ANTH 3230 - Anthropology of Death and Burial

(3) Credit Hours

This seminar will examine cross-cultural variation in mortuary behavior. The goal of this seminar is to provide students with foundational knowledge in the anthropological literature of mortuary studies. Students will be introduced to theoretical approaches to studying burial practices in the archaeological record as well as ethnographic examples of various mortuary rituals in modern societies. Course discussions will center on various case studies from ethnographic and archaeological examples.