We will explore this legacy and then move on to consider the ways in which human rights is constituted as a field of action and how it is structured by transnational discourses and practices. Senior Anthropology majors only with permission of Director of Undergraduate Studies Ethnography is the heart of sociocultural anthropology. It is both what anthropologists do and what they contribute to understanding the human condition. Topics for discussion include planning a research project including site selection, proposal writing, gaining access and permission for research, ethics of research and legal problems, keeping and writing good field notes, and the problems of, as well as strategies for, writing an ethnography. The course introduces students to the complicated process of conducting ethnographic research by doing a series of hands-on exercises and a larger project.
Weekly meetings require students' comments on, and suggestions for, one another's work and progress.
The study of human evolution is a multidisciplinary endeavor, involving a synthesis of concepts, techniques and research findings from a variety of different scientific fields, including evolutionary biology, paleontology, primatology, comparative anatomy, genetics, molecular biology, geology and archaeology. Explores the different contributions that scientists have made towards understanding human origins and provides a detailed survey of the evidence used to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our own species. Examines current methodological and theoretical viewpoints of archaeological scholarship within the discipline of anthropology. Focuses on key transformations in cultural evolution, such as the origins of modern humans, the emergence of food production, and the development of complex societies, urbanism, and early states. Explores gender roles, landscapes and settlements, technologies, art, cognitive systems, urbanism and state formation.