ANTH 2346 - General Anthropology- 4502015125

Institution:

Southwest Texas Junior College

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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

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.swtjc.net

Phone Number:

(830) 278-4401

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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