Anthropology of Art

ANT4212.01
Course System Home Terms Spring 2016 Anthropology of Art

Course Description

Summary

This course is an exploration of art as defined and practiced in different cultures. We will look at how peoples of diverse world cultures create, use, manipulate, conceptualize, exchange, and evaluate objects of material culture. We will look at how material items are considered to be artistic or aesthetic in some fashion, and think of how and if we can translate those values across cultural boundaries.

Prerequisites

Previous work in anthropology or previous work in social sciences.

Please contact the faculty member :

Instructor

  • Miroslava Prazak

Day and Time

Academic Term

Spring 2016

Credits

4

Course Level

4000

Maximum Enrollment

16