Anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific and interpretive study of humankind, from its beginnings millions of years ago to the present day. The discipline of anthropology begins with a simple but enormously powerful idea: that any particular aspect of human biology and behavior can be fully understood only when it is placed against a background provided by the full range of variability found in human biology and behavior worldwide. This is the comparative perspective, the attempt to explain both the similarities and differences among people in the context of humanity as a whole. Anthropology is therefore composed of multiple subfields. We offer courses in cultural, biological, linguistic, medical, and psychological anthropology. Anthropology majors receive a sound liberal arts education, which provides a needed edge in today's competitive world of careers. Anthropology's scope and intellectual roominess can prepare students to make objective, far-sighted decisions at the professional level in any career field. Anthropology graduates go on to careers in professional anthropology, medicine, law, social work, public health, environmental studies, teaching, translation, laboratory research, international business, and government.
Emory students benefit from a variety of excellent resources for studying anthropology. Students of Anthropology have access to the following laboratories: Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience, Paleolithic Technology Laboratory, Ancient DNA Laboratory, Social Cognition and Primate Behavior Laboratory, and Experimental Ethnography Working Group. Students also have opportunities to be involved with ongoing research at the Emory National Primate Research Center, the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, the Michael C. Carlos Museum and The Carter Center. For those students interested in medical anthropology, Emory is affiliated with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Rollins School of Public Health. The department sponsors the Beta chapter of the Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honors Society; graduates numerous Anthropology honors students each year; and invites all Emory students of Anthropology to participate in the Emory Anthropology Student Society, which organizes exciting events and activities that foster a strong sense of community in the Anthropology department. Please visit the Anthropology Department's website for information about courses, research opportunities, and more: http://anthropology.emory.edu/home/index.html
Concentrations
Faculty
- Chair
- Anna Grimshaw
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Robert Paul
- Core
Courses
ANT 100-Level Courses
Survey of the study of the human species: its evolution, prehistory, language, and comparative social and cultural systems.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar or Lecture series on topics of anthropological interest at an introductory level. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar or Lecture series on topics of anthropological interest at an introductory level. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar on various anthropological topics. Satisfies general education Freshman Seminar.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- FS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ANT 200-Level Courses
This course presents an introduction to evolutionary processes and biological bases of behavior. Lectures and readings will be organized around a developmental and life history perspective and will emphasize the importance of context in biological mechanisms and the interaction of social life, behavior, and cognition. Examples drawn especially from humans and nonhuman primates will be used to place human behavior in the Context of other species and to illustrate the dual inheritance of biology and culture in our species. Topics covered will include evolutionary mechanisms, adaptation, phylogenetic constraints, neural and neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavior, life history theory, developmental programs, principles of allometry, sexual selection and alternative reproductive strategies, social bonds and socialization, and the cognitive bases of social interaction in humans and nonhumans.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- NS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- NBB 201
Biological and cultural evolution and adaptation of the human species, fossil populations, human variation, and primate behavior. Methods in biological anthropology, survey of the prehistoric evolution of cultures, contemporary issues in paleoanthropology. Weekly lab in biological anthro methods.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- NS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores key concepts in cultural anthropology. Through engaging ethnographic accounts from different world areas, students will analyze anthropological debates about culture, race, religion, ritual, health, gender, sexuality, politics, and/or exchange and learn about fieldwork methods.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- SS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores key concepts in cultural anthropology. Through engaging ethnographic accounts from different world areas, students will analyze anthropological debates about culture, race, religion, ritual, health, gender, sexuality, politics, and/or exchange and learn about fieldwork methods.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GER
- SSW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to the systematic study of human language, surveying the fields of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, child language acquisition, and historical linguistics.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- SS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 201
Principles of archaeological analysis and field excavation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to the overall field of global health, its history, methods, and key principles, with case studies illustrating the burden of disease in nations with strikingly different political-economic contexts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 250
- SOC 250
Introduces students to the growing field of development studies and provides a solid foundation for subsequent course work in the Minor. Key topics include human rights, gender, environment, poverty and inequality, democratic reforms and governance, market reforms, rural development, and conflict.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The course provides an introduction to visual anthropology. It has two foci: the anthropological study of visual practices (painting, art markets, photography, the museum); and anthropological work pursued through film and photography.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Human biology from conception to senescence, in an evolutionary and cross-cultural context, emphasizing neural and neuroendocrine processes underlying behavior and reproduction. Conception, fetal development, birth, infant growth, puberty, pregnancy, adult sexuality, and aging.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- NS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 216
