ANTHROPOLOGY ANT 2301 Human Sexuality and Culture. Credits: 3 This course examines (1) aspects of sexuality from a cross-cultural viewpoint and (2) traces the develop- ment of an individual's sexuality and sexual identity. Sexual anatomy and functioning, gender roles, and the interplay of behavior and sexual ethics are dis- cussed. (I, S) ANT 2402 Introduction to Applied Anthropology Credits: 3 The anthropological perspective, theories, methods, applied to contemporary circumstances. The individu- al and the group, social groups, institutions, world view, cross-cultural perspectives, cultural transforma- tions. (S) ANT 2930 Special Topics in Anthropology. Credits: 3; With permission, may be repeated as topics change. Maximum of six credits. Rotating topics. Courses will present major social institutions in cross-cultural perspective. These will include religion, crisis and disasters, sexual behavior, social problems. ANT 3141 The Development of World Civilization. F, S, SS. Credits: 3 Discussion of archeological evidence for the develop- ment of civilization in its regional variants from the earliest beginning to the dawn of written history. Analyzes causes of cultural development in Old and New World Centers. (H, I) ANT 3153 North American Archeology. Credits: 3 Archeological materials relating to prehistoric North American cultures. The origins of the North American Indian. Historic Indian and colonial materials. (H) ANT 3157 Florida Archeology. Credits: 3 Survey of 12,000 years of human occupation of Florida, including early settlers and foragers, regional cultural developments, external relationships with the Southeast and Caribbean regions, people of the his- toric period and effects of European conquest. (H) ANT 3164 The Inca and Their Ancestors. Credits: 3 The evolution of the Inca empire is traced back arche- ologically through earlier Andean states and societies to the beginning of native civilization. (H, I) ANT 3241 Anthropology of Religion. Credits: 3 Cross-cultural survey of beliefs and practices dealing with the supernatural, magic, and religion. Conceptualization of the supernatural. Sacred special- ists, their function and social position. Theories of comparative religion in the light of anthropological data. (H, I) ANT 3245 Death and Dying in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Credits: 3 An examination of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors associated with death and dying in various cultures of the world. A comparative approach to such topics as terminal illness, death rituals, mourning, grief, sui- cide, homicide, abortion, euthanasia, and life after death. (H, I) ANT 3302 Sex Roles: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Credits: 3 Anthropological perspective on division of labor by sex in different world societies. Variation in sex roles in economic, religious, political domains. Socialization and the life cycle. (I, S) t+ Grading is on S-U basis only. ANT 3325 Maya and Aztec Civilizations. Credits: 3 This course treats civilizations in Mesoamerica from the beginnings of agriculture to the time of the coming of Europeans. Besides Maya and Aztec Civilizations, the course treats the Olmec, Zapotec and Teotihuacan cultures. (H, I) ANT 3332 Peoples of Latin America. Credits: 3 An introduction to Latin American Peoples; native culture areas and high civilizations. Metropolitan Hispanic culture and cultural syncretism in selected and geographically varied nation-states, selected urban and peasant subcultures. (I) ANT 3365 Islamic Civilization. Credits: 3 An understanding of Islam's origin and spread; its belief and ritual; its strength as a sociocultural force. (H, I) ANT 3367 Middle East Societies. Credits: 3 Survey of Middle Eastern peoples and societies, beginning with the rise of Islam to the present and covering the area from Egypt to Iran. Topics covered include Islam, peasant, tribal, and urban society. (I) ANT 3390 Visual Anthropology. Credits: 3; Prereq: Basic knowledge of photography or permission of instructor. Uses photography and film as tools and products of social science. Ways of describing, analyzing and pre- senting behavior and cultural ideas through visual means. Student projects and laboratory work with visual anthropology. ANT 3410 Cultural Anthropology. F, S, SS. Credits: 3 The nature of culture. The content of cultures; lan- guages, subsistence, economic structures, art and reli- gion in human societies. The integration of culture. (S) ANT 