THEMES OF STUDY:

 -   Concept of Anthropology.

 -   Areas of Anthropology: Physical, cultural, social, etiological areas, etc.

 -   Anthropology and related sciences: Psychology, sociology, history, statistics, archaeology, history of religions, mythology, etc.

 -   Totemism as a cultural ancestral phenomenon. Its symbolic significance. Its theological reality. Veracity and relation of Totemism with the metaphysical or supernatural world.

 -   Ritual and folkloric dances. Their origin, and their theological, philosophical, mythological and social implications.

 -   The serpentine Cults. Their inherence in all the civilizations of the past.

 -   The cults to nature. The veneration of the four fundamental elements of nature -water, land, air and fire. Ceremonial, metaphysical and social connotations of such cults.

 

The cult to fertility. Myths, legends and sexual rites of the cultures all over the world. Depth and veracity of those cults in the ideological and psychological formation of the ancient folk groups. Incidence of such cults in the formation of the social status of ancient civilizations.

 -   The death in the ancient traditions. Psychological and philosophical inherence of the phenomenon of death. The burial as historic and social phenomenon of the ancient peoples. Metaphysical relations in the funeral ceremonials. The death and its relation with the idiosyncrasy of ancient cultures.

 -   Symbolisms and rites of the archaic peoples. Theological symbology. Graphic and spoken symbology. Numeric symbology. The attires wore by the social classes of the past as part of the symbols of that time.

 
 
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