GE-423 Introduction to Anthropology

Church workers cross cultures every week. Anthropology helps you listen before you speak, see a community as a whole, and notice what you miss in yourself.

Following Every Tribe and Tongue, with the OpenStax textbook beside it, this course begins with the discipline itself, with culture and with human origins. It moves on to economy and power, inequality and migration, kinship, marriage and gender, and ends with religion, food, art, health and Indigenous peoples. You learn to state an anthropological view fairly, to weigh it from Christian teaching and to use its tools to serve your church and community.

What you will study

• What anthropology is and how it works
• Culture, creation and human biology
• Human origins, the image of God and the gift of language
• Work, exchange and power
• Inequality and migration: the poor and the stranger
• Kinship, marriage, family and gender
• Religion, the spirit world and the victory of Christ
• Food, art, health and Indigenous peoples

Course materials

• Every Tribe and Tongue, a WWES textbook
• Introduction to Anthropology, an OpenStax textbook