Wednesdays, January 14 - February 18 | 1 - 3 pm | $68 | 6 weeks
Instructor: Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
This course focuses on the Yanomamo, an Amazonian tribe that has been the subject of debate for decades. The Yanomamo have maintained their distinct cultural identity despite external pressures and dramatic changes in the surrounding world. Understanding their way of life offers valuable insights into human adaptation and the preservation of indigenous cultures.
Our investigation includes debatable fieldwork ethics, slash-and-burn agriculture, complex kin relations, the shortage of women, hallucinogens, constant warfare, and the invasion of Yanomamo land by gold miners and settlers. Short, accessible articles and online videos will support and illustrate the topics. Note: Everyone – not just students from Anthropology 101 - may take this class. If you are curious about cultural anthropology, this is for you.
About your instructor
Tracy Bachrach Ehlers is Associate Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Denver, specializing in the study of underdevelopment, Latin America, women, and gender relations. Ehlers is the author of two books: Silent Looms - Women and Production in a Guatemala Town, and Sugar's Life in the Hood - The Story of a Former Welfare Mother. She was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Costa Rica, where she taught at the National University and studied women's microenterprises. Toward the end of her DU academic career, she founded and ran Women Work Together, a nonprofit organization in Guatemala that encouraged rural indigenous families to educate their daughters.
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