ANTH 3320 - Amazonia:People,Culture,Nature

College of Liberal Arts, Education and Human Development

Lecture
- Credits: 3

Ethnographic survey of the sociocultural systems developed by the indigenous peoples of Amazonia and other lowland forests. Ecological factors, subsistence practices, social organizations, politics, cosmology, ethnohistory, myths, and belief systems. Contemporary issues of colonialism, contact, change, continuity, resistance, and cultural survival, as well as issues of human rights and the destruction of the Amazonian rain forest will be examined.

Grading Basis: Graded
Repeatable: N
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