An introduction to the methods and theoretical concepts of cultural and social anthropology. Comparison of the uniformities and variations among societies and how humans cope with their natural and social environments. Focus on traditional societies. A survey that explores rituals, as formal and informal performances, for their meanings and the ways they affect both their participants and society. Cross-listed in the Department of Drama and Dance as DRA 207.
Topics vary and are announced in the semester in which the course is offered.
Explores the diversity of gender in relation to basic social institutions such as family, economics, politics, communications, ideology, and ecology. Focuses on contemporary cultural situations and their historical roots in colonialism, nationalism, underdevelopment, and revolution. An analysis of several urban ethnographies. The use of methods and theories of cultural anthropology to examine selected communities in Atlanta and other American cities. An examination of qualitative methodologies in the social sciences, particularly in sociology and anthropology, including participant observation, interviewing and oral history, focus groups, textual analysis of narratives, documents and visual representation.