Courses

• GRS AN 732: Primate Behavioral Adaptation
  Introduction to behavioral biology of the primates. Topics include social behavior, grouping, and activity patterns, reproduction, feeding ecology, locomotion, life history, conservation issues, geographic distribution, and evolution.
• GRS AN 733: Human Population Biology
  Meets with AN 333. Human popultion biology and ecological adaptations: Human demography, life history patterns, population genetics and physiological adaptability. Topics: Population dynamics of human societies, mortality and fertility schedules, evolution and genetics of human life history traits, physiological adaptability, and ecological correlates.
• GRS AN 735: The Ape Within: Chimpanzees and the Evolution of Human Behavior
  Introduction to primate social behavior, focusing on the apes. Examines how chimpanzee behavior can be used to understand human behavior. What is unique about humans, and how did we evolve? Topics include diet, social relationships, sexual behavior, aggression, culture, cognition.
• GRS AN 736: Primate Evolutionary Ecology
  Introduction to the various theoretical approaches to understanding the evolutionary ecology of wild primates. Topics include functional anatomy, genetic approaches to mating systems, demography, behavioral ecology, community ecology, and conservation.
• GRS AN 744: Modern Japanese Society: Family, School, and Workplace (Area)
  Meets with AN 344. Approaches contemporary japanese society through a focus on family, school and workplace. the readings and lectures treat these institutions historically and in terms of the contexts they provide for the individual.
• GRS AN 745: Moving Experiences: Cultures of Tourism and Travel
  The movement of people across national boundaries as a cultural, economic and political phenomenon. Examines voluntary border-crossing in its various cultural and historical meanings as well as in the representations of journals and contemporary accounts.
• GRS AN 747: Afghanistan
  Ethnographic and historical examination of Afghanistan's traditional social and political organization, ecology and economy, and relationship among ethnic groups. Civil wars and foreign interventions over the last thirty years, the current situation in Afghanistan, and prospects for the country's future.
• GRS AN 750: Asians in America (Area)
  Meets with AN 350. A cultural history of Asian immigrants in the United States from the 1850's to the present, focusing on family structure, gender, generational differences, religion and education. The implications of the Asian experience for understanding mainstream American culture.
• GRS AN 751: Graduate Study in Language, Culture, and Society
  Introduction to basic concepts, problems, and methods used by anthropologists in the investigation of relationships among language, culture, and society. Topics include language and conceptual systems, language and role, language and social context, and language and thought.
• GRS AN 755: Religious Fundamentalism in Anthropological Perspective
  Anthropological study of the global phenomenon of religious fundamentalism. A product of the modern world, fundamentalism is perceived as counter-cultural and anti-nationalist. Cases drawn from North America and Islamic Middle East, with special attention to women's interpretation of religion. 4 cr., 2nd sem.
• GRS AN 760: The Nomadic Alternative
  Ethnographic and historical examination of nomads in Africa and Eurasia. Focus on the ecology of pastoralism, nomadic social organization, political relations between nomads and states, the rise and fall of steppe empires, and the future of nomads.
• GRS AN 761: Ethnography and Anthropological Theory I
  Discussion and analysis of major concepts, methods, and theories in social anthropology, using case studies in ritual, politics, leadership, social control, and kinship belief.
• GRS AN 771: Political Anthropology of the Modern World
  Examines the concepts of political anthropology and applies them to the analysis of the origins and development of the modern political world. Special attention to nations and nationalism, the state and modern development, comparative political culture, and urban and agrarian political change.
• GRS AN 772: Psych Anthro
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 775: Cult&Socofsasia
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 779: China: Trd&Trns
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 782: Wealth, Poverty, and Culture
  Explores vital cultural dimensions of production, exchange, and consumption in varied settings. Asks how social ties relate to property, wealth, and poverty. Examines how people classify, control, and allocate resources, and how resources in turn influence people.
• GRS AN 784: Anthropological Study of Religion
  An introduction to the anthropological study of myth, ritual, and religious experience across cultures. Special attention to the problem of religious symbolism and meaning, religious conversion and revitalization, contrasts between traditional and world religions, and the relation of religious knowledge to science, magic, and ideology.
• GRS AN 797: an-Film & Photo
  
• GRS AN 840: Folk Songs as Social History
  

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