Although relatively few hunter-gatherers exist today, hunting and gathering was the sole lifeway worldwide for the vast majority of human history. This course will consider hunter-gatherer groups from an anthropological and archaeological perspective. Topics to be covered include portrayals of hunter-gatherers, the validity of hunter-gatherer as an anthropological category, variation in foraging strategies, cosmology, architecture, gender, and band-level political organization.
Prerequisite: Any 1000-level Anthropology course or permission of the instructor. Students who receive credit for ANTH 4307 cannot receive credit for ANTH 4025. |
