Return to top. Course usually taught by visiting faculty in Socio-cultural Anthropology. Course will vary in title and content. When offered, the current description and title is found in the current Schedule of Classes and the Anthropology Department web-site. Examples include miasma, humoral imbalance, supernatural transgression, germ theory, biometical models of risk prediction, and ecosocial theory.
Course treats issues in which law and religion meet, overlap, and conflict within Israel.
Readings include primary sources and actual trials. This course considers ways in which language and culture influence educational goals and processes. Cultural and sociolinguistic explanations of school successes and failures are examined. While not really existing outside the social order, technological systems are basic to civilization. While comparative, it concentrates on England and America.