Fall 2008


ANTH 362
Body, Personhood, and Culture

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
UIUC Social Sciences course.

Examines basic cultural assumptions about the human body and what it means to be a "person" in Western and non-Western societies. Addresses key themes in cultural anthropology and the social sciences concerning the relationship of the individual and society and of nature and culture.