ANTH 4888 - G Anthropology of the Body

Institution:

University of New Orleans

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Description:

Prerequisite: nine hours of anthropology or graduate status or consent of department. Explores the anthropology of the body and and the body as social text. The human body is often taken for granted in the human condition. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary approaches, this course examines the ways in which social meanings and messages are shaped and controlled through the medium of "the body." Dressed, undressed, decorated, scented, mutilated,disabled, controlled, frenzied, etc., in each instance the many, perhaps infinite manifestations of the body are interpreted as providing important clues for sociocultural analysis.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uno.edu

Phone Number:

(504) 280-6000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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