Being Human: Culture, Identity and Society

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Taught as ANTH1001 - 'Being Human: Culture, Identity and Society' at a host insitution. We live in a multicultural world where there are many ways of 'being human'. At the same time, all people share some experiences in common—all learn, share and communicate beliefs, create and maintain social relationships, adapt to local environments, and make a living through particular modes of production. This unit explores the world's rich diversity of human experience and practice, looking at cross-cultural examples of it in domains such as religion, identity, subsistence, social inequality and communication. It also considers the variety of ways that anthropologists and sociologists conduct their research.