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Learn about public anthropology in the service of social justice, through undergraduate, masters’, and PhD programs.
In American University’s Master of Arts in Public Anthropology program, you will explore culture, power, and history in everyday life while sharpening your skills in critical inquiry, problem solving, and public communication. Theory, practice, and social justice are at the core of our curriculum.
13 lis 2024 · Complete 27 credit hours from the following if not taken to fulfill Additional or Fieldwork, with at least 12 credit hours at or above 300-level: ANTH-110 Culture and Power (3) or ANTH-150 Anthropology of Life in the United States (3) ANTH-210 Race and Racism (3) ANTH-215 Sex, Gender, and Culture (3)
Course Description. This course introduces students to some of the major social theories and debates that inspire and inform anthropological analysis. The approach considers each theoretical perspective or proposition in terms of its explanatory power for understanding human behavior and the social world, in the context of the social and ...
ANTH-150 Anthropology of Life in the United States: Who speaks for America? Is United States a nation-state, an empire, and what difference does? Examine anthropological debates around civil rights, identity formation, racialization, and US community development.
He argues that social Anthropology is based on ethnography, or the study of culture. Culture consists of the symbols that guide community behavior. Symbols obtain meaning from the role which they play in the patterned behavior of social life. Culture and behavior cannot be studied separately because they are intertwined.
American anthropology has culture as its central and unifying concept. This most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially.
