ANT 202 ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA

A survey of diverse Indigenous cultures in North America through the lens of archaeological anthropology, oral history, and ethnography. Emphasis is placed on non-western foodways, political economy, social organization, cosmology, and relationships to local environs as inferred from the material, ethnographic, and oral historical records.  Readings and discussion also address representations and appropriation of Indigenous North American identity, with attention to forms of institutional racism as well as the history and legacies of colonialism.