The subject of social and cultural anthropology is conceived as an introductory study, but comprehensive, to the systematic of contemporary anthropology, focusing on the contributions, theoretical and methodological approaches and areas of cutting edge research in the discipline and its connection to the great problems and processes of the current global socio-cultural reality. This is projected to expand and inform the student competencies in critical knowledge and conceptual tools and techniques to address the complex task of interpreting the diversity, specificity and regularities of contemporary cultural phenomena and their inherent problems, from the perspective of local point of view, a feature of the anthropological discipline.
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