Cross-cultural analysis of the varieties of human experience in social life. Topics include belief systems and symbolic forms, politics, warfare and social control, family and kinship, subsistence, economic production, and cultural critique. Emphasizes problems inherent in understanding unfamiliar cultures on their own terms. Guss, Shaw, Park 20 Physical Anthropology. Introduction to human biological diversity in living and prehistoric populations.
Emphasis is on application of basic evolutionary principles.
Topics include the human and primate fossil record, the interplay of biology and culture, adaptation to environmental stresses, basic Mendelian and population genetics, primate behavior, and sociobiology. Bailey 30 Prehistoric Archaeology. Survey of human culture from the earliest paleolithic hunters and gatherers to the formation of states and the beginnings of recorded history. Course provides an introduction to archaeological methods, a worldwide overview of prehistoric life ways, and a more detailed analysis of cultural development in the New World. Members of the department Courses for Undergraduate and Graduate Students 110 Native Peoples of North America.