A Multicultural Approach Cross-cultural examination of family and kinship systems, with a focus on mixed families in the United States, the West Indies, and Brazil. Implications for kinship, syncretism, social stratification, values, and the cultural definitions of race, color, and ethnicity. Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft Religion, religious behavior and practices, world view, and the supernatural. Rites of transition, death and afterlife, ritual, religious leaders, traditional curing, religious movements, revitalization, cults, witchcraft, magic, and especially shamanism are examined cross-culturally. Qualitative Research Methods and Fieldwork Introduction to the theory and practice of anthropological research methods, including ethnographic interviewing, participant observation, photography, and qualitative approaches to the analysis of cultural data.
Students engage in ethnographic research.
The relevance of anthropological theories, methods, and findings in solving practical problems. Contemporary issues will include acculturation, modernization, tourism, overpopulation, health, and cultural survival. 256 through 260 . Topics in Anthropology Selected topics of current interest in anthropology. Women and Men in Nature and Culture Study of gender roles in cross-cultural perspective, with an emphasis on the symbolic approach to roles of women.