ANT 410 - Japan: Archaeology, Environmental History and Multicultural Perspectives

This course will focus on understanding select aspects of ethnicity and the cultural character of Japan. A multi-disciplinary approach will examine archaeology, cultural anthropology, environmental history and modern and postmodern historical research and writings. The archaeological investigations will focus on ethnicity and long-term adaptations of the Japanese and Ainu people. The cultural anthropology component will examine Japanese cultural identity and rice agriculture. Further, it will examine social inequity within Japan. A case study focused on wolves revealed a complex environmental history and offers a perspective on human-animal relations in a deteriorating global biosystem. A multicultural perspective on the recent past examines the changing dimensions of national identity from an internal and external perspective.

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Credits: 3

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Course Type: Anthropology