Anthropology is an interdisciplinary field that is uniquely positioned to answer some of humanity’s biggest questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? And how could it be that, despite our seemingly limitless physical and cultural diversity, we are indeed a single human race? Anthropologists hold no monopoly on truth or explanations, but they do employ a wide range of methods to explore the remarkable breadth of the human condition.
This course is an introduction to academic anthropology and its 4 subfields: biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and sociocultural anthropology. Over the course of 24 lectures, we will learn how anthropology and its subfields further our understanding of our world and ourselves. Specifically, we’ll see how anthropologists deploy multidisciplinary methods to trace the origins of our species as well as the development of religion, agriculture, money, language, and many other pillars of the modern human experience.
Meetings are online (over Zoom) Tuesday Evenings at 7:00 p.m.
Go to esuc.org/carterclass and click through to the Zoom meeting
Alan Carter has been a member of East Shore since 1997 and leads many of these classes.
For more details see: Anthropology and the Study of Humanity (Great Courses)
We have several parking lots. Our upper lot, off SE 32nd Street, is closest to our Sanctuary, it has handicap and stroller parking. There is a roundabout for drop-offs. Our lower, main parking lot is also off SE 32nd Street. There are stairs that will lead you up to the Sanctuary. If that lot is full, there is also street parking on 32nd Street.