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ANTH 4813

Special Topic II

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2025

Topics

  • “The past is a foreign country” K.V. Flannery (ed.) The Early Mesoamerican Village
  • J. Robb The Early Mediterranean Village
  • C. Kusimba "A time traveler in Kenya." Natural
  • History
  • Critiques, Responses, Reviews S-E Brown Writing in Anthropology
  • J. Clifford & G.E. Marcus Writing Culture: the Poetics
  • and Politics of Ethnography
  • Literature reviews Brown
  • Annual Reviews in Anthropology
  • Critical research papers Brown
  • American Anthropologist
  • Antiquity
  • ANTH 4813 WAO Writing Archaeology Winter 2025 Page
  • Canadian Journal of Archaeology
  • Current Anthropology
  • Others, TBA
  • IMRD research papers Brown
  • Archaeometry
  • Journal of Archaeological Science
  • Journal of Field Archaeology
  • archaeology
  • Fieldwork report monographs A.M.T. Moore Village on the Euphrates
  • documentary scripts
  • Museums
  • The online environment www.rom.on.ca

Readings

  • Required: Shan-Estelle Brown (2017) Writing in Anthropology: A Brief Guide. Oxford University Press. 180-day ebook 26.99
  • Required: Other materials on line.
Fall 2024

Topics

  • Pre-Patriarchal Goddess-Worshiping Matriarchy?
  • The Neolithic Great Goddess
  • Sumerian and Minoan Goddesses
  • Greek Goddesses
  • Egyptian Goddesses
  • Hindu Goddesses
  • Chinese and Japanese Goddesses
  • African Goddesses
  • Sun Goddesses
  • Mother Mary and Canaanite Goddesses
  • Wiccan and Neo-Paganism: Goddess Worship Today

Readings

Winter 2024 · Special Topic in Advanced Geography: Half Year / Special Topic II

Topics

  • Ideas
  • Did you like phenomenology? (read Tuan and Ingold). Were you intrigued by the discussions of race and landscape
  • through the history of academia? (read Semple’s Environmental Determinism from the 1920s, then more recent authors
  • being used and newly theorized today for biodiversity conservation and also for economics (like the slow food
  • US/Mexico border as example)
  • Earth? Cosgrove). Or you could explore theories around how cultural landscapes change with time
  • Examples of Cultural Landscape Theories
  • economics – trade, geography of trade)
  • Feminism (gender or other division of activities like age, ethnicity, of power structure, changes through time)
  • Phenomenology – the sensory experience of living in Chaco canyon – What was naturally present, what sensory
  • experiences were manipulated (visual, auditory etc.) and how was it used for cultural ends?
  • of the case study aspect of cultural landscape -example given for agriculture below
  • farm there? Or did food come from elsewhere? What technology did they have to increase crop production and thus
  • free up more time for ceremonial labour?
Sources