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| | Williams College Office of the Registrar: Courses 2000-2001 |
 | | Bringing together insights from anthropology, art history, and religious studies, this course will explore the geography of sacred space: the spatial organization of meaning across time and the world as humans have again and again made a division between sacred and profane. |
 | | We will attend to this process as expressed in the geography, social dynamics, and architecture of sacred space, noting patterns of similarity and difference among and between the "little traditions" of folk and traditional societies as well as the "great traditions" of universalist and modern societies. |
 | | We will develop analytical tools for interpreting the meaning and aesthetics of sacred space as it is constituted in the natural landscape (e.g., sacred mountains, rivers, trees, etc.) artificially-constructed places (e.g., temples, monuments, shrines, etc.) and the intersection of the two. |
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