Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; outside research, 1 hour; term paper, 10 hours per quarter
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Prerequisites: ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H; upper-division standing; or consent of instructor
Description: Examines theoretical and ethnographic works related to the perception of risk. Focuses on a range of arguments that view risk as an objective hazard, a symbolic construction, or as historically, politically, and socially contingent. Topics include law, health, pollution, and migration.