The symbol designates a World Wide Web course. 197 Courses numbered 1 through 49 are primarily for first-year students. Courses numbered 50 through 99 are primarily for sophomores. Courses numbered 100 through 199 are primarily for juniors and seniors. Courses numbered 200-299 are limited to graduate students.
Cultural anthropology attempts to make the diverse peoples and lifeways of the world understandable.
It seeks to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. This course introduces cultural anthropology, describing its methods, theories and research problems. While a major objective of the course is to review some of the debates and concepts central to contemporary cultural anthropology, attention also is given to the history of the discipline and its connections with Euro-American social thought. It is recommende3d that you contact the instructor before beginning a Web-based course. In this course, we critically examine ideas about cultural difference and images of otherness.