Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

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Cultural anthropology is the study of humans across the globe and looking into what makes us all tick. What makes groups different, and what similarities do we have? How is family defined? A major difference between anthropology and sociology is that anthropologists focus on non-industrialized or indigenous societies, while sociologists focus on the western world. The course deals with cultural variations among living populations of the present and recent past whose cultures have been described by ethnographic fieldworkers. Topics include language and communication (not always verbal or even among humans), ritual and religion, families, kinship and marriage and aspects of culture.