54 / FIELDS OF INSTRUCTION


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 prob-
lems 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 ter-
minologies 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 traditional 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) Prereq: HUN 3227. 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
practices, with emphasis upon problems of planning and ad-
ministration.
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 dif-
fusion, acculturation, modernization, and revitalization.
ANT 5485-Research Design in Anthropology (3) Examina-
tion of empirical and logical basis of anthropological in-
quiry; analysis of theory construction, research design, prob-
lems of data collection, processing, and evaluation.
ANT 5486-Quantitative Methods for Anthropology (3) Pre-
req: 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) Pre-
req: 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 prob-
lems 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) 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 Organiza-
tions (3) The structure, function and culture of planned so-
cial units within contemporary societies. Cross-cultural per-
spectives on specialized social organizations, such as bu-
reaucracies, 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, com-
parative analysis, case studies and participant observation.
ANT 5728--Anthropology and Education (3) Comparative
study of teaching and learning processes in societies of dif-
fering complexity and cultural variability. Empirical data ex-
amined from an anthropological perspective and in the con-
text 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, catalogu-


ing, classification, drawing, analysis, responsibilities of data
reporting.
ANT 6186-Seminar in Archeology (3; max: 10) Selected top-
ic.
ANT 6188-Advanced Archeological Field Methods (6) Pre-
req: consent of instructor. Planning, directing, and reporting
archeological excavations. Students encouraged to prepare
publishable papers.
ANT 6276-Principles of Political Anthropology (3) Prob-
lems of identifying political behavior. Natural leadership in
tribal societies. Acephalous societies and republican struc-
tures. Kingship and early despotic states. Theories of bu-
reaucracy.
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) Pre-
historic times through first contacts by explorers to settlers;
the contact situation between European, Khoisan, and
Bantu-speaking; empirical data dealing with present politi-
cal, economic; social, and religious conditions.
ANT 6387-Seminar on the Anthropology of Latin America
(3; max: 10) Prereq: reading knowledge of Spanish or Portu-
guese 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 im-
age conflict. Participant observation, interviewing, content
analysis, photography and documents, data retrieval, analy-
sis 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 provide 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 dif-
ferent cultural contexts related to personal character and so-
cial identity formation.
ANT 6445-Seminar in African Studies (3) Current condi-
tions and problems flowing from detribalization, accultura-
tion, and urbanization. Changes in values, attitudes, and in-
stitutions, 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, cul-
ture institutions, and urban morphology.
ANT 6478-Small Groups in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3)
Prereq: 15 to 20 credits in social sciences. Comparative analy-
sis of structure andiprocess 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.
ANT 6487-Evolution of Culture (3) Prereq: ANT 3141. Theo-
ries of culture growth and 'evolution from cultural begin-
nings to dawn of history. Major inventions of man and their
significance.
ANT 6547-Human Adaptation (3) Prereq: ANT 3511 or per-
mission of instructor. An examination of adaptive processes
-cultural, physiological, genetic-in past and contemporary
populations.
ANT 6588-Seminar in Physical Anthropology (3; max: 10)
Selected topic.
ANT 6619-Seminar in Language and Culture (3; max: 10)
Selected topic.
ANT 6627-Seminar in Anthropological Linguistic Field