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ANG 5255: Rural Peoples in the Modern World (3) Historical
background and comparative contemporary study of peasant and
other rural societies. Unique characteristics, institutions, and
problems of rural life stressing agriculture and rural-urban
relationships in cross-cultural perspective. Not open to students who
have taken ANT 4255.
ANG 5266: Economic Anthropology (3) Anthropological
perspectives on economic philosophies and their behavioral bases.
Studies of production, distribution, and consumption; money,
savings, credit, peasant markets; and development in a crosscultural
context from perspectives of cultural ecology, Marxism,
formalism, and substantivism. Not open to students who have taken
ANT 4266.
ANG 5303: Women and Development (3) Influence of
development on women in rural and urban areas. Women's
participation in the new opportunities of modernization.
ANG 5310: The North American Indian (3) The peopling of North
America. The culture areas of North America. Unique characteristics,
institutions, and problems. Not open to students who have taken
ANT 4312.
ANG 5323: Peoples of Mexico and Central America (3)
Settlement and early cultures of the area, emphasizing the rise of
the major culture centers. Impact of European civilization on
surviving Indians. Not open to students who have taken ANT 4326.
ANG 5327: Maya and Aztec Civilizations (3) Civilizations in
Mesoamerica from the beginnings of agriculture to the time of the
coming of Europeans. Maya and Aztec civilizations as well as the
Olmec, Zapotec, and Teotihuacan cultures. Not open to students
who have taken ANT 3325.
ANG 5330: The Tribal Peoples of Lowland South America (3)
Survey of marginal and tropical forest hunters and gatherers and
horticulturalists of the Amazon Basin, Central Brazil, Paraguay,
Argentina, and other areas of South America. Social organization,
subsistence activities, ecological adaptations, and other aspects of
tribal life. Not open to students who have taken ANT 4338.
ANG 5331: Peoples of the Andes (3) The area-cotradition. The
Spanish Conquest and shaping and persistence of colonial culture.
Twentieth-century communities–their social land tenure, religious,
and value systems. Modernization, cultural pluralism, and problems
of integration. Not open to students who have taken ANT 4337.
ANG 5336: The Peoples of Brazil (3) Ethnology of Brazil.
Historical, geographic, and socioeconomic materials and
representative monographs from the various regions of Brazil as
well as the contribution of the Indian, Portuguese, and African to
modern Brazilian culture. Not open to students who have taken ANT
4336.
ANG 5340: Anthropology of the Caribbean (3) Transformation of
area through slavery, colonialism, and independence movements.
Contemporary political, economic, familial, folk-religious, and folkhealing
systems. Migration strategies and future options. Not open
to students who have taken ANT 4346.