ANTH 266. Anthropology of Love (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/ANTH.html#anth266
Description
This course interrogates the association of romantic love with modernity, egalitarianism, and choice. The focus is on how cultural political economy shapes desires and structures relationships. We consider how race, class, nation, gender, and sexuality reinforce or undermine status hierarchies. For example, we examine the concept of racial and transnational hypergamy, in which women, men, and trans people from lower status ethnic groups and developing countries “marry up.” Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Prerequisite courses
ANTH 266 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have ANTH 266 as a prerequisite.