 Credits
Folklore and Mythology: Anthropological Perspective
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. (Prerequisite: Upper
division undergraduate anthropology course or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0)
Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 607 3 Credits
Kinship and Social Organization
(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. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing
or permission of instructor. Next offered: 200506.) (3 + 0) Offered
Alternate Fall
ANTH 609 3 Credits
Anthropology of Religion
(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. Next offered: 200506.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 610 3 Credits
Northern Indigenous Peoples and Contemporary Issues
(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.
(Prerequisite: Graduate standing, or upper division with permission of instructor.
Next offered: 200506.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 612 3 Credits
Paleoecology
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. (Prerequisite: Graduate
standing or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand
Warrants
ANTH 618 3 Credits
Historical Archaeology
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.) (3 + 0) Offered As
Demand Warrants
ANTH 623 3 Credits
Paleoanthropology
(Stacked with ANTH 423)
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.) (2 + 3) Offered Alternate
Spring
ANTH 624 3 Credits
Analytical Techniques
(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.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 625 3 Credits
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 2005-06.)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 626 3 Credits
Bioarchaeology
(Stacked with ANTH 426)
Innovative methods for studying past interactions between biological and cultural
factors, as revealed through human and faunal skeletal and plant remains. From
these data sources, health, diet, social organization and interactions and
life histories of past populations, as well as the environments in which they
lived, are reconstructed and examined. (Prerequisites: Graduate standing or
permission of instructor. Recommended: ANTH 625; ANTH 415.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 629 3 Credits
Structures of Anthropological Argument
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.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 630 3 Credits
Anthropological Field Methods
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. Next offered: 200405.) (3 + 0) Offered
Alternate Spring
ANTH 631 3 Credits
Language and Culture Seminar
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. Next offered: 200506.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 632 3 Credits
Field Methods in Descriptive Linguistics
(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.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 637 3 Credits
Methods in Ethnohistorical Research
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. Next offered: 200506.) (3 + 0) Offered
Alternate Spring
ANTH 645 3 Credits
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (s)
(Stacked with ANTH 445 and WMS 445)
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 and
men’s experiences in their cultural variety are presented. (Prerequisite:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2005 –06.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 646 3 Credits
Economic Anthropology
(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. Next offered: 200405.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 651 3 Credits
Quaternary Seminar
(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.) (3 + 0)
Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 652 3 Credits
Research Design and Professional Development Seminar
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: 2005-06.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Spring
ANTH 653 3 Credits
Current Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management
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: 2005-06.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 670 3 Credits
Oral Sources; Issues in Documentation
(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.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 672 3 Credits
Culture and History in the North Atlantic (s)
(Stacked with ANTH 472 and cross-listed with NORS 672)
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. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing
or permission of instructor. Next offered: 200405.) (3 + 0) Offered
Alternate Spring