Sep 20, 2024
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2024-25
ANTH 5595 - Hunting & Gathering Societies
This course explores non-industrial societies across the globe, investigating how humans interact with the environment, respond to climate change, cope with variations in resources, and manage social and political conflicts. Utilizing both the ethnographic and archaeological records, students investigate societies from the Arctic to tropical forests. The course also examines models and techniques used to analyze variation in human behavior, focusing on hunter-gatherer foraging choices, demography, division of labor, sharing, and social inequity.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to analyze the relationships between human behavior and the environment across various global contexts.
- Students will be able to apply anthropological theories to hunter-gatherer societies and critically discuss their relevance to contemporary issues, including diet, health, violence, and social structure.
- Students will be able to critically discuss human diversity and adaptation in relation to hunter-gatherer societies by synthesizing information from multiple subfields of anthropology (archaeology, cultural anthropology, and physical anthropology).
- Students will be able to discuss and evaluate the origins of agriculture and complex societies in relation to the lifeways of hunter-gatherers.
- Students will be able to effectively communicate ideas in both written and oral formats in relation to hunting and gathering societies.
- Students will be able to critically analyze, critique, and compare humanistic and scientific approaches to the study of hunting and gathering societies.
- Students will be able to identify and critically discuss their own cultural rules and biases in relation to hunter-gatherer societies.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of elements important to hunter-gatherer cultures, including history, foraging choices, sharing, division of labor, social inequity, communication, & other practices.
- Students will be able to identify and analyze cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication of hunter-gatherer societies and negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
- Students will be able to interpret intercultural experiences within hunter-gatherer societies and respond empathetically towards other cultural groups, suspending judgment and valuing diverse perspectives.
- Students will be able to synthesize anthropological theories and research methods to comparatively analyze hunter-gatherer societies and critically discuss the complexity of human-environment interactions.
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