Course Catalog - 2004-2005

     

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: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE ***** 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. ***** Instructor(s): Landecker. Repeatable for Credit.