ANTH
390: Understanding the Americas
Professor
Annegret Staiger
Anth 390 01
TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM, 112 Bertrand H. Snell Hall
Anth 390 02 TuTh 2:30PM - 3:45PM 166 Technology Advancement Center
Office Hours: M/W 2-4pm; T 4:00 –
5:00pm
Office Phone: x3888
Office Location: Snell Hall 272
E-mail: staiger@clarkson.edu
Course Objectives
Although we are used to think of America
as the US, it is of course the
name of an entire continent, including North, Central and South
America. In this course, we will look at the history of this
continent, and the societies and cultures that constitute the continent through
a holistic lens. Rather than focusing on the individualities of each culture,
we will focus on the ties that bind them to each other. We will be focusing on
such issues as American Indian cultures and societies before the European
conquest and their enduring legacies; the conquest and colonization period; the
transatlantic slave trade and the systems of slavery that developed in many
areas of the Americas; the dialectical development of freedom and slavery to
the emergence of pan-ethnic movements in the 19th and 20th
Century.
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Picture and Description from Hunt,
Lynn, et al. 2001. The Making of the West, Volume II, Bedford St
Martin’s, p. 587
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