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Building Your Focus Cultural Anthropology
WEBCultural anthropologists study human cultures, relationships, technologies, religions, healing practices, art, foodways, and more. Using a social research method called ethnography, anthropologists deepen their study by considering specific political, historical, and economic contexts. Ethnography can reveal local solutions to global challenges: from racism to …
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Culture and Mental Health Cultural Anthropology
WEBThis course examines the social and cultural facets of mental illness, psychological diagnoses, and mental health from the standpoints of cultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, and social medicine. Global case studies will form the basis for several key questions: how do mental distress and forms of treatment differ cross-culturally? How …
Global Mental Health Cultural Anthropology
WEBExamination of global mental health from perspectives of culture, public health, epidemiology, human rights, policy, and intervention. Disciplines include cross-cultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, public mental health, and economics. Topics include ethics, stigma, cross-cultural classification of mental health, ethnopsychology, trauma, …
Pandemics and human rights Cultural Anthropology
WEBRobin Kirk, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Co-Director, Duke Human Rights Center Human rights are central to the emergence of and responses to pandemics. The fundamental right is the right to life, supported by other rights, including the right to health. Other rights—like freedom of movement or speech—can be limited in times of …
Anthropology in the Pandemic Cultural Anthropology
WEBDiane M Nelson, Professor of Cultural Anthropology In 1937 the French Jewish anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss fled the Nazis but was denied entry into the United States. He ended up doing fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon with the Nambikwara, reputed to be cannibals. He later reflected on these experiences in “A Little Glass of Rum” …
Anthropology & Activism Cultural Anthropology
WEBThe connection between anthropology, advocacy, and activism goes back at least to early 20th century American anthropology. Franz Boas challenged the scientific racism of Victorian anthropology to insist on racial equality and that cultures should be understood in their own terms. The single most famous 20th century anthropologist, Margaret
Courses Cultural Anthropology
WEBFirst-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose. 100-199 Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses. 200-399 Undergraduate courses above introductory level. 400-499 Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses.
Frequently Asked Questions Cultural Anthropology
WEBWe have an excellent record of placing our graduates in tenure-track jobs, including many at top universities. Of our graduates in the last 5 years 58% are in tenure track university positions, 25% are in visiting teaching or postdoctoral fellowship positions, and 17% are in non-university positions. We have graduates as professors at Harvard
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