Description
ARH 203: History of Global Indigenous Visual Cultures
Prerequisites: ARH 102 or ART 105 or permission of instructor
Credits: 3 cr. hrs. (3 pds: 3 lec)
Course Description: This course provides a survey of the history and material cultures of indigenous peoples world-wide, grouping them by the specific geographies (terrain types) that they inhabit: mountains; forests, tropical and temperate; grasslands, savannas and shrub lands; acquatic--oceans, rivers, lakes, marshes; tundra and deserts and xeric shrub lands. Attention will be given to the effect of exogenous contact, explorations and occupations, colonialism, and globalization upon indigenous visual cultures. (Pre-requisites: ARH 102 History of Art II Renaissance through Modern)