3432 Cognitive Anthropology. Credits: 3. A cross-cultural comparison of the cognitive construc- tion of individual life-space, social reality, and new world view in primitive, tribal, peasant and contem- porary industrial societies. Specifically the course deals with culturally conditioned aspects of intellectu- al functioning and perceptually based behavior in everyday life. (S) ANT 3433 Culture and Personality. Credits: 3 The relationship between culture and personality. Benedict's, Malinowski's, and Mead's contributions, contemporary schools of thought up to and including studies of national character. Methods in culture and personality research. (S) ANT 3451 Racial and Cultural Minorities. Credits: 3 A survey of racial and cultural minority group con- tacts, inter-group relations, conflicts, the nature of prejudice, and the problems of minority groups in the contemporary world. Examples will be taken from North and South America, Africa, and Asia. (I, S) ANT 3461 Folk Medicine. Credits: 3 This course is exploratory and serves as an introduc- tion to the traditional medical system of a people as it is influenced by beliefs and actions, nutrients and taboos and facilitated by specialists, folk-medicines, and avoidances. The interrelationships of traditional systems with the germ theory of disease, clinics and medical specialists and material medical are consid- ered. (S) ANT 3511 Biological Anthro: Human Evolution & Adaptation, Primate Behavior. F, S, SS. Credits: 4 Human evolution and contemporary variation. Relationship with other primates. Human genetics, Anthropometry. Population differences, distribution and history. Laboratories in human and nonhuman primate anatomy and physiology. (B) ANT 3610 Language and Culture. Credits: 3 The role of speech in individual, social and cultural settings. Linguistic basis of thought and perception. Mythological studies and analysis. Bilingualism, biculturalism and minority language politics in cur- rent perspective. (I, S) ANT 4035 History of Anthropological Theory. Credits: 3; Prereq: One cultural anthropology course or permission of the instructor. The history and development of anthropological theo- ry. Methods in anthropological research. Directed reading of major theoretical publications. (S) ANT 4110 Archeological Theory. Credits: 3; Prereq: One course in archeology and/or anthropology, or permission of the instructor. Survey of the theoretical and methodological tenets of anthropological archeology; critical review of archeo- logical theories, past and present; relation of archeolo- gy to anthropology. (S) ANT 4123 Laboratory Training in Archeology. Credits: 3; Prereq: An introductory level archeology course. Processing of data recovered in field excavations; includes cleaning, identification, cataloguing, classifi- cation, drawing, analysis, responsibilities of data reporting. ANT 4124 Field Sessions in Archeology. Credits: 6; Prereq: 6 hours of anthropology or permis- sion of the instructor. Excavation of archeological sites, recording of data, laboratory handling and analysis of specimens, and study of the theoretical principles which underlie field methods and artifact analysis. ANT 4185 Principles of Archeology. Credits: 3; Prereq: One anthropology course. The viewpoint and methods of archeology,, especially as applied to New World materials. The archeological survey. Methods and techniques of excavation. Systems of chronological analysis. ANT 4255 Rural People in the Modem World. Credits: 3 An historical background and comparative contempo- rary study of peasant and other rural societies. Unique characteristics, institutions and problems of rural life stressing agriculture and rural-urban relationships in cross-cultural perspective are examined. (I) ANT 4266 Economic Anthropology. Credits: 3; Prereq: One course in anthropology or per- mission of the instructor. A consideration of economic philosophies and the behavioral bases of formal economic theories. Cross-, cultural studies of production, distribution and con- sumption, money and the acquisition of goods. The latest materials from cultural ecology, Marxism, for- malism and substantivism are reviewed. (S) ANT 4273 Anthropology of Law. Credits: 3 An examination of legal systems cross-culturally with a focus on the interrelationship of law with culture, society, economics and politics. (S) ANT 4274 Political Anthropology. Credits: 3; Prereq: An introductory course in the social sciences or permission of the instructor.