FSEM 194   Culture, Diversity and Inequality

Faculty Profile for Professor Shever

Provides an introduction to cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology explores the commonalities and differences in human behaviors, experiences, identities, values, and life ways of people around the world. Students are introduced to the central topics, concepts, and methods of cultural anthropology by examining cases from around the world and close to home. Students acquire an “anthropological perspective” to reframe important issues in your everyday lives and in public debate into critical insights about the complex world around us. Students who successfully complete this seminar earn credit for ANTH 102 and can satisfy the social relations, institutions, and agents area of inquiry requirement or the confronting collective challenges liberal arts practice requirement.

Elana Shever is a cultural anthropologist. Her research has taken her from Patagonia to North Dakota, examining people’s relationship to their environment and natural materials, capitalism, science, and social change.