The Five Fields of Anthropology

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Anthropology 140
Health, Healing and Culture

This course will look across cultures, at the diversity of ways humans have learned to deal with illness, pain and curing. The class will explore human "well-being" as it relates to factors such as environment, nutrition, population size, migration, economics, cross-cultural contact, and culture itself.

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Anthropology 101: Introduction to Anthropology

Anthropology 105: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology 208: Peoples of the World

Anthropology 218: Sex and Gender, a Cross-cultural Perspective

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