Revised August 2006

COURSE ARCHIVES*

General course descriptions

Common resources for courses

• What is Anthropology?
• Biodiversity Resources
• Writing Book Reviews
• Cultural Anthropology Resource Guide
• Cultural Anthropology Reference Works
• Basic Concepts in Cultural Anthropology
• The Concept of Culture
• History of Ecological Anthropology
• Ecology and Environment Reference Works
• Jobs Web Sites
• Making Literature Survey
• Cultural Materialism Bibliography
• Cultural Materialism Outline
• Research Methods Bibliography
• Writing a Research Proposal

200 Cultural Anthropology

• Syllabus

340 Primate Behavior and Ecology

• Syllabus (focus on great apes, includes extensive bibliography)

345 Aggression, War and Peace

• Biloiogaphies
  • Archaeology and Prehistory of War
  • Ecology of War (main points, questions, articles, and books)
  • Middle East
• Notes
  • Anthropologist as Terrorist, Anthropology of Conflict, History of the Anthropology of War ,
  • Leaders in the Anthropological Study of War, Frontline Research, Theory of War,
  • Anthropology of Violence, Summary of the Anthropology of War, Ape Aggression, Churchill on 9-11, Clash of Civilizations, Coming Anarchy, Positive Peace, Conflict Resolution, Definition of Peace, Key Definitions, Ethics of Studying War, Ethnicity and Conflict, Ethnology of War,
  • Danger in Fieldwork 1, Danger in Fieldwork 2, Generalization about War and Peace, Genocide,
  • History of Research, War History, Idea of War, Indian-Colonial Wars, Liberation Anthropology,
  • Origins of War, Character of Peace, Peaceful Societies, Prehistory of War, State Terrorism,
  • Terrorism, Tribal Zone Warfare, Ultimate Security, UNESCO Statement on Violence, US Wars
  • Spies, Human Potential for Peace
  • Why (my involvement in peace studies)
  Course Description Spring 2006

• Syllabi : 2002, 2003, 2006

Natural History of Peace

385C Undergraduate Proseminar: Internet Anthropology

• Syllabus

410 Ethics in Anthropology

• Biliography (sources on professional ethics in anthropology and related matters)
• Medical (notes on ethics in biomedical research)
• Reflections (notes on continuing development of ethics in anthropology)
• Syllabi: 2006, 2008
• Web sites (selected web sites on professional ethics and related matters)
• Spies (anthropologists involved in secret research for government again)
• Ethical positions (Gensler)

415 Ecological Anthropology

• Resources (web sites, books, periodicals, and other resources for different approaches)
• Syllabi: 2004, 2006

422 Anthropology of Religion

• Syllabi
  • 2000 (anthropology of religion with focus on spiritual ecology)
  • 2002 (anthropology of Buddhism)

423 Social and Cultural Change

• Reference material (concept of culture, glossary, principles of cultural change, etc,)
• Syllabi: 1995, 1998, 2003 , 2007
• Web sites

435 Human Adaptation to Forests

• African Forests (selected books)
• Bibliography (selected books)
• Case Studies (selected books)
• Articles (selected from journal Human Ecology)
• Issues (in the human ecology of tropical forest ecosystems)
• Periodicals
• Syllabi: 2004, 2007
• Videos
• Web sites

444 Spiritual Ecology

• Introductory overview
• Syllabi: 2004, 2006
• Web sites

445 Sacred Places

• Syllabi : 2005 , 2007
• Main Points about Sacred Places
• Sacred Places as a Catalyst for Spiritual Transformation
• Guidelines for Visiting Sacred Places
• Research Questions
• Bibliography (books and articles)

481 Applied Anthropology

• Comparison of Academic and Applied Anthropology
• Syllabi: 2003 , 2007

482 Environmental Anthropology

• Syllabi : 2005, 2007
• Bibliography

620H Human Ecology

• Syllabi: 2005, 2007
• History of Ecological Anthropology
  • Resources (web sites, videos, books, journals, etc.)
  • Bibliography (general, Steward, Harris, etc.)
• Political Ecology
  • Books
  • Periodicals
  • Videos
  • Web Sites

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute courses

• Buddhism
• Buddhist Ethics
• Sacred Places
• Sacred Trees
• Spiritual Ecology
• Life as Pilgrimage
• Sacred Sites and Landscapes of Thailand

Note: Resources for each course are updated every time it is taught again.