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Sociology and Anthropology

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Anthropology and History

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Considers anthropological approaches to the study of history, the ways in which people construct their histories, and social historians' effort to incorporate anthropological and ethnographic orientations into their accounts. Attention to tensions between culture and power in the constitution of historiography and to methodological challenges of interpreting qualitative and quantitative data.

1 Section Currently Scheduled for Fall 2012

From the Schedule of Classes