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The course aims to provide tools for thinking about moral and ethical decisions as social and historical practices, and permits students to compare and contextualize how people in different times and places approach fundamental — though not necessarily universal — questions to do with such topics as family, wealth, self-cultivation, sex ...
The course explores anthropological approaches to society, culture, history, and current events. Lectures, readings and films explore social and cultural diversity through a range of themes: social organization, ideology, religion, exchange, subsistence, gender, land use, ethnicity, ethnic conflict, and local/global inter-relations.
The course also provides tools for thinking about moral decisions as social and historical practices, and permits students to compare and contextualize the ways people in different times and places approach fundamental ethical concerns.
Understanding humanity’s social and cultural diversity, and being able to approach cultural diversity intelligently when you face it in your daily life, is one of the most important skills you can develop as a student. From politics to language to our understandings of social differences, this course will introduce
This course is an introduction to socio-cultural anthropology, the study of human society and culture. Anthropologists write ethnographies based on long-term intensive fieldwork and participant observation and also theorize broadly about “big questions” associated with human sociality: How do cultural models and belief
This course deals with kinship, political economy and other social dimensions of human society. It aims. to familiarize the learners to the basic ideas, concepts, issues, and principles of anthropology. This will. provide an introduction to the evolution of socio-cultural anthropology over the past centuries. Adopting.
In this course, you will learn about the processes through which individual meanings of life are formed and negotiated between individuals and their societies; you will learn this through reading and analysis of individual life stories in Japan and the United States.
