From: strange@acpub.duke.edu (Michael B. Scher)
Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
Subject: Re: The Bible In The Context of Its Time
Date: 11 Oct 92 07:40:26 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Oct11.033626.10551@midway.uchicago.edu> coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <5942@news.duke.edu> strange@acpub.duke.edu (Michael B. Scher) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct9.192405.21864@midway.uchicago.edu> coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>[Re: Debate over function of anthropology.]
>
>Either I have not made myself clear, or I am in total misunderstanding
>of one of my own fields of study.  I argue that anthropology
>studies the interaction of the individual, the participation of
>the individual. This should not be confused with the individual-type
>study that the field of psychology would make.  I see that
>my abbreviated focci of fields did not make this explicit.  But
>my understanding is this:  interaction of individuals which may
>or may not involve institutions.
>
     Well, while Anthro is concerned occasionally with the individual, it is not
focussed as a field on the individual.  I found the following on-line 
description of the U.C. Santa Cruz anthro program (and some ungergrad course
names) recently.  Perhaps it will give some context.  Apologies to anyone
at Santa Cruz offended by the theft and/or deletions of irrelevant portions.
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Anthropology studies human beings from multiple viewpoints--peoples and
cultures throughout the world and through eons of geologic time.
Because it covers a wide range of topics--physical evolution, material
remains of the past, and customs, communication and thought in
present-day societies--anthropology is an unusually integrative
discipline.

The anthropology program at UCSC offers courses that reflect the
diversity of the field. The cultural anthropology courses explore such
broad issues as the essence of human nature, the expression of sex
roles, the sources of power and inequality, and the myriad
understandings of the supernatural. By examining the material remains
of past societies, archaeology courses reconstruct and explain the
cultures of our predecessors. Those remains range from the stone tools
of the earliest human foragers to the Mayan pyramids and
nineteenth-century textile factories. Physical anthropology traces the
human journey from its beginnings in Africa over three million years
ago. Courses look at fossil evidence, evolutionary theory and behavior
of primate relatives to analyze biological, social, and cultural
changes over time.

Students have the opportunity to do field research in both cultural
anthropology and archaeology. Laboratory courses in archaeology and
physical anthropology offer practical experience in comparative anatomy
and field work techniques.

Because anthropology is concerned with understanding human interaction,
it is a useful major for anyone planning a career that involves working
with people, especially those from diverse cultures. Some UCSC
graduates are in social work, many are in teaching, others have pursued
careers in law, city planning, politics, medicine, public health, and
journalism. Students intending to specialize in anthropology usually go
on to graduate school, as professional employment in the field almost
always demands an advanced degree.

[. . . ]

To graduate with an anthropology major, students must take courses 1,
2, and 3 as background for upper-division courses and a minimum of
eight upper-division anthropology courses. At least one of these eight
courses must be selected from each of the categories below

Sociocultural Anthropology Courses

111 Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
114 Medical Anthropology: An Introduction
115 Representing Cultures
116 Anthropology and Contemporary Society
118 Political Anthropology
123 Psychological Anthropology
124 Anthropology of Religion
126 Sexuality and Society in Cross-Cultural Perspective
140 Anthropology of Art and Symbolic Form
147 The Nature of Culture
152 Survey of Cultural Anthropological Theory
154 Urban Society and Culture
164 The Anthropology of Dance
165 Anthropological Folklore
181 Workshop in Ethnography
185 Comparison of Cultures

Ethnographic Courses
130 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
131 Native Peoples of North America
132 Peoples and Cultures of Island Southeast Asia
133 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
134 Brazilian Society and Culture
135 Politics and Culture in Socialist China
136 Cultures of India
149 Studies in American Culture
Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Courses
101 Human Evolution
104 Human Adaptability
106 Primate Behavior and Ecology
109 Physical Anthropology Laboratory
170 History of Archaeology
173 Origins of Farming
174 Origins of Complex Societies
176 North American Prehistory
178 Meso-American Prehistory
179 Zooarchaeology
179L  Zooarchaeology Laboratory
190A Special Topics in Physical Anthropology

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Senior Seminar Courses

194B Advanced Topics in Physical Anthropology

194C Evolutionary Theory

194D Public Culture/Popular Culture

194E Advanced Topics in Folkloristics

194G Carnivals, Festivals, and Play

194K Reading Ethnographies

194M Special Topics in Medical Anthropology

194P Histories of Forests and Other Wild Places

194Q Social Semiotics

194Y Special Topics in Archaeology

-- 
Mike Scher                      strange@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
Duke University -- Durham, NC:  Law and Cultural Anthropology 
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