ANTH 140 - Cultural Anthropology

Semester Offered: Fall or Spring
1 unit(s)

An introduction to central concepts, methods, and findings in cultural anthropology, including culture, cultural difference, the interpretation of culture, and participant-observation. The course uses cross-cultural comparison to question scholarly and commonsense understandings of human nature. Topics may include sexuality, kinship, political and economic systems, myth, ritual and cosmology, and culturally varied ways of constructing race, gender, and ethnicity. Students undertake small research projects and explore different styles of ethnographic writing. Ms. Cohen, Ms. Kaplan, and Ms. Lowe Swift.

Two 75-minute periods.