Subject:
Anthropology
Credit units:
3
Offered:
Either Term 1 or Term 2
Weekly hours: 2 Lecture hours and 1 Seminar/Discussion hours
College:
Arts and Science
Department: Anthropology
Description
This course takes an anthropological life course approach to examine cultural and historical dynamics of birth, sex, and death cross-culturally. These three universal facts of human life are experienced, valued, and undertaken in in vastly different ways across cultural contexts and throughout time. Major topics include fertility, political and cultural determinants of birth and infant survival, emergent sexualities, sexual citizenships, sexual agency, aging, documenting death, and funerary rites.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 111.3; and 30 credit units of university-level courses or permission of the instructor.
Note: Students who have taken ANTH 311: Selected Topics - Birth and Sex and Death may not take this course for credit.
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