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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.

2013 Introduction to Anthropology – Four Fields

Introduction to Anthropology

Introduction to Anthropology with “What Does it Mean to be Human?”; “Labor and Legality”; and “Applying Anthropology.” Biological, Archaeology, Culture.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags anthropology branding, education, human nature, immigration, introduction to anthropology, textbooks 9 Comments

Jared Diamond won’t beat Mitt Romney

The really scary part of the Diamond Romney dustup is how Romney recaps Diamond: European imperialism is accidental but societies choose to fail.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, education, Eric Wolf, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, politics, primates, race, racism, textbooks 15 Comments

Teaching Race

Morning - The Nature of Race - Teaching Race

Updated sources for teaching race anthropologically. Race is a social construction, but we need to understand that racism is what makes race salient.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags anthropology branding, genetics, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, race, racism, sports, textbooks 5 Comments

DNA Battles

Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds - Nicholas Wade

Research on earliest Americans reveals multiple migrations and complexity. But Nicholas Wade botches the coverage–and the anthropology.

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Categories Archaeology Tags education, empathy, evolution, genetics, Nicholas Wade, race mixing, textbooks 12 Comments

Review: What Does It Mean to Be Human? (2nd edition)

For a four-field introductory course, I reviewed the Anthropology Second Edition: Lavenda & Schultz, What Does It Mean to Be Human?

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags education, textbooks 6 Comments

Sex, Gender, Sexuality

Warnke - After Identity - Gender is a Social Construction

Anthropology insists sex, gender, and sexuality include human activity and imagination–explaining why “gender is a social construction”

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags culture, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, sex, sexuality, textbooks, Tim Ingold 39 Comments

Teaching: Latin America & Caribbean 2012

Sanabria - Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean

Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags cultural relativism, culture, gender, immigration, Jared Diamond, Latin America, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, race, race mixing, racism, sexuality, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 19 Comments

Metaphors & Evolution

Zimmer - Tangled Bank

How can we stop trellises from turning into trees? Emphasizing non-directionality and complexity in evolutionary understandings.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, Denisovans, education, evolution, genetics, natural selection, Neandertals, textbooks 2 Comments

Capitalism, Denisovans, Anthropology in Media

Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century

Free PowerPoint for “Anthropology and Moral Optimism”; Denisovan admixture update; AAA news and the 2011 Anthropology in Media Award.

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Categories Anthropology Blogs Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, education, evolution, genetics, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 6 Comments

Anthropology 101 in 2011

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.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, education, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, race, racism, textbooks 4 Comments

Cosmopolitanism & Cultural Relativism

Have the promoters of anthropological cosmopolitanism considered the proximity of Cosmopolitan the magazine? Does cosmopolitanism improve on cultural relativism?

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Anthropology Textbooks: Doubling down on culture?

Doubling Down on Culture in Anthropology

Kottak and Gezon’s Culture uses a magazine-style textbook to double down on culture in anthropology. That’s problematic–culture is already everywhere.

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, cultural relativism, culture, education, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, politics, race, Ruth Benedict, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 6 Comments
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