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Anthropology (ANTH)
College of Social Sciences
Most 300- and 400-level courses have as a
prerequisite one of the 200-level courses. If passed with a grade of A
or B, or upon written consent of instructor, ANTH 150 may be
substituted. Additionally, 300- and 400-level courses may be taken for
graduate credit with prior approval of the student’s adviser.
ANTH 150 Human Adaptation (3) Human variation,
physical and cultural, examined for its adaptiveness. Alternative
explanations of human behavior; implications for future. For nonmajors. SS
ANTH 160 World Prehistory (3) Survey based on
archaeological evidence of human diversification and spread over past
four million years; development of agriculture; origin of ancient
civilizations.
ANTH 200 Cultural Anthropology (3) Nature
of culture; introduction to basic concepts for analyzing cultural
behavior; patterning, integration, and dynamics of culture; culture and
the individual. SS
ANTH 210 Archaeology (3) Introduction to
prehistoric archaeology; methods and techniques of excavation and
laboratory analysis; brief survey of theory in relation to change and
diversity in prehistoric human groups.
ANTH 215 Physical Anthropology (3) Human
evolution, primatology, human genetics, biological variation, human
adaptability, growth and development. Co-requisite: 215L.
ANTH 215L Physical Anthropology Laboratory (1) Laboratory
to accompany 215. Co-requisite: 215.
ANTH 300 Study of Contemporary Problems (3) Significance
of anthropology for contemporary affairs, particularly American ethnic
and minority group relations. Relevance to various professions,
governmental policy, political action, and accomplishment of change.
ANTH 303 Technology and Culture (3) Theory
of culture and technology; development of technology in context of
cultures since the stone ages. The present and future are considered.
Pre: one of 150, 200, 210, or consent.
ANTH 305 History of Anthropology (3) Development
of anthropological ideas, focusing on theoretical issues concerning
culture, society, and human nature. Required of majors. Pre: 200.
ANTH 307 Theory in Contemporary Anthropology (3) Theoretical
issues that have generated current research and controversies in more
than one specialty within social/ cultural anthropology; historical
roots. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 308 American Culture (3) Contemporary
culture of the United States. Variations in kinship, family, work, play,
values, religion; selected topics such as ethnicity, alternate
lifestyles, consumerism, addiction. Pre: 150, 200, or consent.
ANTH 310 Human Origins (3) Theory of evolution,
evolutionary systematics, and taxonomy; evolutionary biology of
primates; fossil records for primate and human evolution. Laboratory
included. Pre: 215, ZOOL 101, or consent.
ANTH 313 Visual Anthropology (3) Historical
development of documentary films of non-Western peoples; critical
examination of ways in which ethnographic films represent different
cultures. Pre: 150 and 200, or concurrent; or consent.
ANTH 315 Sex & Gender (3) Cross-cultural
theories and perceptions of sexual differences; linkage between biology
and cultural constructions of gender; relationship of gender ideology to
women’s status. Pre: 200 or consent. (Crosslisted as WS 315)
ANTH 321 World Archaeology I (3) Archaeology
of human origins, early cultures, and origins of agriculture. Pre: 210
or consent.
ANTH 322 World Archaeology II (3) Archaeology
of complex societies, including the rise of urbanism, state-level
society, historical and industrial archaeology. Pre: 210 or consent.
ANTH 323 Pacific Island Archaeology (3) Origins
of Pacific peoples; chronology of settlement; sequences of culture in
Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 330 Social Organization (3) Systematic
study of human institutions; general principles of social interaction
formulated from ethnographic data. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 335 Anthropology of Aging (3) Sociocultural factors of aging in
different societies as a background for a more detailed exploration of
the culture of aging in American culture. Pre: 150, 200, or consent.
ANTH 340 Primate Behavior & Ecology (3) Comparative
survey of social behavior and ecology of free-ranging nonhuman primates
in natural habitat; topical aspects, methods, relevance to human
behavior and anthropology. Pre: one of 150, 200, BIOL 172, PSY 100, ZOOL
101, or consent.
