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YaleAnthropology"ANTH 010"

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

planned·~100 hours total

Professor

  • Richard Burger

Textbook

  • Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology

    James Spradley, David W. McCurdy · 15th · ISBN 9780133946086

Materials

Yale's introduction to cultural anthropology via the Open Yale Courses initiative. To be confirmed which specific Open Yale anthropology course — Yale OCW has several over the years.

Syllabus

  1. Week 1

    What is anthropology? Fieldwork as method

  2. Week 2

    Kinship and family structures

  3. Week 3

    Language and culture

  4. Week 4

    Subsistence and economics

  5. Week 5

    Political organisation

  6. Week 6

    Religion and ritual

  7. Week 7

    Gender

  8. Week 8

    Globalisation and cultural change

  9. Week 9

    Ethnographic case studies