50-3104 Social Objects: Exploring Material Culture

The social value of physical things (sometimes called material culture by anthropologists) is often overlooked in the study of human interactions. Course will investigate how objects mediate relationships between individuals and social groups. Current theories in the anthropology of material culture will help students examine ethnographic case studies about the manufacture and the trade of objects from several different world areas. Students will be encouraged to develop broader understandings of the ways in which objects are used in their own lives.

3 Credits
SS
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112