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劳里·沃尔什博士
人类学教授
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." ——悉尼J. 哈里斯
Anthropology is the study of humankind, in all places and in all time periods. 当我还是个孩子的时候，我就迷上了考古学. I'm not sure how or why this happened, but it was probably from watching National Geographic! As a first-generation college student, getting my BA in Anthropology was challenging. 而我的家人支持我, they could not offer much advice in negotiating the landscape of higher education. My goal in teaching at Great Basin College is not only to impart an understanding of anthropology in all its breadth, but also to help students navigate the doing of college, 并看到高等教育的可能性.
我有三个人类学学位. 在获得文学学士学位后, I worked in the field of archaeology doing excavations and walking across Nevada to locate archaeological sites. After several years of this, I braved the world of graduate education. My research for a Master's degree centered on a small prehistoric summer camping location at Lake Tahoe. This work along with my professional position led to my interest in ethnography and archaeology. I wanted to learn from people who had lived as hunter-gatherers what the places, 工具, 以及他们所使用的食物. This led to my pursuit of a PhD program in anthropology. 经过几年的课程学习和拨款写作, I traveled to 澳大利亚's Western Desert to work with Mantjiltjarra people; these Aboriginal people had lived fully traditional lives up to the 1950s through 1984. From their memories I was able to understand the social meaning of the places and objects they had used in their traditional lives, 在他们定居到现代社会之前.
What all this means is that I had come to value archaeology and living peoples in a new way. 作为人类学教授, I strive to impart an appreciation of past and living peoples in my courses. I hope that students come to understand that the past and present lives of others matter, and that as our world shrinks with globalization it is imperative that we seek to preserve and understand these diverse ways of life.
联系信息 | 办公地点: | 埃尔科校区DCIT 125 | | 电话: | 775.327.2257 | | 电子邮件: | 劳里.沃尔什(a) connectwise2xero.com
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教育
- Doctorate of Philosophy in Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, 2003
- Master of Arts in Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, 1995
- Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Washington State University, 1982
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| 荣誉及奖励 | - McCandless Prize for Meritorious Thesis/Dissertation 2003. Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno
- National Science Foundation Predoctoral Improvement Grant, 2000
- Graduate Student Association Merit Award, University of Nevada, Reno
- Frazier Fund Research Award for Hunter-Gatherer Architecture: House Forms in Transition. 弗雷泽研究基金
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| 尖刺外壳101 |
| 标题: | 文化人类学概论 |
| 目录描述: | Study of human cultures across the globe through examination of the basic principles underlying the organization of societies and the ways anthropologists analyze various parts of culture. Students will become familiar with the glue that holds all groups of people together, and how that glue can divide groups of people in profound ways. |
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| 尖刺外壳102 |
| 标题: | 体质人类学 |
| 目录描述: | 介绍人类如何, 智人, have emerged as a species and come to dominate the planet by examining processes of human biological and cultural evolution. 主题包括继承, 灵长类动物的出现, 原始人类化石, 科技的发展, 以及现代人的生物多样性. 满足通识教育科学. |
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| 尖刺外壳400 |
| 标题: | 北美印第安人 |
| 目录描述: | Ethnographic survey of the wide variety of societies found in native North America, 包括平原等地区, 北极, 西南, 和东南部, 等. Course provides an overview of social institutions (i.e., religion, food getting and settlement, kinship, etc.) and changes resultant of European contact and colonization. 满足UNR的多样性要求. |
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| 尖刺外壳400 b |
| 标题: | 大盆地的印第安人 |
| 目录描述: | Study of indigenous cultures of the intermountain region of Western North America including such groups as the Washoe, 西部肖肖尼人, 北派尤特人, 犹特人. Course provides an overview of social institutions (i.e., religion, food getting and settlement, kinship, etc.) and changes resultant of European contact and colonization. 满足UNR的多样性要求. |
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| 尖刺外壳406 |
| 标题: | 小规模社会中的艺术 |
| 目录描述: | This course focuses on the 'traditional' production and meaning of art in small-scale societies as well as the changes that occur with colonization and globalization among select groups from locations such as Africa, 新几内亚, 澳大利亚, 北美和南美, 和太平洋岛屿. |
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| 尖刺外壳458 |
| 标题: | 不平等的起源:跨文化视角 |
| 目录描述: | This course explores the nature of social inequality in multiple cultural contexts including how inequality emerged in human history across time and space, and how it is expressed in different contemporary cultural contexts. |
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| 地理的106 |
| 标题: | 文化地理概论 |
| 目录描述: | Analyze the culture regions of the world including physical settings and cultural patterns including language, 定居点, 社会经济模式, 历史模式. |
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| INT 301 |
| 标题: | 综合研究方法 |
| 目录描述: | An interdisciplinary integration of research methods in the natural sciences, 社会科学, 和历史. The course is writing intensive and includes an introduction to portfolio development. |
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