ANT 458 - Anthropology of Social Change

College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

Introduces the basic concepts used by anthropologists to study change. Cultural heterogeneity of people of the Iberian peninsula, used as a means to understand social and cultural change in contemporary Spain and Portugal. Some themes examined include culture contact and acculturation, planned and nondirected change, and role of individual. Offered only in Madrid.