Anthropology - Winter 1999

Instructor: Carolyn Martin Shaw
Times: MW 5:00-6:45 p.m.
Location: Kresge 327

From the newspaper headlines to the classroom, this course will cover current topics and conflicts in sub-Saharan
African Politics, culture, and society. Carolyn Martin Shaw has worked in Kenya and Zimbabwe and is especially
interested in gender relations and social
change.

The course views primates (monkeys and apes) and in terms of their
evolution and geographical distribution, and as members of the larger order
of mammals. Prosimians, new world monkeys, old world monkeys, the great
apes, and the species within these groups will be studied in terms of both
their unique adaptive characteristics and their similarities. Life history
of primates, social relationships, the relationship of anatomy and
behavior, and communication, learning and intelligence will all be areas
emphasized. The history of primatology as a discipline will also be
covered. The relevance of primates for understanding human evolution is a
unifying theme of the course.

prerequisite: Anthro 1, Introduction to Human Evolution

Instructor: Joanne Tanner
Ph.D. in Evolutionary Psychology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
area of research: great ape cognition and communication

Professor: Hugh Raffles
E-mail: raffles@ucsc.edu

This upper-division course examines the politics of anthropology's engagement with the environment. After briefly reviewing the lineage of anthropological approaches to human-nature relations, we will look at the roles of natural science, intellectual histories, and the colonial and modern state in producing and managing what we now think of as "nature." This work will form the foundation for the examination of a series of case-studies of environmental conflicts. This course involves substantial reading and active student participation in class. Students will work in groups and will present one large-scale poster presentation to the class during the quarter. A term paper and mid-term are also required. Syllabus and weekly reading list are available at http://catsic.ucsc.edu/~anth146/index.html

Course limit: 70

Professor: Hugh Raffles
E-mail: raffles@ucsc.edu

This senior seminar considers the literature on "Third World development;" that is, the political, cultural, and economic impulse to move certain nation-states in the direction of "modernity." It asks where the development idea has come from, what it implies, how it is manifested on the ground; and if there is potential or reason for its reinvention. This is a course with a significant reading load in which materials vary geographically and topically, but are in general theoretically-focused. Some familiarity with post-structuralist thought is advantageous though not essentail. Students will present class sessions, actively engage in seminar discussions, contribute weekly reading-responses to the class Web site, and complete a major term paper. Syllabus and weekly reading list are available at http://catsic.ucsc.edu/~anth194l/index.html

Course limit: 15

Class Meetings: Wed 12-3 pm
Location: Applied Sciences Teleconferencing Classroom


Instructor: Dr. Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
Lab: 423 Social Science 1
Phone: 831/459-3201
E-mail: judith@ucsc.edu


Course Description:

This course will outline the development of native cultures in the American Southwest from Paleo-Indian times (ca. 9500 B.C.) through early European contact (ca. A.D. 1700). Topics to be covered include: early foraging cultures, the development of agriculture, the emergence and decline of regional alliances, changes in socio-political organization, external relations and trade, Athapaskan migrations, and the effects of early Spanish contact on the native people of the region. Special emphasis will be placed on evaluating how changes in anthropological theory have effected our understanding of the evolution and history of native Southwestern societies.

This course will be co-taught, via teleconferening facilities, with Dr. Steve Shackley of the Phoebe Hearst Museum at Berkeley. It will taught as two continuing three unit courses in the Winter (196A) and Spring (196B), to conform to the Berkeley's semester schedule. Students must take both courses to receive a passing grade for either.

Each student will be required to write a 20-25 page research paper exploring, in greater depth, one of the topics brought up in class or a related topic in Southwest Prehistory. UCSC students will receive special instruction in the research, writing and revision process. This research paper fulfills the senior thesis exit requirement in Anthropology. Student evaluations will be based on participation in class discussions, the quality of class presentations and short critical papers, and on the research papers, which will be evaluated for scholarly content, originality, style, and professional polish.

Anth 1, 2, 3 are pre-requisites for this course. Anth 176 (North American Prehistory) is strongly recommended. The class is not recommended for anyone who has not taken at least one upper division archaeology class. Students should have basic familiarity with e-mail and the internet. This course fulfills the General Education writing-intensive requirement (code W) for the University.


Required Texts:

Cordell, Linda S. (1997) Archaeology of the Southwest. 2nd Edition. Academic Press, Orlando.

Hubbuch, Susan M. (1996) Writing Research Papers Across the Curriculum. 4th Edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, Fort Worth.

(Available at Bay Tree Bookstore and on reserve at McHenry Library)

[An extensive list of more specialized readings will be available via electronic reserves.]

Revised 7/23/04.