Fall 2022 Course Offerings

ANTH 490 - Seminar in Anthropology

Description

Hours: Three hours seminar per week This seminar explores a different topic each term.

Meeting Information

Info current as 5/18/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
M  9:00 AM  -  11:45 AM  Sierra Hall 1314 8/20/2022 - 12/10/2022 Susan Kuzminsky

Status: Open
Class Number: 1926
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Seminar
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 8/20/2022 - 12/10/2022
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 14
Available Seats: 10
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0

Textbook / Other Materials

Status: Required
ISBN: 9780801473883
Title: Archaeology of Disease
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Author: Roberts

Status: Required
ISBN: 9781585440993
Title: Archaeology of Death & Burial
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Author: Pearson

More textbook information including prices

Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division
  • Includes any In Person Meeting
  • Repeatable up to 9 units.
  • Repeatable by topic.

Notes

Death and Dying in the Ancient World examines how people lived in the past through a social, biological, and cultural lens. Through this course, students examine the theoretical context for studying death with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives on death and dead persons. Topics cover ancient treatment of the dead and autopsy methods, as well as interpretations of ritual behavior throughout human prehistory. We then shift to understanding lifeways throughout the study of death, focusing on both skeletal and mummified remains and the information that can be interpreted through the body, including evidence for violence, genocides, cannibalism, human sacrifice, cultural modifications of the body, pandemics, and other maladies that have plagued humans throughout prehistory.