Anthropology
Professor HAUTZINGER (Associate Chair), Associate Professors FISH (Chair), LEZA , INGRAM, Assistant Professor SCHWARTZ; Visiting Assistant Professors FELLARS, GONZÁLEZ
Anthropology offers an expansive outlook on human life through time and across space. The anthropology major prepares students for a variety of careers across numerous fields, including but far from limited to academia. Majors are exposed to all four subfields of American anthropology: 1) archaeology, which focuses on the material cultures and peoples of the past; 2) biological anthropology, which examines the evolution of human biology and behavior, stressing the influence of culture on evolution; 3) linguistic anthropology, which addresses both the formal complexity of linguistic systems and the role that language plays in the regulating and negotiating of social life; and 4) socio-cultural anthropology, which stresses contemporary peoples, 结合民族志和跨文化比较来描绘人类价值体系的可变性, practices, and organization.
Major Requirements
Major
主修人类学的学生必须完成至少十二(12)个单元的课程, including the following requirements:
Two required, discipline-wide courses:
- AN215 Anthropological Theory (taught in the fall)
- AN315 Senior Capstone Seminar in Anthropology (taught in the spring)
Two Courses with the Department’s “Methods” designation*
在本系**增设10个课程单元，按以下类别分配:
- A minimum of one course 在四个子领域(考古、生物、文化和语言人类学). 由其他院系教师讲授的交叉列示课程不能满足学科分布要求.
- At least three anthropology courses at the 300-level (in addition toAN315. Note: all 300-level courses have prerequisites; 2-block courses count as one course, but two units in the major)
- At least two “Methods”
- AN450 Capstone Research in Anthropologycannot substitute for 300-level courses.
- Students must achieve a grade of C- or higher for credits to count towards the minor.
All Seniors must submit a Senior Capstone Project.
Major requirements may be satisfied by no more than:
- two units of off-campus credit
- 两个单元的AN400人类学独立研究或AN450人类学顶点研究
- two cross-listed units taught by non-departmental faculty (e.g. ethnomusicology, political ecology, ethnography, religion, Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies (RM), or SW studies, etc.). 交叉分类的课程不能满足分学科分布的要求，除非这些课程是由系内教员讲授的.
注:该系颁发人类学杰出奖给有杰出工作证据的学生. Consult page 14 for guidelines.
Minor Requirements
Minor
A minor in anthropology will consist of a minimum of five units of course work, to include the following:
- Courses in (at least) two of the four major subdisciplines (biological, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic anthropology-see list of courses table) as described in the major requirements.
- At least one course at the 300 level.
- Independent research courses (AN400 and AN450) may not be counted toward the minimum five units of the minor.
- Minor requirements may be satisfied by no more than:
- one cross-listed course unit taught by non-departmental faculty (e.g. ethnomusicology, political ecology, ethnography, religion, RM or SW studies, etc.).**
- one unit of off-campus credit.
- Students must achieve a grade of C- or higher for credits to count towards the minor.
*See page 6.
**人类学系允许主修课程最多获得两(2)个学分，副修课程最多获得一(1)个学分 off-campus study programs to count towards the degree. We accept a broad array of (C), or Cognate, courses for a single credit, 假设在校外进行的课程至少包括一门人类学/文化/社会维度的课程. 第二门专业课程要求所选课程侧重于学科人类学的思想和内容(A). 300级及以上的校外课程只有在200级时才会转回本系，以防止校外学习取代校内高级学习. Students should submit course approval requests via Summit, which can be accessed at any time before or during your off-campus study. Please upload complete information about the course; you should also save syllabi and papers from your courses overseas, in case there are any additional questions when you get back to campus.
A—Anthropology Course. Serves for a 1st or 2nd course unit one of 12 major / 5 minor course units at the 200-level; does not fulfill subfield distribution. C—Cognate course. Serves for 1st but not a second 2nd off-campus credit, 208 topics, may fulfill a subfield requirement.
