Required Textbook

Nanda and Warms. (2019). Cultural Anthropology (12^th edition). Los Angeles: SAGE. ISBN: 978-1544333915

Book Review Options (you only need to procure the ONE book you intend to review)

• Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Sarah Crichton Books. ISBN: 978-0374531263
• DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. ISBN: 978-0807047415
• Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. New York: Random House Publishing. ISBN: 978-0812968378
• Kane, Joe. Savages. New York: Vintage. ISBN: 978-0679740193

A survey of Western and non-Western world cultures using anthropological and historical perspectives. Special emphasis on sample groups in Africa, India, and Asia. Cross listed with HI204.

This class has four objectives:

1. Familiarize the student with the geography of selected world cultures.
2. Introduce the student to a wide range of cultural practices.
3. Chronicle the major events in the development of each culture.
4. Learn and identify cultural traits specific to certain areas of the world.