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Tue 1/23 Anthropology: history of discipline, theoretical approach

   

Gary Ferraro, What is Anthropology? In

Ferraro, Gary

 

2001

Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth (AVAILABLE ON RESERVE)

   

Horace Miner, Chapter 31. Body Ritual among the Nacirema. In

Angeloni, Elvio

 

2000

Annual Editions: Anthropology 00/01. Guilford, CT: Dushkin (BOOK AVAILABLE ON RESERVE)

   

Joel Savishinsky, Chapter 32. The Nacirema and the Tsirout. In

Angeloni, Elvio

 

2000

Annual Editions: Anthropology 00/01. Guilford, CT: Dushkin (BOOK AVAILABLE ON RESERVE)

   

Thu 2/1 Field methods: anthropology and ethnobotany

   

Gary Ferraro, Methods in cultural anthropology. In

Ferraro, Gary

 

2001

Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth (ON RESERVE)

   

Thu 2/8 The gift: Corn use in several cultures

   

Marvin Miracle, The introduction and spread of maize in Africa. In

Miracle, Marvin

 

1966

Maize in Tropical Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (ON RESERVE)

   

Marvin Miracle, Maize in African Diets. In

Miracle, Marvin

 

1966

Maize in Tropical Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (ON RESERVE)

   

Tue 4/3 Use of plants in ritual

   

Drury, Susan

 

1994

Funeral Plants and Flowers in England: Some Examples. Folklore 105:101-103 (JOURNAL AVAILABLE IN LIBRARY)

Flores, Jose Salvador and Jesus Kantun Balam

1997

Importance of Plants in the Ch’a Chaak Maya Ritual in the Peninsula of Yucatan. Journal of Ethnobiology 17(1):97-108 (ON RESERVE)

Hickey, Sally

 

1990

Fatal Feeds?: Plants, Livestock Losses and Witchcraft Accusations in Tudor and Stuart Britain. Folklore 101 (ii):131-142 (JOURNAL AVAILABLE IN LIBRARY)

Walter, Tony

 

1996

Funeral Flowers: A Response to Drury. Folklore 107:106-107 (JOURNAL AVAILABLE IN LIBRARY)

   

Thu 4/5 Cultural view of plants

   

Drury, Susan

 

1986

English Love Divinations Using Plants: An Aspect. Folklore 97(ii):210-214) (JOURNAL AVAILABLE IN LIBRARY)

Rival, Laura

 

1993

The Growth of Family Trees: Understanding Huaorani Perceptions of the Forest. Man (N.S.) 28:635-652. (JOURNAL AVAILABLE IN LIBRARY)

 

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