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Anthropology 1100: Cultural Anthropology      

• Anthropology Introduced
• Fieldwork
• Culture Concept
• Language and Culture
• Ecology & Foraging
• Subsistence in Overview
• Economics
• Marriage
• Tracing Descent Primer
• Descent Groups (Note: some non-standard classifications included for pedagogical purposes)
• Groups and Associations
• Political Organization
• Rituals, Rites, and the Supernatural 
• Religion and Anthropology 
• Signs and Symbols (in conjunction with Magic, Science, & Religion)  **Contains material potentially offensive to some.  Please be advised that some examples used in this lecture are designed to illustrate how some factions of modern people manipulate symbols to achieve specific goals.  Such material is reflective of neither the professor's nor the institution's political, religious, or social views but is nonetheless included because of both the power and significance of the specific examples.
• Expressive Culture  **This slide set contains material potentially offensive to some.  In particular, the slide depicting American piercing behavior may be too graphic and too anatomically explicit for some people.    Such material is reflective of neither the professor's nor the institution's political, religious, or social views but is nonetheless included because of both the power and significance of the specific examples.
• Culture Change 
• Social Stratification  

Race, Sex, and Human Evolution

• Mendelian Genetics to accompany Stein and Rowe Chapter 2

• The Modern Study of Genetics to accompany Stein & Rowe C. 3

• The Evolution of the Primates: General Trends (from Stein & Rowe C. 12) 

• Race and Identity                                                                       

• The Neanderthal Enigma   (Partially adapted from Stein & Rowe 9th ed. and  Price & Feinman 4th ed.)

Discovering Archaeology                                               

• Paleoanthropology and Early Hominims
• Catal Huyuk
• Homo erectus Conquers the World  (Modified from Images of the Past etc..)
• Regional Variation (Mesolithic & Archaic)  (Modified from Images of the Past etc..) 
• Origins of Domestication & Agriculture - Southwest Asia   (Modified from Images of the Past etc..) 
• The American Southwest (Modified from Images of the Past etc...)
• Maya Overview  (Modified from Images of the Past etc...) 
• Coastal South America: Foundations    (From Images of the Past ancillary material)
• Coastal & Highland South America: The Moche, Chimu, Tiwanaku   (Modified from Images of the Past etc...)        
• Egypt: In The Lap of the Gods  (Modified from Images of the Past etc...)  

New Perspectives on Pohansko

Best of Both Worlds

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