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Mar 19, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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ANT 175 Peoples and Cultures of the World Credits: (3)
This course provides students with a comparative survey of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the modern world, from the late 1800s to the present. Course readings will focus on the ethnographic study of peoples from all major culture areas of the world outside of Europe: Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Pacific Islands and Australia, North America, and South America. Through this class, students will gain a general understanding of world cultures and the utility of ethnography as a means for exploring specific cultures and ethnology as a basis for cross-cultural comparison and comprehension.
SUNY Gen Ed Area(s): DEISJ, Social Sciences, World History & Global Awareness
Designation(s): Liberal Arts
Learning Outcomes
- Define the main concepts and ethnographic/ethnological (comparative) methods by which anthropologists study human cultures.
- Describe and compare the general socio-cultural characteristics of indigenous societies in each major culture area (North and South America, Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, the Arctic, Oceania, and Australia).
- Describe some of the important customs and institutions of the specific societies chosen as ethnographic case studies.
- Compare the specific features of particular societies chosen as ethnographic case studies over time with the general features of their respective culture areas.
- Identify potential sources of bias in the comparison of culture and critically evaluate general claims about human societies as a whole based on ethnographic data.
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