This course explores the ways in which biology, the environment and culture come together to form the human condition. Topics include human genetics, human evolution, primate behavior, contemporary human variation and applied biological anthropology, including forensics, child growth and human nutrition. This course includes a laboratory component.

This course explores the ways in which biology, the environment and culture come together to form the human condition. Topics include human genetics, human evolution, primate behavior, contemporary human variation and applied biological anthropology, including forensics, child growth and human nutrition. This course includes a laboratory component.

Introduces the theories, techniques, and strategies used by archaeologists to recover and interpret information about past cultures.

This course explores the rise of civilizations in the Old World through archaeology and history. The course examines theories of civilization and state formation and case studies that demonstrate how states arose. Concentrates on regions that produced some of the earliest and most complex societies on the planet: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, and Europe. Comparing and contrasting these great societies will show how each was influenced by its unique social, cultural, and environmental surroundings.

Introduction to qualitative research methods in cultural anthropology, with a focus on participant-observation, interviewing, collaborative methods, ethnographic writing, and other techniques.

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.

This course provides an anthropological study of cultures and societies of Eurasia and Eastern Europe. The course considers the demise of Soviet socialism and the emergence of democracy and market economies. We examine how people experience political, cultural, and economic transformations in their social relations and in their everyday lives.