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Description
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ANTH 3660-- ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY AND CONTEXT
Fall 2018
Tuesday and Friday, 8:00-9:50 pm, Sturm Hall 154
Professor Dean Saitta
This course introduces graduate students and advanced undergraduates to the intellectual perspectives, approaches, conceptual frameworks, and languages—i.e., the major paradigms—that characterize contemporary anthropology. The course will provide:
(1) An overview of the history of anthropology and the socio-political contexts in which anthropological paradigms were developed,
(2) Some intellectual tools with which to recognize and critically evaluate different intellectual approaches in anthropology,
(3) An understanding of how and why anthropology has achieved its distinctive character as a social science, and
(4) Direction for developing a Master’s thesis/exhibit/paper project or Undergraduate thesis project that's anchored by what you discover to be the most useful perspective or approach.
Banner Image: Eyes of Margaret Mead, Samoa
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Required Text, Fall 2018
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Patterson Text
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Relevant Websites
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AAA Resourceshttp://www.aaanet.org/resources/
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Anthropological Theories (U Alabama)http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/anthros.htm
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People Resourceshttp://www.morris.umn.edu/academic/anthropology/chollett/anth4901/links.html
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Course Syllabus
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Course Readings, Fall 2018
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Course Materials, Fall 2018
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Recommended Readings, Fall 2018