ANTH 345 Aggression, War, and Peace (3) Biocultural,
evolutionary, and crosscultural perspectives on the conditions,
patterns, and processes of violence, war, nonviolence, and peace. Pre:
ANTH 200 or consent. (Cross-listed as PACE 345)
ANTH 345 Aggression, War, & Peace (3) Biocultural,
evolutionary, and cross-cultural perspectives on the conditions,
patterns, and processes of violence, war, nonviolence, and peace. Pre:
200 or consent.
ANTH 350 Pacific Island Cultures (3) Introduction
to cultures of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia from time of first
settlement to emergence of modern nation states. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 370 Ethnographic Field Techniques (V) Problems
and techniques of social-cultural anthropological fieldwork;
ethnographic literature; work with informants. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 380 Archaeological Lab Techniques (4) Laboratory
analysis and evaluation of field data; preservation and restoration of
artifacts. Preparation for publication. Pre: 210 or consent.
ANTH 381 Archaeological Field Techniques (V) Archaeological
survey and excavations; field trips, mapping, photography. Repeatable
once with consent. Pre: 210 or consent.
ANTH 384 Skeletal Biology (3) Introduction to
the human skeleton and methods for analyzing archaeological human
remains including age, sex, ethnicity, paleodemography, skeletal and
dental variation, paleopathology, population studies. Co-requisite:
384L.
ANTH 384L Skeletal Biology Laboratory (1) Laboratory
to accompany 384. Co-requisite: 384.
ANTH 385 (Alpha) Undergraduate Proseminar (3) Selected
problems in current research. (B) archaeology; (C) ethnography; (D)
social anthropology; (E) applied; (F) psychological; (G) biological.
Repeatable. Pre: consent.
ANTH 399 Directed Reading or Research (V) Pre:
minimum cumulative GPA of 2.7, minimum GPA of 3.0 in anthropology, or
consent.
ANTH 400 Anthropological Statistics (3) Introduction
to statistical methods and their use in analysis of anthropological
data. Pre: 200, 210, or 215.
ANTH 414 Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
(3) Introduction to ethno-graphic study of speech and language. Pre:
200 or consent. (Cross-listed as LING 414)
ANTH 415 Ecological Anthropology (3) Relationship
of humans with natural environment; role of culture in ecological
systems. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 416 Economic Anthropology (3) Analysis
of economic activities in non-Western, non-industrial societies;
production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services in a
variety of cultures. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 417 Political Anthropology (3) Character
of political institutions and their development in non-Western and
non-industrial societies. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 420 Communication & Culture (3) Anthropological
introduction to communication; intercultural and interspecies
comparisons; verbal and nonverbal. Ethnography of communication,
discourse and structural analyses, ethnomethodology. Pre: 200 or
consent.
ANTH 422 Anthropology of Religion (3) Myth,
witchcraft, symbolism, values, ritual, spirit possession, shamanism,
religious healing, and millennial cults in primitive, folk, and urban
societies. Pre: 200 or consent. (Crosslisted as REL 422)
ANTH 423 Social & Cultural Change (3) Various
approaches to examples of social and cultural change in non-literate
societies; evolution, diffusion, acculturation, revolution, etc.
Historical features and social processes of colonialism. Pre: 200 or
consent.
ANTH 424 Psychological Anthropology (3) Articulation
of psychological states or syndromes with cultural patterns involving
symbol-processing. Cultural uniformity and diversity in socialization,
sexuality, personality types, supernatural preoccupation, management of
crises. Pre: 150, 200, or consent.
ANTH 425 Medical Anthropology (3) Social and
cultural aspects of medicine; the relation-ship of medicine to the
beliefs, social systems, ecological adaptations, and cultural changes of
human groups.
ANTH 426 Folk Medicine: Cross-Cultural Studies (3) Comparative
study of folk (traditional) medical systems in diverse settings, with
attention to the relationships among belief systems and medical
practices, including biological outcomes. Pre: 150, 200, or consent.
