Thinking Beyond the Human

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Through a framework of multispecies ethnography, this course examines our relationships with other living beings from an historical and cross-cultural perspective. Students will gain an understanding of changing interpretations of how anthropology has theorized the plants and animals that share this world with us. Topics include extinction and conservation, domestication, zoos, seed banks, GMO, plant and animal agency, animal rights, the production of science, and indigenous knowledge.