ANTH 380: Traditional Cultures

Dr. Bruce D. Roberts
Department of Anthropology and Earth Science

This course will intensively examine fundamental aspects of non-industrial/non-western cultures prior to widespread modernization and culture change. Elements to be addressed include kinship and domestic organization, adaptive/subsistence patterns, economic production and exchange; political organization and social control; and religious systems. While generalizing about traditional cultures, we will investigate these topics through specific ethnographic examples selected from diverse parts of the globe. Finally, although the emphasis in this course is on the "traditional" it will be both impossible and undesirable to avoid some consideration of culture change and "modernization" in these societies.

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Last updated 09/27/07
by Bruce Roberts (robertsb@mnstate.edu)