- CHN 216
- ARTHIST 216
Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 216W
- CHN 216W
- ARTHIST 216W
Comparative study of disease ecology and medical systems of other cultures; sociocultural factors affecting contemporary world health problems; cultural aspects of ethnomedicine and biomedicine; ethnicity and health care.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Comparative study of disease ecology and medical systems of other cultures; sociocultural factors affecting contemporary world health problems; cultural aspects of ethnomedicine and biomedicine; ethnicity and health care.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- SSW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course introduces the evidence base for the science of health and emphasizes STEM educational translations to the population, clinic and individual levels. Innovative efforts are needed to drive changes in health care from a reactive, disease-focused system to a proactive health-focused one.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 210
Study of language in context, focusing on relations between language and culture, thought, social identity, and political process.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 240
Study of language in context, focusing on relations between language and culture, thought, social identity, and political process.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 240W
Course surveys cultural diversity in the contemporary world through current ethnographies from different world areas.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Course surveys cultural diversity in the contemporary world through current ethnographies from different world areas.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Debates and issues of the contemporary industrial food system and emerging alternatives; experiential learning in farmers markets, cooking, and local farm; independent research and ethical alternatives for a more sustainable food system.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Introduction to Jewish populations and cultures within the framework of four fields of general anthropology: biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 258
This course introduces students to the cross-cultural study of gender and sexuality, providing anthropological perspectives on femininity, masculinity, heteronormativity, gender variance, same sex relations, and various theories and methods that are relevant to the study of these phenomena.Students who have taken ANT_OX 265 may not repeat this course for credit.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 265
The aim of this course is to show how anthropologists (biological, cultural, and archaeologists) structure their research hypotheses, organize their data, select and run statistics, and describe their written results and discussions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Anthropological perspectives on the people and cultures on different regions of the world. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. HSC, may be repeated when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 280R
Seminar or lecture series on topics of anthropological interest at an intermediate level. Maybe repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar or lecture series on topics of anthropological interest at an intermediate level. Maybe repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ANT 300-Level Courses
This course surveys the social behavior, behavioral ecology, and adaptations of nonhuman primate species, the extant prosimians, monkeys, and apes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course will examine the origins of modern humans, their unique cultural abilities, and their relationships to more archaic beings, such as Neanderthals. What makes us human and how we evolved will be explored.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This class surveys issues, methods and theory in Paleolithic Archaeology. Rather than providing a detailed review of prehistory, it examines key debates and the methods used to address them. Special attention is given to stone tool analysis, including substantial practical work. work.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- SNTW
- Requisites
- ANT 201 or ANTH_OX 201 or ANT 204 or ANTH_OX 204 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Upper-level intro to basis of complex human behavior in the brain, focused on human brain structure and function. The overall goal is to master the anatomy underlying higher human capacities, acknowledging how our brain's evolutionary past can inform our understanding of how the brain works now.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Comparative study of primate mating strategies and sexual behavior.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Comparative study of primate mating strategies and sexual behavior.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- SNTW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This class aims to integrate data and theory from genetics, geology, and paleoanthropological evidence to trace the evolution of the human species. Opposing theories regarding the interpretation of data will be the focus of student evaluation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This class aims to integrate data and theory from genetics, geology, and paleoanthropological evidence to trace the evolution of the human species. Opposing theories regarding the interpretation of data will be the focus of student evaluation.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- SNTW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Prerequisite: Anthropology 201 or Biology 142. Application of evolutionary theory to social behavior of a variety of animals, including humans.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Prerequisite: Anthropology 101, 201, or 302. Relationship between ecology and individual and social behavior, dominance relations, intelligence, and communication. Topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course examines human as well as non-human primate communication systems from an evolutionary perspective. Topics covered include signal structure and function, information content of signals, honesty, deceit, and the evolution of language in humans.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Introduction to the evolution, diversity, and social significance of human diet and nutrition.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 311
This course focuses on theory and method for understanding variation in prehistoric skeletal populations. Determination of age and sexual activity, disease and demography will be undertaken.
