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1. Describe the broad history and contemporary manifestation of horse cultures’ religious traditions, as well as the details of at least one community’s.
2. Explain different ways in which horse-keeping communities’ religious identities shape and respond to larger worldviews and to factors such as colonialism, racialism, nationalism, and economies.
3. Articulate the variety of socio-religious responses to biologically required, and thus broadly shared, necessities of horse-keeping and range of horse usage.
4. Closely read and critically analyze primary texts and scholarly writings.