ANTH 5301 - Anthropology of Death

Three credit hours.

Death is one of the few true human universals. However, there is tremendous temporal and cross cultural variation in the attitudes toward and the practices associated with death. This class explores this variation from a holistic, anthropological viewpoint incorporating concepts from cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. Topics include medical versus social death, mourning practices, memorialization, and forms of burial. Cross listed as ANTH 4301.