BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY PERSPECTIVES OF DEATH

Course Code:
ANTH 526
Course Group(s):
Anthropology Graduate Courses, Elective Courses
Course Description:

This course provides an overview of the political, social, and economic aspectsof death from a multi-cultural perspective across both temporal and spatialdimensions. Students will read and engage with a variety of materials fromnumerous academic disciplines as they explore the role of forensic and biologicalanthropologists as key players in the interpretation of circumstances surroundingthe death of an individual. This course will focus heavily on war crimes and theatrocities of conflict, but there will also be a significant portion of the class devotedto understanding the anthropological theories underpinning how forensic andbiological anthropologists address such events

Credit:
3