Anthropology 333 - Calderwood Seminar: Nature/Culture and Public Anthropology

Caldr Sem:Natr/Cultr&Publc ANT

Spring
2024
01
4.00
Suzanne K. Gottschang

TH 1:20 PM - 4:00 PM

Smith College
ANT-333-01-202403
Dewey 104
szhang@smith.edu
Is it nature or culture that makes humans themselves? This question continues to provoke heated debates in American life, and anthropology has played a crucial role in them since Margaret Mead’s groundbreaking account of her 1925 fieldwork on Samoan adolescents. The stakes for understanding the nature/culture dichotomy are high, as this course assesses human impacts on the environment, how new reproductive technologies reconfigure family relations or how race is a cultural not a biological construct. In a workshop setting, anthropology majors develop a portfolio of public writing as they contribute to contemporary conversations about the nature/culture divide. Cannot be taken S/U. Prerequisites: course work in Anthropology. Enrollment limited to 12. Juniors and senior Anthropology majors only. Instructor permission required. (E)

[CE] ANT majors only; JR/SR only; Prereq: One ANT course

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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