Cultural Area Studies: Latin America

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Class Hours: 3 Lab/Discussion: 0 Credits: 3 Prerequisite: none Corequisite: none Restriction: none Description: An overview of the diverse societies of Latin America from the perspectives of anthropology and Latin American studies. Through a historical, cross-cultural, and comparative approach, it explores the cultural, economic, political, and social life in many societies of this large and diverse region and transnational nature of many of these societies as a result of globaliza­tion. Themes covered are: race, ethnicity, and gender as they appear in Latin America, political and economic processes, rural underdevelopment and urbanization, transnational movement and cultures, religion, and indigenous social movements.