Courses
Anthropology
What does it mean to be human? 本课程以人类学为中心，运用整体方法和人类学的多个子领域:考古学来解决这个问题, biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. 课程的每个版本都围绕一个中心主题组织，该主题将涉及至少两个人类学领域的理论和文献. 课程主题各不相同，但可能包括身体、殖民主义、食物、性或暴力等主题. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
本课程通过调查当前对人类进化的科学理解和科学家为了交流他们关于人类进化的想法而讲述的故事，介绍了生物人类学领域. Using data from the fossil record, modern human biology, and our primate relatives, students will gain familiarity with the scientific evidence for human evolution. 学生还将利用叙事分析来探索科学家如何在“大众科学”背景下传播关于人类进化的故事. 学生们将通过研究这些科学叙述对进化图像和趋势(如“古饮食”)的影响，来研究这些科学叙述如何成为关于进化的流行文化故事的一部分.“1单元符合批判性视角:自然世界的科学调查要求。. Meets the Critical Learning: CP requirement.
The study of human societies through the central concept of culture. Explores such topics as meaning, social organization, difference and inequality, adaptation, kinship and gender, religion, environment, technology and conflict. Presents anthropological themes including holism, comparison, dynamism and cultural relativism, 以及在自然环境中研究人类经验的方法论方法. 1 unit. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
An introduction to linguistic anthropology. 从民族志和社会语言学的角度考察语言和文化的相互联系. 文化语境下的言语比较研究，旨在了解人们使用言语进行合作的方式, manipulate, structure events, and negotiate identities. Cross-cultural focus, with examples from such languages and language varieties as Japanese, Navajo, Apache, French, African- American English, and Chicano English. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. 1 unit. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. Meets the Critical Learning: CP requirement.
Introduction to American Sign Language. Practice in signing and comprehension in American Sign Language (Ameslan or ASL).
Introduction to American Sign Language. Practice in signing and comprehension in American Sign Language (Ameslan or ASL).
(Summer only 2023-24).
Examines the fossil and genetic evidence for human evolution. Using the fossil record of early primate evolution as a foundation, the emergence of early hominins and their descendants is investigated. 探索了人类适应的进化和关于导致这些适应的选择压力的假设. (Not offered 2023-24).
Beginning with the genetic base, 本课程提供了一种人类学的方法来理解人类群体内部和群体之间的生物变异. Traits of known and unknown inheritance, adaptations to different environments, concept of race, variation in biological sex, and interactions of human biology and culture are emphasized. Some laboratory exercises. (Meets the requirement for Natural Science credit.)(不符合社会科学的学科要求或自然科学专业学生的外部单元要求.) 1 unit.
探索“身体”，强调理论生物学和文化人类学的方法. Topics may include human adaptations, biocultural evolution, categorization and display of bodies; the body as a basis for metaphors, symbols, and images; individual collective (cultural, social, political) bodies; and embodied experience across the life course We interrogate assumptions of a universal human body, in particular through the study of gender, sexual, ethnic and racialized diversity, as related to both inequality and ethics. 1 unit.
为理解和开展民族志、基于上下文的研究提供基础. 学生在参与观察的基础上进行实践项目，并辅以访谈, questionnaires and surveys, archival work and projective methodological techniques; final results vary from ethnographic texts or films to exhibits or applied recommendations. Addresses such ethnographic fundamentals as: intellectual history; disciplinary contexts; epistemological validity and reliability; ethics and Institutional Review Boards; using ethnography for cross-cultural comparison; qualitative data analysis and software. Students learn varied forms of ethnographic inquiry such as exploratory, experimental, critical, historical and action/applied. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: CP requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
对灵长类动物不同类群之间的关系及其自然历史的概述，为研究目前有关灵长类动物行为进化的假设提供了基础. The influence of the environment on 探讨了行为学，并将讨论其在人类和我们的古人类祖先的行为建模中的应用. Finally, 对灵长类动物的保护威胁以及灵长类动物在人类改变的栖息地中减少或促进生存的特征将进行研究. Meets the Critical Learning: SA requirement.
Courses taught occasionally by visiting or permanent faculty; topics will vary and may be thematically or geographically focused
社会文化人类学的思想史将构成本课程的基础. 它将讨论对人类学作为一门学术学科的发展做出贡献的思想和知识分子，并将考虑以下理论观点:进化论, functionalism, historical particularism, cultural materialism, and interpretive approaches. Also, it will examine field research strategies that shaped anthropology. (Not offered 2023-24).
