COURSE: ANTH 152 (3) Culture and Humanity (3 credits)
PLACE: Physical Sciences 217, University of Hawai`i @ Manoa
TIME: 1:30-2:15 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays, Spring 2010
INSTRUCTOR:
Dr. Leslie E. Sponsel, Professor
Director, Ecological Anthropology Program and
Spiritual Ecology Concentration
Office:
Office hours:
317 Saunders Hall
2:30-3:30 p.m. Tuesdays or by appointment
Office phone: 956-8507
Email: sponsel@hawaii.edu
Links:
Ecological Anthropology Program UHM http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/Programs/Specializations/Ecological%
20Anthropology/index.html
Faculty Profile http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/People/Faculty/Sponsel/index.html
Research Project: “Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity
Conservation” http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/Projects/Spiritual%20Ecology/
Homepage http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/sponsel/

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ORIENTATION
“So much depends on our conception of human nature: for individuals, the meaning and purpose of our lives, what we ought to do or strive for, what we may hope to achieve or become; for human societies, what vision of human community we may hope to work toward and what sort of social changes we should make. Our answers to all these huge questions depend on whether we think there is some
“true” or “innate” nature of human beings. If so, what is it? Is it different for men and women? Or is there no such “essential” human nature, only a capacity to be molded by the social environment- by economic, political, and cultural forces?” (Stevenson, Leslie, and
David L. Haberman, 1998, Ten Theories of Human Nature, New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, p. 3).
How do people differ culturally, why, and so what? Cultural anthropology is the humanistic science that researches, documents, interprets, explains, and celebrates human cultural diversity and unity.
Culture may be viewed as a system of ideas, actions, and their material products that structure the relations among people in a particular society and their relations to their natural environment, the supernatural, and other societies.
This course surveys cultural anthropology and its subject matter, including concepts such as culture, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, and reflexivity, and phenomena such as particular cultures, adaptations, diversity, universals, change, and globalization. The history, theories, methods, data, interpretations, explanations, and achievements of cultural anthropologists are systematically surveyed in this course. In particular, the
Robbins textbook focuses on fundamental questions such as: Is it possible to see the world from the perspective of other cultures? Why is religion a cross-cultural universal? How do individuals defend their identities when they are threatened? Why are societies characterized by inequalities? How do societies construct meaning and justifications for collective violence?

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There are three secondary themes in this course:
1. understanding American culture through the eyes of anthropologists from other societies using the textbook edited by DeVita and Armstrong;
2. ecological approaches in cultural anthropology; and
3. the anthropology of religion and especially spiritual ecology.
The instructor will discuss his field research among the Yanomami of the Amazon, and more recently in Thailand. Also, he will talk about the culture and ethics of the society of anthropologists based on his observations as a participant observer in seven universities in four countries.
FORMAT
This class will integrate a succession of PowerPoint lectures, discussions of the assigned chapters in the two textbooks, illustrative videos, and other course materials to systematically survey the subfield and subject matter of cultural anthropology. Some guest mini-lecturers on field research and a panel discussion on American culture will be integrated into the course, the latter including two authors from the second textbook.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Through a succession of surprise quizzes by the end of the semester successful students will have demonstrated that they have progressively gained:
1. a better understanding of cultural anthropology as a subfield of anthropology, including its main concepts, theories, methods, questions, problems, issues, and achievements;
2. a greater appreciation of the cultural diversity and unity of humankind as well as the practical consequences of these phenomena;
3. a better understanding of American culture as viewed through the eyes of anthropologists from other cultures;

