The final will emphasize materials covered since the midterm and should be turned in to the Anthropology Dept. Miner, Horace 1958 Body Ritual among the Nacirema. One Hundred Percent American. Douglas, Mary 1966 Secular Defilement and The Abominations of Leviticus. This section will explore the naturalization of gender and race relations.
Biological differences come to bear many extra and arbitrary learned, cultural behaviors and habits.
Williams, Brett 1991 Good Guys and Bad Toys. In The Politics of Culture , Brett Williams, ed. This section examines different scientific ways of describing human variability, showing race to be a weak concept for explaining human diversity. A Race Odyssey. The Status of the Race Concept in Physical Anthropology.