This was the homepage for the anthropology lectures in Introduction to Anthropology 2022:
Introduction to Anthropology 2022
Part 1: Biology
Anthropology as Viewing the World
- Chapter 1 (part 1 of 2), “Introduction: Viewing the World” (1-15)
Boasian Anthropology
- Chapter 1 (part 2 of 2), “Introduction: Viewing the World” (15-29)
We Are Primates
- Chapter 2, “We Are Primates” (31-56)
Barbara Smuts: Baboon Friendships
- “What are Friends For?” by Barbara Smuts (1987)
Evolutionary Theory
- Chapter 3 (part 1 of 2), “Evolutionary Thought and Theory” (57-69)
Human Niche Construction
- Chapter 3 (part 2 of 2), “Evolutionary Thought and Theory” (70-78)
- “Human niche, human behaviour, human nature” by Agustin Fuentes (2017)
First Steps
- Chapter 4 (part 1 of 3), “Human Biological Evolution” (79-94)
The Homo Species
- Chapter 4 (part 2 of 3), “Human Biological Evolution” (94-100)
Race Is Not a Biological Category
- Chapter 4 (part 3 of 3), “Human Biological Evolution” (100-105)
Part 2: Archaeology
Stone Tools and Archaeological Bias
- Chapter 5 (part 1 of 2) “Cultural Diversity from 3mya 20,000ya” (107-125)
Upper Paleolithic Figurines
- Chapter 5 (part 2 of 2) “Cultural Diversity from 3mya 20,000ya” (125-131)
- “Science, the Media, and Interpretations of Upper Paleolithic Figurines” by April Nowell and Melanie Chang (2014)
Early Human Migration to the Americas
- Chapter 6 (part 1 of 3), “Cultural Diversity from 20,000-5000ya” (133-144)
- “Genomes Reveal Humanity’s Journey into the Americas” by Jennifer Raff (2021)
Was Agriculture Humanity’s Worst Mistake?
- Chapter 6 (part 2 of 3), “Cultural Diversity from 20,000-5000ya” (144-152)
- “Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” by Jared Diamond (1987)
Domestication as Mutual Evolution
- Chapter 6 (part 3 of 3), “Cultural Diversity from 20,000-5000ya” (153-159)
Fuentes on Stone Tools and Warfare
- “Human niche, Cases 1 & 2: Stone Tools & Warfare” (Fuentes, 6-10)
How Does Anthropology Define Civilization?
- Chapter 7, “Archaeology of the Last 5,000 Years” (161-184)
Marketing Conquest
- “Marketing conquest and the vanishing Indian: An Indigenous response to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse” by Michael Wilcox (2010)
Part 3: Culture
World Before Anthropology
- End of “Marketing conquest” (111-115) by Michael Wilcox
Trouillot: Two Parts of Culture
- Chapter 8 (part 1 of 3), “Studying Culture” (186-200)
Dependence and Independence Training
- “Our Babies, Ourselves” by Meredith Small (1997)
Five Things You Need to Know About Culture
- Chapter 8 (part 2 of 3), “Studying Culture” (200-205)
Participant Observation
- Chapter 8 (part 3 of 3), “Studying Culture” (205-212)
Conceptual Translation
- “Shakespeare in the Bush” by Laura Bohannan (1966)
Economics Without Money
- Chapter 10 (part 1 of 2), “Food-Getting and Economics” (239-247)
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
- Chapter 10 (part 2 of 2), “Food-Getting and Economics” (247-267)
- “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” by Richard Borshay Lee (1969)
Part 4: Futures
Ongka’s Big Moka
- Chapter 12, “Political Organization”
Marriage & Family
- Chapter 11, “Marriage, Family, Gender, Sexuality”
Sacred Roles and Social Structure
- Chapter 13, “Supernaturalism” (325-348)
Baseball Magic
- “Baseball Magic” by George Gmelch
Pristine Wilderness Myth
- “How ‘Wilderness’ Was Invented Without Indigenous Peoples” by Claudia Geib (2022)
Sustainability
- Chapter 14, “Anthropology and Sustainability” (349-375)
This course is part of a series of Intro-to-Anthropology courses online. In 2026 I used The Human Story: An Introduction to Anthropology with this course outline.
For more see the Teaching Anthropology Hub.