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Cultural Anthropology Lecture Notes
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ANTH 457 Ecological Anthropology
Patricia Spakes, University of Washington
Ecological anthropology is a diverse field, but can be summarized as the study of how & why different human populations adapt to their environments, and how this process affects and if affected by their culture and social behavior.
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207 Anthropology: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
HUGO DE BURGOS HENRÍQUEZ, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
This course offers a general introduction to the main concepts, theories, methods, and practical applications of sociocultural anthropology. By way of contextualizing and critically analyzing both foreign and our own local culture, the course will help us understand and explain the similarities and differences in human behavior, social institutions, and ways of life.
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110 Cultural Anthropology
Earn Belbas-Larson, University of South Dakota
This introductory anthro course includes basic terminology and concepts of anthropology. It discusses the commonalities between peoples of all races and origins. Learn about social organization, kinship, and a brief history of anthropology.
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AN1110 Introduction to Social Anthropology
Albert Schrauwers, College of Arts/ York University
This course introduces students to basic conceptual tools of anthropology by which they can better understand other societies, and thus gain a better understanding of their own. The course discusses religion as a cultural system, social stratification, race and ethnicity, ritual healing, and famine.
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Law and Society
Susan Silbey, MIT
This course examines the central features of law as a social institution and as a feature of popular culture. We will explore the nature of law as a set of social systems, central actors in the systems, legal reasoning, and the relationship of the legal form and reasoning to social change.
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Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism
James Howe, MIT
In this introductory subject we consider how symbols are created and structured; how they draw on and give meaning to different domains of the human world; how they are woven into politics, family life, and the life cycle; and how we can interpret them.
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WMN.454J Identity and Difference
Susan Silbey, MIT
This course examines theoretical perspectives on human identity, focusing on processes of creating categories of acceptable and deviant identities. We will discuss how identities are formed, how they vary, the forms and possibilities of unique or aggregate identities, how behaviors are labeled deviant, how people enter deviant roles and worlds, responses to differences
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Introduction to Anthropology
Various, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
These course notes are an introduction to anthropology and its divisions, including evolution and adaptation, ehtnography, race and biological difference, kinship and marriage, thinking symbolically, problems with culture and more.
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