Anna Horolets

ANTH 275 Peoples and Cultures of East Asia 

3 credits 

The course seeks to examine various aspects of culture of East Asia. A focus on culture serves 

as one of the most useful means of looking at East Asia as an entity. A comparative 

perspective will be employed to examine the cultural links and the cultural differences among 

China, Japan and Korea (as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan). The course also introduces 

students to a variety of methodologies for the study of culture (e. g. anthropology, cultural 

studies, and history) alongside the use of material and visual culture such as art objects, 

artifacts, novels, memoirs, films, among others, about/from the countries of East Asia.