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Distribution: World Cultures
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Instructor |
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Time |
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Class No. |
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| ANTH260 Anthropology On Film | A Waters | Jan 7 - Jan 25 | W-1-056
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 056
| MTuWThF | 8:30 - 11:00am | 3 | 1096 | $1020 | |
Description for ANTH260:
Film has become an important medium for recording and conveying information about human behavior. To what extent do ethnographic films present a complete and accurate record of cultural reality and to what extent do they project a filmmaker’s romantic vision of ’message’? Examples of ethnographic film are viewed and discussed in light of these questions.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution: International focus
Diversity: WC |
| ANTH273 Peoples and Cultures of Mesoamerica (Mexico and Guatemala) | A Todd | Jan 7 - Jan 25 | Online | - | - | 3 | 1099 | $1020 | |
Description for ANTH273:
A survey of Mesoamerican ethnology including an introduction to cultural and linguistic regions through comparisons of ethnographic materials. Emphasis is given to acculturation, during the colonial period, among indigenous and Spanish-speaking populations, and, in the contemporary period, on social change among rural and urban sectors.
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Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution: International focus
Diversity: WC |
| ANTH367 Social and Cultural Perspectives on Witchcraft and Sorcery | B Worley | Jan 7 - Jan 25 | Online | - | - | 3 | 1100 | $1020 | |
Description for ANTH367:
Beliefs about people with extraordinary powers to cause harm or good are found in societies of different types and in different periods in history. This course examines such beliefs in a number of different cultural, geographical, and historical contexts in order to demonstrate ways in which anthropologists and other social scientists approach the more general problem of understanding the function of belief systems in human society. The course does not teach techniques of witchcraft or sorcery.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher or permission of instructor.
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Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Diversity: WC |
