ANTH 4309 - Anthropology of Hunting

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours Lecture: 3
Contact Hours Lab: 0

Hunting remains an important part of human lives and a component of our ecological footprint since deep in our evolutionary history. Although some aspects of hunting have not changed, others have varied radically across space and through time. However accurate, modern popular perceptions of ancient hunters also have profound political ramifications, impacting human-environmental dynamics and even displacing Indigenous hunters from ancestral lands. In this class the student will study the origins of hunting, how it has changed with hominid evolution, how the adoption of new technologies impacts hunting, how different hunting methods are used in different environments and by diverse cultures, the ecological implications of human predation, and the contentious topic of hunting in a modernizing world. Cross-listed with ANTH 5318.

Prerequisites: ANTH 1301 and ANTH 1302
Course Level: Senior