Overview
also here is all the info for the other essay. it should be about 6 pages double spaced. let me know which links you want me to send u here is just the titles of each so you can decide what you want to wrtie about. i can send u a bunch of links if u want to take a look at them before deciding as well just let me know. 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.
Calendar
Tuesday March 31 What is culture? Why are there so many?
Thursday April 2 Approaches to anthropology
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Tuesday April 7 Memory systems:
Channels of cultural transmission & types of competence
Squire, Knowlton, & Musen 1993. The structure and organization of memory PDFLinks to an external site.
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Thursday April 9 Learning technical skills – without any teaching
Lancy 2024 Learning Without Lessons, Chapters 1 & 2.
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Tuesday April 14 Relational models theory 1
Lancy Learning Without Lessons Chapters 3 – 5
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Thursday April 16 Relational models theory 2.
Lancy Chapters 6 – 7.
Paradise & Rogoff 2009. Side by side: Learning by observing & pitching in PDFLinks to an external site.
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Tuesday April 21 Preverbal infants innately know at least three of the fundamental forms of sociality
Fiske 2004. Relational models theory 2.0 PDFLinks to an external site.
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Thursday April 23 How do infants recognize the fundamental relational models?
The conformation systems of each relational model
Thomas et al 2022 Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships PDFLinks to an external site.
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Tuesday April 28 Infants, toddlers, and children intently observe, looking for the conformations. Then they play-practice them.
Woo, Tan, & Hamlin 2022. Human morality is based on an early-emerging moral core PDFLinks to an external site.
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Thursday April 30 How much does culture shape emotions and behavior?
Consider responses to death in different cultures
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Tuesday May 5 Additional cultures’ responses to death
Evans-Pritchard 1937. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, Chapters 1 – 2
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Thursday May 7 Moosé religion: Moral interpretation of misfortune
Evans-Pritchard 1937: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, Chapters 3 – 5
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Tuesday May 12 Moral explanations are not causal explanations
Evans-Pritchard Chapters 6 – 8
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Thursday May 14 Movie: Azande fear of witches and use of oracles
Finish Evans-Pritchard
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Tuesday May 19 Azande oracles, witchcraft, & magic: Rationality, belief, and practice
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Thursday May 21 Movie: A Balinese spirit medium
Ancient Mesopotamian divination PDF
Ancient Chinese oracle bone divination PDF
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Tuesday May 26 What is ‘normal’ and what is a ‘psychological disorder’?
For example, paranoia? Dissociative identity disorder? OCD?
Spiegel 2023. Dissociative Identity Disorder PDFLinks to an external site.
Bourguignon 1989. Multiple personality, possession trance, and the psychic unity of mankind PDFLinks to an external site.
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Thursday May 28 The most beautiful emotion – that no one knew of
Fiske, Schubert, & Seibt 2017. The Sudden Devotion Emotion PDFLinks to an external site.
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Tuesday June 2 Kama muta, part 2
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Thursday June 4 Social practices that culturally evolve in the kama muta niche
Fiske 2022. An Emotion Niche for the Cultural Evolution of Social Practices PDFLinks to an external site.
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the prompt is just to write about something that intrugies you from the class. so it can be any topic