ANTH 104 - Anthropology of Pop Culture: Making the Familiar Strange

Examination of American popular culture as a widely-shared and contested set of beliefs, values, and practices embodied in a variety of topics such as consumerism, sports, race and ethnicity, poverty and social mobility, food systems, sex and sexual orientation, and globalization. All topics are critically examined in a crosscultural and/or cultural evolutionary anthropological context.

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