Summer 2024 - ARCH 226 OL01
Shamans, Sacrifice and Psychedelics (3)
Class Number: 3848
Delivery Method: Online
Overview
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Charts the emergence and changes in the expression of human religious behavior. It covers the earliest rituals of the Palaeolithic, the importance of fertility cults, ancestor cults, alliance rituals, shamans, witchcraft, and monotheism. Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences.
COURSE DETAILS:
Provides an overview of the emergence and changes in the expression of human religious behaviour. Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences.
Discusses how archaeologists attempt to recognize ritual behaviours and religion in the past. Topics include the distinction between traditional and book religions, shamanism, altered states of consciousness, monumental architecture, ritual offerings, ritual warfare, human sacrifice, and human burials and cremation. Examples are drawn from a wide geographic and temporal scope, from the earliest rituals of the Palaeolithic, to ancient states such as Egypt and China, and to smaller forager and farming societies of the Americas.
Summer session (June 25 ~ August 2)
Grading
- Discussions ( 5@ 2% each) 10%
- Assignment (2 @ 10% each) 20%
- Midterm Exam 35%
- Final Exam 35%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Readings will be made available online.
Department Undergraduate Notes:
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Registrar Notes:
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