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Humanity - An Outsider’s View (ANTH 18)
This course offers an overview of Homo sapiens, the human race. By using the perspective of an imaginary, “outside” observer, this course will survey humanity’s universal biological and cultural traits: the common practices, behaviors, and beliefs that define our species; and the sources of diversity across our species. Along the way, we will draw upon materials from both modern and ancient populations and address the following topics: food, diet, and related physiology; architecture and shelter; art, literature, and music; bodily adornments including jewelry, painting, tattooing, piercing, and other modifications of the human body; universals in religion, cosmology, and philosophy; prenatal and childbirth practices across humanity; the history and nature of human language and writing systems; as well as politics and warfare among humans (and their nearest relatives, the great apes).
Matthew Jobin
Lecturer in Anthropology
Matthew Jobin received a PhD in anthropological
sciences from Stanford. His work integrates computational
and laboratory methods in order to provide
statistical pictures of human prehistory. His most recent
research has been focused on novel approaches for
investigating the parameters of prehistoric human life,
including the comparison of various models of ancient
human migration and the estimation of the size of prehistoric
populations.
Timothy King
Anthropologist; Archaeologist; Epigrapher
Timothy King received a PhD from the Department of
Anthropology at Stanford. His regional focus is ancient
Mesoamerica, in particular the ancient and modern Maya
and the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacán in central
Mexico. His recent work has included the decipherment
of the newly discovered writing system at Teotihuacán
and the constellation and astronomical systems of the
ancient Maya. He recently worked in Estonia, developing
the first formal anthropology program in the Baltic.
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Course Details
Thursdays
7:00 - 8:50 pm
5 weeks
Jun 26 - Jul 24
1 unit $200
Drop by: Jul 9
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