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Document Type
Syllabus
Publication Date
Spring 2023
Abstract
This course introduces students to the most significant concepts, methods, theories, debates, and possible applications of anthropology, including its four-field approach. This social and biological science is concerned with the processes that led to human evolution as well as with the diversity of cultures and the understanding of human experiences in the contemporary world. Anthropology also addresses society’s responses to the developments and challenges presented by what today is called “globalization”. The course will highlight societies’ pressing problems across cultures in case studies. Anthropology also aims at the understanding of humanity’s histories, struggles, developments, social production, and organizations. We will make use of lectures, films, course activities, and readings to explore the diversity in life styles that contrast with our own. In the process of studying this diversity of values and beliefs in the world, we will examine the "anthropological perspective" itself and the uses of Ethnography to gain a more insightful understanding of our own culture and come to better appreciate the ways in which it subtly (and not so subtly) shapes our perceptions of the world and how people live their lives.
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