Shaw 119 Peoples of the Middle East. Cultures, religious practices, social institutions, and political economies of contemporary Middle Eastern and North African societies. Anthropological contributions to understanding contemporary social change and relationships with the West. Members of the department 120 Contemporary Chinese Society. A descriptive and analytical survey of Chinese society in traditional, contemporary, and overseas contexts.
China serves as a case study in the anthropological analysis of a complex non-Western society.
Topics include family and kinship, religion, political and economic systems, and social change. Park 122 Women and Modernity in Asia. Position of women within Asian social systems, as shaped by social structure, economics, and ideology. Park 124 American Diversity. Sources, range, and maintenance of human biological variation, using case studies of populations from throughout the western hemisphere.