Dec 13, 2024  
College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
College Catalog 2024-2025

ANTH 243 - Psychological Anthropology

Cross-Listed as PSYC 243  
This course explores the relationship between self, culture and society. We will examine and discuss critically the broad array of methods and theories anthropologists use to analyze personality, socialization, mental illnes and cognition in different societies. Our aim is to address questions related to the cultural patterning of personality, the self and emotions and to understand how culture might shape ideas of what a person is. We will also seek to understand how cultures define behavior as abnormal, pathological or insane, and how they make sense of trauma and suffering. Prerequisite(s):   or  . Alternate years. (4 Credits)