Human Cultures

Dr. Elizabeth Smith
ANTH 021 A Spring 2008
TR 3:30-4:45 pm
Office hours: 514 Williams
Office phone: 656-2973
Email: elizabeth.a.smith@uvm.edu

This course explores the discipline and practice of cultural anthropology. After an introduction to the history, methods, and concepts of the discipline, we focus on topical areas of concern such as religion, how kinship defines family, language, global capitalism, the body, and representation. Major themes we consider throughout the course include the construction of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Along with the textbook and shorter chapters and articles, students will engage in extended analysis of one whole ethnography from the point of view of methodology, writing, and subject position. The course also examines anthropology’s visual record through ethnographic films.