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Holistic, comparative approach to the study of humankind that draws on a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology to understand the nature of culture. Topics include cultural diversity and adaptive strategies, language, social persona, marriage and kinship, religious beliefs and rituals, politics, economics, art, subsistence types, social change, and issues of cross-cultural contact and cultural survival. Typically offered Spring semester. Three credits.

Introduces the major concepts, theories, and research methods of cultural anthropology that are used to study and understand human culture in different parts of the world. An emphasis given to how traditional and nontraditional cultures undergo change as a result of globalization, and how cultural anthropologists study the social, economic, and political consequences that result from integration into an expanding and changing global economy. Topics covered may include, but are not limited to, social organization, economics, power and politics, race and ethnicity, language and communication, technology, religion and ritual, and sex and gender. A wide geographic coverage provides a basis for global comparisons of cultural similarities and differences among human societies.