{"id":14,"date":"2010-11-20T01:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T01:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeuwebpages.wpengine.com\/rjones\/"},"modified":"2017-08-30T13:27:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T13:27:40","slug":"for-anthropology-majors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/rjones\/for-anthropology-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"For Anthropology Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropology Club<\/h3>\n

Anthropology majors (and other students who are interested in anthropology) are invited to participate in the meetings and other activities of the Anthropology Club. Currently, Alan Wheeler is the faculty sponsor for the club. Contact him at awheeler@leeuniversity.edu for more information about times and places for meetings and other events.<\/p>\n

Graduate School Information<\/h3>\n

www.gradschools.com<\/a><\/p>\n

(Once you identify grad schools you are interested in, take the time to explore the website for that particular school. Familiarize yourself with the program, faculty, opportunities for scholarships and fellowships, and with the cost–which includes what it costs to live in the area where the school is located.)<\/p>\n

Professional Organizations<\/h3>\n

American Anthropological Association (AAA)<\/a><\/p>\n

Links to various sections\/societies in AAA<\/a><\/p>\n

Southern Anthropological Society (SAS)<\/a><\/p>\n

Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC)<\/a><\/p>\n

Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA)<\/a><\/p>\n

American Research Center in Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n

American Center of Oriental Research<\/a><\/p>\n

Students should join professional organizations early in their education for a variety of reasons. Networking, and getting up to date information in the discipline are two important ones. There are many more professional organizations than those listed here. These are just ones I am familiar with, some of which I am, or have been, a member.<\/p>\n

FISHNET<\/h3>\n

FISHNET is a listserv discussion group for Christian anthropologists. If you subscribe (it is free) you will receive e-mails about various issues and items discussed by members of the listserv. It is also a good resource if you have relevant questions. Unsubscribing is easy, if you decide to no longer be a part of the listserv. Directions and links for unsubscribing are in every e-mail.<\/p>\n

If you wish to subscribe, go to the following site: https:\/\/lists.bethel.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/fishnet <\/a><\/p>\n

Books Every Anthropology Major Should Read<\/h3>\n

These are books that I think would help prepare undergraduates for grad school by increasing their knowledge both in depth and in breadth. This list is by no means exhaustive. This list is just a place to begin. In addition, every anthropology student should pursue her\/his own reading plan according to the area of personal professional interest, which should include reading the professional journals of the discipline. You should always make an effort to pay attention to when particular works were written so as to appreciate the evolution of concepts and theory in anthropology.<\/p>\n

Cultural Anthropology has more books listed because I believe that it informs and is fundamental to the other 3 areas.<\/p>\n

Cultural Anthropology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism<\/em> by Benedict Anderson<\/p>\n

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword<\/em> by Ruth Benedict<\/p>\n

Patterns of Culture<\/em> by Ruth Benedict<\/p>\n

Race, Language, and Culture<\/em> by Franz Boas<\/p>\n

Primitive Art<\/em> by Franz Boas<\/p>\n

Yanomam\u00f6: The Fierce People<\/em> by Napoleon Chagnon<\/p>\n

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo<\/em> by Mary Douglas<\/p>\n

Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory<\/em> by Mary Douglas<\/p>\n

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life<\/em> by Emile Durkheim<\/p>\n

Primitive Classification<\/em> by Emile Durkheim\/Marcel Mauss<\/p>\n

Nuer Religion<\/em> by E.E. Evans-Pritchard<\/p>\n

Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande<\/em> by E. E. Evans-Pritchard<\/p>\n

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison<\/em> by Michel Foucault<\/p>\n

The Golden Bough<\/em> by James Frazer<\/p>\n

The Interpretation of Cultures<\/em> by Clifford Geertz<\/p>\n

The Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfall<\/em> by Michael J. Harner<\/p>\n

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures<\/em> by Marvin Harris<\/p>\n

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture<\/em> by Marvin Harris<\/p>\n

Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture<\/em> by Marvin Harris<\/p>\n

Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture<\/em> by Marvin Harris<\/p>\n

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions<\/em> by Thomas Kuhn<\/p>\n

The Dobe Ju\/\u2019Hoansi<\/em> by Richard B. Lee<\/p>\n

Tristes Tropiques<\/em> by Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss<\/p>\n

The Savage Mind<\/em> by Claude L\u00e9vi-Straus<\/p>\n

Structural Anthropology<\/em> by Claude L\u00e9vi-Straus<\/p>\n

The Raw and the Cooked<\/em> by Claude L\u00e9vi-Straus<\/p>\n

The Elementary Structures of Kinship<\/em> by Claude L\u00e9vi-Straus<\/p>\n

Totemism<\/em> by Claude L\u00e9vi-Straus<\/p>\n

Primitive Mentality<\/em> by Lucien Levy-Bruhl.<\/p>\n

Political Anthropology<\/em> by Ted Lewellen<\/p>\n

Argonauts of the Western Pacific<\/em> by Bronislaw Malinowski<\/p>\n

Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays<\/em> by Bronislaw Malinowski<\/p>\n

The Gift<\/em> by Marcel Mauss<\/p>\n

Coming of Age in Samoa<\/em> by Margaret Mead<\/p>\n

Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family<\/em> by Lewis Henry Morgan<\/p>\n

Ancient Society<\/em> by Lewis Henry Morgan<\/p>\n

Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture<\/em> by Sherry B. Ortner<\/p>\n

Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject<\/em> by Sherry B. Ortner<\/p>\n