ANTH 427 Food, Health, & Society (3) How
human groups identify, collect, create, and transform foods; how they
shape those into dietary behaviors, and the influence of those behaviors
on health. Pre: 150 (or concurrent) or 200 (or concurrent), or consent.
ANTH 430 Human Adaptation to the Sea (3) How
people from prehistoric to modern times have sailed, fished, or
otherwise exploited and enjoyed the sea; how the sea has molded human
life. Pre: upper division standing or consent.
ANTH 432 Human Adaptation to Living in Space (3) Plans
for establishing space settlements; implications for humanity of
migration into solar system and beyond. Pre: 150, ASTR 281, or consent.
ANTH 435 Human Adaptation to Forests (3) Cultural
ecology of human societies in forest habitats. Emphasis on case studies
of traditional and changing adaptations in the tropics. Pre: 200 (or
concurrent) or consent.
ANTH 446 Southeast Asian Cultures (3) Cultures
of Southeast Asia from hunting and gathering groups to high
civilizations; kinship, economic, political, and religious systems;
recent developments. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 447 Polynesian
Cultures (3) Analysis of Polynesian cultures from their origins to
contemporary states. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 448 Micronesian Cultures (3) Intensive
survey of Micronesian societies, with emphasis on physical and cultural
environment and processes of change from initial colonization to the
present. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 449 Melanesian Cultures (3) Belief
systems, economic organization, and social and political structures in
Melanesia; examination of selected societies; analysis of rise of
nationalism and independence. Pre: 200 or consent.
ANTH 450 Physiological Anthropology (3) Human
variation; ecological factors; biological and cultural response to heat,
cold, altitude, diet, disease, urbanization. Lab exercises in data
collection under field conditions. Pre: 215, PHYL 103, or consent.
(Cross-listed as PHYL 450)
ANTH 455 Human Biology of the Pacific (3) Human
biology of prehistoric and living populations of the Pacific: mainland
and island Southeast Asia, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and
Polynesia. Fossil humans, microevolution, human variation, origins. Pre:
215 or consent.
ANTH 458 Forensic Anthropology (3) Application
of physical anthropology to problems in human identification.
Determination of age, sex, ancestry, etc., of the skeleton and
preparation of reports for legal medicine. Pre: 384 (or concurrent) or
consent.
ANTH 461 Southeast Asian Archaeology (3) Prehistory
and protohistory of Southeast Asia and of Southeast Asian contacts with
East Asia, India, Australia, and Oceania. Pre: 210 or consent.
ANTH 462 East Asian Archaeology (3) Prehistory
and protohistory of China, Japan, and Korea from earliest human
occupation to historic times. Geographical emphasis may vary between
China and Japan/Korea. Pre: 210 or consent.
ANTH 463 South Asian Archaeology (3) Archaeological
perspective on the South Asian past. Covers earliest human occupation to
the period of British colonialism. Topics include the beginnings of
agriculture, urbanism, and the interaction of the diverse peoples of
South Asia. Pre: 210 (or concurrent) or consent.
ANTH 464 Hawaiian Archaeology (3) Archaeological
perspective in Hawai‘i’s past; origins of Hawaiians; early
settlement and culture change; settlement patterns and material culture;
historic sites preservation. Pre: 210 and consent.
ANTH 468 Archaeological Theory & Interpretation
(3) Introduction to theory in archaeology; interpretive paradigms;
the relation of archaeological methods to interpretation and evaluation
of theories. Pre: 210.
ANTH 469 History of Archaeological Thought (3) Historical
survey of archaeology as a discipline; focusing on theoretical,
methodological, and substantive advances that changed archaeology. Pre:
210 or consent.
ANTH 470 Folklore (3) Theory and method of
comparative and analytical folklore study, with special applications to
Pacific traditions. Pre: 200 or consent. (Cross-listed as IP 470)
ANTH
472 Ceramic Analysis in Archaeology (3) Concepts, methods, and
approaches used in the analysis of ancient pottery. Emphasis placed on
ceramic technology, stylistic analysis. Pre: 210 or consent.
