From "Unga Bungaís" to the Nacirema, from the Hottentot Venus to the Silicon Woman--Discover the fascinating discipline of anthropology and its transnational perspectives on relations of culture, power, people, and place in diverse global societies.

• develop your own critical anthropological perspective with which to interpret and evaluate contemporary events and issues more incisively---invaluable to any career!

• sharpen your analytical, critical thinking, and writing skills

• explore colonial/postcolonial relations, First/Third Worlds, modern/postmodern histories, local/global interactions, sovereign/subaltern identities, real/surreal/hyperreal/virtual realities

• diversify your knowledge base with historically-situated, cross-cultural research on cultural practices, social and identity struggles, political-economic processes, global scope

• grounded in ethnographic fieldwork research methods and observational techniques, and a critical understanding of the poetics and politics of ethnographic representations of Otherness