Ms. Grimm Intermediate Courses 237. This course will introduce students to the anthropological study of relationships between human cultural behavior and ecological systems. We will consider early 20th century formulations of human ecology, the cultural ecology of the 1960s, and more recent optimal foraging and ecosystem models. Ms. Fisher 250. This is a first course in anthropological linguistics.
Concern is with the nature and structure of language and verbal behavior.
Mr. Casson 251. Language in Culture and Society 3 hours 3SS, CD Study of the relationship between language and culture and of the use of languages in socio-cultural context. An ethnographic examination of the varieties of indigenous African languages, political, economic, and kinship institutions, gender roles, belief systems and religions, verbal and plastic arts. A number of African cultures will be considered historically and in relationship to the momentous changes brought about by their incorporation into the nation-state. One additional course in the department or consent of instructor.