AS 112 - NCH Understanding Asian Cultures

4.00 credits.

(Non-Western Cultural Heritage Core Course)
In Understanding Asian Cultures, we shall use the concepts, theories, methods and data used by cultural anthropologists to look at various Asian cultures and see what we can learn about their value systems, languages, economic systems, family and kinship structures, systems of power and social stratification, etc. After that, we will do a close reading of an ethnography of an Asian country. This will help us understand how cultural anthropologists study various countries, helping us gain insights into the cultural configurations of specific societies.