Embark on a comprehensive 16-hour introduction to anthropology course that explores human problems and potential solutions through a global perspective. Examine the interconnections between human biology, evolution, archaeology, history, culture, and language. Delve into topics such as climate crisis, healthcare, racial injustice, inequality, and refugee issues while seeking to understand human potential and sustainable living. Learn about primate evolution, bipedalism, stone tools, human lineages, race, gender, and migration. Investigate the history of anthropology, ethnographic fieldwork, and the anthropological concept of culture. Explore diverse subjects including warfare, agriculture, religion, ritual, economy, politics, kinship, and marriage. Gain insights into how anthropology can help address contemporary global challenges and foster a more inclusive world.
Overview
Syllabus
Why Anthropology?.
Class 01b February 8: Similarities & Differences.
Class 02a February 10 The Nacirema.
Class 02b February 10 The History of Anthropology.
Class 03a February 15 Baboon Friends & Primate Evolution.
Class 03b February 15 - Humans are Primates.
04a Class February 17, Standard Evolution.
Class 04b - February 17 - Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.
Class05a February 22 Getting to Bipedalism.
Class05b February 22 - Stone Tools & Culture in the Homo lineage.
Class06a - February 24 - Admixture & the Homo lineages.
Class06b - February 24 - Rethinking Homo evolution.
Class07a March 1 - Race, Evolution, Anthropology.
Class07b - March 1 - Race Redux.
Class 08a March 15 - New Women of the Ice Age.
Class08b March 15 - Science, Media, Figurines.
Class 09 - March 17 - Human expansion into the Americas.
Agriculture as "Worst Mistake".
Class10b - March 15 - Domesticating.
Class 11 - March 17 - Warfare.
Wilcox critiques Jared Diamond on _Guns, Germs & Steel_ and _Collapse_.
Class12b - March 22 - The History of Humans before Anthropology.
Class13a - March 24 - The Anthropological Concept of Culture.
Class13b - March 24 - Meredith Small "Our Babies, Ourselves" ..
Class13c - March 24 - Does culture solve everything?.
Class14a - April 5 - Ethnographic Fieldwork & Participant Observation.
Class14b - April 5 - Is Hamlet Universal?.
Class 15 - April 7 - Language & Culture.
Class16 - April 14 - Religion & Ritual in Intro to Anthropology 2022.
Class17 - April 21 - Anthropology & Economy.
Class18 - April 26 - On the Issue of Politics for Intro to Anthropology.
Class 19 - April 28 - Migration, an anthropological perspective.
Class20a - May 3 - Kinship in Intro to Anthropology 2022.
Class20b - May 3 - Gender in Intro to Anthropology 2022.
Marriage in Intro to Anthropology 2022.
Anthropology and the idea of Wilderness.
Taught by
Living Anthropologically
