Peoples & Cultures of So. Amer

Catalog description

This course broadly examines three major cultural areas in South America: the Andean region(Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia; Venezuela, Colombia); the Southern Cone (Chile, Argentina,Uruguay and Paraguay); and Brazil. Present-day societies and their process of development andsocial change during the past several decades are explored within the larger historical context ofconquest, colonization, slavery, migration and political intervention and upheaval. The strugglesof marginalized Native American populations (e.g. in Brazil and Venezuela) and other racial,ethnic and special-interest groups are given attention (Previously NJCU Course LATI-203)