Anth 319: Cultures of the Middle East

This course examines the anthropological literature on the Middle East region to identify, probe, and analyze socio-cultural patterns and processes across a broad region of considerable complexity.

The term "Middle East" refers to a geopolitical and cultural area. This course examines the anthropological literature on the region to identify, probe, and analyze socio-cultural patterns and processes across a broad region of considerable complexity. The course explores what shared patterns of cultural and social life make this a region and promote cultural integration and what are the factors that produce difference and complexity. Focus is on local-level social and cultural processes contextualized within a regional and global framework.