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ANTH 238 - Anthropology of American History


(HIST 238)FDR: SS4 as anthropology only; GE6d as anthropology only.
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years

This course explores issues within historic American communities that ethnographers often investigate among living groups, including cultural values, religious ideologies, class structures, kinship networks, gender roles, and interethnic relations. Although the communities of interest in this course ceased to exist generations ago, many of their characteristic dynamics are accessible through such means as archaeology, architectural history, and the study of documents. Case studies include early English settlement in Plymouth, Massachusetts; the 18th-century plantation world of Virginia and South Carolina; the post-Revolutionary Maine frontier; and 19thcentury California.Bell.





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