ANT 101
Choose one aspect of culture
Read the relevant section of the textbook to use for Part I
Read the assigned article to use for Part II
Education Chapter 3: Biology and Culture: Race and Ethnicity, Section 3.2: Race, Cultural Ability, and Intelligence
Chapter 4: Language and Culture, Section 4.6: Language Change
Jonsson, R. (2014). Boys' anti-school culture? Narratives and school practices. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 45 (3), 276-292. Retrieved from the AnthroSource database.
Healthcare Chapter 3: Biology and Culture, Section 3.1: Economic and Health Costs of Racism
Chapter 6: Social Organization and Lifecycle, Section 6.4: Lifecycle, Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Naming; Old Age; Death
Mulemi, B.A. (2008). Patients’ perspectives on hospitalisation: Experiences from a cancer ward in Kenya. Anthropology & Medicine, 15(2), 117-131. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
Gender Chapter 5: Gender and Culture Becker. A. E. (2004). Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: Negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 28(4), 533-559. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
Rites of passage
Chapter 6: Social Organization and Lifecycle, Section 6.4: Lifecycle – Rites of Passage
Tsuji, Y. (2011). Rites of passage to death and afterlife in Japan. Generations Journal of the American Society on Aging, 35(3), 28-33. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
Religion Chapter 7: Religion and Culture Ryan, L. (2011). Muslim women negotiating collective stigmatization: ‘We’re just normal people.’ Sociology, 45(6), 1045-1060. Retrieved from the SAGE Journals Online database.
Politics Chapter 8: The Political System Atran, S. (2003). Genesis of suicide terrorism. Science, 299(5612), 1534-1539. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.
Business Chapter 9: The Economic System Duthie, L. (2005). White collars with Chinese characteristics: Global Capitalism and the formation of a social identity. Anthropology of Work Review, 26(3), 1-12. Retrieved from the AnthroSource database.