SOCI 401/421 Social Anthropology

Anthropology and its sub-fields; Nature, scope and methodology of social/cultural anthropology; Evolution and diversity of humans; Culture; Environments and modes of making a living/Adaptive Strategies; Marriage, family, kinship and descent; Economic production, distribution and exchange; Political systems, Religion; Motivations for and impact of Colonialism, the Evolution of the World System; Cultural Exchange: Contact and Domination, adaptation and resistances of the weak; Contemporary Development in social anthropology; Applied social/cultural anthropology.