Anthropology (Anth)
1. Introduction to Physical Anthropology (3)
Relation of man and the animals; evolution of man, fossil man, race and
racial classification; racial theories.
2. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)
The nature of culture; culture growth and history; survey of cultural phenomena;
cultural theory; applied anthropology.
3. Introduction to Archaeology (3)
Development of archaeology and its basic concepts; general sequences of
cultural development in the Old and New Worlds.
102. Ethnology (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2 or permission of instructor. Major theories of culture;
survey of culture types and their distribution; culture history.
103. Acculturation (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2 or perniissioh\of instructor. Impact of western
civilization upon nonwestem societies; social and\,cultural adjustments
to impact; disintegration; reinterpretation, and reintegration; place of
anthropology in international relations and colonial administration.
104. Social Anthropology (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2 or permission of instructor. The place of anthropology
in the social sciences; theories and schools in social anthropology; community
studies, integration, functionalism, psychological aspects.
109. Seminar in Theory of Prehistory (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2, 3, or permission of instructor. Current problems of
prehistory, application to anthropology; theoretical approaches to archaeology.
110. Archaeological Laboratory Methods (4)
Prerequisite: Anth 2, 3, 109, permission of instructor. Application
of archaeological techniques to the solution of archaeological problems
in laboratory processing and analysis of artifactual material. (3 lecture,
3 lab hours)
111. Field Archaeology (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2, 3, or permission of instructor. The collection
and analysis of archaeology data through reconnaissance and excavation on
archaeological sites under field conditions. (4-8 hours on Saturday)
112. Comparative Social Organization (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2 either Amth 104 or permission of instructor.. Cross-cultural
sampling of organizational variability from kin-grouping through bureaucracy,
from band egalitarianism to mass stratification. Culture and complexity;
principles of kinship, specialization, institutionalization, and change.
113. Introduction to Psychological Archaeology (4)
Prerequisite: grade of C or better in Anth 2; plus either Anth l or Psych
10 or permission of instructor. Culture and personality,. stress, and perception.
Enculturation For different roles, strata, and societies. Autonomy, worldview,
perception, and cognition.
114. Seminar in Psychological Anthropology (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 113 or permission of instructor. Influence of culture
on perception, motivation, decision-making, autonomy, and personality. Directed
library research and reports. Cross-cultural analyses of socialization,
relative and absolute deviance, value alternatives, and related topics.
115. Seminar in Cultural Anthropology (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2, 104. Method and theory in cultural anthropology; reading
and analysis of major contributions to modern cultural anthropological thought.
120. Peoples and Cultures of North America and Meso-America (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2. A survey of the history and range of lifeways
developed by the American Indians north of the Isthmus of Panama in response
to the variety of ecological and sociopolitical pressures before and after
contact with the West.
121. Peoples and Cultures of South America (3)
Prerequisites: Anth 2. A survey of South American Indian tribes and
civilizations since prehistoric times, based on archaeological and ethnographic
data. Explores the interplay between environment and local cultural adaptations,
and examines the effect of historical contact with European peoples.
123. Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2. An introductory survey of the cultural and historical
adaptations of societies in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam;
and of Insular societies in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Examines
the major effects of culture contact between East and West.
124. Peoples and Cultures of East Asia (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2. Examines cultural pluralism. Considers cultural adaptations
and change among minorities such as Moslems, Tibetans, and Mongolians in
China, and ethnic groups of Japan and Korea. Outlines kinship, religion,
organization, and technological factors in the Asiatic culture complex.
125. People and Culture of the Middle East (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 9 or permission of instructor. Historical backgrounds
and contemporary cultures of the Middle East.
126. People and Cultures of Africa (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2 or permission of instructor. Historical backgrounds
and contemporary cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa; modern social Forces and
cultural change.
127. Afro-American Cultures and Societies (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2 or permission of instructor. The cultural continuum
from tribal societies through peasantry to urbanization. Examination of
culture-historic factors such as slavery. stratification and change, especially
in Latin American and Circum-Caribbean Negro societies.
131. Archaeology of North America (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 3. Development of Native American cultures north of Mesoamerica
from the peopling of America to early historic times; languages, subsistence
strategies, land-use and settlement patterns, and technologic developments
in culture-ecological retrospective.
132. Archaeology of South America (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 3, or permission of instructor. Aboriginal cultural developments
south . of the Isthmus of Panama from Early Man to the Spanish Conquest.
Special emphasis is given to the high cultures of the Andean region.
140. Political Anthropology (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2 or permission of instructor. Comparison and analysis
of political structure, behavioral organization and operational systems
among selected peoples at the aboriginal and local level. Emphasis on leadership,
authority, power, and forms of primitive government, relevance of primitive
political behavior and organization to anthropology theory.
150T. Seminar in Anthropology (1-3; max total 9)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Subspecialties current in anthropology:
e.g., ethnoscience, cultural ecology, human population genetics.
190. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study
192. Directed Readings (1-3)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Supervised readings in a selected
field of anthropology. No more than 6 units may be counted towards major.