BACKGROUND TO ANTHROPOLOGY: MODULE ONE
Early history of the Anthropogeographers. Anthropology in the
Colonial-Expansion Period. Anthropology in the 1800s in the USA. The Chicago
University School of Anthropology and its influence upon 20th Century thinking.
FIELDWORK IN ANTHROPOLOGY: MODULE TWO
The importance of fieldwork. Gathering data using quantitative and
qualitative methodologies. The ethnographic record from early settlers,
missionaries, and scientific researchers. The importance of data sets in
computer analysis of early research such as the Human Relations Area Files, of
Yale University.
WHAT IS ETHNOGRAPHY? MODULE THREE
The importance of Melanowski, Geertz and the "thick ethnographies. Examples
of ethnography from Africa, the early South Pacific (including Margaret Meade in
the Trobriand Islands) and South America.
WHAT IS ETHNOLOGY? MODULE FOUR
The importance of gathering together records from the ethnographic record
known as MONOGRAPHS. Important monograph records of ethnology including, Artic
dwellers, South American tribes such as the Yanomano, Africa bushman tribes and
Aboriginal hunter and gathers from the Australian Outback.
WHAT IS MODERNISM IN ANTHROPOLOGY? MODULE FIVE
The concept of the "scientific methodology" used in Anthropological Studies.
The effect of Lewis Binford and the "New Perspective School of Thinking" in
Anthropology.
WHAT IS "POST-MODERNISM" IN ANTHROPOLOGY? MODULE SIX
The concept of post-modern thinking in Anthropology and its effect upon 21st
Century thinking. Looking at "so called primitive cultures" from a modernist and
post-modernist viewpoint. What is Phenomenology in Anthropology, its importance
in maintaining an "objective, non-biased " view of the cultures and
civilizations of humankind.
KEY CONCEPTS, TERMS, VOCABULARY, AND DEFINITIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT MODULE SEVEN
What are the major "inside jargon" words used by Anthropologists in
describing other cultures and how it affects "outsiders" and understanding the
field of Anthropology. What critical definitions help us understand the general
Field of Anthropology and its importance to the other Social and Physical
Sciences.
ANTHROPOLOGY FOR A NEW CENTURY: IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT? MODULE EIGHT
The importance of ethnology and ethnography in charting the cultures and
subcultures of the world. New horizons in anthropological education. Subfields
of Psychological Anthropology, Physical Anthropology (CSI) Archaeology, and
Linguistics. How do these 4 fields change our ways of thinking concerning
Anthropology for a new century of research and methodology.
SUMMARY AND REVIEW: MODULE NINE
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