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ANTH

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Political Anthropology

Prerequisites: 6 hours of anthropology or political science, and junior or senior standing. Offered in alternate years.

Contribution of anthropology to the comparative study of politics. Politics in hunting-and-gathering and horticultural societies. Non-Western ("primitive") states. Peasant-state relations. The politics of social change in developing areas. Emphasis on theoretical perspectives.
 

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