AP/ANTH 3560 3.00 Anthropology of the Senses

NOT OFFERED DURING 2023-2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

This course explores how humans make and understand the world through their senses, the history of the senses in a variety of systems of thought and experience, and the meanings and uses of the senses in a range of contexts. Students critically examine and evaluate particular aspects of the senses as they relate to theories and methods of sociocultural anthropology through lectures, demonstrations and experimentation.