Readings
In addition to the ones on Blackboard

Core 3208 Cultural Transformations

Robert Sapolsky, excerpt from Primate's Memoir for the class, download/open by clicking on the link.
If you're interested, here is the link to the Google Books preview of Primate's Memoir.

Thursday Jan 5th reading: Vaz de Caminha's Discovery of Brazil.

Friday Jan 6th reading: Michael Taussig's The diary as a witness.
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Anthro 1 - Introduction to Anthropology

Clifford Geertz, Religion as Cultural System,
Alfred Rosenberger, Charles Darwin, 3 piece essay.
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Anthro 2.2 - Introduction to Archaeology

Blanton, Archaeologist at Work.
Regan, Excavation Diaries.
Stahl, Concepts of Time.
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Anthro 10 - Anthropology of Food Crisis

Davis, Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition.
Diamond, Excerpt from Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Trubek, Creating the taste of place.
Food and foreign relations: Israeli/Chinese oranges in Iran.
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Core Curriculum 20.08 - Cultural Transformations

Davidson Buck, Worked to the bone.
Complete Darwin's work published online, free access to books, manuscripts, letters...
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Useful material for better writing

Raymond Queneau (pronounced like Que no?) Exercises in Style.
Exercises in building vocabulary.
The role of syntax in language.
Jonathan Lethem, a literary perspective on plagiarism.
Standler Plagiarism in Colleges in USA.
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