- Credit Hours
- 6
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The social construction of race relies on differences that lack biological significance. The social and biological cast of racism from the continued entrenched concept of race in America is considered.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The course focuses on the key methods adopted in the study of ancient DNA, such as next generation sequencing and population genetics, as well as a thematic approach to the major evolutionary questions. Topics include human migrations, archaic humans, domestication, and ancient pathogens.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- BIOL 315
This course is concerned with evaluating neuroscientific, psychological and behavioral evidence of modern human cognitive specializations as well as archeological, paleontological, and comparative evidence of their evolutionary origins.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Neurobiological substrates supporting human social cognition and behavior. Review and synthesis of relevant research in neuropsychology, psychiatry, neuroimaging, and experimental animal research.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- NBB 317
This is a research seminar exploring the intersection of genomics, the environment, and lifestyle/behavior as it pertains to human health from a developmental perspective with the aim of understanding human health over the lifespan.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 312
This course will describe and explain variation in male parental care across species, across cultures and across individuals within a culture. Emphasis will be placed on hormonal and neurobiological foundations of paternal care, evolutionary theory, ethnography and developmental psychology. .
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- NBB 319
Cross-cultural study of gender and women's lives in diverse cultures, including the United States; comparative study of work, child-rearing, power, politics, religion, and prestige.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 340
Cross-cultural examination of how language reflects, maintains, and constructs gender identities. Topics include differences in male/female speech, the grammatical encoding of gender and childhood language socialization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 333
- LING 333
Cross-cultural ethnographic study of women's religious lives, including ritual and leadership roles, forms and contexts of religious expression, and negotiations between dominant cultural representations and women's self-representations.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 328
- WGS 328
Cross-cultural ethnographic study of women's religious lives, including ritual and leadership roles, forms and contexts of religious expression, and negotiations between dominant cultural representations and women's self-representations.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 328W
- WGS 328W
This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of food insecurity. To do so, we study what food insecurity is, how it is defined and measured, how it is experienced and managed by people in different settings, what causes it, and what its consequences are for human well-being.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Focuses on cultural approaches to mental health and illness.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The course will take a contemporary view on how population genetics has changed our understating of the biological explanation of race.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSCE
- Requisites
- Juniors or Seniors only or permission of instructor required for enrollment.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Biological and cultural adaptations to disease, the role of specific diseases in evolution, social epidemiological patterns related to culture, contemporary issues in disease control, and economic development. Diseases covered include malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, diabetes, and depression.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Biological and cultural adaptations to disease, the role of specific diseases in evolution, social epidemiological patterns related to culture, contemporary issues in disease control, and economic development. Considers a variety of diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, and malnutrition.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Disease emerges as humans disrupt their environment, exposing them to novel pathogens. Students will examine this pattern from the Paleolithic to the present pattern of globalization of antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Disease emerges as humans disrupt their environment, exposing them to novel pathogens. Students will examine this pattern from the Paleolithic to the present pattern of globalization of antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- SNTW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This class explores issues such as what makes for a healthy self or person, the role of religious practices and belief in healing, and the relationship of body and mind.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 337
This course surveys the global landscape of challenges to physical and mental health that confront us today, and traces the emergence of biosocial approaches to both explaining and tackling these challenges.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course surveys the global landscape of challenges to physical and mental health that confront us today, and traces the emergence of biosocial approaches to both explaining and tackling these challenges.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
How paradigms of health-focused beliefs and systems develop, are maintained, and change reflect history, society, and technology. We interrogate the scientific basis for present biomedical concepts that have co-opted concepts of the human body's health and well-being.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 310
This course studies relations between language and society, relations between language and sociocultural context. Topics may include: language variation; multilingualism; verbal interaction; discourse analysis; ethnography of communication; sociolinguistics of Spanish.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 340
This course studies relations between language and society, relations between language and sociocultural context. Topics may include: language variation; multilingualism; verbal interaction; discourse analysis; ethnography of communication; sociolinguistics of Spanish.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 340W
In-depth study of the relationship between language and culture by examining anthropological approaches to the study of language. You will learn how language both reflects and creates thought, culture and power relationships. You will also learn basic ethnographic methodology through a research project.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 341
Explores the sociocultural dynamics of media institutions and the everyday use of different media in diverse societies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Explores the sociocultural dynamics of media institutions and the everyday use of different media in diverse societies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The course offers an introduction to ethnographic cinema. It focuses on classic and contemporary films. Students explore issues concerning the nature of evidence, salvage anthropology, the politics of representation, concepts of participation and collaboration, aesthetics and ethnography.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- FILM 343
