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Transfer Student Courses in Cultural AnthropologyThis page was created at 12:32 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in Cultural Anthropology Wolverine Access Subject listing for ANTHRCUL Fall Term '01Time Schedule for Cultural Anthropology. ANTHRCUL 282. Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology.
Introductory CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): John M O'Shea (joshea@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course combines a presentation of the techniques, methods, and theories of anthropological archaeology with a general survey of world prehistory. Discussion of method and theory will cover field and laboratory techniques for acquiring information about past cultures, methods for using that information to test ideas about past cultural organization and evolution, and current theoretical developments in anthropological archaeology. The survey of world prehistory will focus on four major topics: (1) the emergence in Africa of the first proto-humans, between two and six million years ago; (2) the appearance of the first anatomically and behaviorally "modern" humans; (3) the origins of domesticated plants and animals, and the development of the first village farming communities; and (4) the rise of more complex stratified "state-level" societies. The course will be oriented as much toward students with a general curiosity and interest in the human past as toward students who will become eventual concentrators. There will be three one-hour lectures plus one discussion section per week. Requirements: three in-class hourly exams and a final examination, plus 3-4 take-home exercises that give students firsthand experience with the analysis and interpretation of archaeological data. Required readings: Archaeology: Down to Earth, by David Hurst Thomas and Images of the Past, by G. Feinman and D. Price.
ANTHRCUL 314 / AMCULT 313. Cuba and its Diaspora.
Ethnology-Regional CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Ruth Behar (rbehar@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines Cuban history, literature, and culture since the Revolution both on the island and in the United States Diaspora. In political and cultural essays, personal narratives, fiction, poetry, drama, visual art and film, we will seek a comprehensive and diverse view of how Cubans and Cuban-Americans understand their situation as people of the same nation divided for thirty-five years by the Cold War, revolution, and exile. Topics will include: discussions of race, ethnicity, and intolerance in the context of Cuba and the Diaspora, the meaning of diasporas in the twentieth century, Fidel Castro and the making of the Cuban Revolution, masculinity and gay sexuality in the Revolution and Cuban Diaspora, women's dreams, everyday life under communism, Afrocuban culture and religion, the Cuban arts movement, and construction and deconstruction of exile identity. We will read and discuss the writings of Fidel Castro, Oscar Hijuelos, Edmundo Desnoes, Reinaldo Arenas, Lourdes Casal, Senel Paz, Dolores Prida, and Carmelita Tropicana, among others, and view major Cuban feature and documentary films. Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions and do independent research for a final essay as well as write two short essays and maintain a film journal. Each student will sign up for an oral presentation for one week of the course and will lead the discussion for that day's reading. The class will meet for four hours per week, 3 hours lecture and 1 hour of discussion. There will be additional time (1 to 1-1/2 hours per week) to view documentary films. The intended audience is undergraduates of all levels.
ANTHRCUL 315. Native American Peoples of North America.
Ethnology-Regional CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Barbara A Meek (bameek@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Native American communities, often deeply rooted in traditional places and voices – despite relocations and losses of native languages – all involve strong family ties and histories of local and regional power struggles. In this course, we look at cross cultural dynamics and tribal identities in political encounters between Native American peoples and various others: developers, environmentalists, educators, other governmental authorities, poets, and social scientists, to name a few. Key issues include land rights, family relations, alcoholism, and freedom of religion. We also look at contemporary Native American fiction, non-fiction, and film documentaries as cultural forces which challenge others' constructions of who Native American peoples are. A recurrent question: what are the limits and possibilities of self-definition for Native American peoples, in what circumstances?
ANTHRCUL 329 / PSYCH 415. The Anthropology of Childhood: Growing Up in Culture.
Ethnology-Topical CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Lawrence A Hirschfeld (lhirsch@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/anthrcul/329/001.nsf Children don’t speak, think, and behave like adults. Nor do people everywhere share the same ideas about what childhood is or should be. Anthropology is largely the enterprise of documenting and interpreting what differences in speech, thought, and behavior mean. How has childhood been conceived in different ways within different cultures and historical epochs? What implications do different notions of childhood have for the developmental pathways of children themselves? To what extent do children resemble each other across cultural and historical divides? How do children acquire knowledge of the cultures in which they live? This lecture/discussion course draws on anthropological research, from Mead’s work in the South Pacific to contemporary studies in both complex and small-scale societies, that permits us to formulate answers to these and related questions. Course requirements: weekly journal of notes and queries, active classroom participation, two exams (short answer/essay).
ANTHRCUL 346(416) / HISTORY 347. Latin America: The Colonial Period.
Ethnology-Regional CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): David Frye (dfrye@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dfrye/h347.htm
ANTHRCUL 383. Prehistory of Africa.
ArchaeologySection 001 – Meets with Afroamerican and African Studies 358.001.Instructor(s): Augustin Holl (holla@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course explores the development of cultures in Subsaharan Africa from the first emergence of human-like bipeds more than 5 million years ago to the rise of states and urban centers during the Iron Age. The requirement of the course include a midterm (take-home) and either an in-class final exam or a research paper.
ANTHRCUL 385. The Archaeology of Early Humans.
