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ANTH 500 - Seminar: Anthropological Theory

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: ANTH 508
This course is as survey of the foundations of cultural and archaeological theory, including cultural evolutionism, structuralism, American historical-particularism, British functionalism and structural-functionalism, French structuralism and current directions in American, European and Third World anthropological thought. Theories of archaeology will also be examined, including traditional evolutionary perspectives, the New Archaeology and contemporary critiques, drawing upon social systems analysis. Offered spring semester.