Readings

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Note: Readings on reserve are designated with an * and you can click on the following link to access these articles (http://eres.oneonta.edu/eres/courseindex.aspx?error=&page=search). The password is "parker". Other readings are available by clicking on the hyperlink of the authors name.

Tu 9/4 Should the subfields be separate disciplines?

*Morell V (1993) Anthropology: Nature-culture battlefield. Science 261:1798, 1801–1802.

*Gibbons A (1997) Cultural divide at Stanford. Science 276:1783–1784.

*Shea C (1998) Tribal skirmishes in anthropology. Chronicle of Higher Education, September 11, 1998.

*Cartmill M (1994) Reinventing anthropology: American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Luncheon Address, April 1, 1994. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 37:1–9.

*Calcagno JM (2003) Keeping biological anthropology in anthropology, and anthropology in biology. American Anthropologist 105:6–15.

*Intelligent design? A forum appearing on the Natural History web page (http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/darwinanddesign.html) that consists of the following short notes that originally appeared in the April 2002 issue of Natural History by Behe, Miller, Dembski, Pennock, Wells, Scott, and Forrest.

*Rennie J (2002) 15 answers to creationist nonsense. Scientific American July 2002, pp. 78–85.

*Tyson N (2005) The perimeter of ignorance. Natural History November 2005, pp. 28–34.9/14

*Ambrose SH (2001) Paleolithic technology and human evolution. Science 291:1748–1753.

*Boaz NT, Ciochon RL (2004) Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 5: The adaptive behavior of the not-quite-human.

*Haug GH, Günther D, Peterson, LC, Sigman DM, Hughen KA, Aesschlimann B (2003) Climate and the collapse of Maya civilization. Science 299:1731–1735.

*Webster D (2000) The not so peaceful civilization: A review of Maya war. Journal of World Prehistory 14:65–119.

*National Geographic

*Feder KL, Park MA (2007) Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. New York: McGraw-Hill. Part of Chapter 12: The origins of agriculture (pp. 415–423).

*Richerson PJ, Boyd R, Bettinger RL (2001) Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? A climate change hypothesis. American Antiquity 66:387–411.

*Diamond JM (1988) Express train to Polynesia. Nature 336:307–308.
*Gibbons A (2001) The peopling of the Pacific. Science 291:1735–1737.

Lepowsky M (1993) Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society. Columbia University Press. In, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Anthropology, edited by Endicott and Welsch, New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 218-226, 2003.

Goldberg S (1996) Is Patriarchy Inevitable? National Review. In, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Anthropology, edited by Endicott and Welsch, New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 227-233, 2003.

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Ingold, Tim
2004 Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived Through the Feet. Journal of Material Culture 9(3):315-40.

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Salmon MH (1997) Ethical Considerations in Anthropology and Archaeology, or Relativism and Justice for all. Journal of Anthropological Research. In, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Anthropology, edited by Endicott and Welsch, New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 326-334, 2003.

Skinner EP (1988) Female Circumcision in Africa: The Dialectics of Equality. In, Dialectics and Gender: Anthropological Approaches Westview Press. In, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Anthropology, edited by Endicott and Welsch, New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 335-343, 2003.

*Harris, Marvin, (1999) Holism. In, Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times, pp. 133-139.

*Lowie, Robert (1940) The Proper View of Cultural Elements. In, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, pp. 384-390.

*Herskovits, Melville, (1955) Patterning and Integration in Culture. In, Cultural Anthropology, pp. 420-429

*Scupin, Raymond (2003) Holistic Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Research, and the Global Perspective. In, Cultural Anthropology, p. 14.