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.