Jr st or consinst. Across-cultural study of the ballad. Jr st or consinst. The Supernatural in the Modern World. Explores evidence of belief in the supernatural in the modern world as it appears in the context of folk religion, folk medicine, legends, folk drama, ritual and custom, and media accounts and presentations.
Surveys scholarly approaches to the topic.
Jr st or consinst. The course is designed to familiarize students with still photography as a way of seeing, a tool of anthropological inquiry and a mode of anthropological expression. Students will master a body of critical literature on photography and learn basic photographic skills. 460 Folk Epics. Oral nature, structure, performance traditions, and epic ideology, from various world areas.