ANTH 371 Anthropology of Contemporary Latin America; History, Ethnicity and Religion.
A survey of peoples and cultures of Middle America, South America and the Caribbean from an anthropological perspective. For those interested in preparing for travel, business, government service, journalism or volunteer work in Latin America, as well as for elementary or secondary school teaching. Anthropology students will benefit from the discussions of social organization and social structure, class and ethnicity, social identity and other topics. It adopts an historical approach to examine major trends in economy, urbanization and migration, class and ethnicity, religion and politics.