Anthropology 2: Cultural Anthropology

The scientific study of human societies including preliterate societies along with the concept of culture basic to Anthropology. Emphasis is on methods of fieldwork, cultural ecology, language, social and political structure, the psychological perspective, religion, cultural change and the cultural future of humanity. (MJC ANTHR 102)

Transfer: UC/CSU. IGETC 4A; CSU-GE D1

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Aboriginal Flag
After Fighting Crime, Ex-Guatemala Attorney General Moves To U.S. (NPR)
antropologi.info
Anthropology Quotes: FinestQuotes.com
Australia apology to Aborigines
Classic 'fear of the machine' giving way to love stories (CBC Radio)
DNA from LA area immigrants could solve painful mysteries from Guatemala's civil war By Leslie Berestein-Rojas 
Dramatic Testimony Marks Start Of Guatemalan Genocide Trial By Carrie Kahn (NPR)
Earth Calendar, Holidays
Embracing 'Deep Time' Thinking By Vincent F. Ialenti (NPR)
Ethnography.com
Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala By Sebastian Rotella
For Brazil's 1 Percenters, The The Land Stays In The Family Forever By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro (NPR)
Genocide in Our Hemisphere: Why the Trial of Gen. Ríos Montt is Good for Guatemala and the World By Daniel Rothenberg
Invincible Cities
Malala Yousafzai, Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Adds to Her Achievements and Expectations By Jodi Kantor (The New York Times)
Mayan History Home Page - with Timeline
Mayan Women Accuse Military Officials Of Holding Them As Sex Slaves By Carrie Kahn (NPR)
New Zealand to Hold Referendum on National Flag -From the BBC
Nobel Women's Initiative
Philippe Bourgois' Website
Poverty, Race, and Place: Map Your Metro
Richard H. Robbins
Road Trip Along the Network of Indigenous Knowledge By Jon Waterhouse (National Geographic)
Scott Atran: The Youth Need Values and Dreams -- Address to UN Security Council (Scott Atran, 23, April 2015)
Studying Urban Crime By Befriending A Neighborhood -- An Interview with Alice Goffman (Here and Now)
The Big Myth
The curious map that survived 700 years Video by Chris Griffiths and Thomas Buttery (BBC)
The Maya: History, Culture and Religion By Owen Jarus
The Rituals of American Hospital Birth By Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
The Trial of Efrain Rios Montt
The Ultimate History Project
This is Anthropology - Students at University of South Florida respond to Gov. Rick Scott's assertion that the state of Florida doesn't need any more anthropologists.
Up There (Film about Sign Painters in New York City)
Urban Institute
Vanishing Languages By Russ Rymer
Who Made That? By Hugo Lindgren
Why Anthropologists Join An Ebola Outbreak Team By Linda Poon
Why new things make us sad A film by Brendan Miller (BBC)