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Anthropology in the Course Catalog

人类学的课程包括两个重叠而又截然不同的“轨道”:(i)文化与社会人类学和(ii)生物人类学, archaeology, and material culture studies.

文化与社会人类学探讨人类行为者创造的社会秩序和意义. Although in the past, 文化和社会人类学家通常在海外进行研究, 今天，文化和社会人类学家也在他们自己的社会中工作, 我们的课程设置反映了这种全球性和包容性的方法. In addition, 文化和社会人类学的课程反映了该学科长期以来的实践，即将人们如何通过跨文化比较来理解自己的经历的研究结合在一起.

文化和社会人类学的课程从许多理论角度考察了广泛的问题. 我们的课程考察不同文化传统和经济形式的社会, as well as the movements of people, objects, and ideas among them. We examine such topics as race and ethnicity, medicine, science, gender, sexuality, the environment, religion, law, popular culture, and politics. 我们追求跨越历史和地理的比较.

The second curricular track—in biological anthropology, archaeology, 物质文化(BAM)——关注人类身体和文化的进化, modern human diversity, 以及历史和当代族群的物质文化. BAM的课程包括古典文学和环境研究，以及人类学. In conjunction with these courses, 学生获得的实践经验，与化石原始人骨骼铸件和文物从各种史前和现代文化的藏品Jean M. Pitzer Archaeology Laboratory.

人类学的两个方向(文化与社会人类学和BAM)都在推荐十大正规网赌网站和斯克里普斯学院的人类学联合本科课程中提供.

Pitzer Advisers: E. Chao, S. Miller, C. Strauss

Faculty of the Pitzer Anthropology Field Group

Emily Chao (Pitzer)
909.607.2728
Professor of Anthropology, 1996
B.A., University of California; M.A., New School for Social Research; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Specialization: 中国，文化人类学，仪式，性别，历史，民族话语.

Sheryl Miller (Pitzer)
909.607.3152
人类学教授兼考古与生物人类学特聘教授, 1969
B.A., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Specialization: African archaeology; world prehistory; human evolution; African and Native American ethnography; cultural ecology; ethnic arts

Claudia Strauss (Pitzer)
909.607.3063
Professor of Anthropology, 2000
A.B., Brown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Specialization: U.S. political culture; psychological anthropology; language, culture and society

Anthropologists in the Claremont Colleges

Emily Chao (Pitzer)
Lara Deeb (Scripps)
Marianne De Laet (Harvey Mudd)
Dru Gladney (Pomona)
Sheryl Miller (Pitzer)
Gabriela Morales (Scripps)
Joanne Nucho (Pomona)
Seo Young Park (Scripps)
Claudia Strauss (Pitzer)

Student Learning Outcomes

Goals of the Sociocultural Track

修完人类学专业文化社会课程的学生应该:

  1. Be able to recognize and critically engage popular versions of anthropological theories in such non-academic forms as informal conversation and mass-mediated entertainment; and furthermore, 当这些流行的人类学理论是社会进化论和/或种族主义的版本时, or are ethnocentric, 能够识别他们的谬误和有害的后果;
  2. Be able, when reading an anthropological article or book, 认识并批判性地讨论本书与学科人类学中主要范式传统的关系.g., functionalism, structuralism, and semiotic theory);
  3. Question the universality of meanings and practices; be able to identify contingent social orders through comparisons across time and geography and be able to distinguish human phenomena that are, to various degrees, invariant from those that are not;
  4. 能够相对化——或者怀疑在他们自己的生活中被视为理所当然的概念的绝对性(尤其是“性别”),” “race,以及在他们自己的社会世界中被视为理所当然的制度和领域(如“家庭”和“经济”)。.
  5. 能够分析经济学之间的联系, politics, kinship and family, the psyche, 以及表现形式和艺术形式——这些领域通常被社会科学区分开来.
  6. 能够识别(在特定情况下)文化类别如何促进和再现权力和不平等的关系.
  7. 能够在本科阶段规划和开展人种学实地研究项目.

人类进化、史前和物质文化研究轨道(HEPtrack)的目标

HEP专业的教育目标包括:

  1. 对人类进化史的理解，包括生物因素和文化因素;
  2. 认识到当代人类身体多样性的生物学事实，以及“种族”概念作为标记500年历史差异的手段所附带的社会政治影响, particularly in what is now the U.S.;
  3. A recognition of diversity in cultural systems, 物质文化在文化协商中的作用及其社会行动者的代理行为;
  4. An ability to analyze problems, to formulate and test hypotheses, to seek evidence and interpret data rationally, 认识到自己的偏见以及他人的偏见;
  5. An ability to conduct original research.

Goals of both tracks

所有完成人类学专业的学生应该:

  1. Comprehend and critically analyze scholarly works; demonstrate a capacity to distinguish the author’s point of view from the views the author criticizes, responds to, and builds upon;
  2. 写有说服力的，清晰的研究论文和简短的人类学论文.