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COURSE SYLLABUS

ANT 215 Indians of North America

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8. COURSE OUTLINE
 

TOPICS:

  A. Anthropological point of view; What is Culture?  Overview of course.
  B.

Sociopolitical organization.

  C.

The first Americans; Beringian passage.  Clovis and Folsom.

  D.

Formative:  Transition to settled life.

  E.

Civilization:

 

 

1.

Classic and Postclassic

 

 

2.

Mesoamerica

 

 

3.

Civilizations of the Southwest; Mogollon, Hohokam, and Anasazi

  F.

Geography and culture.  Adaptation and cultural ecology.

  G.

Culture area concept.

  H.

The Arctic and Subarctic, Koyukon, Athabaskan.

  I.

Northwest culture area.

 

 

1.

Tlingit

 

 

2.

Kwakiutl.

  J.

Great Plains, Cheyenne culture and Sioux Nation.

  K.

Southwest and Pueblo Indians, Navajo culture, and Apache Indians.

  L.

Great Basin and Ute Indians.

  M.

Northeast and Iroquois.

  N.

Indian religion; shamanism; use of stimulants.