Anthropology 690STA - History of Anthropology

This course will trace historical developments in anthropological theories, critically examining the foundations, paradigmatic shifts, contradictions, and also social and historical context of those theories. Throughout the course, we will review evolutionary, relativistic, material, psychological, structural, and symbolic conceptions of culture, grappling with the issues of power, colonialism, sexism, and racism that have faced and continue to shape anthropology. This course will also address the defining of anthropology as four-field, and consider the context of "world anthropologies."

This course is open to Graduate Students in Anthropology only