Special attention is given to examining social hierarchies that underlay and are modified by the discourse surrounding and representations of male and female behavior. Any and all cultural products will be our objects of inquiry and analysis, from film and advertising to autobiography and other self-portraits, but our goal is to arrive at a coherent understanding of the relationship of images to social power, equality, and inequality. Offered on demand. This course covers the prehistoric and historic archaeology of Colorado. It examines the historical development of archaeology in the state, our current state of knowledge, and how Colorado archaeology has developed in relationship to the wider goals of archaeology.
Students spend full days, five days a week in the field for seven weeks.
They receive intensive instruction in field survey, remote sensing, all aspects of excavation, recording, mapping, photography, artifact classification, field laboratory techniques, and site interpretation. A written description of the field school for each year will be furnished to prospective students, Summer term. This course provides the opportunity for majors, minors, and prospective majors to engage in a critical examination of the subfields of anthropology and the possible directions they might take in pursuing one or more of these subfields both during and subsequent to their undergraduate career. The course will prepare students to think seriously about anthropology as part of a liberal arts education, as a vocation, and as a rich context for the pursuit of research questions about the human condition. A study of the biological development of humankind.