ANTH 473 Lithic Analysis in Archaeology (3) How
archaeologists infer procurement, production, distribution, and use of
lithic resources, with emphasis on the manufacturing process. Includes
lab for replicating prehistoric technologies. Pre: 210 or consent.
ANTH 474 Geoarchaeology (3) Field and
laboratory analysis of sediments and soils in 98 environments, site
formation, post-depositional processes, landscape change, and
paleogeomorphic reconstruction. Pre: 210 or consent.
ANTH 475 Faunal Analysis in Archaeology (3) Analysis
of archaeologically recovered faunal collections with emphasis on
identification and interpretation of nonhuman vertebrate remains. Pre:
210 or consent.
ANTH 476 Paleobotanical Analysis (3) Paleobotanical
analysis is directed toward the understanding of human-plant
relationships and their change through time. Theoretical and
methodological consideration of pollen, phytoliths, wood charcoal,
seeds, and other macro-plant remains in archaeology. Pre: 210 or
consent.
ANTH 480 (Alpha) Anthropological Applications (3) Anthropological
theory, method, and data applied to problems in specialized fields. For
students in professional fields who lack anthropological background. (B)
development; (C) health; (D) education. (480D cross-listed as EDEF 480)
ANTH 481 Applied Anthropology (3) Methods
and results in application of anthropological concepts to the practical
problems of agricultural, commercial, and industrial development. Pre:
200 or consent.
ANTH 482 Okinawan Culture (3) Ryukyuan culture,
society, and personality; family, community, kin group, class, religion,
values, and socialization. Cultural relationships with Japan, Korea,
China, and Taiwan. Pre: upper division standing or consent.
ANTH 483 Japanese Culture & Behavior I (3) Sociocultural
factors in Japanese behavior. Social structure; traditional
institutions.
ANTH 484 Japanese Culture & Behavior II (3) Sociocultural
factors in Japanese behavior. Behavior patterns; cultural values, norms,
and beliefs.
ANTH 485 Pre-European Hawai‘i (3) Pre-European
society and culture from an anthropological viewpoint. Pre: 200 or
consent.
ANTH 486 Peoples of Hawai‘i (3) Historic and
contemporary society and culture from an anthropological viewpoint. Pre:
200 or consent.
ANTH 487 Philippine Culture & Society (3) Patterns
of belief and behavior among peoples of the Philippines; development,
persistence, and change of institutions. Pre: upper division standing or
consent.
ANTH 488 Chinese Culture: Ethnography (3) Critical
interpretations of ethnographic and biographic texts depicting
individual and family lives in different socioeconomic circumstances,
geographical regions, and historical periods of modern China.
ANTH 489 Chinese Culture: Current (3) Contemporary
topics including the modern revolution, ideology, work, popular
Confucianism, entrepreneurial activities, emigration, overseas
settlements.
ANTH 490 Teaching Human Adaptation (6) For
anthropology majors who lead, under supervision, a freshman seminar
section of 150. Pre: senior standing and consent.
ANTH 491 Teaching Cultural Anthropology (6) For
anthropology majors who lead, under supervision, a freshman seminar
section of 200. Pre: senior standing and consent.
ANTH 495 Senior Thesis (3) Preparation of a
major paper with a committee of one chairperson and one other member;
paper on topic of interest in anthropology. Optional for majors. Pre:
305 or consent, and senior standing.
ANTH 496 Senior Thesis (3) Preparation of a
major paper with a committee of one chairperson and one other member;
paper on topic of interest in anthropology. Optional for majors. Pre:
305 or consent, and senior standing.
ANTH 500 Master’s Plan B/C Studies (1)
ANTH
601 Ethnology (3) Survey, in historical perspective, of theory in
social and cultural anthropology. A course in the graduate core of
anthropology. Pre: graduate status and consent.
ANTH 602 Linguistic Anthropology (3) Investigation
of mutual influences of linguistic theory and methodology and
anthropological theory and methodology. A course in the graduate core of
anthropology. Pre: LING 102, graduate status, and consent.
