ANTH 6320 Anthropology of Conflict and Human Rights

This course reviews anthropological perspectives on human conflict, violence, human rights violations, and crimes against humanity, from a biocultural lens. This course examines the contributions of cultural anthropology (ethnography), bioarcheology, and forensic anthropology to understand past and present human conflicts from a local to a transnational scale. The course will consider anthropological perspectives on indigenous lives and colonial warfare, genocide, ethnic conflict, minority and migrants’ rights violations, framed into larger social, political, or historical contexts.

Credits

3

Schedule Type

Lecture

Grading Basis

Standard Letter (A-F)

Administrative Unit

Dept of Anthropology

Offered

As scheduled