Course Catalog - 2003-2004

     

ANTH 440 - BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE

Long Title:
Department: Anthropology
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: RENOVATING LIFE: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND BIOSCIENCE ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 2 ***** This course focuses on anthropology of the life sciences. We will examine how this work takes contemporary bioscience as a site for cultural analysis, and also the allied proposals that this represents an opportunity to renovate classic anthropological analyses and categories of kinship, reproduction, the body, life, death and identity. Repeatable for Credit.