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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 & 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

• 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 224 - Caribbean Archaeology and Heritage
• 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 306 - Women, Gender and Culture
• ANTH 307 - Social Anthropology
• ANTH 308 - Language and Culture
• ANTH 309 - Medicine and Culture
• ANTH 310 - Primate Behavior
• ANTH 312 - Comparative Colonial Archaeology
• ANTH 313 - Gender and Postcoloniality
• 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 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 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 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 370 - Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender
• 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 - Applied Anthropology
• ANTH 425 - Advanced Archaeological Field Methods
• 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 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 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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