Mar 19, 2024  
Catalogue 2021-2022 
    
Catalogue 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)

ANTH 285 - Anthropology and The Environment

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)
(Same as ENST 285 ) The question of climate change forces a revisiting of the traditions of anthropology’s engagements with the environment. This course introduces students to historical patterns and recent developments in approaches to the study of the environment across anthropology and other disciplines. Attention is paid to both empirical studies and to theoretical frameworks environmental anthropologists have brought to their research. Students will also learn about environmental anthropology’s relationships to race, power, colonialism and questions of justice. Kaushik Ghosh.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS



Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)