Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGIES OF NATURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class examines the uses and makings of nature in accounts of the human and post-human. It introduces students to nature as an object of study, as an analytic and as a heuristic. Some of the topics the course explores include the nature-culture dyad, nature as resource, science and technology and the remaking of nature, economies of nature, materiality, nature and kinship, and natural ontologies. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 348. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 548 if student has credit for ANTH 348.