Following principles of physical and cultural anthropology, this course analyzes the cultures of prehistoric and existing preliterate people and the impact of modern western culture (3 lecture hours per week). Cross listed as SOCI 2346. Prerequisites: READ 0310 and ENGL 0310. [ CB4502015125]

Study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions. Introduces the major subfields: physical and cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology. An introduction to the working principles in the field of anthropology. Brief attention is given to physical anthropology, linguistics and archeology, while the major emphasis is placed on comparative or cultural anthropology, including attention to institutions of family, religion, social order, diet, kinship, role, and status distinction, art and crafts, and subsistence. Reference is given to prehistoric and preliterate peoples, the Native Americans and the impact of modern western technology on primitive and modern peoples. Three lecture hours per week. TSI Requirement: M1; R2, R3C; W2. Prerequisite: None