Courses on the History and Culture of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Welcome! This page is a gateway to Native American courses at Brown. Although Brown does not yet have a Native American studies program, this page brings together in one place all of the course offerings related to the history, culture, and literature of the indigenous peoples of the Americas from pre-contact times to the present.
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ETHN1890G: Native Americans in the Media: Representation and Self-Representation on Film
ETHN 1890H: Introduction to American Indian Studies (Hoover)
ETHN 1890J / AMCV 1904O: Native American Environmental Health Movements (Hoover)
ETHN 1890M: Treaty Rights and Food Fights: Eating Local in Indian Country (Hoover)
ETHN1890N: Thawing the “Frozen Indian”; American Indian Museum Representation (Hoover)
HIST 1805 / AMCIV 1612: First Nations: The People and Cultures of Native North America to 1800 (Fisher)
HIST 1806: American Indian History, 1800 – Present (Jacoby)
HIST 1973X: The Maya in the Modern World (Cope)
HIST 1975T: Colonial Encounters: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of Early America (Fisher)
HIST1976U: Cannibals, Barbarians and Noble Savages: Images of the Other in the Atlantic World (Mumford)
HIST1976T: History of the Andes from the Inca Empire to Evo Morales (Mumford)
HIST 1976A: Comparative Native American History: Indigenous Peoples of North and South America (Mumford)
ANTH 0066D: Who Owns the Past? (Rubertone)
ANTH 0650: Classic Mayan Civilization (Houston)
ANTH 1140: Native American Cultures (Anderson)
ANTH 1190: Native North Americans in the Twentieth Century (Anderson)
ANTH 1570: American Indian Archaeology (Anderson)
ANTH 1624 / ARCH 1054: Indians, Colonists, and Africans in New England (Rubertone)
ANTH 1640 / ARCH 1246: Maize Gods and Feathered Serpents: Mexico and Central America in Antiquity (Scherer)
ANTH 1650: Ancient Maya Writing (Houston)
ANTH 1910B: Anthropology of Place (Rubertone)
ANTH 2520: Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory
ANTH 2500: Problems in Archaeology: Culture Contact and Colonialism (Rubertone)
Science and Technology Studies
SCSO 1800 – Cross-Knowledge: Contemporary Indigenous Knowledges and the Sciences (Augusto)
Related courses (that include Native topics but are not wholly devoted to American Indians)
ANTH 0066: Mythscapes (Simmons)
ANTH 1240: Religion and Culture (Simmons)
ANTH 1411: Nations Within States (Anderson)
ANTH 1623: Archaeology of Death (Rubertone)
HIST 0510: American History to 1877 (Vorenberg)
HIST 0980 / ARCH 0302: Object Histories: The Material Culture of Early America (Fisher)
HIST 1620: Colonial Latin America (Mumford)
HIST 1630: Modern Latin America (Green)
HIST 1670: History of Brazil (Green)
HIST 1790: Environmental History (Jacoby)
HIST 2970: Graduate Readings in Early American History (Fisher)
Other important links:
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
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Please send corrections and additions to: linford_fisher@brown.edu