Prerequisites: ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H, upper-division standing; or consent of instructor
Description: Provides an overview of Andean society, past and present. Examines the colonial matrix in which Iberian and Andean social, political, and cultural forms came together. Uses ethnogra- phies, indigenous narratives, and film about contem- porary Andean society to address issues of class, eth- nicity, gender, and the politics of representation. Anthropology ANTH 140-O. An Anthropology of Mexicans of the Southwest United States (4) Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Familiarizes stu- dents with the content and process of “U.S. Mexican Cultures.” Stresses the manner in which Mexican populations have long survived the stresses and strains of transmigration, cultural “bumping,” human adaptation, and creating viable cultural systems of survival and expression largely within the U.S. Southwest.