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Apr 10, 2026
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ANTH 121: Roots and Remedies: An Introduction to Ethnomedicine
Units: 4
Provides knowledge of medical systems cross culturally including the three ancient literary systems (Chinese, Ayurvedic, Greco-Arabic), shamanism, folk medicine, and biomedicine. Readings focus on the beliefs and organization of each system, types of practitioners, types of sicknesses treated, and how anthropologists research and understand these phenomena.
Course Details
Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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: Diversity and Identity
- Intellectual Experience: Global Awareness
- Intellectual Experience: Ethics
Requisites and Restrictions
Instructor Permission Required: No
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