ANTH 3100 - Sex, Culture, and Sexuality

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course takes a comparative, cross-cultural approach to understanding sex and sexuality/sexualities in anthropological and historical perspective. This will include an examination of beliefs about sex, sexuality, and the body; the interaction of culture and biology in the shaping of sexual identity; the many roles of sex in both nonhuman and human primate societies; evidence of sexual attitudes and practices based on the material culture of past societies; and the variety of sexual practices and their meanings around the world in contemporary society.