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  • ANTH 2230: Folklore and Mythology

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    Focus is on the origins, commonalities and differences in the diverse myths present in all cultures. Course will explore the connections between folklore and myth and their function in maintaining cultural systems. Special emphasis will be given to the effects of globalization on the appropriation of the myths and folkloric practices of various indigenous peoples as well as the way they are transformed and/or given new meaning in the complex, technologically developed societies of the contemporary world. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2232: Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    Cross-cultural comparison of structure, organization and behavior associated with different models of kinship and social organization in diverse societies both traditional and modern. Social systems based on idioms of blood, marriage forms and marital relations, the incest taboo, mate selection and issues arising from new reproductive technologies will be explored. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2233: Understanding Human Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    This course examines human sexuality and gender relationships from an anthropological and cross cultural perspective. It examines the culturally constructed roles of women and men in evolutionary perspective and within specific cultural and social contexts both past and present. The course also focuses on the economic, political and domestic roles, social statuses; and adaptive and maladaptive features of sociosexual patterns. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2241: Native People of North America

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    The Indians of North America in the centuries before European conquest, subjugation and displacement. Archaeological, archival and traditional evidence for the Indians' successful adaptations to diverse environments; their interpersonal, material, artistic and spiritual ways of life. Culture shock and aftermath of European contact. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2242: Peoples & Cultures of Southeast Asia

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    The course emphasizes new approaches to the ethnography of Southeast Asia that introduces students to the contemporary culture and social organization of the peoples of the region. Students will read classic works as well as contemporary monographs that address characteristic social formations: upland-lowland dynamics; maritime vs. agricultural states; indigenous responses to early modern, colonial and postcolonial European/American expansion, and organized around three themes: the gendered self, the imagined nation, and the paradox of world-systems. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2243: Peoples and Cultures of Latin America

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    This course focuses on recent approaches to the ethnography of the Americas, specifically those countries which were formerly Iberian (Spanish and Portuguese) colonies. Addresses Pre-Columbian social formations, the impact of the arrival of Europeans, and the contemporary postcolonial social landscape. Some of the themes of our inquiry are: Conquest and colonialism, post-colonial nationalism, indigenous cultures, hierarchies of class and caste, social movements, religions, migration, the impact of international monetary policy on cultural formations, globalization and transnationalism, and race and ethnicity. While the course spans more than five centuries in our conceptualizations, it primarily focuses upon the present. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2311: Population,Ecology and the Environment

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    Examines diverse socio-cultural strategies used by human societies throughout the world. Addresses a broad range of social formations such as those used by tropical hunters and foragers, small scale agriculturists & pastoralists, peasant farmers, and agro-industrial corporations, as they respond to and transform the natural environment. Students will learn to apply an anthropological perspective towards the understanding of topics of great global import such as population, pollution, industrialization, sustainable development, and ecosystems. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2331: People and Cultures of Africa

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    Social and material cultures of Africa through time, emphasizing the unity and diversity of the continent and its people. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2401: Fieldwork/Urban Ethnography

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    Students will have an opportunity to participate in a semester-long team research project conducted under supervision of the instructor and focusing on the application of appropriate qualitative field research methods in an urban setting. Students will learn about the mechanics and ethics of research with emphasis not only on collecting, analyzing and evaluating ethnographic data within a hands-on team research context but also the very process of building relations between researchers, their communities of study and other stakeholders. 3 credits
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  • ANTH 2412: Anthropology of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Seton Hall University

    Introduces students to the study of the Anthropology of Religion from a historical and theoretical perspective. Provides a framework for understanding the diverse ways in which "religion" manifests in different cultural settingsand historical contexts. The course explores the human capacity to "make meaning" through the use of symbol,myth and ritual. It also explores transpersonal states of consciousness, many of which are induced through various public and private rituals and other devotional, ascetic and ecstatic practices. The category of "the religious" or "thsacred" as defined according to the western worldview is interrogated and explored. The course content is also relevant to students in Religious Studies, Catholic Studies, Sociology, Psychology and Italian Studies. 3 credits
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