Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (212)

Supplementary Web Readings

Yanomamö
 

• Napoleon Chagnon's Ax Fight film project

• Yanomamö Time Allocation

• Yanomamö Health: The Effects of El Nino and Parental Loss (requires Acrobat Reader)

• A tutorial on Yanomamö kinship and social organization

• Brian Schwimmer's Kinship Tutorial

Zapotec

• Zapotec, Miztec, Aztec and Mayan History and Language 

• Ancient Zapotec Hieroglyphic Language

• Zapotec Rugs http://www.zapotecrugs.com/

• Zapotec Language and History http://www.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/00i-zapoteca.htm

• Zapotec Funeral http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/crosengren/crzapotecfuneral.html

Inuit and Netsilik

• Learn  how to build an igloo

• Native Canadian (First Peoples) political organization

• Arctic Peoples in general (strong Inuit emphasis). An excellent site!

• Amundsen's Encounter with the Netsilik (middle section)