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An overview of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the course covers historical plundering and collecting of indigenous artifacts and human remains from 1776-1990, Native activism and political action, landmark legislation of 1990, and Native American perspectives…
North American Indian cultures at the time of European contact. Additional topics include origin and development of Indian culture, impact of European contact on native cultures, and problems faced by Native Americans today.
Exploration of the history of globalizing human networks from indigenous perspectives, cross-cultural encounters, and inter-ethnic relations. Focuses on the pre-Columbian achievements of non-Europeans, historical processes of colonialism, indigenous resistance to colonization, the social…
Survey course presenting orality as major modus of literary and knowledge production in Africa. Presentation of the institutional carriers of orality (storytellers, etc.). Readings in English translation.
In-depth study of the music of a select culture, area, topic, or genre. Investigates historical aspects, social functions, aesthetic preferences, the musician, musical instruments, structures and forms, performance contexts, and practices.
The archaeology and history of eastern North America. Topics to be explored include Indigenous population movements, human-environment interactions, cultural differentiation and ethnogenesis, economy and exchange systems, mortuary practices, social organization and stratification, European…
Twelve thousand years of life in Georgia with an emphasis on relationships to the environment. Examines lifeways of prehistoric and early historic peoples, and the history of Georgia archaeology.
Two indigenous urban societies of the Americas, from farming village beginnings to the Spanish conquest, and their lasting impact on modern middle American culture. Topics include ecology, economy, political organization, urbanism, militarism, beliefs, art, architecture, and literature. …
Development of the native societies of the southeastern United States, the exploration of the area by Spain in the sixteenth century, and the consequences of the meeting of the two peoples.
The methods used by anthropologists to reconstruct the history of preliterate societies from archaeological evidence, documentary evidence, and oral traditions. The ethnohistory of southeastern United States.
Relationships between gender and globalization. Women and development, industrialization, and third world regions.
Special topics in Native American Studies.
Individual reading and study in Native American Studies under the direction of a project director.
Designed to give students knowledge of two major aspects of Native American law and policy: traditional legal systems or law-ways of Native tribal nations and the laws and policies of the United States and other Anglo-settler colonies as they relate to those tribal nations.
Topics in multicultural studies, with primary focus on literature by members of one or more traditionally marginalized cultural groups within the United States and with attention to historical context and theoretical aspects.
Current topics in anthropology.
Topics and problems in religion with emphasis upon extensive reading in primary sources and individual and/or group research projects.
Topics and problems in anthropology with emphasis upon extensive reading in primary sources and individual and research projects.
Topics in human environmental and ecological systems, including factors that contribute to emergence and maintenance of those systems.
A detailed examination of selected forms and ideas in African American, Native American, Latino/a, and/or Asian American literature.
Examination of the role of public history in the historical profession. In addition to exploring the historiography of the field of public history, the course introduces students to methods used in the discipline. Students will examine major issues of past decades that have shaped the field in…
Seminar in Creative Writing. Advanced instruction in the craft of writing.
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