Anthropology 112 Dr. Freedman --Internet Assignments


MILLER TEXT WEBSITE--INCLUDES ONLINE QUIZZES
Pull down Chapter Number
This is for the older edition but if you can't get in to myanthlab it is still useful
Citations and Bibliographic Style for Anthropology Papers

Merriam-Webster Word Games
Go to the following WEB sites connected to each chapter and read them together with the chapter in Miller with which they are assigned.  Take notes and be prepared to discuss them in class.

 
Miller Chapter Links Unit 1
Chapter 1 & 2 Chapter 9
Chapter 4
Miller Chapter Links Unit 2
Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 6
Miller Chapter Links Unit 3
Chapter 10 Chapter 11

Chapter 13



Chapter 1--Anthropology and the Study of Culture
    Cultural Materialism
    Anthropology in the News
        Read these news articles and figure out which of the fields of anthropology are most represented here. Report on 2 of your articles to the class.
  What is Culture
Trinkets and Beads

Chapter 2 -- Anthropological Fieldwork
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

Start here:
http://www.ianth.org/fieldwork/tamakoshil/default.htm

It is the page of Dr. Laura Tamakoshi, who has done fieldwork in New Guinea. At this site, you can learn about planning, field methods, and writing up fieldnotes. If you get lost in this site, return to the map to find your way around.  Find the answer to this question: What did she learn about the Gende during her fieldwork. What was surprising to her about their culture that is very different from American culture?

See also:
Review sheet for Fieldwork Methods video

Maintaining Diversity: An Ethnographic Study of Oak Park, Illinois - Progress Reports
by Jay Ruby

Ethnographic Fieldwork Coastal Maine

Bedouin women

Behind Mud Walls -- Village India 

Bibliography of
fieldwork, research methods and ethnography
in sociocultural anthropology
 

Yanomamo [pdf file, need acrobat reader}

Ch. 9 Communication

Sociolinguistics
See also:
Easter Island Script
Endangered Languages

Chapter 4 Personality and Human Development

Dani Gender Roles
Man, Not Nature, Creates sex ratios

What is Gender

Margaret Mead

Hijras

Berdache

Review Questions

1. What are third gender roles and how do they manifest themselves in Native North American cultures and in India?

 2. Define what cultural anthropologists mean by "coming of age" and discuss two examples of coming of age rituals or ceremonies and their significance.

3. Why do anthropologists study parent-infant co-sleeping patterns?
 



Unit 2
Chapter 3: Economies and their Modes of Production
Group Lab Project: What are the characteristices of foraging and pastoralist groups?  Use the examples of the Inupiat, the Sami, Mbuti, !Kung, Maasai, and Australian Aboriginal people to answer this question.

Subsistence Patterns: start here

Inupiat of the Arctic:  http://www.lib.uconn.edu/arcticcircle/HistoryCulture/Inupiat/

Sami of the Tundra:  http://www.itv.se/boreale/samieng.htm
and a Sami Newsletter

Mbuti of Congo

!Kung of Kalahari Desert

Tuareg
Trobriand Islands
Dani
Dani 2
Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre
Agrarian Reform in Mexico
Ethnoarchaeology at Gordion (Turkey)- Reading the Past in the Present
Mountain People  
 

The Potlatch Collection

Chapter 6: Kinship

http://www.umanitoba.ca/anthropology/tutor/kinmenu.html
This is an interactive tutorial. It will give you a review on kinshipdiagrams. Be sure to take the quizzes and look at the examples.

Eggi'sVillage: Life among the Minangkabau of Indonesia
Yanomamo



Unit 3

Chapter 10 Religion

Judaism
Hinduism
Islamic Philosophy Online
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians

Chapter 11  Art

Picasso
Kathakali
Andres Serrano
Maya Art Museum
Unbreakable Spirits (Women Artists in China)
Guerilla Girls
  
Mandala construction
Art Attack (Giuliani vs Ofili)
The Potlatch Collection
Native American Indian Art
Buddhist Mudras
 

Chapter 5
Traditional Chinese Medicine
FGM
FGM 2

Chapter 13
Women and Agriculture
World Bank Critique
Cultural Survival
Interview with Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  

You can also visit my homepage at:

http://faculty.ccp.cc.pa.us/faculty/DFreedman/

to find more links on cultural anthropology.

Let me know about any problems by e-mail,at dfreedman@ccp.edu

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