This course examines the history and culture of Brazil by confronting issues of power, social class, race, and gender. In addition to reading ethnographic texts that have focused on issues ranging from poverty to political corruption, and from the practice of religious faith to the expression of transexual identities, we will study films, songs, and dance forms as expressions of Brazilian national identity. While we will devote class time to studying rural and indigenous communities, the class will be particularly focused on urban experiences including drug trafficking and treatment, politics and policing, and prostitution and plastic surgery.

Coursework will involve brief lectures, small group discussions, individual and group presentations, and either one large or several small writing assignments.  

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Anth 1143: Exploring Global Cultural Diversity

CIVILIZATION-The Early Years Mesopotamia in the 2nd Millennium BC

Jeanne Nijhowne, PhD

At the dawn of the second millennium BC, Mesopotamia was in chaos. Eventually, the kings of Babylon established control and created an empire. While Mesopotamian political, economic, social and religious systems were markedly different from ours, the problems and issues they faced were not. These include surviving political upheaval, the role of religion in everyday life, the dynamics of international trade, and human rights.

May 31-July, 2022 A Term – In Person 9:20-10:55 AM

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This course focuses on some of the present, and possible future, socio-ecological conditions of life on planet earth. In particular we will work to understand the historic, economic, political, and socio-cultural forces that created the conditions we call climate change. With this we will take a particular interest in the question of how race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, class, and gender articulate with the material effects of climate change. The course also focuses on how we, as scholars, citizens, and activists can work to alter these current conditions in ways that foster social and ecological justice for all living beings.

The course will be a combination of lecture and discussion. Students will be assigned a small group to work in, which will be the same group of students they will work with throughout the semester. Each student is expected to attend each class and participate in each class discussion. Many class meetings will involve group or paired work. Students are also expected to participate fully in the collaborative work.

Professor Jerry Jacka

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Explore 10,000 years of Maritime peoples, histories, and cultures!

• Key Themes: migration; human- nature relationships; development; resistance; sailing; knowledges; climate change

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Nonhuman primates (NHP) are our closest living relatives, and no other group of mammals can remind us of ourselves the way nonhuman primates do. We will start this course by examining the phylogeny, geography, and general evolutionary history of primates. You will learn to recognize different clades of primates and the main traits that distinguish them. As we are getting familiar with the different primate clades, we will also built a more theoretical understanding of the ecology of primates. How are primates adapted to inhabit tropical forests? Which foods do they eat, and which adaptations help them obtain nutrients and avoid toxins? How do primates interact with other animals? The next part of the course will focus on selecting mates, “growing up,” and social aspects of group living. We will intersperse these themes and end the course with primate communication, cognition, and culture.

Instructor Griëtte van der Heide

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Instructor: Bailey Duhé

Who invented race? Do police really target communities of color? Are race and ethnicity the same thing? Is white privilege bad?

If you’ve asked any of these questions and want a space to work through the answers, ANTH 4020: Brown Studies is for you.

This is an introduction to Critical Race Theory course that uses mixed-race experiences in the United States as examples to answer, discuss, and problematize race as we understand it today.

Want more information? Got a question? bailey.duhe@colorado.edu

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Advanced Osteology provides an intensive introduction to human osteology and the methods used to interpret the human skeleton. Students will learn:

1. bones and features of the human skeleton,
2. fundamentals of aging, sexing, and individuating human skeletal remains,
3. how to estimate stature, weight, and the extent possible, geographic ancestry,
4. how to recognize and evaluate pre- and postmortem modification, including evidence of disease and activity.

Students will be evaluated on in-class lab worksheets (40% of grade), weekly quizzes (30%), osteology sketchbook (25%), and attendance (5%).

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Please email Christina Ryder (christina.ryder@colorado.edu) with any questions or concerns.

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