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ANTH 3715

Plagues and Peoples

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2025

Topics

  • archaeological and anthropological perspectives. This approach emphasizes the complex
  • interrelationships among human health, culture and the environment. The course provides
  • the biomedical and anthropological frameworks within which infectious diseases are
  • studied including host-pathogen relationships and the dynamics of disease transmission. It
  • examines how large-scale social transformations such as sedentism, animal and plant
  • domestication, urbanism, and industrialization influence the types of diseases
  • encountered, modes of disease transmission and cultural perceptions of disease

Readings

  • Required: Sherman, I. W. (2017). The power of plagues. John Wiley & Sons. 2nd Edition text or 2nd Edition ebook.
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