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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 and 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

Courses

• ANTH 150 - Freshman Seminar
• ANTH 150W - Freshman Seminar
• ANTH 201 - Introduction to Archaeology
• ANTH 202 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 203 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
• ANTH 204 - The Study of Language
• ANTH 241 - Worlds of Music
• ANTH 300 - History of Anthropological Theories
• ANTH 301 - Methods in Archaeology
• ANTH 302 - Ethnographic Research
• ANTH 305 - Comparative Colonial Studies
• ANTH 306 - Women, Gender and Culture
• ANTH 307 - Social Anthropology
• ANTH 309 - Medicine and Culture
• ANTH 310 - Primate Behavior
• ANTH 312 - Comparative Colonial Archaeology
• ANTH 314 - Archaeology of Mesoamerica
• ANTH 315 - Environmental Archaeology
• ANTH 319 - Archaeology of the Near East
• ANTH 320 - Rise and Fall of Civilizations
• ANTH 322 - Archaeology of North America
• ANTH 323 - Indians of North America
• ANTH 324 - Indians of the Southwest
• ANTH 325 - Sun Dance People
• ANTH 329 - Native History and the Colonial Encounter
• ANTH 330 - Caribbean Cultures
• ANTH 335 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa
• ANTH 336 - African Cultural Economies
• ANTH 337 - African Ritual and Religious Practice
• ANTH 338 - Native Cultures of Latin America
• 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 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 370 - Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender
• ANTH 371 - The Idea of Race
• ANTH 411 - Historical Linguistics
• ANTH 412 - Descriptive Linguistics
• ANTH 413 - Language and Society
• ANTH 415 - Linguistic Anthropology
• ANTH 418 - Language Patterns: Types and Universals
• ANTH 422 - Applied Anthropology
• ANTH 426 - Foodways and the Archaeological Record
• ANTH 427 - Native People of Eastern North America
• ANTH 429 - Exploring the Afro-American Past
• ANTH 430 - Material Life in African America
• ANTH 432 - Maroon Societies
• 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 Study
• ANTH 470 - Senior Seminar in Anthropology
• ANTH 472 - Ethnographic History
• ANTH 482 - Arts of the African Diaspora
• ANTH 484 - Collecting and Exhibiting Culture
• ANTH 486 - Cultural Politics of Art
• ANTH 490 - Writing and Reading Culture
• ANTH 492 - Biocultural Anthropology
• † ANTH 495 - Honors
• † ANTH 496 - Honors
• ANTH 498 - Internship

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