Focuses on the language of racism across cultures, examining the nature of discourses that communicate and reproduce racist ideologies. A special focus is placed on racist discourse in the United States, New Zealand, and certain societies of Latin America. The course examines the structures and effects of a range of racist discourses, 从“白人骄傲”组织的极端话语到隐蔽种族主义的日常语言. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPUS requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Explores theory and application of contrasting paradigms (i.e. positivist, interpretivist) across the major subfields of anthropology. Emphasizes commonalities across the discipline in major theoretical currents (i.e. cultural ecology, functionalism, symbolic, historical materialism, postmodernism, feminism, and practice theory).
Survey of the archaeologically known cultures of Mesoamerica, which include some of archaeology's most celebrated subjects of study, the Olmecs, Mayans and Aztecs. Students will learn the history and geography of the region, the nature of sociopolitical and cultural developments in the region, 该地区不同时间和地点的独特物质文化以及持续关注的关键问题和辩论. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
An introduction to the peoples and places of the ancient North American Southwest. 除了密切关注考古实践的贡献和问题, we learn from the words, voices, and places of Indigenous peoples of the region. 时间焦点是公元500至1600年，这是该地区急剧增长和变化的时期. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
考古学是通过过去人类活动的物质痕迹来研究古代和近代人类过去的科学. In this hands-on introduction to archaeology, students learn some archaeological and anthropological methods used to reconstruct, document, and interpret aspects of the human past. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.
Special topics in ethnomusicology, approached through emphasis on a particular musical area, theoretical issue, genre or repertory, compositional technique, or instrument. The course is devoted to non-western musical cultures.
历史考古学用文物、文献和建筑景观来调查过去的人们. 这门以项目为重点的课程教授了用来揭示过去书面记录中代表性不足的人们生活方面的方法. 项目包括现场记录，人工制品分析，和/或树木考古，并专注于美国.S. Southwest, ca. 1850 to 1950 CE. (Not offered 2023-24).
本课程研究过去和未来的社会和环境崩溃以及可持续性. 几个世纪以来人类与环境相互作用的考古记录为我们提供了对导致崩塌的条件的见解, sustainability, resilience, and vulnerability of socioecological systems. We investigate the outcomes of these interactions as a source of insights for the future. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Ebola, disaster relief, mental health, aging populations, and primary health care are key issues in a world where diseases cross borders rapidly, but health care resources may not. This course introduces students to the dynamic, complex field of global health. The course examines improvements in global health, growing inequalities, the legacy of colonial medicine, 从医学人类学和公共卫生的角度看健康中的社会正义. We draw from cases across the globe, in wealthy and poor nations, 卫生系统运转良好的国家和那些努力满足人们对基本卫生保健服务需求的国家探索生物医学的交叉领域, social, and cultural factors that determine health and well-being. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
比较加勒比和拉丁美洲不同群体的非洲侨民的经历. Topics include: the legacy of slavery and contemporary labor processes; conceptualizing the 'Africa' in Afro-Latinx and –Caribbean cultures; maroons and other communities of resistance; racialization, variable construction of racial categories, and racism; nation-building; gender and sexuality; restitutive measures (e.g. reparations, educational quotas); relevant regional religious practices (e.g. prominent black Catholic saints, Candomblé, Umbanda, Voudoun, Santeria, Rastafarianism,)可以满足批判性观点:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. Meets the Equity and Power: EPG requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
探索在南美洲和中美洲选定的设置不同的性别和性动态, as well as the Caribbean. Social movements, division of labor, non-normative genders and sexualities, power struggles and violence are among areas examined from feminist, queer, ethnographic and comparative perspectives. Emphasis on gender’s intersections with ethnic, national, linguistic, 班级和地理的多样性要求学生对该地区的经验信息有很强的把握. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. (Not offered 2023-24).
Emphasizing variability in the ways gender shapes social interaction and organization. Grounded in feminist ethnography on sexes, sexualities and gendering across biological, social and ideological fields. 包括对性别系统的关注，其中“第三种”(或更多)性别出现在女性或男性之外, such as hijras in India, two-spirits in diverse Native American peoples, and travestis in Brazil. 以社区为基础的项目经常补充人类学和女权主义理论框架. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. (Not offered 2023-24).