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4. a greater facility in applying cultural anthropology to better understand and to think more critically about contemporary sociopolitical issues in society and the world; and
5. an increased familiarity with aspects of the special topics of ecology, religion, and peace from the perspective of cultural anthropology.
CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE
Students are expected to arrive to class on time and to remain attentive for the entire period without any interruptions (1:30-2:45). Students are expected to avoid regular conversation or other behavior that distracts other students and the instructor. No extraneous reading material may be used during the class period. Students who repeatedly fall asleep in class will receive a grade reduction each time. The final course grade will be reduced for any inattentive or disruptive behavior.
All electronic devices including cell and iphones must be turned off before class and remain so throughout the entire period. The use of laptop computers is not allowed in this class, unless a copy of the class notes is sent to the instructor as an email attachment for each period after it is used.
In this class anyone is welcome to say or write anything with only three restrictions--- it is relevant, concise, and polite. This includes respecting the sensitivities of others and allowing others an opportunity to join in any class discussion. Although it will become obvious that the instructor has his own perspective, ultimately there is no “party line” in this course. In fact, students are encouraged to politely and constructively disagree with the instructor, course material, and each other whenever they wish to do so. Ultimately, the instructor does not really care what students think; however, he does care very deeply that they think in an informed and critical manner. http://www.hawaii.edu/apis/ep/e7/e7208.pdf
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SPECIAL NEEDS
Reasonable accommodations can be arranged for persons with some disability by visiting the KOKUA Program in QLCSS 013 or by phoning them at 956-7511 or 956-7612.
GRADE
The final grade for this course will be based on eight surprise quizzes over the chapters in the textbooks and other course materials (80%), and on a comprehensive final examination comprised of questions selected from the quizzes (20%). Because of the size of the class the quizzes will only include objective questions, no essays.
Regular attendance is imperative because surprise quizzes will be given over the required reading and other class materials, and no make-ups for missed quizzes will be given. However, one quiz will be dropped, the one with the lowest grade.
No research papers are required for this course. However, extra credit may be earned by writing essays (each about one-page typed single-spaced) in response to lectures, chapters, and/or videos. These should be only reactions, not summaries. Five such essays may elevate a border line grade, and ten may elevate the grade to the next higher level. Extra credit may also be earned by finding relevant YouTube videos to illustrate course material and emailing the link to the instructor. Another more ambitious alternative for extra credit is a research report based on library and/or fieldwork, but the topic must be approved by the instructor in advance.
Any student caught cheating on a quiz or in other ways will automatically fail the entire course and be reported to the Dean for administrative action.
REQUIRED READINGS
Students are required to thoroughly read these two textbooks:

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Robbins, Richard H., 2009, Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based
Approach, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth (Fifth Edition).
DeVita, Philip R., and James D. Armstrong, eds., 2002, Distant Mirrors:
America as a Foreign Culture, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth (Third Edition).
No additional reading will be assigned. However, optional reading can be pursued from citations in the two textbooks and the attached Resource Guide
(pp. 9-25). The Resource Guide reflects the particular subject matter and foci of this course, and it should also be especially useful for majors including for other courses.
SCHEDULE
January
12 T Orientation, Film: “Anthropology: Real People, Real Careers”
14 Th Film: “To Find the Baruya Story” (VHS 1677)
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19 T “Culture and Meaning” (Robbins Chapter 1)
21 Th Understanding Ourselves (DeVita and Armstrong pages xi-xvi and
Chapters 1-3)
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26 T Lecture: Ecological Approaches in Cultural Anthropology
28 Th “The Meaning of Progress and Development” (Robbins Ch. 2)
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February
2 T Distant Mirrors (Chs. 4-7)
4 Th “Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Nation-State” (Robbins Ch. 3)
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9 T Film: “Contact: Yanomami Indians of Brazil” (VHS 4962)
11 Th Lecture: Research Trends with the Yanomami of the Amazon
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16 T Distant Mirrors (Chs. 8-11)
18 Th “The Social and Cultural Construction of Reality” (Robbins Ch. 4)
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23 T Film: “The Goddess and the Computer” (VHS 4047)
25 Th Lecture: Spiritual Ecology
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March
2 T Distant Mirrors (Chs. 12-15)
4 Th “Patterns of Family Relations” (Robbins Ch. 5)
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9 T Film: “Warriors of the Amazon” (VHS 18554)
11 Th “The Construction of Identity” (Robbins Ch. 6)
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16 T Distant Mirrors (Chs. 16-19)
18 Th Film: “Becoming American” (VHS 7060)
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SPRING RECESS - No class meeting on March 23 and 25.
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30 T “The Cultural Construction of Social Hierarchy” (Robbins Ch. 7)
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April
1 Th Film: Mini-Dragons II: Thailand (VHS 10571)
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6 T Lecture: War and Ethics in Anthropology
8 Th Lecture: Military Anthropology and the Human Terrain System
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13 T “The Cultural Constructions of Violent Conflict” (Robbins Ch. 8)
15 Th Lecture: The Alternative of a Nonkilling Worldview, Values,
Attitudes, and Actions
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20 T Film: “In the Light of Reverence: Protecting America’s Sacred
Lands”
22 Th Lecture: Sacred Places and Pilgrimages
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27 T Lecture: Monks, Caves, Bats, and Forests in Thailand
29 Th Film: “Renewal: Stories from America’s Religious-Environmental
Movement”
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May
4 T Lecture: The Meaning and Significance of Culture and Cultural
Anthropology in the World Today
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11 T Final Examination (noon-2:00)
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GENERAL
Omohundro, John T., 2008, Thinking Like an Anthropologist: A Practical
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Perry, Richard J., 2003, Five Key Concepts n Anthropological Thinking,
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Salzman, Philip Carl, and Patricia C. Rice, eds., 2004, Thinking
Anthropologically: A Practical Guide for Students, Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Pearson/Prentice Hall.
REFERENCE WORKS
Amit, Vered, ed., 2004, Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, New York, NY: Routledge.
Barfield, Thomas, ed., 1997, The Dictionary of Anthropology, Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishers, Inc.
Barnard, Alan, and Jonathan Spencer, eds., 1996, Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, New York, NY: Routledge.
Barrett, Stanley R., 1997, Anthropology: A Student’s Guide to Theory and
Method, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
Birx, H. James, ed., 2006, Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage Publications.
Hongmann, John J., ed., 1973, Handbook of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, Chicago, IL: Rand McNally and Company.
Lavenda, Robert H., and Emily A. Schultz, 2000, Core Concepts in Cultural
Anthropology, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company.
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Levinson, David, Editor-in-Chief, 1993, Encyclopedia of World Cultures,
New York, NY: G.K. Hall & Company.
Levinson, David, and Melvin Ember, eds., 1996, The Encyclopedia of
Cultural Anthropology, New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co.
HISTORY AND THEORY
Adams, William Y., The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology, Stanford,
CA: : Leland Stanford Junior University Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Bidney, David, 1967, Theoretical Anthropology, New York, NY: Schoken
Books.
Bohannan, Paul, and Mark Glazer, eds., 1998, High Points in Anthropology,
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf (Third Edition).
Borofsky, Robert, ed., 1994, Assessing Cultural Anthropology, New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Harris, Marvin, 1979, Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of
Culture, New York, NY: Random House.
Harris, Marvin, 1999, Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times, Walnut
Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
McGee, R. Jon, and Richard L. Warms, 2008, Anthropological Theory: An
Introductory History, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Moore, Jerry D., 2008, Visions of Culture: An Introduction to
Anthropological Theories and Theorists, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Patterson, Thomas C., 2009, Karl Marx, Anthropologist, New York, NY:
Berg.
Patterson, Thomas C., 2001, A Social History of Anthropology in the United
States, New York, NY: Berg.

