SOCIO-CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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three (3) lecture hours per week. Study of the subject. Study of the arguments on the nature of the subject. Systematic discussion of the anthropological concept of the culture and its relation to ideology, and also of the concepts of the modes of its production, social origins, relation ship between production and social evolution. These concepts are discussed in the context of the stages of huntcollection and the transition to a proprietary economy, from incipient to intensive production, the rise of the peasant and the development of the state. ANTR 3046: HUMAN EVOLUTION, (3) credits, three (3) contact hours per week. The study of the origins, development, and variation of the human species in a biological context comparison of the fossil and molecular evidence to understand the firs t human societies. Discussion of the principal debates about human diversity.