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Cultural Anthropology

ANTH-134 Credits: 3 s.h. Catalog Year: 2009
This course begins with an overview of cultures and how they are studied by the anthropologist. Topics examined are subsistence patterns, language, communication, culture and personality, family patterns, ways of organizing societies, economics and political organizations, social control, religion and magic, the arts and cultural change. Emphasis is placed upon evaluation of other cultures in terms of their respective values and norms.