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ANTHR 37034 creditsTR 2:45-4:00Instructor: Viranjini MunasingheThe common perception of ethnicity is that it is a natural and an inevitable consequence of cultural difference. Asians overseas, in particular, have won repute as a people who cling tenaciously to their culture and refuse to assimilate into their host societies and...
/news/asians-americas-comparative-perspectiveANTHR 35164 credits MW 11:25-12:40Instructor: Marina WelkerExamining the symbolic within cultural and social processes in Southeast Asia, anthropologists have produced contextually rich accounts of cultural uniqueness. Interpretive ethnographies tend, however, to downplay the role of power and domination. Using the traditional...
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ANTHR 3487Instructor: Amiel Bize MW 2:45-4:00This course introduces students to a tradition of radical scholarship on the articulations of race and racism with capitalism, and uses it as a frame through which to examine the ongoing role of racialized difference in structuring capitalist extraction. Beginning with chattel slavery's...
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ANTHR 3405TR 1:00-2:15Instructor: Sofia VillenasThis course explores research on race, ethnicity and language in American education. It examines historical and current patterns of school achievement for minoritized youths. It also examines the cultural and social premises undergirding educational practices in diverse communities and...
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ANTHR 3390MWF 12:25-1:15 Instructor: Adam Clark ArcadiThe course will investigate all aspects of non-human primate life. Based on the fundamentals of evolutionary theory, group and inter-individual behaviors will be presented. In addition, an understanding of group structure and breeding systems will be reached through an evaluation...
/news/primate-behavior-and-ecology-emphasis-african-apesANTHR 3255MW 9:40-10:55Instructor: John HendersonAn introduction to ancient Mesoamerica, focusing on the nature and development of societies that are arguably the most complex to develop anywhere in the precolumbian Americas. The course provides a summary of the history of the region before the European invasion, but the emphasis is...
/news/ancient-mexico-and-central-americaANTHR 3245MW 2:45-4:00Instructor: John HendersonThis course considers the possibility of connections between the America and the Old World before the Spanish discovery not only as an empirical question, but also as an intensely controversial issue that has tested the limits of the scholarly detachment that archaeologists imagine...
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ANTHR 3235TR 2:45-4:00Instructor: Matthew VelascoBioarchaeology is the study of human remains from archaeological sites. Like forensic scientists at the scene of the crime, bioarchaeologists search for clues embedded in human bone and mummified tissues to reconstruct how ancient peoples lived and died. As a dynamic living system, the...
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ANTHR 3042MW 9:40-10:55Instructor: Maia DedrickThis course will prepare students to identify, analyze, and interpret plant remains gathered from archaeological sites. We will build a conceptual framework to explain how human behavior relates to plant patterning, drawing on case studies from around the world. Through hands-on...
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ANTHR 2720TR 9:40-10:55Instructor: Kurt JordanWho lived in the Ithaca area before American settlers and Cornell arrived? Where do these indigenous peoples reside today? This class explores the history and culture of the Gayogoho:no (Cayuga), which means people from the mucky land. We will read perspectives by indigenous authors, as well...
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