Anthropology - Haverford College

Anthropology from Haverford College is a Campus Bachelor Anthropology degree that prepares you for a Science career. Anthropology is the holistic and comparative study of human beings. Anthropologists study people from a variety of perspectives--historical, biological, social, and cultural. At Haverford we teach socio-cultural anthropology: the comparative study of social organization, family life, subsistence, exchange, politics, ritual, religion, and expressive culture in diverse human communities. Socio-cultural anthropologists aim to promote knowledge and broaden intercultural understanding through sustained participant-observation fieldwork; they study small-scale indigenous and rural communities, state societies and urban populations, and, increasingly, transnational polities and cultures. Anthropology at Haverford The Anthropology Major at Haverford teaches students the methods of social and cultural analysis and introduces them to the history of Anthropology through a combination of courses in social theory and ethnography. Students are encouraged to think critically and self-reflectively about several areas of theoretical concern and intellectual inquiry, including: 1. The problem of ethnography: the interpretive skills, analytic frameworks, and descriptive genres through which anthropologists have sought to represent their own and other societies. 2. Comparative social structure and comparative social process: how persons are linked, related or opposed in various social orders or social fields, and how such relations are reproduced over time; modes of production, power, and knowledge. 3. The "person" as understood or constituted in various cultural systems: gender and sexuality, age and generation, caste, ethnicity, national affiliation, and race. 4. Meaning, communication, and symbolic process: the department encourages interest in material culture and visual anthropology (e.g., art, architecture and spatial order, film, video and cassette media, etc.). 5. Anthropological understandings of history: problems of historical transformation, and the intellectual legacies and limitations of social evolutionist models, including theories of progress, development and modernization. View more details on Haverford College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Anthropology courses.