ANT 230 . Coverage of earliest utopian experiments and modern rural and urban communes. Communities are reviewed in terms of their origin and purpose, ideology, subsistence, social patterns, relations with the outside world and survival. ANT 250 . Films present people living in diverse ecologies and at different levels of social complexity.
Interpretation is based upon the concepts and theories of cultural anthropology.
ANT 301 . ANT 105 or 206 or sophomore standing. A study of the religious institutions of traditional band, tribal and peasant societies. Topics cover psychological stress, social control and ritual healing. The cult within modern Western society will be compared with cults in traditional preindustrial society.