ANTH 261: Anthropology of the Body

2008-09 2009-10 →
changes (lax) changes (strict) ▾ 2014-15 → 2009-10 →

Units: 4

Hours: Seminar, 3 hours; written work, 3 hours

Catalog page 84

Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: Examines cultural anthropology’s treatment of the body as both a subject and object of social processes through recent and classic texts. Aims to ground theoretical inquiry in ethnographic and historical materials through the examination of bodies across time and space.

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