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2017 - 2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017 - 2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ANTH 470 - Senior Seminar in Anthropology


Fall (4) Staff. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202  and two other ANTH courses in the same sub-field as the senior seminar section.

A small, writing intensive seminar for senior majors. Topics will vary, reflecting the research specializations of faculty teaching each section. Students will conduct original research and produce a substantial paper.

Fall 2016

Archaeologies of Virtue

This seminar will examine the theoretical, methodological, ethical and political implications of archaeological research that is conducted by, with and for communities that identify themselves as “indigenous,” “descendent,” and/or “local.” Through close readings of assigned texts, in-class discussions and debates, and writing assignments, students will interrogate the concepts of indigeneity and descent and examine these in the context of the sub-fields of community, indigenous, collaborative, and public archaeologies. Questions that will orient the course include: Do such archaeologies, as some have argued, represent cynical attempts by non-indigenous archaeologists to protect their access to the archaeological record? Or do the increasing collaborations between “local” communities and predominately “non-local” archaeologists offer the potential for a new archaeological epistemology through which knowledge of the past is constructed by considering both Western and local conceptions of time, space, and subjectivity? What ethical obligations do archaeologists have to descendent communities and to their profession? Students will also discuss the utility of methodological innovations, including ethnographic archaeology, which have developed with the turn to collaborative research projects. 

 

Organic Culture

In recent years, the organic movement has become popular across the world. This seminar uses the anthropological approach to understanding the organic culture movement in the US and elsewhere. 

 

Spring 2017

Human Osteology

Perfomance & Materiality