The course focuses on the last 10,000 years in Africa, and will examine the varied patterns of development and expansion of new subsistence systems, as well as social change. This course explores gender, as a principle of social and symbolic differentiation, cross-culturally. Using case studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania and the Americas, we examine relationships among gender, kinship, economics, politics, and social change. This seminar complements students' research experience in the Academic Internship Program in Physical Anthropology at the San Diego Museum of Man. Readings and discussions focus on anatomy, pathology, and classification and x-ray analyses of skeletal remains.
Research paper is required.
Physical Anthropology, Museum of Man. Consent of instructor. This seminar complements students' research in the Academic Internship Program in Ethnography and Archaeology at the San Diego Museum of Man. Readings and discussions will focus on problems of analysis of material culture and classifications of artifacts and site excavations. Research paper is required.