ANTH 308

Legality and Social Justice in Global Perspective

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

A cross-cultural analysis of concepts of justice and the construction of legality in a range of societies with varying degrees of complexity. Topics include contemporary initiatives aimed at achieving social justice internationally by drawing on indigenous concepts and structures in the restructuring of legality as it is practiced in industrial and post-industrial societies.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 308, 390A, 393 (if taken in the same topic).

Prerequisites: 100 or 200 or permission of the department.

Undergraduate course in Anthropology offered by the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Social Sciences.