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ANTH-E 373: PLAGUES AND PEOPLE (3 credits)

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Examines pandemics as cultural phenomena. Provides a backdrop to the 2020-2022 pandemic by studying how anthropologists and historians have viewed pandemics in different places and times. Explores cultural understandings of social solidarity, family obligations, the common good, risk, responsibility, authority, and the enforcement of new social norms in this context.

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