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Sidky, H., 2004, Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Stevenson, Leslie, and David L. Haberman, 1998, Ten Theories of Human
Nature, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
BIOGRAPHIES OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS
Grinker, Roy Richard, 2000, In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M.
Turnbull, New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.
Heimann, Judith M., 1998, The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai`i Press.
Kerns, Virginia, 2003, Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s Life and Theory, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Kroeber, Theodora, 1970, Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration,
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Lutkehaus, Nancy C., 2008, Margaret Mead: The Making of an Icon,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Modell, Judith Schachter, 1983, Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life,
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Silverman, Sydel, ed., 1981, Totems and Teachers: Perspectives on the
History of Anthropology, New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
METHODS
Bernard, H. Russell, 2000, Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology,
Thousand Oaks, CA: AltaMira Press.
Bernard, H. Russell, 2005, Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Thousand Oaks, CA: AltaMira Press.

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Gardner, Andrew, and David M. Hoffman, eds., 2006, Dispatches from the
Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World, Long Grove, IL:
Waveland Press, Inc.
Handwerker, W. Penn, 2001, Quick Ethnography, Walnut Creek, CA:
AltaMira Press.
Lassiter, Luke Eric, 2005, The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography,
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Madison, D. Soyini, 2005, Critical Ethnography: Methods, Ethics, and
Performance, Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage Publications.
Thomas, Jim, 1993, Doing Critical Ethnography, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
ETHICS
Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn, ed., 2003, Ethics and the Profession of
Anthropology: Dialogue for Ethically Conscious Practice, Walnut Creek,
CA: AltaMira Press.
Gonzalez, Roberto J., 2009, American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain, Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Israel, Mark, and Iain Hay, 2006, Research Ethics for Social Scientists,
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Johnson, W. Brad, and Charles R. Ridley, 2008, The Elements of Ethics for
Professionals, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lucas, Jr., George R., 2009, Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military
Anthropology, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Network of Concerned Anthropologists, 2009, The Counter-
Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Dimilitarizing American Society,
Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press.

