ANTH 312: Political Anthropology

ANTH 312-DL1: Political Anthropology
(Spring 2026)

Online

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Section Information for Spring 2026

This course will compare political structures and access to power in a variety of cultural contexts. It will also address issues of stratification, marginalization, and the importance of aspects of identity such as race, ethnicity, gender, nationality and other factors in peoples’ creation of political structures and access to power. Political disagreement and even violence will be a particular focus of this course as the above factors will be used to understand political conflict, and in some cases the resolution of such conflict.

ANTH 312-DL1 is an online asynchronous section.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Examines cultural and ecological contexts of political structures and competition for power in selected societies; and cross-cultural and comparative approaches to study of political conflict, leadership, values, and symbolism. Offered by Sociology & Anthropology. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Global Understanding
Recommended Prerequisite: ANTH 114, 60 hrs, or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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