Using insights from cultural anthropology, Black cultural studies, & geography, this course critically explores "Black geographies" to theorize the ways race and space are mutually constituted in our modern world. Students will analyze intersections of race, space, and place in contemporary Atlanta.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSCE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 344
This interdisciplinary course surveys research in psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and religious studies to investigate the role of compassion and empathy in human health and how practices for cultivating compassion are secularized and implemented in schools, prisons, and other settings.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 348
Human health is intrinsically linked to dietary practices. The pharmacological properties of foods will be examined and case studies of dietary complexes will be examined in order to better understand the food-medicine continuum as a determinant of health and well-being.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 340
- BIOL 344
Anthropological perspectives on social change and economic development in the Third World today. Population growth, agricultural development, political instability, colonialism, imperialism, and urban problems in cultural context.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Anthropological perspectives on social change and economic development in the Third World today. Population growth, agricultural development, political instability, colonialism, imperialism, and urban problems in cultural context.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores the changing shape of the global economy and its relationships.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores the changing shape of the global economy and its relationships.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a selected overview of the history, debates, and major topical issues in anthropological studies of culture and economy. It will show how anthropologists study the economic bases of social and cultural life in both agrarian and urban societies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An exploration of the archaeological evidence for economic patterns in the ancient Mediterranean world, including the emergence of complex, hierarchized centers, long distance networks, maritime trade and predation, coinage, and slavery. Case studies range from Mesopotamia to the Roman world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 355
Survey of the significance and functions of ritual in human life. Ethnographic accounts of sacred ritual followed by more theoretical readings dealing with the structure and function of human ritual, viewed as a special and primitive form of communication.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Close reading of selected plays of Shakespeare in which ritual and other performance genres become central issues and problems. Readings in performance theory parallel reading of the plays.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Examination of the history of cooperative efforts between classics and anthropology, and focuses on ongoing efforts in studies of ritual and religion, kinship studies, and archaeological theory.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 368
Examination of the history of cooperative efforts between classics and anthropology, and focuses on ongoing efforts in studies of ritual and religion, kinship studies, and archaeological theory.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 368W
The course provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the universal human experience of death. It covers themes such as the process of death (biological and cultural), the human cadaver, grief and mourning, ritual responses, mass death, suicide, ethical issues, etc.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The course provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the universal human experience of death. It covers themes such as the process of death (biological and cultural), the human cadaver, grief and mourning, ritual responses, mass death, suicide, ethical issues, etc.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores fieldwork-based case studies as a central practice in anthropology. Students learn to critically engage ethnographic texts (visual and textual), attending to content, approach and style. They will develop writing skills through exercises that combine description with analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores fieldwork-based case studies as a central practice in anthropology. Students learn to critically engage ethnographic texts (visual and textual), attending to content, approach and style. They will develop writing skills through exercises that combine description with analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Intersections between anthropology and art, design, performance, and creative narration are explored in this course as we deploy a variety of ethnographic methods for documenting the human condition in multimodal, multisensorial, and performance-based formats.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Intersections between anthropology and art, design, performance, and creative narration are explored in this course as we deploy a variety of ethnographic methods for documenting the human condition in multimodal, multisensorial, and performance-based formats.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Studies music and dance of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and how they reflect languages, social structures, philosophies, and the geography and history of each region. Examines changing historical and social dynamics and cultural traditions. Introduces ethnomusicology theory and research methods.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAPE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 376
Studies music and dance of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and how they reflect languages, social structures, philosophies, and the geography and history of each region. Examines changing historical and social dynamics and cultural traditions. Introduces ethnomusicology theory and research methods.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HPWE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 376W
This course introduces students to ethnographic fieldwork methods and explores through both case study analysis and class-based ethnodrama processes how applied theater and performance (theater, dance, and spoken word) can be used to present anthropological insights and ethnographic material.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- THEA 377
This course introduces students to ethnographic fieldwork methods and explores through both case study analysis and class-based ethnodrama processes how applied theater and performance (theater, dance, and spoken word) can be used to present anthropological insights and ethnographic material.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XAW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- THEA 377W
The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSCE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 378
- AFS 378
- LACS 378
The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSWE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 378W
- AFS 378W
- LACS 378W
How have anthropologists approached the study of Muslim cultures and politics and what have we learned from their scholarship about ritual and religion, gender and subjectivity, law and social justice, and the politics and poetics of "writing culture"?
