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Description of the Course

MIS 2100 - Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Society and culture: their organization and functions. Enculturation of the individual; personality and culture; crossing a cultural boundary: culture shock and adaptation. The dynamics in social and culture change: continuity and discontinuity, innovation and diffusion. Interventions (political, economic, and religious) in the lives and development of other peoples and cultures. Acculturation and revitalization of cultures.