The Archaeology of Cannibalism and Sacrifice

Texas State University

CourseANTH 3368

This course explores violence in past societies considered especially shocking or controversial in the contemporary, developed West: human sacrifice and the consumption of the human dead. It considers cannibalism and sacrifice as cultural expressions of universal human drives and preoccupations and as historically specific solutions to common problems in social organization.

Credits

3 credits

Course Code

ANTH 3368