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SOAN 1100: Intro to Anthropology
Fall 2007 |
Conformity
and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology by James
Spradley and David McCurdy |
| Women
Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins by Antonia Young |
| In
Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe
Bourgois |
| The
Forest People by Colin Turnbull |
| Into
the Heart: One Man’s Pursuit of Love and Knowledge
Among the Yanomami by Kenneth Good with David Chanoff |
SOAN 1000-01: Introduction to
Sociology
Fall 2007 |
Introduction
to Sociology by Anthony Giddens,
Mitchell Duneier & Richard Appelbaum |
| Mapping
the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology by Susan
J. Ferguson |
SOAN 4760-02: Sociology of
Globalization
Fall 2007 |
Globalization
and After by Samir Dasgupta & Ray
Kiely |
| Development
and Social Change: A Global Perspective (3rd ed.) by Philip McMichael |
| The
New Consumers: the Influence of Affluence on the Environment by Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent |
| The
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by
Jeffrey Sachs |
SOAN 4910-01: Senior Seminar in
Sociology
Fall 2007 |
Sociological
Theory in the Contemporary Era: Text and Readings by
Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles |
| Social
Theory: Roots and Branches by Peter Kivisto |
| Contemporary
Sociological Theory: Expanding the Classical Tradition
(6th edition) by Ruth Wallace and Alison Wolf (optional) |
SOAN 2850: Anthropology of War
Fall 2007 |
A
Natural History of Peace by Thomas Gregor |
| War
Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley |
SOAN 4900: Senior Seminar in Anthropology
Fall 2007 |
Routes:
Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford |
| Local
Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretative Anthropology by Clifford Geertz |
| Good
to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture by Marvin Harris |
| Anthropological
Theory: An Introductory History (4th edition) by Jon R. McGee and Richard L.
Warms (eds) |
| Breath
on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions
of the Living Maya by Dennis Tedlock |
| Skull
Wars: Kenniwick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for
Native American Identity by David Hurst Thomas |
SOAN 4200: Social and Cultural Theory
Fall 2007 |
The
Emergence of Sociological Theory (6th
edition) by Jonathan H. Turner et al. |
| Karl
Marx Selected Writings by David McLellan |
| The
Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism by
Max Weber |
| Suicide by
Emile Durkheim |
| Conflict
and the Web of Group Affiliation by
Georg Simmel |
| SOAN 4750: Asians in America |
The
Chinese in America by Iris Chang |
| Asian
Americans: Emerging Minorities by
Harry H. L. Kitano and Roger Daniels |
| The
Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White by James W. Loewen |
| The
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan |
| SOAN1710: Human Origins |
How
Humans Evolved (4th Edition) by Robert
Boyd Robert and Joan B. Silk |
| Biological
Anthropology: An introductory reader by Michael Alan
Park |
| SOAN 4750: Disney and the American Way of
Life |
Walt
Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler |
| Inside
the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World, The Project
on Disney by the Project on Disney |
SOAN 1110: Intro to World Prehistory
Spring 2003 |
Adventures
in Fugawiland: A Computer Simulation in Archaeology
by T. Douglas Price and Anne B. Gebauer |
| Images
of the Past by T. Douglas Price and Gary Feinman |
SOAN 2130: Marriage & Family
Spring 2003 |
Public
and Private Families: An Introduction by Andrew Cherlin |
SOAN 2400: Women and Men in Prehistory
Spring 2003 |
Reader
in Gender Archaeology by Kelley Hays-Gilpin and David
S. Whitley |
| Women
of the Forest by Yolanda Murphy and Robert F. Murphy |
SOAN 3120: Native American Literature
Spring 2003 |
Reservation
Blues by Sherman Alexie |
| Black
Elk Speaks as told through John C. Neihardt |
| The
Inupiat and Arctic Alaska: An Ethnography of Development
by Norman Chance |
| Love
Medicine by Louise Erdrich |
| Skinwalkers
by Tony Hillerman |
| Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko |
SOAN 3120-02: Cross-Cultural Human Sexuality
Spring 2003 |
Slut!
Growing up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum |
| Global
Sex by Dennis Altman |
| Sex,
Sexuality, and the Anthropologist by Fran Markowitz
and Michael Ashkenazi |
| The
Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS by Héctor Carrillo |
| Sambia
Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field by Gilbert H.
Herdt |
| Anxious
Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People by
Gregor Thomas |
SOAN 3220: Class, Gender, and Race
Spring 2003 |
Social
Stratification in Sociological Perspective by David
B. Grusky |
| The
Mississippi Chinese: Between black and white by James
W. Loewen |
| Slim's
Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity by Mitchell
Duneier |
SOAN 3410: Field Archaeology
Summer 2002 |
Archaeological
Research: A Brief Introduction by Peter Peregrine |
SOAN 4750-1: Anthropology of Food and Eating
Fall 2002 |
Sociology
on the Menu: An Invitation to the Study of Food and Society
by Alan Beardsworth and Teresa Keil |
| Consuming
Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
by Beth A. Conklin |
| Food
and Culture: A Reader by Carole Counihan and Penny van
Esterik |
| Women
and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water
of Sorrow by Christine Eber |
| Golden
Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia by James L. Watson |
SOAN 4770:
Ethnographic Research & Writing
Spring 2003 |
Journeys
Through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork
by Annette Lareau and Jeffrey Shultz |
| Field
Ethnography: A Manual for Doing Cultural Anthropology
by Paul Kutsche |
| Ethnography:
Step by Step by David M. Fetterman |
| Living
the Ethnographic Life by Dan Rose |
| Designing
and Conducting Ethnographic Research by Margaret D.
LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul |
| Essential
Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires
by Stephen Schensul, Jean J. Schensul, and Margaret D. LeCompte |
IDST 1300-02: Blood of our Ancestors:
A Formative History of the Modern Balkans
Spring 2003 |
In
the Footsteps of Alexander the Great by Michael Wood |
| A
Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich |
| The
Byzantines by Guglielmo Cavallo |
| Lords
of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by
Jason Goodwin |
| Balkan
Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan |
IDST 2400-7: The African Continent: Arrivals, Departures, and Interactions, 1600-1900
Fall 2002 |
Heart
of Darkness with The Congo Diary by Joseph Conrad |
| The
Rise and Fall of Swahili States by Chapurukha M. Kusimba |
| Women
in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History by
Iris Berger and E. Frances White |
| The
African Slave Trade by Basil Davidson |
| History
of Southern Africa by J.D. Omer-Cooper |
| The
Slave Girl: a novel by Buchi Emecheta |
| Mine
Boy by Peter Abrahams |
IDST 2500-1: Asians in Contemporary
America
Spring 2003 |
Surviving
on the Gold Mountain: a history of Chinese American women
and their lives by Huping Ling |
| Asian
Americans: Emerging Minorities by Harry H. L. Kitano
and Roger Daniels |
| The
Chinese American Family Album by Dorothy and Thomas
Hoobler |
| The
Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White by James
W. Loewen |