The Andaman Islanders<\/em> by A. R. Radicliffe-Brown<\/p>\n

Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses<\/em> by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown<\/p>\n

Orientalism<\/em> by Edward Said<\/p>\n

Power, Politics, and Culture <\/em>by Edward Said<\/p>\n

The Harmless People<\/em> by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas<\/p>\n

The Mountain People<\/em> by Colin M. Turnbull<\/p>\n

The Forest People<\/em> by Colin M. Turnbull<\/p>\n

Mbuti Pygmies: Change and Adaptation<\/em> by Colin M. Turnbull<\/p>\n

Archaeology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: Archaeology is very region specific, perhaps more so than any other field of anthropology, so students interested in archaeology must read deeply in the regional area of interest in both books and journals.<\/p>\n

Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process<\/em> by Dean E. Arnold<\/p>\n

Archaeology: Theory, Methods, and Practice<\/em> by Paul Bahn and Colin Renfrew<\/p>\n

Archaeological Survey<\/em> by E. B. Banning<\/p>\n

Archaeology by Design (Vol. 1, Archaeologist\u2019s Toolkit)<\/em> by Stephen L. Black<\/p>\n

Excavation (Vol. 5, Archaeologist\u2019s Toolkit)<\/em> by David L. Carmichael<\/p>\n

Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology<\/em> by C. W. Ceram<\/p>\n

Archaeological Survey (Vol. 2 Archaeologist\u2019s Toolkit)<\/em> by James M. Collins<\/p>\n

Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology<\/em> by James Conolly and Mark Lake<\/p>\n

Artifacts (Vol. 4, Archaeologist\u2019s Toolkit)<\/em> by Charles Robin Ewin<\/p>\n

Archaeological Surveying and Mapping: Recording and Depicting the Landscape<\/em> by Phil Howard<\/p>\n

Processual Archaeology: Exploring Analytical Strategies, Frames of Reference, and Culture Process<\/em> by Amber Johnson<\/p>\n

Archaeology in the Holy Land<\/em> by Kathleen Kenyon<\/p>\n

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton<\/em> by Clark Spencer Larson<\/p>\n

Lithic Analysis<\/em> by George H. Odell<\/p>\n

The Pyramids and Temples of Giza<\/em> by William Matthew Flinders Petrie<\/p>\n

Stylistic Variations in Prehistoric Ceramics: Design Analysis in the American Southwest<\/em> by Stephen Plog<\/p>\n

Curating Archaeological Collections (Vol. 6, Archaeologist\u2019s Toolkit)<\/em> by Lynne P. Sullivan and S. Terry Childs<\/p>\n

Remote Sensing in Archaeology<\/em> by James Wiseman and Farouk El-Baz<\/p>\n

Archaeological Survey Manual<\/em> by Gregory G. White and Thomas F. King<\/p>\n

Reader in Archaeological Theory: Post-Processual and Cognitive Approaches <\/em>by David Whitley<\/p>\n

Presenting the Past (Vol. 7, Archaeologist\u2019s Toolkit) <\/em>by Larry J. Zimmerman<\/p>\n

Biological Anthropology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual<\/em> by William M. Bass<\/p>\n

Death\u2019s Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab and Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales<\/em> by William Bass and Jon Jefferson<\/p>\n

On the Origin of Species<\/em> by Charles Darwin<\/p>\n

The Voyage of the Beagle<\/em> by Charles Darwin<\/p>\n

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory<\/em> by Stephen J. Gould<\/p>\n

Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, People, and Disease<\/em> by Mark A. Jobling, Matthew Hurles, and Chris Tyler-Smith<\/p>\n

Lucy: The Beginning of Humankind<\/em> by Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey<\/p>\n

Lucy\u2019s Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins<\/em> by Donald Johanson and Kate Wong<\/p>\n

Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice<\/em> by Debra Komar and Jane Buikstra<\/p>\n

The Origin of Humankind<\/em> by Richard Leakey<\/p>\n

People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginnings<\/em> by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin<\/p>\n

Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropology<\/em> by William R. Maples<\/p>\n

Human Population Genetics<\/em> by Russell M. Reid<\/p>\n

The Human Bone Manual<\/em> by Tim D. White and Pieter Arend Folkens<\/p>\n

Human Osteology<\/em> by Tim D. White<\/p>\n

Linguistic Anthropology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Syntactic Structures<\/em> by Noam Chomsky<\/p>\n

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax<\/em> by Noam Chomsky<\/p>\n

Language and Mind<\/em> by Noam Chomsky<\/p>\n

Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience<\/em> by Erving Goffman<\/p>\n

Directions in Sociolinghistics: The Ethnography of Communication<\/em> by John Gumperz and Dell Hymes<\/p>\n

Foundations in Sociolinguistcs: An Ethnographic Approach<\/em> by Dell Hymes<\/p>\n

The Prison-House of Language<\/em> by Fredric Jameson<\/p>\n

Metaphors We Live By<\/em> by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson<\/p>\n

Lectures on Conversation<\/em> by Harvey Sacks<\/p>\n

Course in General Linguistics<\/em> by Ferdinand de Saussure<\/p>\n

Speech Acts<\/em> by John Searle<\/p>\n

Language Typology and Syntactic Description<\/em> by Timothy Shopen (2 volumes)<\/p>\n

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus<\/em> by Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/p>\n

Philosophical Investigation<\/em> by Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/p>\n

Useful Reference Books<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Encyclopedia of Anthropology<\/em>, edited by James Birx<\/p>\n

21st Century Thought in Anthropology<\/em>, edited by James Birx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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