ANTH210

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LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology (ANTH) Humanities and Global Studies

Course Description

A study of the interrelationship between a culture and its legal system, with an emphasis on contemporary industrial culture compared with agrarian culture; informal and formal regulations of social order, such as prevention of crime, punishment of criminals, strategies of social control; and the feedback between social change and the legal system. Satisfies COMPARATIVE elective requirement in Law and Society.

Convening Group

Course Attributes

MJ-INTL-Global Issues Conc (INGA), MJ-INTL-Intl Compare- Non-West (INCA), MJ-LAWS-Law & Society Elective (LAWE), OLD GE TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE (GTSS)