Focus on problems of analysis in observational study of animal behavior and conservation in relation to ethological studies. Department approval required. Return to top. Issues of belief, ritual, and religious authority are explored. Possible topics include schixophrenia, depression, shamanism and psychiatry, culture-bound syndromes, sexuality and gender.
Course examines current theoretical issues in the field of hunter-gatherer archaeology.
A theoretical examination of the sources and relationships of public and private fantasy, based on cross-cultural studies of dreams, myths, and ritual. We examine the medical profession, the sick and the healers, and culture as communication in the medical event through aspects of medical practice and medical research of medicine as well as primitive and peasant systems. Return to top. Syro-Palestine, the area which includes Israel and adjacent regions, provides a microcosm of social evolution in the eastern Mediterranean. Return to top.