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ANT 5336-The Peoples of Brazil (3) Ethnology of Brazil.
Historical, geographic, and socioeconomic materials and
representative monographs from the various regions of Brazil
are studied as is the contribution of the Indian, Portuguese, and
African to modern Brazilian culture.
ANT 5337-Peoples of the Andes (3) The area-cotradition. The
Spanish Conquest and shaping and persistence of colonial
culture. Twentieth-century communities-their social, land
tenure, religious, and value systems. Modernization, cultural
pluralism, and problems of integration.
ANT 5338-The Tribal Peoples of Lowland South America (3)
Survey of marginal and tropical forest hunters and gatherers and
horticulturalists of the Amazon Basin, Central Brpzil, Paraguay,
Argentina, and other areas of South America. Considers social
organization, subsistence activities, ecological adaptations, and
other aspects of tribal life.
ANT 5346-Caribbean Cultural Patterns (3) Investigation into
cultural contact that has taken place in the Caribbean and results
of that contact in terms of peoples and sociocultural units
produced and processes of culture change involved.
ANT 5352-Peoples of Africa (3) An anthropological survey of
the culture history and ethnographic background of the peoples
of Africa. A basis for appreciation of current problems of
acculturation, nationalism, and cultural survival and change
among African peoples.
ANT 5354-The Anthropology of Modern Africa (3) Study of
continuity and change in contemporary African societies, with
special reference to cultural and ethnic factors in modern
nations.
ANT 5423-Kinship and Descent (3) Systematic and analytical
treatment of marriage, descent, and alliances on a cross-cultural
basis. Examination of social behavior and terminologies related
to kinship systems drawn from traditional and modern societies.
ANT 5465-Culture and Aging (3) Prereq: two of following: ANT
2410, SOC 2000 or introductory psychology course. Cross-
cultural perspectives of adult development and aging in tradi-
tional and industrial society. This course includes comparative
assessment of culturally mediated, life-cycle transformations into
old age and health related and human service policy issues.
ANT 5467-Culture and Nutrition (3) Recommended prereq:
HUN 3221. The theory, methodology, and substantive material
of nutritional anthropology. Emphasis on cross-cultural bio-
behavioral patterns.
ANT 5477-Human Organization and Change (3) Theory and
practice in applied anthropology. A case study approach to
innovation and change in social institutions and cultural prac-
tices, with emphasis upon problems of planning and
administration.
ANT 5479-Theories of Cultural Change (3) Study of the
background, conditions, and nature of cultural change and
stability; cultural change theories and processes such as
diffusion, acculturation, modernization, and revitalization.
ANT 5485-Research Design in Anthropology (3) Examination
of empirical and logical basis of anthropological inquiry; analysis
of theory construction, research design, problems of data
collection, processing, and evaluation.
ANT 5486-Quantitative Methods for Anthropology (3) Prereq:
ANT 5485 or consent of instructor. Introductory survey of
relevant quantitative procedures for collecting, analyzing, and
interpreting anthropological data.
ANT 5546-Seminar: Human Biology and Behavior (3) Prereq:
consent of instructor. Social behavior among animals from the
ethological-biological viewpoint; the evolution of animal
societies; the relevance of the ethological approach for the study
of human development.
ANT 5615-Language and Culture (3) Principles and problems
of anthropological linguistics. The cross-cultural and comparative
study of language. Primarily concerned with the study of non-
Indo-European linguistic problems.
ANT 5624-Introduction to Anthropological Linguistic Field
Methods (6) Prereq: ANT 5625, 5622, or equivalent. Field
procedures, collections, and processing of language data.
ANT 5675-Laboratory Work in Anthropological Linguistics
(1-3; max: 10)
ANT 5717-Cross-Cultural Studies of Complex Organizations
(3) The structure, function and culture of planned social units
within contemporary societies. Cross-cultural perspectives on
specialized social organizations, such as bureaucracies, factories,


hospitals, prisons and other planned social systems.
ANT 5724-Ethnographic Methods in Educational Settings (3)
Prereq:ANT 5728. An examination of anthropological methods
and techniques used in educational description, practices and
evaluation; includes ethnography, comparative analysis, case
studies and participant observation.
ANT 5728-Anthropology and Education (3) Comparative study
of teaching and learning processes in societies of differing
complexity and cultural variability. Empirical data examined
from an anthropological perspective and in the context of
theories about culture and perception, world view, rites of
passage, culture and personality, and change.
ANT 6038-Seminar in Anthropological History and Theory
(3) Theoretical principles and background of anthropology and
its subfields.
ANT 6127-Laboratory Training in Archeology (3) Prereq: ANT
2141 or 3142 or 3144. Processing of data recovered in field
excavation; includes cleaning, identification, cataloguing,
classification, drawing, analysis, responsibilities of data reporting.
ANT 6186-Seminar in Archeology (3; max: 10) Selected topic.
ANT 6188-Advanced Archeological Field Methods (6) Prereq:
consent of instructor. Planning, directing, and reporting
archeological excavations. Students encouraged to prepare
publishable papers.
ANT 6276-Principles of Political Anthropology (3) Problems
of identifying political behavior. Natural leadership in tribal
societies. Acephalous societies and republican structures.
Kingship and early despotic states. Theories of bureaucracy.
ANT 6286-Seminar in Contemporary Theory (3; max: 10)
Areas treated are North America, Central America, South
America, Africa, Oceania.
ANT 6356-Peoples and Culture in Southern Africa (3)
Prehistoric times through first contacts by explorers to settlers;
the contact situation between European, Khoisan, and Bantu-
speaking; empirical data dealing with present political,
economic, social, and religious conditions.
ANT 6387-Seminar on the Anthropology of Latin America
(3; max: 10) Prereq: reading knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese
and consent of instructional staff. Material from the major
branches of anthropology.
ANT 6388-Ethnographic Field Methods (3) Methods of col-
lecting ethnographic data. Entry into the field; role and image
conflict. Participant observation, interviewing, content analysis,
photography and documents, data retrieval, analysis of data.
ANT 6428-Culture and Community (3) Prereq: 15 to 20 credits
in social sciences. Examination of the method and theory of the
empirical, inductive, natural history approach in the study of
communities. Existing community studies are utilized to pro-
vide comparative analyses of social structure, culture patterns,
and process of change.
ANT 6429-Ethnicity (3) Prereq: consent of instructor. Com-
parative anthropological perspectives on the geographic-
ecological context and culture-historical main currents of ethnic
groups. Pluralistic basis of contemporary community systems
and socioeconomic and political consequences of multi-
culturalism examined. Problems of multiethnic stratification
within national cultures stressed.
ANT 6434-Transcultural Psychiatry (3) Recent and contem-
porary theoretical and methodological developments in the
cultural aspects of cognitive and perceptual socio- and psycho-
linguistic interactional and transactional processes. Ordinary and
abnormal developmental experiences in different cultural con-
texts related to personal character and social identity formation.
ANT 6445-Seminar in African Studies (3) Current conditions
and problems flowing from detribalization, acculturation, and
urbanization. Changes in values, attitudes, and institutions, as
well as the reaction among the peoples of Africa in the form
of traditional survivals, cultural revivals and innovations.
ANT 6447-Seminar in Urban Anthropology (3) Prereq: con-
sent of instructor. Anthropological view of the city through
interaction of spatial and temporal behavior, ecology, culture
institutions, and urban morphology.
ANT 6478-Small Groups in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3)
Prereq: 15 to 20 credits in social sciences. Comparative analysis
of structure and process of natural groups in animal and human
societies based on empirical studies of nonhuman primates,
hunting bands, simple agriculturists, and natural groups in
complex societies.