本课程的目标是通过描述、分析和阐释人类文化的差异和相似，展现不同人群对环境的适应和对生活意义的赋予。从学科肇始起，人类学家就着眼于了解人类社会的多面性，了解文化、政治、经济和环境因素是如何形塑人们的生活方式、生计、语言与认知。本课程将着重介绍文化人类学的基本概念、理论、主题和目前关注热点，通过课堂讲授、小组讨论、经典名著阅读和民族志电影观看等多种形式开展教学。The goal of cultural anthropology is to describe, analyze and explain similarities and differences among human cultures and to show how groups adapt to their environments and invest their lives with meaning. Since the discipline’s inception, anthropologists have dedicated themselves to exploring human societies in all of their diversity: the distinct cultures, politics, economies, and environments by which people have given shape to different ways of living, working, speaking, and understanding. This course offers an introduction to the basic concepts, ideas, issues, and debates in cultural anthropology through lectures, section discussion, readings and ethnographic films.