ArchaeologySection 001.Instructor(s): John D Speth (jdspeth@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (3). (SS).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course introduces students to the many exciting new discoveries in the archaeology of our earliest human ancestors, tracing what we know of human cultural and biological evolution from the first appearance of upright, small-brained, tool-making humans, 2.0 to 2.5 million years ago, to the appearance of fully modern humans in the last 30,000 to 40,000 years. The course is divided into two segments. The first briefly surveys the techniques and methods used by archaeologists to find ancient archaeological sites, and how they go about studying the fossil human remains, animal bones, and stone tools from these sites to learn about ancient lifeways. This section also looks at how studies of living primates in the wild, such as chimpanzees, as well as modern hunter-gatherers, such as the Bushmen and Australian Aborigines, can help us to interpret the distant past. The second segment of the course turns to the actual archaeological record, looking at some of the most important finds from Africa, Asia, and Europe. In this segment, the course follows the accelerating developmental trajectory of our ancestors from the simplest tool-makers, who lacked any sign of art or religion, to humans much like ourselves, who began to bury their dead with clear displays of ritual and who adorned the walls of their caves and their own bodies with art. The course is oriented as much toward students with a general curiosity and interest in the human past as toward students who will become eventual concentrators in anthropology. Requirements include three in-class hourly exams. Required readings: a text and course pack with articles supplementing the lectures.
ANTHRCUL 407. Archaeology of South Asia.
ArchaeologySection 001.Instructor(s): Carla M Sinopoli (sinopoli@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course provides an overview of South Asian Archaeology from the earliest evidence for hominids at c. 1.5 million years ago through the emergence of early historic states and empires. Discusses major cultural transitions and important sites in several regions of South Asia, in the context of the history of archaeological research in this area.
ANTHRCUL 414 / CAAS 444. Introduction to Caribbean Societies and Cultures, I.
Ethnology-Regional CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Maxwell K Owusu (omk@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course provides an introduction to the peoples and cultures of the Caribbean. Topics covered include: the historical origins of the social structure and social organization of contemporary Caribbean states; family and kinship; religion, race, class, ethnicity, and national identity; Caribbean immigration; politics and policies of socioeconomic change. The course is open to both anthropology concentrators and non-concentrators. Films and videos on the Caribbean will be shown when available. Requirements: four 3-5 page typewritten papers, which ask students to synthesize reading and lecture materials; participation in class discussions; regular class attendance.
ANTHRCUL 416 / HBEHED 516. Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives.Ethnology-Topical CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): InhornPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability ANTHRCUL 425. Evolution of War and Peace in Unstratified Societies.
Ethnology-Topical CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Raymond C Kelly (rck@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course explores the origins of war and the early evolutionary development of war alliance and peace-making. It examines the conditions under which warfare is initiated in sociocultural contexts where it did not previously exist and elucidates the origin of war in that sense. The course begins with a delineation of the distinctive characteristics of peaceful (or warless) societies that represent both a prior sociocultural disposition and the context in which primal warfare arises and takes shape. Consideration of peaceful societies illuminates certain key features of the transition from warlessness to warfare and provides a basis for identifying transitional cases. These sociocultural systems exemplify the causes, conduct, and consequences of nascent and early warfare. The subsequent co-evolution of war and pre-state societies is traced, including the development of alliance and peacemaking. Format: lecture and discussion. Requirements: substantial term paper and presentation. Texts:
ANTHRCUL 440. Cultural Adaptation.
Ethnology-Topical CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Stuart A Kirsch (skirsch@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Environmental anthropology. This course considers a range of theoretical perspectives on human-environmental relations. Topics will most likely include: perceptions of the environment, rethinking the nature/culture dichotomy, ritual regulation of natural resources, ethnoecologies and traditional ecological knowledge, debates about common property regimes, environmental history, political ecology, the concept of risk society and contemporary environmental movements. The course format is lecture and discussion. Requirements include class participation, several short essays, a class presentation and a take-home final. The readings include ethnographies, theoretical monographs, edited collections and a course pack.
ANTHRCUL 483. Near Eastern Prehistory.
ArchaeologySection 001.Instructor(s): Kent V Flannery (kflanner@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course traces the evolution of culture and society in Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, from the earliest evidence for humans in the region (over 1,000,000 years ago) until the rise of Mesopotamian civilization (around 2500 B.C.) Topics include the origins of agriculture and animal domestication, the establishment of village and town life, and the rise of cities in the Tigris-Euphrates lowlands.
ANTHRCUL 519 / LING 517 / GERMAN 517. Principles and Methods of Historical Linguistics.
Linguistic AnthropologySection 001.Instructor(s): Sarah G Thomason (thomason@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Graduate standing, or permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
ANTHRCUL 587 / CLARCH 531 / HISTART 531. Aegean Art and Archaeology.
ArchaeologySection 001.Instructor(s): John F Cherry (jcherry@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Class. Arch. 221 or 222. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Classical Archaeology 531.001.
ANTHRCUL 589. Neutron Activation Analysis in Archaeology.
ArchaeologySection 001.Instructor(s): Leah Delia Minc (leahminc@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) is a highly sensitive and accurate technique for measuring the concentrations of major, minor, and trace elements in archaeological and historical materials. Researchers employ the technique to determine the provenience of raw materials and artifacts, to trace patterns of trade and exchange, to investigate palaeodiet and nutrition, and to authenticate antiquities and works of art. This course (conducted in cooperation with the University's research reactor) provides students with the fundamental principles and methods of NAA, along with hands-on experience in utilizing this technique to determine the elemental composition of archaeological materials. The course focuses on three areas: (1) the technical and practical aspects of NAA, including irradiation procedures, gamma-ray spectrometry, and the determination of trace-element concentrations; (2) the quantitative methods for analyzing and utilizing NAA data; and (3) the anthropological interpretation of NAA data, through an introduction to the natural and cultural factors affecting trace-element concentrations.
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