http://ocw.nd.edu Anthropology as a field of inquiry is both basic and comprehensive. It is basic in addressing itself to fundamental questions of human distinctiveness, survival and change. It is comprehensive in its embrace of the full diversity of peoples and cultures, as well as attending to the constraints and aspirations that distinguish them: the social, ecological, political, religious, artistic, economic and technical dimensions of the vast human project which appears wherever Homo Sapiens is found, both in the past and in the present. daily 1 2008-01-25T05:25:48Z http://ocw.nd.edu/anthropology/shango-dance-staff Shango Dance Staff of a Standing Mother Carrying a Child. c. 1900. Igbomina or Erin Yoruba People, Nigeria. Property of the University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art. Acquired with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Lehman, Marilynn B. Alsdorf and annonymous benefactors. Igbomina Yoruba Erin Yoruba Anthropology Dr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Lehman Marilynn B. Alsdorf University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art 2009-10-14T15:58:08Z Image image/gif http://ocw.nd.edu/anthropology/creole-language-and-culture CHP for ANTH 30012 - Creole Language and Culture administrator 2008-06-25T19:11:29Z Course text/html http://ocw.nd.edu/anthropology/islamic-societies-of-the-middle-east-and-north This new course offers a panoramic survey of the Islamic societies of the Middle East and North Africa from their origins to the present day. It will deal with the history and expansion of Islam, both as a world religion and civilization, from its birth in the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century to its subsequent spread to other parts of western Asia and North Africa. Issues of religious practices, political governance and movements, gender, social relations and cultural norms will be explored in relation to a number of Islamic societies in the region. The course foregrounds the complexities and diversity present in a critical geographic area of what we call the Islamic world today. administrator Asma Afsaruddin Societies Religion Anthropology Culture Middle East History North Africa Islam Asma Afsaruddin Stephen Vinson David Poell 2009-10-14T20:32:24Z Course text/html http://ocw.nd.edu/anthropology/primate-behavior This course explores the social lives of the nonhuman primates. It begins with an introduction to primate evolution and taxonomy and behavioral ecology. It further examines select groups of living primates through topics such as conservation, social behavior, cooperation/competition, reproduction, ethnoprimatology, and evolution of social organization. Agustin Fuentes Anthropology primate behavior Nature Agustin Fuentes 2009-11-18T16:57:20Z Course text/html