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Wakin, Eric, 1992, Anthropology Goes to War: Professional Ethics and
Counterinsurgency in Thailand, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin
Center for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Number 7.
Whiteford, Linda M., and Robert T. Trotter II, 2008, Ethics for
Anthropological Research and Practice, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press,
Inc.
CONTROVERSIES
Atkinson, Paul, 1992, Understanding Ethnographic Texts, Newberry Park,
CA: Sage Publications.
Borofsky, Robert, ed., 2005, Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What
We Can Learn From It, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Endicott, Kirk M., and Robert L. Welsch, eds., 2008, Anthropology: Taking
Sides – Clashing Views in Anthropology, New York, NY: McGraw Hill
Higher Education.
Hammersley, Martyn, 1990, Reading Ethnograpgic Research: A Critical
Guide, New York, NY: Longmans.
Headland, Thomas N., ed., 1992, The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the
Evidence, Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association
Special Publication No. 28.
Hemley, Robin, 2003, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the
Tasaday, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Holmes, Lowell D., 1987, Quest for the Real Samoa: The Mead/Freeman
Controveresy and Beyond, New York, NY: Bergin Garvey.
Ingold, Tim, ed., 1996, Key Debates in Anthropology, New York, NY:
Routledge.
Nance, John, 1975, The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the
Philippine Rain Forest, New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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Robin, Ron, 2004, Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Caees That Shook the
Academy, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Schankman, Paul, and Paul S. Boyer, 2009, The Trashing of Margaret Mead:
Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy, Madison, WI: University of
Wisconsin Press.
Tierney, Patrick, 2000, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and
Journalists Devastated the Amazon, New York, NY: W.W. Norton &
Company.
Turnbull, Colin, 1972, The Mountain PeopleNew York, NY: Simon and
Schuster.
COLONIALISM
Asad, Talal, ed., 1973, Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic
Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
Biolsi, Thomas, and Larry J. Zimmerman, eds., 1997, Indians and
Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology,
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Bodley, John H., 2008, Victims of Progress, Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
Churchill, Ward, 1997, A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books.
Diamond, Jared, 1997, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human
Societies, New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
Elsass, Peter, 1992, Strategies for Survival: The Psychology of Cultural
Resilience in Ethnic Minorities, New York, NY: New York University
Press.
Fabian, Johannes, 1983, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its
Object, New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

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Maybury-Lewis, David, 2000, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the
State, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, 1999, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and
Indigenous Peoples, New York, NY: Zed Books, Ltd.
Weatherford, Jack, 1988, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas
Transformed the World, New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine.
ECOLOGY
Bates, Daniel G., 2005, Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and
Politics, Boston, MA: ALlyn and Bacon.
Bodley, John H., 2008, Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems
(Fifth Edition), Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
Diamond, Jared, 2005, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,
New York, NY: Viking.
Dobson, Andrew, ed., 1991, The Green Reader: Essays Toward a
Sustainable Society, San Fnrancisco, CA: Mercury House, Inc.
Haenn, Nora, and Richard R. Wilk, eds., 2006, The Environment in
Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living, New
York, NY: New York University Press.
Harkin, Michael E. and David Rich Lewis, eds., 2007, Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian, Lincoln, NE:
University of Nebraska Press.
Milton, Kay, 1996, Environmentalism and Culture Theory: Exploring the
Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse, New York, NY:
Routledge.
Netting, Robert M., 1986, Cultural Ecology, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland
Press, Inc.

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Ponting, Clive, 1991, A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Townsend, Patricia K., 2009, Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to
Policies, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.
Merchant, Carolyn, 2005, Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World,
New York, NY: Routledge.
RELIGION
Bowie, Fiona, 2006, The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction,
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Company.
Glazier, Stephen D., ed., 1999, Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook,
Westport, CT: Praeger.
Lambek, Michael, ed., 2002, A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion,
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Company.
Morris, Brian, 2006, Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction,
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Scupin, Raymond, ed., 2000, Religion and Culture: An Anthropological
Focus, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Winkelman, Michael, and John R. Baker, 2010, Supernatural as Natural: A
Biocultural Approach to Religion, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice
Hall.
Winzeler, Robert L., 2008, Anthropology and Religion: What We Know,
Think, and Question, Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
Young, David E., and Jean-Guy Goulet, eds., 1994, Being Changed by
Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience,
Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press.
SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY

