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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ANTH 4680 - Monsters, Magical Creatures, and Other Nonempirical Beings


3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
In this anthropology course, we will explore how people in different cultural contexts understand “nonempirical beings,†or beings which cannot be verified scientifically but that nonetheless may play an important part in daily life. We will also discuss the ways that global and local inequalities and historical constructions of racial identity, politics, class, and gender shape (and may be shaped bypractices of religion, healing, magic, and sorcery. Global Scholars course.