ANT 295-02 - Special Topic: Anthropology of Disaster

4 credits (Fall Term 1)

This course examines the complex role that human societies and culture play in the creation and impact of disasters. Using the holistic and cross-cultural perspective of anthropology, students will examine the ways in which natural, sociocultural and technological systems interact to produce catastrophe. Using ethnographic case studies and anthropological theory, students will examine the sociocultural causes of disasters and analyze the way in which individuals, communities and organizations prepare for, respond to and are affected by disasters.

Prerequisite: ANT 104.
Instructor: Kulstad