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ANTH 100: History of Anthropological Thought and Practice

Units: 4

Historical overview of key individuals and central ideas influencing the practice of anthropology and the production of anthropological knowledge. Topics may include the disciplining of anthropology into related subfields; social evolutionism, historical particularism, British structural-functionalism; French structuralism; cultural ecology; sociobiology; symbolic and interpretive anthropology; feminist and other critiques of anthropology.

Course Details
Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

Discussion included
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

GE Requirements
  • Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Social Science
  • Approaches to Knowledge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
  • Intellectual Experience: Global Awareness
  • Intellectual Experience: Ethics

Requisites and Restrictions
Prerequisite Courses: ANTH 001 and (ANTH 003 or ANTH 005)
Instructor Permission Required: No


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