Course Description

Anthropology 201F/G The Anthropology of Towns and Cities

An ethnographic approach to towns and cities examining small and large urban and peri-urban sites as complex cultural and social systems. Urban anthropological methods and approaches to homelessness, poverty and inequality, health and gender, consumption and globalization, among others, will be explored from a critical cross-cultural perspective.

Prerequisite: Any 1st year Essay full or half course and 2nd year registration or higher in any program.

3 lecture hours, half course.

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