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course reviews the local human and biological impact of conservation programs that affect primate communities in five areas of the world. Students discuss: methods, primate/plant interactions, forest fragmentation, historical perspectives on conservation and land use, agroforestry, ecotourism, and reintroductions. Students will become more aware of how conservation issues affect behavior and ecology of primates in nature.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course reviews the local human and biological impact of conservation programs that affect primate communities in five areas of the world. Students discuss: methods, primate/plant interactions, forest fragmentation, historical perspectives on conservation and land use, agroforestry, ecotourism, and reintroductions. Students will become more aware of how conservation issues affect behavior and ecology of primates in nature.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Uses an ecological perspective to address the basic question of why and how humans evolved. Discussions include scrutinizing both biotic and abiotic factors that may have influenced the evolution of early hominids in East Africa.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course focuses on the biological and ecological processes that have influenced primate anatomy, behavior, distribution, evolution, and extinction, as evidenced in the fossil record.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
(May be repeated for credit when topic varies.) Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Includes courses taken abroad that can count towards Anthropology credit at Emory. For detailed instructions on receiving approval, visit OISP's website at http://college.emory.edu/oisp/programs/
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Includes courses taken abroad that can count towards Anthropology credit at Emory. For detailed instructions on receiving approval, visit OISP's website at http://college.emory.edu/oisp/programs/
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course examines the social and cultural-political dimensions of law, discipline, and disorder in a wide variety of human societies, providing cross-cultural perspectives on how people manage conflict, construe justice, and organize and experience power, discipline, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course examines the social and cultural-political dimensions of law, discipline, and disorder in a wide variety of human societies, providing cross-cultural perspectives on how people manage conflict, construe justice, and organize and experience power, discipline, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Consultation with faculty prior to registration required.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ANT 400-Level Courses
Topical seminar for advanced students in biological anthropology.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- ANT 201 or ANTH_OX 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topical seminar for advanced students in cultural anthropology..
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. Theoretical and methodological problems in biocultural anthropology. The study of how to design and execute studies that attend to both the biological and cultural dimensions of anthropology.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
A new science of health is emerging. The evolutionary background for generic processes will be discussed and the challenges posed by modern lifestyles will be the focus of this class.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- ANT 231 or HLTH 210 and BIOL 141 and BIOL 142 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 411
Mankind has long recognized that plants are extremely useful as source of medicine. Medical traditions based on botanical sources are found in all human cultures and date back to prehistory. In this course both ancient and modern day botanical traditions across many cultures will be examined.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 440
- BIOL 442
Design of research strategies for the study of human cultures. Data collection techniques including participant observation, interviewing, genealogies, hypothesis testing, and the qualitative and quantitative analysis of data.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Covers the evolutionary and anatomical foundations of psychological, especially social and emotional, development, as well as comparative socialization and cross-cultural varieties of enculturation. Among the topics covered will be relevant parts of: life history theory and cultural evolution.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Covers the evolutionary and anatomical foundations of psychological, especially social and emotional, development, as well as comparative socialization and cross-cultural varieties of enculturation. Among the topics covered will be relevant parts of: life history theory and cultural evolution.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This seminar focuses on the past, present, and future of primate studies. In this course, students will delve into historical perspective, consider theoretical advances, examine methodological approaches, and critically assess the future trajectories of research in primate behavior and cognition.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- ANT 302 or PSYC 320 or BIOL 320 or PSYC 325 or BIOL 325 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This seminar focuses on the past, present, and future of primate studies. In this course, students will delve into historical perspective, consider theoretical advances, examine methodological approaches, and critically assess the future trajectories of research in primate behavior and cognition.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- ANT 302 or PSYC 320 or BIOL 320 or PSYC 325 or BIOL 325 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar or lecture series on topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar or lecture series on topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Departmental invitation to Honors Program necessary before registration.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Departmental invitation to Honors Program necessary before registration.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GER
- XAW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Consultation with faculty prior to registration required.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course culminates the minor in Development Studies, with common readings and class meetings and a final presentation of completed projects to the Faculty Capstone Committee. The steering committee will approve service learning opportunities, internships, and research projects.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ANT 499 is an integrative experience intended to deepen students' understanding of the field of Anthropology. It will include reflections on the field, practice, and ethics of anthropology as well as on diverse approaches to doing, writing, and representing anthropological research.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- ANT 202 or ANTH_OX 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
ANT 499 is an integrative experience intended to deepen students' understanding of the field of Anthropology. It will include reflections on the field, practice, and ethics of anthropology as well as on diverse approaches to doing, writing, and representing anthropological research.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 4
- GER
- CW
- Requisites
- ANT 202 or ANTH_OX 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None