ANTH 603 Archaeology (3) Development of
critical and analytical skills in assessment of archaeological
literature; emphasis on the science, theory, explanation, and paradigms
that comprise archaeology. A course in the graduate core of
anthropology. Pre: graduate status and consent.
ANTH 604 Physical Anthropology (3) Human
evolution and human variability in extant and previously existing
populations; emphasis on history of physical anthropology, evolutionary
systematics, primate biology and behavior, paleontology, anthropological
genetics, climatic adaptation, growth, and nutrition. A course in the
graduate core of anthropology. Pre: graduate status and consent.
ANTH 606 Anthropology of Infectious Disease (3) The
role of human behavior, including its social and cultural determinants,
in understanding the distribution of infectious diseases and in shaping
preventive and therapeutic strategies. Pre: graduate status or consent.
ANTH 620 (Alpha) Theory in Social & Cultural
Anthropology (3) Major theoretical problems in (B) kinship; (C)
cognitive systems; (D) religion; (E) political institutions; (F) law and
social control; (G) economics; (H) ecology; (I) other to be announced.
Repeatable. Pre: consent.
ANTH 632 Field Study of Population (3) Concepts
and techniques in field study of non-literate (tribal and peasant)
populations. For graduate students in the social sciences planning field
research that involves taking a census. Pre: consent. (Cross-listed as
GEOG 632)
ANTH 635 History in Anthropological Interpretation
(3) Historical research involving
archaeological, anthropological, linguistic,
documentary, and oral historical forms of evidence. Emphasis on
interpretation and methodology. Pre: consent.
ANTH 640 (Alpha) Methods & Theory in
Archaeology (3) Focused seminars pertaining to distinct areas of
archaeological method and theory. (B) analytical; (C) environmental; (D)
ethnoarchaeology; (E) economic; (F) underwater. Repeatable twice. Pre:
603 or consent.
ANTH 645 Historic Preservation (3) Federal,
state, and local laws and regulations that regulate and provide
protection to significant archaeological and historical resources in
Hawai‘i and the region. Pre: 210.
ANTH 650 Women & Culture (3) Cultural
diversity and uniformity in the sex-linked role repertoire, interaction,
exchange, rituals, symbolization, role reversal, life cycle,
socialization, personality, stress, pathology, acculturation, and
movement. Pre: classified graduate standing and consent.
ANTH 668 Maritime Archaeology Techniques (6) (5
7-hr Lab) Laboratory and field training in the principles and
practice of methods of maritime archaeology--coastal habitations,
shipwrecks, waterlogged artifacts; survey, mapping, excavation,
conservation. Summer only, full-time. Repeatable. Pre: 210 or consent.
(Cross-listed as OEST 668)
ANTH 699 Directed Reading or Research (V) Pre:
classified graduate standing and consent.
ANTH 700 Thesis Research (V) Research for
master’s thesis.
ANTH 710 Seminar in Research Methods (3) Theory
construction and research design in social and cultural anthropology;
techniques for collection, processing, and evaluation of data. For
students preparing research. Repeatable. Pre: classified graduate status
in anthropology or consent.
ANTH 712 Data Processing in Anthropology (3) Techniques
of data retrieval; strategies of fieldwork and data analysis for
identifying, sampling, and processing large bodies of materials.
Repeatable. Pre: classified graduate standing and consent.
ANTH 720 Anthropology of Japan (3) Japan
examined through three dimensions of cultural anthropology:
cultural/symbolic, social/organizational, and individual/psychological.
Selected topics analyzed and interpreted in terms of conjunctions of
these dimensions. Pre: 483 or 484; or consent.
ANTH 750 (Alpha) Research Seminar (3) Selected
problems in current research. (B) archaeology; (C) medical; (D)
ethnography; (E) social; (F) psychological; (G) biological. Pre:
classified graduate status and consent.
ANTH 800 Dissertation Research (V) Research for doctoral dissertation.
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