Anthropology is the comparative study of people and societies across space and time.
This course is an introduction to anthropological perspectives on what it means to be human. We will examine the way that groups of people organize themselves and make sense of their place in the world. We will begin to develop basic anthropological skills for understanding the complexity of human experience and pay special attention to issues of human difference and social stratification. This course will introduce students to the concepts and concerns of the entire field of anthropology. To understand many of the course themes, we will also discuss anthropology's relationship to other disciplines and sub-disciplines of the social and biological sciences.