In particular, the stress and strain that accompany change challenge traditional lifeways among both tribal and peasant societies in the developing world. The change is driven by many factors including global and local population growth and by the expanding world capitalist system through which technology is transferred and the culture of consumption is spread to the most remote corners of the globe. This course presents an anthropological perspective in which both historical and cross-cultural approaches to study of cultural dynamics are emphasized. Part of the social change in a technological society concentration and also may be taken as an elective. In order to demonstrate this, the institution of religion is studied from a cross-cultural, anthropological perspective.
Emphasis is on primitive and peasant societies.
Part of the perspectives on religion concentration and also may be taken as an elective. The primary emphasis is involvement of students in the actual observation of human behavior and collection of data in a subculture of their own selection in the Rochester area. Illustrates how the techniques of archaeology can throw new light on the lives of our Pilgrim forebears, the founding fathers, on slaves and free blacks, on the American industrial revolution and even on the contemporary middle class of a city like Tucson, Arizona. The dynamics of intergroup relations will have a profound impact on American economic, social, political and cultural life in the 21st century. We are striving to reach a point where we not only celebrate diversity, but take it for granted at the same time.