ANTH 230 - Political Anthropology

Institution:

Roger Williams University

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Description:

Fulfills a course requirement in the Anthropology + Sociology Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: ANTH 100An overview of questions of power and politics through ananthropological perspective, with special attention on inequalityand violence in the non -Western world. Anthropologists have longbeen concerned with how different cultures organize themselvespolitically; in this course, we build from classical topics towards aninvestigation of how differences in power and political inequalitiesmanifest themselves in the daily lives of people throughout theworld. The course material blends a broad range of theoreticalapproaches to studying power with the close detail of ethnographiccase studies.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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