ANTH 240 - Ethnicity

Institution:

Catholic University of America

Subject:

Anthropology

Description:

Examines notions of "ethnicity" as a complex social classification system of categories and meanings embedded into institutions and practices. A cross-cultural comparison of ethnographic cases reveals how these social categories are used to mark people and groups as the same or different and to construct "cultures," "identities," "peoplehood," stereotypes, "history"; and their social effects as affirmative, celebratory, critical, and possibly liberating, as well as illiberal, punitive, and violent.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cua.edu

Phone Number:

(202) 319-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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