ANTH 551Strategies for Arch Research

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Introduces graduate students to the major theoretical frameworks shaping contemporary archaeology. Emphasizes current issues and debates in the discipline rather than providing a historical overview. First part is devoted to laying a brief historical groundwork of major trends in archaeological discourse. Following this introduction, students intensively survey current theoretical positions having major impact on the practice of archaeology. All anthropology graduate students in archaeology are expected to take this course, as it provides basic knowledge required for further graduate coursework in archaeology. Also an excellent course for fulfilling the sub-discipline requirements for anthropology graduate students in socio/cultural, physical and linguistic anthropology because it considers explicitly the linkages between the practice of archaeology and the philosophical goals of anthropology in general.