Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEATH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to anthropological and archaeological concepts and methods through a study of rituals surrounding death, dying, and disposal of the dead. Topics will include the definition of death, remembering and forgetting the dead, grief and mourning, tombs and funerary monuments, human sacrifice, forensic reconstructions.