Anthropology

Programs and Course Descriptions

Faculty

The Anthropology Program

Anthropologists research and teach in a variety of geographical locations and disciplinary subfields. Field and laboratory training in cultural anthropology, archaeology, and biological anthropology are provided in a variety of courses, as well as through individual research. Courses in the subfield of linguistics are cross-listed with the English Department. The department has programs in historical archaeology and sponsors summer field schools at various sites. The William & Mary Archaeological Conservation Center and the Center for Archaeological Research also provide research opportunities and student instruction.

Programs and Course Descriptions

Programs

Anthropology, BA
Anthropology, Minor
Native Studies, Minor

Courses

Anthropology

ANTH 150 - First Year Seminar
ANTH 201 - Lost Worlds and Archaeology
ANTH 202 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 203 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 204 - The Study of Language
ANTH 225 - Archaeological Field Methods
ANTH 226 - Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Methods Field School
ANTH 241 - Worlds of Music
ANTH 300 - History of Anthropological Theories
ANTH 301 - Methods in Archaeology
ANTH 302 - Ethnographic Research
ANTH 303 - Museums in the History of Anthropology
ANTH 305 - Comparative Colonial Studies
ANTH 307 - Social Anthropology
ANTH 308 - Language and Culture
ANTH 309 - Medicine and Culture
ANTH 311 - Colonialism, Slavery, & Rebellion
ANTH 312 - Comparative Colonial Archaeology
ANTH 315 - Environmental Archaeology
ANTH 317 - Insurgent Geographies
ANTH 322 - Archaeology of North America
ANTH 323 - Indians of North America
ANTH 324 - Indians of the Southwest
ANTH 325 - Sun Dance People
ANTH 331 - Culture and Society in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
ANTH 332 - Race, Gender & Popular Culture in Brazil
ANTH 333 - Anthropology of Islam
ANTH 334 - Etruscan Archaeology: Italy before the Romans
ANTH 335 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa
ANTH 337 - African Ritual and Religious Practice
ANTH 338 - Native Cultures of Latin America
ANTH 339 - Inside Irish Archaeology
ANTH 342 - Peoples and Cultures of East Asia
ANTH 347 - Japanese Society
ANTH 348 - Japanese Values Through Literature and Film
ANTH 349 - Contemporary Issues in Japanese Society
ANTH 350 - Special Topics in Anthropology
ANTH 360 - Projects in Anthropology
ANTH 362 - Knowledge, Learning and Cognition in “Non-Western” Societies
ANTH 363 - Culture and Cuisine: The Anthropology of Food
ANTH 364 - Artists and Cultures
ANTH 366 - Information Technology and Global Culture
ANTH 371 - The Idea of Race
ANTH 411 - Historical Linguistics
ANTH 413 - Language and Society
ANTH 415 - Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH 418 - Language Patterns: Types and Universals
ANTH 422 - Social Entrepreneurship
ANTH 425 - Advanced Archaeological Field Methods
ANTH 426 - Foodways and the Archaeological Record
ANTH 427 - Native People of Eastern North America
ANTH 440 - Linguistic Field Methods
ANTH 445 - Issues in Anthropology
ANTH 450 - Archaeological Conservation (I)
ANTH 451 - Archaeological Conservation (II)
ANTH 453 - Introduction to Zooarchaeology
ANTH 454 - Quantitative Research Methods in Anthropology
ANTH 455 - Practicing Cultural Resource Management
ANTH 456 - Human Skeletal Biology
ANTH 457 - Archaeology of Colonial Williamsburg and Tidewater Virginia
ANTH 458 - Caribbean Archaeology
ANTH 459 - Tsenacomoco: Native Archaeology of the Chesapeake
ANTH 460 - Independent Research
ANTH 461 - Anthropological Reflections of the African Diaspora
ANTH 465 - Practicum in Anthropology
ANTH 470 - Senior Seminar in Anthropology
ANTH 472 - Ethnographic History
ANTH 484 - Collecting and Exhibiting Culture
ANTH 486 - Cultural Politics of Art
ANTH 492 - Biocultural Anthropology
ANTH 495 - Honors
ANTH 496 - Honors
ANTH 498 - Internship