• ANTH 3450: Shamanism and Indigenous Religion

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the religious systems of indigenous peoples, particularly those which have been called shamanic. Focuses on the classical study of shamanism and the literature on indigenous shamanism. Locates the study of shamanism within a social context that includes social relational and political economic contexts of the groups within which shamanism is found. Poses questions of how shamanism is different from the expanding world religions and compares and contrasts shamanism with non-shamanic indigenous religions. Analyzes at the current marketing of shamanism in New Age contexts.
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• ANTH 3460: Anthropology of Mormonism

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing.. Explores how an anthropological approach can enable a more in-depth comprehension of Mormonism as a religious tradition and cultural phenomena.
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• ANTH 3480: Global Christianity

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the key issues that have arisen in the literature that explores Christianity from an anthropological perspective. Examines the development of Christianity from its historical origins to its current status as a "world religion." Discusses how Christianity becomes relevant to different cultural contexts in the modern world. Analyzes Pentecostal, Evangelical Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, and Catholic forms of Christianity.
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• ANTH 3500: Discourse Semiotics and Representation

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores classical theoretical positions on representation, meaning, discourse, and poetics. Examines performance of culture and the implications of performance theory for scientific epistemology and methodology. Surveys recent work by anthropologists who grapple with these theoretical concerns in empirical research in a range of global settings.
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• ANTH 3550: Memory and History

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Studies how societies remember and represent their past and present in various contexts. Examines how societies employ different senses of temporality in these processes. Explores the relationships with historiography and ethnohistory and how anthropologists and historians have dealt with these issues.
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• ANTH 3560: Peace Violence and Human Morality

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the cultural patterning of violence and nonviolence. Draws on theories of human values and ethics to understand how people morally justify different types of violent action, such as riots, genocide, warfare, and ritual violence. Explores cultural processes of pacifism, self-sacrifice, and reconciliation.
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• ANTH 3660: Globalized Society

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the development and reactions to globalization. Traces the formation of community of nation-states and multilateral agencies called "global society." Explores the implications of global society for peoples far removed from this sphere of social organization. Provides an understanding of the world in which nation-states and their citizens are enmeshed.
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• ANTH 3700: Culture Psychology and Mental Health

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores interrelationships of individual personality to elements of Western and non-Western sociocultural systems. Examines relations of sociocultural contexts to self, motives, values, personal adjustment, stress and pathology using case histories and ethnography. Discusses the idea of self and personality, normality and deviance, and mental health and mental illness across social and cultural boundaries.
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• ANTH 3720: Applied Anthropology

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101G, ENGL 2010, and University Advanced Standing. Surveys the ethics and methods used by applied anthropologists. Surveys a range of areas where applied work is performed, including development anthropology, anthropology and health, industrial anthropology, anthropology and marketing, etc. Also explores the political, social, and theoretical implications of applied work.
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• ANTH 3750: Bioarchaeology

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): [(ANTH 1020 or BIOL 1500) and (ENGL 2010 with a minimum C+ grade) or Instructor approval] and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on the biological and contextual study of human remains recovered from archaeological sites. Presents an updated synthesis of bio-archaeological science dealing with the study of the human skeleton to reconstruct patterns of biological stress, infectious disease, lifestyle and physical activity, diet, violent death, and genetic relationships in the past. Temporal coverage principally falls on the last 10,000 years of history, and the spatial scope is global. Involves the dynamic nature of skeletal tissues and the influences of environment and culture on human variation. Acquired skills will be of value to any students interested in skeletal studies including archaeology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic science, vertebrate biology, biomedical sciences, and behavioral science.
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