ANTH 1560 - POLITICS IN PREHISTORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers some of the ways that anthropological archaeologists have thought about and investigated power, politics, competition and prestige in the human past. It is designed as an upper-level writing-intensive seminar (W-course) that is especially appropriate for Anthropology majors. Central themes include equality and inequality in the deep past; the origins of unequal power relationships and early "complex societies"; political negotiations between men and women, rulers and subjects, colonizers and colonized, and different factions; and the role of legitimacy, religion, wealth, and coercion. We will also touch briefly on the relevance of archaeology to the Western tradition of political thought, and the contemporary politics of archaeology.Course readings include a variety of ethnographic and archaeological case studies as well as programmatic writing in archaeology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212 or 0213 or 0214) or FP (0003 or 0006) *Applies to all WRIT Courses*

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