Title: Course in - Anthropology
Location: US
Company: Education
Anthropology explores the astonishing diversity and complexity of human life and culture in the contemporary moment and in historical and prehistorical times. A foundational part of a liberal arts education, anthropology challenges students to think critically about the assumptions we make about the world and the power hierarchies that shape our everyday lives. Anthropology examines how social, economic, environmental, and political relationships are reproduced and transformed in the present and across much longer timeframes (millennia as well as decades).
Through the subdisciplines of cultural anthropology and archaeology, students develop holistic and empirically based knowledge of local cultural practices and processes of change in regions including Africa, the Arctic and North Atlantic, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania. Students deepen their understanding of relationships of power and inequality (including gender, ethnicity, race, class, sexuality, age, etc.). Students consider the particularities of local everyday practices and the global circulation of people, ideas, and commodities. Throughout the curriculum, students are exposed to the discipline’s analytical concepts and tools, theoretical perspectives, and field-based qualitative and quantitative research.
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