This course will explore food concepts, analytical methods, and the food habits of different ethnic groups. The class will have a field trip to the San Luis Valley, and to Northern New Mexico to document the production of food among farmers, cattle ranchers and restaurateurs. (Limited to 12 students.) Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
(with Emphasis on Writing). 本课程旨在向学生介绍民俗研究和墨西哥物质文化的几种方法, religion, music, and prose narratives in the Southwest region of the United States. We will examine how the different approaches used by historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and folklorists can enhance the study of Hispanic folklore and material culture. (Limited to 12 students.) Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
This course will present students with different concepts related to popular culture, as exemplified by diverse cultural forms: film, music, literature, and material culture. 通过本课程，学生将熟悉结构主义和后结构主义的理论, Marxism, feminism, and post-modernism. 这些理论将使学生对不同的范式及其在文化研究中的局限性有一个清晰的认识. (Not offered 2023-24).
探索一门语言的新使用者是如何通过语言习得的过程成为他们社区中有文化能力的成员的. Examine how individuals are taught the knowledge, skills, and attitudes expected in their particular cultural and speech communities. 重点将放在儿童学习母语社区语言的语言社会化过程上, 但本课程也将探讨外语学习者的语言社会化问题. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Explores the structures and functions of languages throughout the world, seeking to uncover both shared and variable patterns across languages. Introduces the tools of modern linguistics for recording and analyzing sound systems, words, syntactic and semantic structures, and the communicative uses of language. Provides background for understanding contemporary issues relating to language. Meets the Critical Learning: FRL requirement.
提供基本的构建块，以了解西南地区主要土著民族之间的独特差异，包括语言和文化, respective colonization and resistance experiences, identity and cultural vitality, gender and social roles, and expressive culture and representation. Readings may include ethnographic, ethno-historical, biographical, and linguistic works, as well as critiques of the study of Native peoples by Native scholars. Field Trip Possible. (Not offered 2023-24).
本课程将向学生介绍性别与语言的人类学和跨学科研究. 它将通过对过去方法的批判和对有助于我们理解语言的当代研究和理论的讨论，探索性别和语言研究的新方向, society, and the sociocultural construction of gender identities. Gender is conceptualized in terms of sliding scales of sex, sexuality, and gender socialization, with an emphasis on language's role in gender performativity. 学生将收集和分析特定社会文化社区中性别语言使用的样本. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
介绍语言人类学和相关领域的基本研究方法和研究方法的理论发展，探索语言作为社会文化表达和变化的资源. In addition to learning basic interviewing, recording and participant observation techniques applied by linguistic anthropologists, 学生将被介绍到转录和语言数据分析的数字技术. Typical course themes include language in social movement, media in society, racialized language discrimination, language in identity performance, and language activism. 学生进行人种学研究项目，以获得研究技术和技术的经验. (Not offered 2023-24).
在人类世——我们知道人类造成的气候变化挑战着全球的生活方式和生态系统——作为人类意味着什么? This course brings anthropological lenses to understand this epoch. We address such questions as how human pasts inform the present, how mitigation and adaptation guide resiliency, and how equitable social ecologies – of self, communities and systems, and interdependency beyond the human require holistic strategies. Different versions of the course stress cultural or archaeological perspectives, yet all involve community-based learning, whether grounded in field study at the Baca Campus, engaging UN climate negotiations, or convening dialogues on sustainability. 1 unit. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
这门以实验为基础的课程详细研究了人类骨骼的解剖学动态, living system. Consideration is given to the growth, structure, and function of bones, and to bioarchaeological and forensic skills such as the determination of age, sex, stature, and pathology from skeletal remains. We will combine theory, its applications, and the limitation of osteological methods with laboratory analysis. 将介绍重建过去种群和评估人类生物变异的相关技术. 符合批判性观点:自然世界实验室或现场的科学调查要求. Meets the Critical Learning: SA requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
这门以实验和实地为基础的课程概述了生物人类学家在研究人类的生态学和生物学时所使用的方法. Emphasis will be placed on anthropometry, human nutrition, and ethical considerations surrounding human biology research. 学生将通过文献回顾、实验室实践经验和研究项目获得对本学科的历史观点. Meets the Writing in the Discipline requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
这门以实地和实验为基础的课程向学生展示了一系列调查生态学的方法, behavior, and biology of living primates. 将审查评估生境质量和监测资源可用性的技术. Using a comparative approach, 学生将研究现存灵长类动物的解剖结构，以了解身体适应如何影响行为. 将探讨收集和分析活体灵长类动物行为数据的标准程序. 从我们对当代非人类灵长类动物的理解中推断出早期人类的行为. 符合批判的观点:自然世界的科学调查的要求. Meets the Writing in the Discipline requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Advanced study on themes in anthropology or between anthropology and other disciplines. Examples may involve politics, religion, cognition, folklore, materiality, environment or cultural ecology.
