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2016-2017 University Catalog 
  
2016-2017 University Catalog

ANTH 372 - Cultures of Disaster, Risk, and Hope

Credits: 3
Not Repeatable for Credit
Offered by Sociology and Anthropology .
By using ethnographic accounts on disasters in different cultural settings, this course explores cultural meanings of disasters as well as broader anthropological issues such as risk, power, modernity, memory, trauma, temporality, monster, nature, science and technology, and hope.

Fulfills Mason Core requirement in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Schedule Type: SEM