Anthropology
Prerequisites
Students pursuing the Master of Arts in Latin American Studies (MALAS) specialization in Anthropology must have taken an undergraduate course in any of the four fields of anthropology (archaeology, biological, cultural or linguistic) or be ready to fulfill this prerequisite in addition to the 15 credit hours required by the MALAS Anthropology specialization.
Requirements
MALAS students must complete 33 credit hours of approved courses, write a thesis on a topic related to the specialization, and demonstrate intermediate-high proficiency in Spanish, Portuguese or Haitian Creole.
The course requirements are distributed as follows:
• 6 hours of gateway seminars (preferably in the
first semester):
* Issues and Perspectives in Latin American Studies
* Research Design and Methods in Latin American Studies
• 15 hours of courses in the specialization (see below)
• 9 hours of courses with Latin American content outside the specialization, selected in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Richmond Brown
• 3 hours of LAS 6971, Master's Research
Suggested Courses
Theory & Topics
ANG 5115 Archaeological Theory
ANG 5256 Rural Peoples in the Modern World
ANG 5266 Economic Anthropology
ANG 5479 Theories of Cultural Change
ANG 6038 Anthropology History & Theory
ANG 6186 Archaeology
ANG 5303 Women & Development
ANG 5267 Anthropology & Development
ANG 5477 Applied Anthropology
ANG 5615 Language & Culture
ANG 6387 Anthropology of Latin America
ANG 6447 Urban Anthropology
ANG 6930 Livelihoods, globalization and crisis in Latin America
LIN 6601 Sociolinguistics
Area Courses
ANT 5326 Peoples of Mexico & Central America
ANT 5327 Maya & Aztec Civilizations
ANT 5336 Peoples of Brazil
ANT 5337 Peoples of the Andes
ANT 5339 Inca & Their Ancestors
ANT 5346 Anthropology of the Caribbean
Methods
ANT 5126L Field Sessions in Archaeology
ANT 5485 Research Design
ANT 5486 Computing for Anthropologists
ANT 6388 Ethnographic Field Methods
Faculty
Allan F. Burns (Linguistics, visual anthropology, refugees, applied, Maya;
Mexico, Central America)
Susan Gillespie (Archaeology, Mesoamerica)
Michael Heckenberger (Archaeology, Brazil)
Michael Moseley (Archaeology; Andes)
Gerald Murray (Applied, Agroforestry; Religion; Haiti, Central America,
Caribbean)
Marianne Schmink (Gender; conservation and development; Brazil, general
South America).
Anita Spring (Women in agriculture; Caribbean)
John Richard Stepp (Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, medical anthropology,
Mesoamerica)
Contact Information
319 Grinter Hall
P.O. Box 115530
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
USA Tel: (352) 392-0375
Fax: (352) 392-7682
Graduate Advisor
Richmond F. Brown
rfbrown@latam.ufl.edu
Specialization Coordinator
John Richard Stepp
stepp@ufl.edu