ANT 1310Intro to Cultural Anthropology

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Prerequisite(s): None Students explore the diversity that defines human experience. Students learn about the field of anthropology and its approach to examining other cultures with a focus on holism and cultural relativism. Students are introduced to fieldwork methods in anthropology and the importance of participant-observation in cultural anthropology. Students also examine various aspects of cultures across the globe, such as subsistence strategies, political organization, social identities and hierarchies, marriage, family and kinship systems, religious behavior, health, language, creative and artistic expressions, and issues of power in relation to colonialism, socio-economic discrimination, and global inequalities. Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ANT or HON.