This course is an introduction to the broad field of Anthropology and its subdisciplines—cultural
anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and physical anthropology. It will explore the
World of Anthropology, each subdiscipline, and the relationship between these disciplines through a
series of culturally important and often controversial issues. This term we will cover Traditional
Medicine (and the larger issues of Religion, Shamans, and Healers), Cannibalism (and the related
issues of Ethnicity, Identity, and the Other), and the Anthropological Perspective (and issues such as
Facts, Hoaxes and Conventional Histories, Settlement Scenarios, Holistic Investigations, Ethics, and
Fieldwork).
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