Course Description

Anthropology 219F/G Cultures of Middle East

A critical examination of approaches that tend to homogenize and dehistoricize Middle Eastern peoples. The course provides an historical overview that reveals regional heterogeneity, and shifts in peoples, powers and borders. Due to the immensity and complexity of the region, the thematic focus will change regularly.

Prerequisite: One 020-099 level course from Administrative and Commercial Studies, Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology or Sociology.

3 lecture hours.

Usually only two of Anthropology 211F/G, 212F/G, 216F/G, 217F/G, 218F/G, 219F/G will be offered in any given year.

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