This is a study of culture as a human creation: its origins, development or evolution, and possible future. The course covers the range of variation in human life-styles and basic cultural similarities. There will be an examination of selected tribal, peasant, and industrial cultures, with an emphasis on how biological, cultural, and ecological factors shape them. Comparative technology, kinship, social structure, religion, magic, art, economics, cultural change, and applied anthropology will be discussed. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: LR 1013 Alternate years even

Introduces the major concepts, theories, and research methods of cultural anthropology that are used to study and understand human culture in differ-ent parts of the world. An emphasis given to how traditional and nontradi-tional 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, eco-nomics, power and politics, race and ethnicity, language and communica-tion, 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.