It will discuss how far the myths of the preliterate societies reflect the complexities of social family structures and explains different approaches to understanding myth (e.g., Freud, Jung, Levi-Strauss, Propp, and Burket). This course investigates analogies and parallels in the legends of Greek, Roman, and Thracian societies. The impact of modern nation-states on other societies is also explored. This course covers political and legal institutions from a cross-cultural perspective and covers problems of political boundaries, allocation of authority, and resolution of conflict. Stress is placed upon the substantive study of ethnicity in a variety of specific enclaves. It covers an analysis of efforts by political, social, racial, and ethnic movements and organizations to change the stratification system to improve their social conditions. The focus on the dynamics of ethnicity stresses those social processes that surround it. This course is a study of ethnicity in historical and contemporary perspective examining factors involved in intergroup relationships, with emphasis on majority and minority groups. The nature of the anthropological approach is provided.
It covers the integration of subfields in approaches to the definition of humanity and the meaning of being human. This course serves as a general introduction to anthropology and its four subfields: archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and physical anthropology.
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