UCLA General Catalog 1971-72 - Registrar - UCLA

178 / ANTHROPOLOGY
147. Behavioral Anthropology.
161. Development Anthropology.
An interdisciplinary approach to explanation and/
or prediction of human behavior and system characteristics
which employs various theoretical models
(anthropological , psychological , sociological ) and alternative
hypotheses in natural laboratories constructed
out of empirically collected data.
Mr. Rogers
GROUP V. SOCIAL SYSTEMATICS II
Prerequisites: courses 5A-5B - 5C and upper division
standing or consent of the instructor. Comparative
study of the peasantization of tribal peoples, the
proletarization of peasants , and the urbanization of
ruralities. Particular emphasis on the relation be.
tween national and international, and localized so.
ciocultural systems; the theory of social movements.
Alternative theoretical constructs will be critically
discussed. Mr. Epstein
Courses which focus on the explanation of
some type of institution or social system,
where the central analytic constructs are
groups, roles, norms, and societies, and where
theory is concerned with the development
and maintenance of human groups or networks.
150. Social Anthropology.
GROUP VII. TECHNIQUES AND METHODS
Techniques are thought of as procedure
in gathering or manipulating data ; methods
are thought of as concerned with problems of
inference and validation. The following'
courses deal with one or both concerns. They
are intended for majors and graduate students
in anthropology . Anthropology students may
(Formerly numbered 161.) Prerequisite : courses
5A-5B - 5C or course 22 or Sociology 1 or 101 and
upper division standing in anthropology or sociolo gy
Formal presentation of the methods , aims and development
of social anthropology Analysis of culture
within systems of social relationships . Emphasis
on structural -functional approach and the process
of social change . Mrs. Kuper
also fulfill Group VII requirements by taking
Linguistics 110 and Indo-European Studies
149.
17OA-1708. Field Training In Ethnology.
(2 courses each)
Prerequisite : 170A is prerequisite to 170B. lab
151. Kinship and Social Organization.
(Formerly numbered 128.) Prerequisite : courses
5A-5B--SC or course 22 . Kinship systems , principally
in non-Western societies , and their significance in
the organization of social life. Theories of kinship,
marriage regulations , and kinship role pattMr.erns.Laf
oratory, sixteen hours. Undergraduates only; instructor's
permission. Intensive training in ethnographic
field methods . Execution of individual and
group ethnographic field research projects. Training
in writing research reports. Mr. Epstein
171A-171B-171C . Laboratory Methods in Physical
152. Traditional Political Systems.
(Formerly numbered 122.) Prerequisite: course
122A or Sociology 101 or consent of the instructor.
Political organization in pre-industrial societies of
varying degrees of complexity . Law and the maintenance
of order; corporate groups; ideology. The
relations of political to other institutions of society.
Mrs. Kuper
153. Economic Anthropology.
(Formerly numbered 129.) A survey of the ethnology
and ethnography of economic life , principally
in non-Western societies , with an emphasis on the
operation of systems of production and distribution
within diverse cultural contexts . Mr. Woods
GROUP VI. CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS
Anthropology.
Prerequisite : Courses 1A-1B , restriction to major
only and graduate students; consent of instructor.
Laboratory methodology and analysis of human
variation on skeletal material (171A) and on living
populations (171B ) and bio-chemical methods
(171C). Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Miller, Mr. Williams
173A. Mathematical Anthropology.
An introduction to statistical concepts and techniques
particularly relevant to anthropology. Discussion
of elementary statistical techniques and of
the possible uses of statistics involving anthropological
problems . Mr. Read
173B. Mathematical Anthropology.
Prerequisite : Course 173A or equivalent , or per-
This group includes those courses (taught
from any point of view and with any subject
matter ) which are concerned with application
of anthropological techniques and methods to
mission of instructor. Deals with specific statistical
methods for approaching anthropological problems,
such as Chi square distributions , tests, linear regression,
analysis of variance, Guttman scaling and nonparametric
tests. Mr. Read
problems of contemporary interest in our own
society or which arise as a product of the
contact between our society and others.
174. Laboratory Methods in Technology and
Inventin.
(Formerly numbered 187.) Prerequisite: coupe
122C and consent of the instructor . Intensive eH
perimentation
people .
in the technology of nonliterate
M. Doman
160. Urban Anthropology.
Prerequisites : Open to upper-division majors in
social sciences , and others by consent of the instructor.
A survey of urbanization throughout the world,
with emphasis on urban adaptation of rural migrants.
Special focus on the problems of rural-urban
migration of ethnic minority groups and subsequent
adaptation of them within the United States explored
in terms of the methods and perspectives of
anthropology. Mr. Epstein, Mr. Snyder
175A-1758. Strategy
of Archeology.
(Formerly numbered 138A - 138B.) Prerequisite:
course 5B. Course 175A is prerequisite to 175B. An
introduction to research design in the cultural intw
predation of archeological materials , with special
emphasis on the techniques of laboratory analysis