SOAN 1100 - Anthropology of World Cultures

4 Semester Hours
This course provides an introduction to the field of Cultural Anthropology where the goal is to better understand the dynamics of what is meant by “culture” The course will examine theories of what this thing called “culture” is, how it changes, how understandings of it have changed as well as the methods through which anthropologists have arrived at these theories The course will be particularly attentive to questions about power, race, gender, class; sexuality as they intersect with the particular topics at hand, incorporating aspects of history, economics; politics among other fields

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