Explores cognitive anthropology, which is concerned with the relationship between language and mind, how cultural worlds are created and structured through language, and how individual languages shape the attitudes and behaviors of their speakers. 我们将考虑通过语言表达的人类思想的潜在共性以及语言社区之间世界观和行为的多样性. Meets the Critical Learning: SA requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
Students complete and present senior capstone projects, with the help of workshops, scaffolded submission deadlines, and peer review. 专业发展部分通过结构化的反思学生在本专业的工作，为学生毕业做准备, and guiding them to generate individual goals and portfolio materials
一个以项目为中心和先进的实地研究机会，用考古方法记录和解释过去. Research may include cultural resource survey, GIS mapping, artifact analysis and documentation, archaeological site recording, dendroarchaeology, and/or excavation. Meets the Critical Learning: SA requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
An interdisciplinary field-based course based on history, culture, and water issues. 它将探索文化遗产和群体的创造力，这些群体的历史经历是由格兰德河盆地塑造的，从科罗拉多的起源到墨西哥湾的入海口. 这门课程将吸引广大的美国和国际公众来探索流域和生活在其中的人们是如何变化的, evolve, and develop together, and can affect each other. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. (Not offered 2023-24).
(Summer only 2023-24).
Anthropological approaches to religion and ritual emphasize lived experience, practice, related social, political and economic formations, along with expression, belief, and meaning-creation. Cases encompass both “traditional,” and complex societies, and more often religious pluralism shaped by migration and globalization. Themes include notions of the sacred, supernatural, and good or evil; religion as embodied; shamanic and spiritual healing; place and environment. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Global Cultures requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: AIM requirement.
通过树木年轮重建过去的气候，以及从人类学和考古学的角度理解气候-人类行为关系的高级研究和方法课程. Students will sample living trees, measure ring-widths, use specialized software to create a climate reconstruction, and compare the reconstruction to a proximate human history. Meets the Critical Learning: SA requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).
综合生物学和生物人类学的观点来理解为什么主要的健康状况在我们物种中进化和持续存在. Students develop a richer knowledge of evolutionary biology, organismal biology, and biological anthropology through exploration of major medical issues, and develop skills in reading, writing, and group communication. (Not offered 2023-24).
生活史理论研究个体在不同生命阶段所做的“决定”如何影响他们的生存和繁殖成功. Information from studies of human evolution, modern human biology, human ecology, and primate behavior will be used to model the evolution of human life histories. Life history strategies involving sexual behaviors, reproductive biology, investment in offspring, childhood, 青少年将被研究，以确定人类独有的特征，以及这些特征何时首次出现在人类谱系中. Meets the Writing in the Discipline requirement.
本课程将结合人类学和文化研究的工作，向学生介绍旅行者如何体验和呈现外国文化, explorers, 殖民行政人员和人类学家将专注于与征服和殖民主义相关的写作形式. 然后，学生将被介绍到代表的旅游和旅游类型，并将分析旅游写作作为文化政治和旅游政治. The course will conclude with an examination of the new ethnography and writing cultures. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. (Not offered 2023-24).
A comparative, holistic study of formal and informal politics in diverse societies. The course focuses on three major themes: examining diverse political systems with emphasis on the emergence of the state; the relationship between power, ideology, and symbolic systems; power and controlling processes, with special attention to dominance, hegemony and resistance. Emphasis on full-length ethnographies. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求. (Not offered 2023-24).
研究人们如何组织他们的物质世界生存和创造有意义的价值体系. A variety of economic forms - small-scale societies with limited accumulation, gift economics, and commodity-based capitalism - are considered from a holistic, comparative perspective. The course concludes with as anthropological critique of colonialism, core-periphery relations, diverse forms of 'capital,' and globalization. This one-block course prepares interested students for a follow-up field course. 是否符合批判性视角:全球文化或社会不平等的要求.
Student research projects, 要么以学生自己的研究问题为中心，要么与正在进行的教师研究合作, based on field, laboratory or library research. Projects must be approved at least one block in advance of the actual block of research.