Anderson, E.N., 1996, Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief, and the
Environment, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Gottlieb, Roger S., ed., 2006, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and
Ecology, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Grim, John A., ed., 2001, Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The
Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Kaza, Stephanie, and Kenneth Kraft, eds., 2000, Dharma Rain: Sources of
Buddhist Environmentalism, Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications.
Kearns, Laurel, and Catherine Keller, eds., 2007, Ecospirit: Religions and
Philosophies for the Earth, New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
Kinsley, David, 1995, Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality in
Cross-Cultural Perspective, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
McGrath, Alister, 2003, The Reenchantment of Nature: The Denial of
Religion and the Ecological Crisis, New York, NY: Doubleday/Galilee.
Milton, Kay, 2002, Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion, New
York, NY: Routledge.
Selin, Helaine, ed., 2003, Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the
Environment in Non-Western Cultures, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic
Publishers.
Taylor, Bron, Editor-in-Chief, 2005, Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature,
New York, NY: Thoemmes Continuum Press.
Taylor, Bron, 2010, Dark Green Religion: Nature, Spirituality and the
Planetary Future, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Tucker, Mary Evelyn, with Judith Berling, 2003, Worldly Wonder:
Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase, La Salle, IL: Open Court Press.
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Tucker, Mary Evelyn, and Duncan Ryuken Williams, eds., 1997, Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnectins of Dharma and Deeds, Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press.
SACRED PLACES
Bellows, Keith, et al., 2008, Sacred Places of a Life Time: 500 of the
World’s Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations, Washington, D.C.:
National Geographic Society.
Carmichael, David L., Jane Hubert, Brian Reeves, and Audhild Schanche, eds., 1994, Sacred Sites, Sacred Places, New York, NY: Routledge.
Crowe, Ellie, and William Crowe, 2001, Exploring Lost Hawaii1i: Places of
Power, History, Mystery and Magic, `Aiea, HI: Island Heritage.
Gray, Martin, 2007, Sacred Earth: Places of Peace and Power, New York,
NY: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Holm, Jean, and John Bowker, eds., 1994, Sacred Place, New York, NY:
Pinter Publishers.
Lane, Beldon C., 2001, Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Matthiessen, Peter, 1984, Indian Country, New York, NY: Penguin Books
USA.
Swan, James A., 1990, Sacred Places: How the Living Earth Seeks Our
Friendship, Santa Fe, NM: Bear and Company Publishing.
Swan, James A., 2000, Nature As Teacher and Healer: How to Reawaken
Your Connection with Nature, Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.com, Inc.
WAR AND PEACE
Bonta, Bruce D., 1993, Peaceful Peoples: An Annotated Bibliography,
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.

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Dentan, Robert Knox, 1968, Semai: A Nonviolent People, New York, NY:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Fry, Douglas P., 2007, Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace, New
York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Kelly, Raymond C., 2000, Warless Societies and the Origin of War, Ann
Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Robarchek, Clayton, and Carole Robarchek, 1998, Waorani: The Contexts of
Violence and War, Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
Sponsel, Leslie E., and Thomas Gregor, eds., 1994, The Anthropology of
Peace and Nonviolence, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
YANOMAMI
Chagnon, Napoleon A., Yanomamo, Forth Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace
College Publishers (Fifth Edition).
Dawson, Michael, 2006, Growing Up Yanomamo, Enumclaw, WA:
WinePress Publishing.
Good, Kenneth, with David Chanoff, 1991, Into the Heart: One Man’s
Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomama, New York, NY:
Simon and Schuster.
Lizot, Jacques, 1985, Tales of the Yanomami: Daily Life in the Venezuela
Forest, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Peters, John F., 1998, Life Among the Yanomami: The Story of Change
Among the Xilixana on the Mucajai River in Brazil, Orchard Park, NY:
Broadview Press, Ltd.
Rabben, Linda, 2004, Brazil’s Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization:
The Yanomami and the Kayapo, Seattle, WA: University of Washington
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Ramos, Alcida Rita, 1995, Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in
Times of Crisis, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
AREA STUDIES
Evans, Grant, ed., 1993, Asia’s Cultural Mosaic: An Anthropological
Introduction, New York, NY: Prentice Hall.
Heath, Dwight B., ed., 2002, Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin
America: A Reader in the Social Anthropology of Middle and South
America, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.
Hecht, Susanna, and Alexander Cockburn, 1989, The Fate of the Forest:
Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon, New York, NY:
Verso.
Keyes, Charles F., 1987, Thailand: Buddhist Kingdom as Modern Nation-
State, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Kings, Victor T., and William D. Wilder, 2003, The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction, New York, NY: Routledge/Curzon.
McNeely, Jeffrey A., and Paul Spencer Wachtel, 1988, Soul of the Tiger:
Searching for Nature’s Answers in Exotic Southeast Asia, New York, NY:
Doubleday.
Meggers, Betty J., 1996, Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit
Paradise, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Moran, Emilio F., 1993, Through Amazon Eyes: The Human Ecology of
Amazonian Populations, Iowa City, IO: University of Iowa Press.
Sponsel, Leslie E., ed., 1995, Indigenous Peoples and the Future of
Amazonia: An Ecological Anthropology of an Endangered World, Tucson,
AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Sponsel, Leslie E., 2000, Endangered Peoples of Southeast and East Asia:
Struggles to Survive and Thrive, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

