African Roots/American Culture - Africa in the Creation of the Americas by Shelia S Walker
Creating Black Americans by Neil Irvin Painter
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Enlightenment Now - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker
Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach by Dan Sperber
Giving the Devil his Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist by Michael Shermer
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harrari
How Humans Evolved by Boyd, R., Silk, J. B.
In the Field: An introduction to Field Research by Robert Burgess
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B Peterson
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harrari
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Cultural Nature of Human Development by Barbara Rogoff
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
The Ethnographer’s Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology by Anna Grimshaw
The Interpretation of Culture by Clifford Geertz
The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach by Jonathan Skinner
The Redemptive Self - Stories Americans Live By by Dan P Mcadams
The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
The Savage Mind by Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
WEIRD ARTICLE
Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world?. Behavioral and brain sciences, 33(2-3), 61-83.
Documentaries
Anthony Bourdain's “Little Los Angeles”
City of Gold
Disco’d 2018 documentary - directed by Matthew Siretta
East LA Interchange
Everything Comes from the Streets
Iranians of Los Angeles I ARTE Documentary
Jewish Life in Los Angeles as Told through Delis
LA Originals
Obey Giant: The Art and Dissent of Shepard Fairey
ON THE STREETS -- a feature documentary on homelessness in L.A.
Songkran Festival in Los Angeles (New Year 2019)
TV Show Episodes/Movies
The Wire (Seasons 1- 5)
"Fire" - E:01 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic
"Medicine" - E:02 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic
"The Power of Money" - E:03 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic
"The Writing on the Wall" - E:04 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic
"Progress of War" - E:05 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic
"Building the Future" - E:06 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic
"Into the Unknown" - E:07 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic
"The Road Ahead" - E:08 - Origins: The Journey of Humankind" - National Geographic
"Angel One" - S:1 E:14 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Loud as a Whisper" - S:2 E:5 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"A Matter of Honor" - S:2 E:8 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Icarus Factor" - S:2 E:14 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Pen Pals" - S:2 E:15 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Samaritan Snare" - S:2 E:17 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Up the Long Ladder" - S:2 E:18 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Ensign of Command" - S:3 E:2 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Who Watches the Watchers" - S:3 E:4 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Bonding" - S:3 E5: - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Enemy" - S:3 E:7 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Price" - S:3 E:8 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Vengeance Factor" - S:3 E:9 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Defector" - S:3 E:10 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The High Ground" - S:3 E:12 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Sins of the Father" - S:3 E:17 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Allegiance" - S:3 E:18 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Tin Man" - S:3 E:20 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Sarek" - S:3 E:23 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Ménage à Troi" - S:3 E:24 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Transfigurations" - S:3 E: 25 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Best of Both Worlds" - S:3 E: 26/ 4:1 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Family" - S:4 E:2 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Suddenly Human" - S:4 E:4 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Legacy" - S:4 E:6 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Reunion" - S:4 E:7 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Wounded" - S:4 E:12 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Devil’s Due" - S:4 E: 13- Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Clues" - S:4 E: 14 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"First Contact" - S:4 E: 15 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Drumhead" - S:4 E: 21 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Half a Life" - S:4 E: 22 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Host" - S:4 E: 23 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Redemption" - S:4/5 E: 26/1 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Darmok" - S:5 E: 2 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Ensign Ro" - S:5 E: 3 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Silicon Avatar" - S:5 E: 4 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Unification" - S:5 E: 7/8 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"A Matter of Time" - S:5 E: 9 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"New Ground" - S:5 E: 10 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Masterpiece Society" - S:5 E: 13 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Ethics" - S:5 E: 16 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Outcast" - S:5 E: 17 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Cost of Living" - S:5 E: 20 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Perfect Mate" - S:5 E: 21 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"I, Borg" - S:5 E: 23 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Inner Light" - S:5 E: 25 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Chain of Command" - S:6 E: 10/11 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Face of the Enemy" - S:6 E: 14 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Birthright" - S:6 E: 16/17 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Chase" - S:6 E: 20 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Rightful Heir" - S:6 E: 23 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Descent" - S:6/7 E: 26/1 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
Additional Internet Resources
APA Guidelines
Free Online Cultural Anthropology Textbook
http://perspectives.americananthro.org/
American Anthropological Association: Understanding Race
http://www.understandingrace.org/
Race-The Power of an Illusion:
Current social science research ethics code include the following:
Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Ethical Guidelines
http://www.theasa.org/ethics.htm
British Sociological Association (BSA) Statement of Ethical Practice
http://www.britsoc.org.uk/about/ethic.htm
Social Research Association (SRA) Ethical Guidelines
http://www.the-sra.org.uk/ethics.htm
American Sociological Association (ASA) Code of ethics
http://www.asanet.org/ethics.htm
American Anthropological Association (AAA) Code of ethics
http://aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethicscode.pdf
British Psychological Society (BPS) Code of Conduct: Ethical Principles and Guidelines
http://www.bps.org.uk/about/rules5.cfm
British Educational Research Association (BERA) Revised Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (2004)
http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/pdfs/ethical1.pdf
Course Relevant Videos
Short Clips
Daniel Dennett: Memes 101 | How Cultural Evolution Works
The Balinese Cockfight - Clifford Geertz
The Forbidden Cave
Chinese Internal Migration
India's Transgender Community
Elie Wiesel - The Perils of Indifference
Confusing Race in Brazil
A Class Divided
Indo-European Language Spread
Margaret Mead
Reflexivity
Nature vs Nurture - Sapolsky
Is Cultural Relativism Racist?
Why is chicken so cheap? | The Economist
Cave Art 101
US Immigration
Cross Cultural Intimacy
Intersex Questions
Reparations - Coleman Hughes and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Loving vs Virginia
RACE – THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION
Malinowski
Human Terrain Project
Pareto Distribution
Foucault
Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other? | Robert Sapolsky
Is Moral Disgust Just Bad Evolution? | Robert Sapolsky
Crash Course
Race and Ethnicity
Age and Aging
Religion and Society
GLobalization II
Health and Medicine
Dubois & Race Conflict
Social Stratification
Racial/Ethnic Prejudice & Discrimination
Theories about Family and Marriage
Globalization I
Globalization III
Race Melodrama
Cultures, subcultures, countercultures
Theories of Gender
Ted-esque
The History of Marriage
The Power of Street Art
How to understand Power
Digital natives vs digital immigrants
Benefits of Bilingual Brain
How Languages Change and Evolve
Art in the Age of Instagram
Modern Medicine meets Traditional
Victimhood Culture
How languages shape perspective
The Origins of English
Cyborgs
How Culture Drives Behaviours
Origin of Everything
What is ethnicity?
Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
The Origin of Race in the USA
When Did Marriage Become about Love?
Where does the Nuclear Family Come From?
Baba Brinkman
Veni Vidi Vici - Extinction