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ANTH-232 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Fall only
This anthropology course provides an overview of the changing cultures, institutions, processes, and challenges in African societies, and it uses ethnographies to highlight some of the key socio-cultural issues now confronting Africans. There are three basic themes that run through the course and that help shape the materials presented: 1) a triple-heritage of Traditional African culture, Islamic culture, and Western Christendom exists, and accounts for the multiple, overlapping identities and continuities, and cultural adaptiveness all cross Africa; 2) the social institutions have a stable core, but they are also being reorganized as Africans attempt to preserve some aspects of existing structures, values and processes, while integrating other imported and global ones; and 3) many of the cultural conflicts and problems in contemporary Africa derive from the global-local interface, but must be approached in a fashion consonant with indigenous cultures and local-national needs. These are significant themes, some of which have been highly debated in the wider literatures of anthropology, social science, and political science. Yet, they become clearer as we examine a variety of cultures all across the Continent.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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ANTH-232-01 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
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Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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