Methods of Archaeology. Methods and procedures used in the practice of archaeology with topical foci varying by semester. Majority of funding and job opportunities worldwide falls under heritage management. Indigenous Self Representation and Videography. Critically reviews the relationships between ethnographic monographs and ethnographic film with the indigenous forms of self representation, film, photography, and art.
Primary focus is the new medium of video generated visual texts.
Native, minority, emergent, and elite texts of various societies will be compared with each other as well as with similar forms of visual representation in contemporary western societies. Genetic Basis of Human Variations. Explores the hereditary variation in our species and its special relationship to disease incidences and susceptibilities. Emphasis on contrast between adaptations of traditional societies to infectious disease loads and contemporary societies with degenerative disease loads, and the genetic susceptibilities concerned. Biocultural Adaptation in Human Populations.