2013 Introduction to Anthropology – Four Fields
Introduction to Anthropology with “What Does it Mean to be Human?”; “Labor and Legality”; and “Applying Anthropology.” Biological, Archaeology, Culture.
Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility
This index-tag contains chronically-ordered blog-posts related to anthropology textbooks.
Many of the posts are related to Introduction-to-Anthropology. My current favorite textbook is the 5th edition of Anthropology: What Does it Mean to be Human? by Robert Lavenda and Emily Schultz. To follow along with my course, see Intro to Anthro 2021.
The page dedicated to Anthropology Courses and Textbooks is particularly important, as that is the place where the anthropology courses are cataloged.
Introduction to Anthropology with “What Does it Mean to be Human?”; “Labor and Legality”; and “Applying Anthropology.” Biological, Archaeology, Culture.
The really scary part of the Diamond Romney dustup is how Romney recaps Diamond: European imperialism is accidental but societies choose to fail.
Updated sources for teaching race anthropologically. Race is a social construction, but we need to understand that racism is what makes race salient.
Research on earliest Americans reveals multiple migrations and complexity. But Nicholas Wade botches the coverage–and the anthropology.
For a four-field introductory course, I reviewed the Anthropology Second Edition: Lavenda & Schultz, What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Anthropology insists sex, gender, and sexuality include human activity and imagination–explaining why “gender is a social construction”
Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.
How can we stop trellises from turning into trees? Emphasizing non-directionality and complexity in evolutionary understandings.
Free PowerPoint for “Anthropology and Moral Optimism”; Denisovan admixture update; AAA news and the 2011 Anthropology in Media Award.
This post on Anthropology 101 in 2011 was a call to action for introductory courses to address the big themes of Human Nature, Race, & Evolution.
Have the promoters of anthropological cosmopolitanism considered the proximity of Cosmopolitan the magazine? Does cosmopolitanism improve on cultural relativism?
Kottak and Gezon’s Culture uses a magazine-style textbook to double down on culture in anthropology. That’s problematic–culture is already everywhere.