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Appendix: Personnel & Enrollment
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ANTH
320
Peasants, Nomads and Rural Change
3 cr
Prerequisite: ANTH 202 or SOC 201. Offered in alternate years.
Political economies of crop production and livestock raising among small-scale producers in complex societies before and since the emergence of capitalism. Impacts of colonialism, the contemporary world system and expanding urban-centered national economies, polities, and cultures on peasant and pastoral communities. Changing patterns of family life, gender relations, community organization, law and politics, education and health practices, migration and occupational mobility, religious belief and practice, social identities, and similar topics are discussed with special reference to rural folk in southwestern Asia, northern Africa, and southern Europe.