FUNERARY ARCHAEOLOGY

Course Code:
ANTH 342
Active Term:
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Course Description:
This course will have several aims. The first is to expose students to how archaeologists and anthropologists have conceptualized death and what effect this has had on the contribution of funerary material/activities to particular studies of social and economic development and change through the years. The second aim is to introduce students to the diversity of funerary practices in both the past and in the present, and more specifically, to explore the role of funerary rituals within the economic and social reproduction of particular communities. The third aim is to address how death has become politicized in the ongoing conflict between indigenous peoples and scientists over the ownership and control of human remains and their past.
Credit:
3
Instruction methods:
Lecture
Total hours: 45
Prerequisites:

ANTH 130

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