ANTH 338 - Native Cultures of South America

Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 300
Domain (Anchored): CSI
This course focuses on continuity and change among different lifeways in indigenous communities in the Andean highlands and the Amazonian lowlands. We learn how indigenous institutions and organization, colonialism, economic development, and state-building have shaped contemporary communities and the issues they face. The course uses in-depth ethnographic works that cover, among other topics, kinship, social organization, ceremony and history, so that the lives of specific communities come into focus. The engagement with outside visitors provides an occasion for students to make use of this specific knowledge and reflect on its significance for decision making and accountability in an interdependent world. IR, LAS, ENSP students welcome.