In Anthropology, you can explore many topics, including human biology, health and evolution, food trade and sustainability, social networks and the arts, technology from the stone age to the information age, global cultures and indigenous heritage, social media and endangered languages, and international human rights.
Here are four examples of courses available this year:
This course will take a biocultural approach to the study of diet and nutrition, with a focus on contemporary issues. We will explore the biological and material basis of diet and the biological consequences of dietary choices, and how these are also related to cultural variability in food use.
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This course is a graduate-level introduction to performance-oriented perspectives on the study of social life. We will explore the principal conceptions that shape performance studies in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, with attention to intellectual history, descriptive and analytic foci, and the potential for capturing what interests us in performance.
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If prevailing scholarship grapples with the precarious position of postcolonial African societies faced with rapidly changing economic and political orders on a global scale, how do contemporary perspectives, if at all, address the everyday experiences of African women and men? Through comparative and interdisciplinary discussions, we will apprehend recent ethnographies of the African continent that address contemporary debates.
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This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
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The College of Arts