Issues about group membership, symbolic behavior, gender and political hegemony acquire novel ramifications when asked in the context of dance. Students try their hands at dance making and writing about dance to explore these issues as participants and scholars in addition to reading case histories examining dance in the United States, New Guinea, the Philippines, Brazil and Hawaii. Laboratory work with prehistoric materials is included. Not offered in 2000-01. Implications of social change for children are included.
Methodology emphasizes anthropological ethnographic techniques and findings.
Emphasis is placed on the nature of evolution in terms of process, product, patterns, historical development of the theory, and its applications to interpretations of organic history. Lecture three hours a week. Weekly laboratory on the production of finished artifacts in the various technologies studied. Not offered in 2000-01. Classic and contemporary ethnographies explore both the diversity and similarities among groups who inhabit this region.