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APPLIED AND ADVOCACY ANTHROPOLOGY
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, 2006, Engaging Anthropology: The Caee for a
Public Presence, New York, NY: Berg.
Gwynne, Margaret A., 2003, Applied Anthropology: A Career-Oriented
Approach, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Higgins, Patricia J., and J. Anthony Paredes, eds., 2000, Classics of
Practicing Anthropology 1978-1998, Oklahoma City, OK: Society for
Applied Anthropology.
Sanford, Victoria, and Asale Angel-Ajani, eds., 2008, Engaged Observer:
Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press.
PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Besterman, Catherine, and Hugh Gusterson, eds., 2005, Why America’s Top
Pundits Are Wrong: Anthripologists Talk Back, Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press.
Bird, S. Elizabeth, ed., 2010, The Anthropology of News and Journalism:
Global Perspectives, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Gonzalez, Roberto J., ed., 2004, Anthropologists in the Public Sphere:
Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
CAREERS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Academicus Mentor (Ashley Montagu), 1966, Up the Ivy: Being
Microcosmographia Academia Revisited, a True Blude Guide on How to
Climb in the Academic World Without Appearing to Try, New York, NY:
Hawthron Books, Inc.

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Gwynne, Margaret A., 2003, Anthropology: Career Resources Handbook,
Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Nolan, Riall W., 2003, Anthropology in Practice: Building a Career Outside the Academy, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Omohundro, John T., 2001, Careers in Anthropology, Mountain View, CA:
Mayfield Publishing Company.
Stephens, W. Richards, 2002, Careers in Anthropology: What an
Anthropology Degree Can Do For You, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Williams, Melvin D., 1993, An Academic Village: The Ethnography of an
Anthropology Department, Ann Arbor, MI: M.D. Williams.
MISCELLANEOUS
Harris, Marvin, 1974, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of
Culture, New York, NY: Random House/Vintage Books.
Harris, Marivn, 1997, Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Culture, Nedw
York, NY: Random House.
Harris, Marvin, 1995, Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture, New
York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
Hymes, Dell, ed., 1999/1969, Reinventing Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI:
University of Michigan Press.
Montagu, Ashley, 1997, Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race,
Walnut Creek, CA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
PERIODICALS
Abstracts in Anthropology
American Anthropologist

Annual Review of Anthropology
Anthropology Today
Critique of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Survival Quarterly
Current Anthropology
Dialectical Anthropology
Ethnology
Human Ecology
Human Organization
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Journal of Anthropological Research
Man
Reviews in Anthropology
Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion
WEB SITES
American Anthropological Association (AAA) http://www.aaanet.org
Anthropology Biography http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography
Anthropology and Environment Section, AAA http://www.eanth.org
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Anthropology in the News http://anthropology.tamu.edu/news/
Anthropology Index Online http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/ (also available through UHM Hawai`i Voyager Catalog)
AnthroSource http://www.aaanet.org
(also available through UHM Hawai`i
Voyager Catalog)
Center for Global Nonkilling http://www.nonkilling.org
Cultural Survival http://www.culturalsurvival.org
Department of Anthropology UHM http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu
Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature http://www.religionandnature.com
Forum on Religion and Ecology http://fore.research.yale.edu/
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) http://practicinganthropology.org
Public Anthropology http://www.publicanthropology.org
Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology http://savageminds.org
Society for Applied Anthropology http://www.sfaa.net/
Survival International http://www.survivalinternational.org
Theory in Anthropology http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm
INSTRUCTOR’S LINKS
Ecological Anthropology Program UHM http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/Programs/Specializations/Ecological%
20Anthropology/index.html

Faculty Profile http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/People/Faculty/Sponsel/index.html
Homepage http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/sponsel/
Research Project: Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity
Conservation http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/Projects/Spiritual%20Ecology/
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