2024-2025 Undergraduate General Catalog

ANTH 268 Ethics in Human Remains (E)

In this course we will reflect and discuss ethical perspectives surrounding the handling, treatment, display, curation, trade, and research of human remains. In doing so, we will consider how ethical perspectives vary according to national, legal, spiritual, and cultural contexts. Additionally, we will consider debates on how the state of human remains, whether mummified, skeletonized, dissected, desiccated, etc., factors into ethical discussions on what is deemed permissible (or prohibited) in the handling of human remains.

Credits

3

Offered

Every Spring