# ANTHRO 424: Historical Anthropology | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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## course

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### title

HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

### description

An introduction to historical approaches in anthropology: topics covered include early theories, evolutionism, ethnohistory, culture change, ritual and symbolic transformation, indigenous/oral histories, conceptions of time and the analysis of texts and visual images.

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#### graded

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### grade conflicts

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### evidence

#### history

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#### traces

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#### results

* [/data/e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349/results/course\_df2daca39abc316475e18d38-0.json](https://uwcourses.com/data/e243353dcb7d79b7247ced91d69443ef4c2a6349/results/course_df2daca39abc316475e18d38-0.json)

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### all

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#### count

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#### departments

| subject | comparison |
| ------- | ---------- |
| ANTHRO  |            |

### terms

#### 1114

##### term

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##### gpa

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##### departments

| subject | comparison |
| ------- | ---------- |
| ANTHRO  |            |

#### 1192

##### term

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##### gpa

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##### count

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##### departments

| subject | comparison |
| ------- | ---------- |
| ANTHRO  |            |

#### 1234

##### term

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##### gpa

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##### count

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##### departments

| subject | comparison |
| ------- | ---------- |
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#### all

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###### school

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###### ANTHRO

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## following

None recorded.
