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Next: Theatre and Communications Up: Sociology and Anthropology Previous: Sociology (SOC)
Anthropology (ANT)
Interdisciplinary majors and B.S.S. concentrations may be developed involving anthropology and other disciplines, especially sociology, psychology, economics, history, and politics. See also the joint major in Sociology and Anthropology.
Teaching Major: An interdisciplinary major in Anthropology, which includes at least 6 course credits in Anthropology. In addition to the foregoing requirements, prospective teachers must also apply for admission to the Teacher Education Program and complete a second major in Secondary Education described under ``Education.''
Second Teaching Area in Anthropology: The following program in conjunction with a teaching major in Economics and Business, History, Politics, Psychology, or Sociology will enable the student to apply for licensure to teach both the major subject and Anthropology: 4 course credits in Anthropology approved by the chair of the Department.
101. Cultural Anthropology
Cross-cultural, critical perspective on human behavior and culture. Diversity of human cultures from hunter-gatherers to industrialized city dwellers. Implications of economic, social, political, symbolic, and religious systems for the lives of men and women. Emphasis on non-Western cultures. (Social Science) EHRENREICH
105. Human Origins
Physical and prehistoric development of humankind, including primate and human evolution, ``race'' and racism, behavioral evolution, sexual evolution, the Darwinian revolution, and modern evolutionary theory. EHRENREICH
202. Indigenous Peoples and Cultures of North America
Ethnographic survey of the sociocultural systems developed by indigenous Americans north of Mexico. Ecological factors, subsistence practices, social organizations, and belief systems, along with contemporary issues of change, contact, and cultural survival. (Social Science) EHRENREICH
203. Amazonia: People, Culture, and Nature
Ethnographic survey of the sociocultural systems developed by the indigenous Amerindians of Amazonia and the lowland forests. Ecological factors, subsistence practices, social organizations, politics, cosmology and belief systems. Contemporary issues of change, contact, cultural survival, and the destruction of the Amazonian rain forest. (Social Science) EHRENREICH
204. Cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes
Survey of the peoples and cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes, especially the Maya, Aztec, Inca, and their present-day descendants. Texts, narratives, and documents are interpreted in light of critical theory and analysis, employing the approaches of ethnology, ethnohistory, archaeology, and literature. Colonial history, colonialism, representation of the ``other,'' indigenous ``voices,'' and strategies of resistance. Taught in Guatemala in 1992-93. Registration, when the course is taught off campus, entails additional costs. Alternate years. (Social Science) EHRENREICH
206. Africans in the New World
Anthropological perspectives on Afro-Americans, including African retentions and cultural pluralsim. Special attention given to the West Indies, maroonage, family and kinship, gender roles, the spirit world, and fiesta. (Social Science) MONAGAN
210. Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
Religion, religious behavior and practices, world view, and the supernatural. Rites of transition, death and afterlife, ritual, religious leaders, traditional curing, religious movements, revitalization, cults, witchcraft, magic, and especially shamanism are examined cross-culturally. Recommended prerequisite: ANT 101. EHRENREICH
220. Anthropology Via Film: Critical Perspectives and Interpretations
How ethnographic film-makers shape images and visions of human beings, cultures, and the human condition. Recommended prerequisite: ANT 101. Offered subject to availability of staff. (OP) EHRENREICH
310. Humanistic and Philosophical Anthropology
Nature of human existence and ``human nature.'' Topics include the relationships between nature and culture, interpretation of culture, intelligence, values, consciousness, morality, ethics, death, autonomy and freedom, world view and cosmology, and human potential. Prerequisites: ANT 101 and an additional course in one the following disciplines: Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, Religion, or Politics. EHRENREICH
312. Medical Anthropology
Cross-cultural examination of medical systems and beliefs as systems of knowledge and as theories of reality. Symbolic, social, and political dimensions of medicine in historical and comparative perspective. Ethno-medicine, alternative medical and health systems, and shamanism. Prerequisites: ANT 101 and an additional course in one of the following disciplines: Anthropology, Sociology, Biology, or Psychology. (Social Science) EHRENREICH
314. Contact, Change, and Cultural Survival:
Anthropology of Colonialism
Seminar on anthropological and historical approaches to issues of contact, culture change, and cultural survival in traditional societies. Special focus on the destructive impact of the industrial world's economic, political and social order on indigenous native cultures. Prerequisites: ANT 101 and an additional course in one of the following disciplines: Sociology, History, Economics, Philosophy, or Politics. Registration, when the course is taught at the Newberry Library in Chicago, entails additional costs. (Social Science) (OP) EHRENREICH
320. Qualitative Research Methods and Fieldwork
Introduction to the theory and practice of anthropological research methods, including ethnographic interviewing, participant observation, photography, and qualitative approaches to the analysis of cultural data. Students engage in ethnographic research. Prerequisites: ANT 101 and permission of instructor. (Social Science) EHRENREICH
322. The History of Ethnological Theory
Critical and historical study of theories of culture. Historical and contemporary schools of thought and major trends in ethnological theory, along with seminal theorists. Theoretical approaches in relation to biography, historical era, and sociocultural milieu of theorists, and to the function of anthropology in Western thought. Prerequisites: ANT 101 and junior standing. (Social Science) EHRENREICH
355 through 360. Topics in Anthropology
Selected topics and current issues in anthropological theory. Prerequisites: ANT 101 and permission of instructor. EHRENREICH
375. The Body as Social Text
An examination, drawing on recent interdisciplinary approaches, of the ways in which social meanings and messages are shaped and controlled through the medium of the body. Dressed, undressed, decorated, scented, disabled, controlled, frenzied, etc., the many manifestations of the body are interpreted as providing important clues for social and literary analysis. Prerequisites: ANT 101, ENG 111, and junior or senior standing-or permission of instructors. Recommended prerequisite: WST 171. Same as ENG 375. Alternate years. (Humanities) EHRENREICH and BURROUGHS
485. Readings/Research in Anthropology (.5-1)
Student-designed individual research in selected areas. May be repeated for credit; however, no more than one term of 485 may be counted toward a minimum eight-course interdisciplinary major or joint Sociology/Anthropology major. Prerequisites: ANT 101, one other course in Anthropology, and approval of the Department. (OP)
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