AY 140 - Marriage in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Institution:

Eastern Connecticut State University

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Description:

This course explores marriage as a social and symbolic system, analyzing marriage practices in several ethnographic areas including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, Europe, and the contemporary United States.The course exposes students to a range of theoretical perspectives used in anthropology and guides students to an appreciation of how marriage systems participate in the construction and reproduction of kinship and gender identities, and relations of power, authority, and inequality. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.easternct.edu/

Phone Number:

(860) 465-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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