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ANTHROPOLOGY OF RITUAL

Course Code:
ANTH 344
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Course Description:
This course is intended to introduce students first to the variety of anthropological theories which have attempted to make ritual practice intelligible to observers, and second, to the kinds of rituals in which humans participate during the course of their lives. Particular attention will be paid to how material culture and space are manipulated within ritual practice, in an ongoing discussion of how archaeologists explore rituals in the past.
Credit:
3
Instruction methods:
Lecture
Total hours: 45
Prerequisites:

ANTH 112, ANTH 130

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