FS 147 - Skull Wars

This course examines how celebrity-seeking, competition, sexism, and racism dominate knowledge production in physical anthropology and the hunt for human ancestors. We will explore how numerous scientists and popularizers leverage academic publishers and the media for selfish ends and explore how historical western imperialism, and its attendant racisms, have plagued, and continue to plague, the science of paleoanthropology.

Credits: 4

Prerequisites/Restrictions: First-Year Students Only

Core: First-Year Seminar