ANT 4010 - Anthropology of Death

Institution:

Northern Vermont University (7.1.2023 merged into Vermont State University)

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Description:

This course studies death from a wide variety of approaches and is designed to help students integrate objective descriptions and analysis with subjective thoughts and feelings. Our orientations toward death are compared with those of other cultures through such issues as terminal illness, experiencing death, prolonging life, and hastening death. Mourning, funerals, life after death and processes of symbolic death and rebirth are also explored.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.northernvermont.edu

Phone Number:

(802) 635-2356

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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