This course explores the ways in which differences in factors such as nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, class, and occupation shape experiences of globalization. We will analyze and interpret rapidly changing patterns of global production, consumption, politics, resistance, adaptation, and identity construction around the world.

General introduction to Japanese culture from Meiji Restoration (1868) to the present, focusing mainly on the literary arts, but also including film, architecture and the fine arts.

This course considers the interrelationships between the various religious, political and philosophical traditions and practices of India and South Asia in the context of their shared cultural, historic, structural, geographic and demographic ties.

This course uses archaeology, epigraphy, ethnohistory, and ethnographic analogy to explore the origin, florescence and decline of the ancient Maya (1000 BC to 1500 AD). The class ties economics, politics, social organization, and religion into a holistic understanding of the ancient Maya world.

Basic concepts and theory of evolution will be reviewed and applied to the study of fossil humans The evidence for the evolution of humans and their primate relatives will be studied, with attention paid to alternate interpretations of the data.

This course focuses on human variation resulting from adaptation to a wide range of environments and the stresses inherent in each. It explores how humans respond/have responded to natural stresses, e.g., cold, heat, aridity and altitude, and human-made stresses, e.g., poverty, malnutrition and chemical pollution.

This course examines Native American cosmologies across space and time from the perspectives of ontology and epistemology, with a focus on concepts of soul and personhood. Students develop an empathetic understanding of the contours of indigenous universes and how these intersect with the socio-political dynamics that shape Native lives within modern nation-states.

Directed at non-majors (with no anthropology prerequisite), this course is intended to introduce the student to the diversity and unity of religious beliefs and practices in everyday life throughout the world through the lens of the social science anthropology. This includes the study of religions both textual and non-textual, large-scale and small- scale. The course content will include ethnographic materials as well as an examination of various methods and theoretical approaches used in anthropology in the cross-cultural study of religion.

Discussion, reading and writing focusing on specific topics in anthropology. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitle.

Discussion, reading and writing focusing on specific topics in anthropology. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitle.