Aspects of society and culture: kinship, beliefs, economy, and political order among peoples worldwide. Methods and perspectives used in social/cultural anthropology.

Course Details

Note
This course fulfills a BYU Core requirement for Global and Cultural Awareness.
Prerequisites
None
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Human Being: A Philosophical Foundation
Lesson 2: An Anthropological Approach: Comparative, Holistic, and Ethnographic
Lesson 3: The Ethnographer’s Task: Exploring Other Worlds
Lesson 4: Life Stories: Culture, History, and Personal Experience
Lesson 5: When Worlds Collide
Lesson 6: Humanizing Our Attitudes and Actions
Lesson 7: Reimagining Your Future: Personal and Professional
Syllabus
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Textbooks
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Life Stories—Culture, History, and Personal Experience (BYU packet) (Required)
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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Required)
by: William Zinsser
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The Elements of Style- 4th Edition (Required)
by: William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
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1999 Longman
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Required)
by: David Abram
ISBN: 9780679776390
1997 Vintage
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Required)
by: Anne Fadiman
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2012 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Required)
by: Keith H. Basso
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1996 University of New Mexico Press
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