Overview
Final paper due on any of the topics of the course. Roughly 4-7 pages, more or less. Write on something that intrigues you.
Do not use AI for any assignments I will recognize AI text, and treat it as plagiarism.
Do it on any of these topics:
Readings
Two books:
David Lancy 2025 Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities. Oxford University Press.
E. Evans-Pritchard 1937 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (abridged edition beautifully edited by Eva Gillies 2017). Oxford University Press.
Assigned articles, all linked from the syllabus.
Squire, Knowlton, & Musen 1993. The structure and organization of memory PDF (http://whoville.ucsd.edu/PDFs/206_Squire_etal_AnnuRevPsych_1993.pdf)
Lancy 2024 Learning Without Lessons, Chapters 1 & 2.
Lancy Learning Without Lessons Chapters 3 – 5
Paradise & Rogoff 2009. Side by side: Learning by observing & pitching in PDF (https://www.jstor.org/stable/20486601?seq=1)
Fiske 2004. Relational models theory 2.0 PDF (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8nqcv8o8u4rum1hisfyw7/Fiske-Relational-Models-Theory-2.0-2004.pdf?rlkey=v9qimgr2633xy66rby9bsi3gr&dl=0)
Thomas et al 2022 Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships PDF (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7svkwdvz411yqg6hvkemg/Thomas-et-al-2022-Early-concepts-of-intimacy-saliva.pdf?rlkey=f8e5om1nkoobmlocwkoc3c2dk&dl=0)
Woo, Tan, & Hamlin 2022. Human morality is based on an early-emerging moral core PDF (https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121020-023312)
Evans-Pritchard 1937. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, Chapters 1 – 2
Evans-Pritchard 1937: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, Chapters 3 – 5
Evans-Pritchard Chapters 6 – 8
Finish Evans-Pritchard
Ancient Mesopotamian divinat
ion
PDF (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/135b/Ancient_Mesopotamian_divination.pdf)
Ancient Chinese oracle bone divination
PDF (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/135b/Ancient_Chinese_oracle_bone_divination.pdf)
What is ‘normal’ and what is a ‘psychological disorder’?
For example, paranoia? Dissociative identity disorder? OCD?
Spiegel 2023. Dissociative Identity Disorder
PDF (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/36qkj3wkcd8po96jb1e9m/Spiegel-2023-Dissociative-Identity-Disorder.pdf?rlkey=ur831qtlgr9zx2nmsehri5mel&dl=0)
Bourguignon 1989. Multiple personality, possession trance, and the psychic unity of mankind
PDF (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/640438.pdf)
Fiske, Schubert, & Seibt 2017. The Sudden Devotion Emotion
PDF (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnjf41t8i2cyg31yc9cda/Fiske-Seibt-Schubert-2019-Sudden-Devotion-Emotion.pdf?rlkey=9h8mp8i2q2bu89zsftwefyk2y&dl=0)
Fiske 2022. An Emotion Niche for the Cultural Evolution of Social Practices
PDF (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ubk8dervlegceayekgxdx/Fiske-Emotion-niche-2022.pdf?rlkey=a0wvcvgovsmfysr9t32dqzekg&dl=0)