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ANTH 3050

Ethnographic Research Methods
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Credit Hours:
3

Provides the basic foundations for conducting ethnographic fieldwork. Students will explore the unique strengths and utility of an ethnographic approach; learn how to conduct ethnographic techniques through hands-on, experiential learning activities; and apply these skills to a research project of their choice. These projects will be closely mentored by the faculty member.

Semester Offered:
Spring
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Guest Speaker, Dr. Bondarenko

Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Ph.D., Dr. Habil is a Professor in Ethnology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor in Global Problems and International Relations, Vice-Director for Research Institute for African Studies and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Director of the International Center of Anthropology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, and Full Professor in Ethnology, Russian State University for the Humanities. Dr.

Anthropology Guest Speaker

Hsain Ilahiane is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. He is author of Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis (2004); Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen) (2017); and of The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco: Cultural and Economic Transformations (2022). 

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Anthropology Fall 2022 Photo Contest

students and faculty gathered at gallery show

This Fall, the Department of Anthropology hosted a Photo Contest for Anthropology Undergraduate Students and Graduate Students. Participants submitted their photos at the beginning of this semester, and their entries were displayed in a Gallery Show Event at the Anthropology Main Office in the first week of September. Students and Faculty spent the following week viewing the galleries and voting for their favorite photos. 

ANTH 4265/6265

Bioarchaeology
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Credit Hours:
3

Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains in archaeological contexts. The skeleton is a dynamic structure that responds to stressors in the natural and built environments, offering insights on health, human-environment interactions, and social processes in the past. This course covers basics in bioarchaeology and paleopathology from a biocultural perspective.

When this course is taught as a split level, additional requirements for graduate students: Graduate students will explore bioarchaeological topics and methods in greater depth through writing. Students taking the course for graduate study will have a choice of the following, depending on their interests and progress in the graduate program: 1) complete a comprehensive literature review on a method (or suite of methods) and/or bioarchaeological research and biocultural context of human health and diversity in a region, 2) conduct novel research pertinent to their thesis research and produce a publishable-quality paper, or 3) prepare a grant proposal for bioarchaeological research in the format of a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant proposal.

Semester Offered:
Spring

ANTH 4100/6100

Evolution and Human Behavior
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Credit Hours:
3

Exploration of different theoretical approaches to the evolutionary study of human behavior, from Darwin through the development of ethology, sociobiology, human behavioral ecology, dual inheritance theory, and behavioral economics. Examination of topics such as influence of genes versus culture on behavior, cooperation, subsistence decisions, mate choice, reproductive and parenting choices.

When this course is taught as a split level, additional requirements for graduate students: This course will build graduate students' skills for crafting publishable written argument, and increase their knowledge of published arguments within the evolutionary anthropology literature. Commensurate with these goals, each graduate student will be assigned a major theme from the course around which to (a) gather supplemental published research, including theoretical contributions and case studies, (b) summarize this research in an annotated bibliography, (c) present a brief oral summary of this literature to the class on the day the theme is addressed, thus providing the undergraduates with a better sense of the breadth of the topic, and (d) write a term paper exploring the topic or some aspect of it in greater depth. Finally, graduate students will take different exams, commensurate with their greater knowledge and ability to express complex ideas in writing.

Semester Offered:
Spring

"Radiocarbon Dating Early Trade and World System Expansion in Iroquoian Southern Ontario, Canada, AD 1550-1650" -- Dissertation Defense by Megan Conger

Please join the Department of Anthropology in congratulating Megan Anne Conger on her upcoming Dissertation Defense on November 7th at 11:00am. Megan will be defending her Dissertation entitled: "Radiocarbon Dating Early Trade and World System Expansion in Iroquoian Southern Ontario, Canada, AD 1550-1650".  Way to go Megan !

Indigenous American Research from Dr. Victor Thompson, Dr. Jennifer Birch, Alumni, and Emeritus Faculty featured in ScienceNews

Indigenous council houses in many parts of what’s now the southeastern United States, such as this reconstructed example from the late 1600s in Tallahassee, Fla., hosted public meetings and ceremonies.

The article from ScienceNews discusses the Indigenous history behind Georgia’s Lake Oconee, and their “rule by the people long before the U.S Constitution was written.” Indigenous American research from members of UGA’s Department of Anthropolog

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