The Human Experience III

Course Content

Precoloinal Africa
38 Topics
Defining Africa, Spatially and Temporally
Challenging Preconceptions about Boundaries and Language
Migrations throughout Africa
Early History of Northern and Northeastern Africa
State Development and Islam in Northwestern and Western Africa
The Empire of Mali
Engaging with Oral Histories
West African States
States and Trade in Southern Africa to 1300 CE
Rock Art in Africa: Drawing Meaning from the Mists of Time
Rock Art: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Ife and Nok: Realism and the Art Market
Kerma Culture: The Power of Pottery
Kerma Culture: Items of Adornment
Afrocentric Approaches and the Importance of Identity: Cheikh Anta Diop, Black Athena
Djenne-Djeno: Ceramic Sculpture
Djenne-Djeno: Urbanism and Architecture
Meroe: Trade and Exchange
Ghana Empire and Igbo-Ukwu: Metal Casting and Archaeological Dating Methods
Mapungubwe: Sacred Kingship
Great Zimbabwe: Construction of Knowledge and Racism in Scholarship
Mali Empire and the Great Mosque of Djenne: Timbuktu, Memory, and Islam
Ethiopia: Ancient Christian Africa and Religious Influence in Art
Nubia: Ancient Christian Africa
Benin: Royal Bronzes
Benin: Restitution and European Involvement in Africa
Environmental Challenges to African Archaeology
Community-Oriented Archaeological Approaches
Christianity and Islam in Africa
Kingdoms of the Forest: Religion, Ethnicity, and State Building in West and West Central Africa
The Sundiata Epic
The Kingdom of Kongo
Northern Africa and the Mediterranean World
Islam and the Trans-Saharan Trade
States and Societies of the African Horn
East Africa and the Indian Ocean World
Christianity and Judaism in Africa: from the Cairo Geniza, Djerba Island, and Maimonides to Desert Fathers, Lalibela and Augustine
Bokoni
The Indian Ocean World
23 Topics
An Ancient Indian Ocean
Early European Encounters
Early Afro-Asian Encounters
Crossing the Seas
Early Civilizations in Contact
Consolidating Early Politics
An Ocean of Storms
An Ocean of Religions
Networks of Labor
Ocean of Trade
Ocean of Tongues
Trading Knowledge
Beyond the Bay of Bengal
A “World” Economy?
Migration and Identity
Systems of Slavery
The Diverse Work of Enslaved People
Networks of Slavery
Slavery, Gender, and the Household
Enslaved People Shaping Their Lives: from Resistance to Adaptation
The Ambiguities of Abolitionism
Convict Transportation
Indentured and “Coolie” Labor
Precolonial North America
53 Topics
Problematic Representations and Stereotypes
Excavating Sites, Shrines, and Graves
NAGPRA and Repatriation
The First Americans
The Kennewick Controversy
Debating the Implications
The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition
The Archaic Period: Simple, Complex, or Both?
Environmental Extremes: Life in the Arctic
Documenting Domestication
Cultivation and Horticulture
Agriculture and Intensive Food Production
Moundbuilders of the Eastern Woodlands
Constructing Complexity
Studying Religion Archaeologically
Entering Other Worlds: Hallucinogenic Plant Use
Physical and Ethical Landscapes of Religion
Pax Cahokia and Pax Chaco?
A Delicate Subject: Violence and Cannibalism in the Southwest
Challenging Notions of “Simple” Societies
Rethinking Anthropogenic Landscape Management
Coalescence and Confederacy in the Northeast
Migrants and Captives
Operationalizing Identity Archaeologically
Oral Traditions
Megafaunal Extinctions
Understanding Clovis and Folsom
The Archaic Period
Poverty Point
The Interior West and the West Coast: Bison and Salmon
The American Southwest: Hohokam, Mogollan, and Anasazi
The Mississippian Moundbuilders
Late Woodland to 1600
North to Alaska
Across the Arctic: Paleo-Eskimo to Dorset
Across the Arctic: Thule to Inuit
The Vikings
Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence: Big Questions and Metanarratives for Stakeholders
Plains Villages
Iroquoian Community and Confederation
Northwest Coast and Plateau
Chumash
Archaic Religion: Rock Art and Split-Twig Figurines
“Digger Indians” vs. Computer Jocks – Archaeology in the Great Basin
Lessons from Acorns
Analogy and Inference: Interpreting Social Systems in the Southwest
Conflict and Violence
The Great Davenport Controversy
The Rise of Woodland Cultures: Midlands and Southeast
Traders, Missionaries, and Chiefs: The Hopewell Interaction Sphere
Cities, Colonies, and Death Cults: Life in the Mississippian
Mississippian Social Order
Archaeology and the History of the Under-Represented
Precolonial Mesoamerica
100 Topics
Present State of and Threats to Mesoamerican Archaeological Sites
Earliest Maya
The Olmec
The Rise of Maya Civilization
Maya Political Cycling
Classic Maya Splendor: The Early Period
Classic States: Valley of Oaxaca
Classic States: Basin of Mexico
Classic Maya Splendor: The Late Period
Social Diversity and Everyday Life
Maya Thought and Culture
Maya Engineering
Maya Hieroglyphs
Maya Mythology and Religion
The Terminal Classic Maya
The Classic Maya Collapse
The Post-Classic Maya
Post-Classic States: Tula
Post-Classic States: Aztecs
States and Empires in Mesoamerica
Maya Life on the Eve of Conquest
Religious Traditions of Mesoamerica
The Enduring Maya
Cosmovision and the Hard Nucleus
Late Formative Olmec
Early Oaxaca
Mount Alban and the Zapotec Fluorescence
Maya Writing and Politics
Epiclassic Period and the Great Tollans
Olmec Portraits and Origin Stories
Teotihuacan: A Mesoamerican Metropole
Teotihuacan: Monuments, Murals, and Masks
The “Great Goddess” – an Evolving Interpretive Case Study
Palenque: Splendors of a Maya Royal Court
Classic Maya Ceramics and Mural Traditions
The Post-Classic Tula and Chichen Itza
The Aztecs and Tenochtitlan
Aztec Writing Systems and Manuscripts
Monuments to Tlatoani: The Solar Disks and the Teocalli
The Aztec Sun Stone
The Popol Vuh: Maya Ideology, Creation Myths, and the Ballgame
Creation Stories in Mesoamerica
The Zapotecs
Aztec Intellectual Achievements, Religion, and Ritual
Aztec Social and Economic Organization
Aztec Sacrifice and Cannibalism
The Mesoamerica Legacy
The Mixtecs
Mixtec Writing
Aztec Political Organization
Aztec Militarism and Writing
Rise of the Maya Kings and Dynasties
Rival Brothers: Dynasties of Tikal and Calakmul
The Feast in the Palace: Painted Maya Chocolate Vessels
Rivals of the Western Lowlands: Yaxchillan, Piedras Negras, and Palenque
The Margins of the Lowland Maya World
Time and the Maya
The Ajaw
Maya Nobles
Tikal
The Snake Kingdom
The Southeast Periphery
Subsistence Strategies and Trade
Long Count Calendar
Gender Roles and Representations
State Political Cults
Developments in the Puuc Region
Warfare: Conquest and Sacrifice
Warfare: Annihlation
Motecuzoma and Tenochtitlan
The Florentine Codex
Archaeology at the Temple Mayor
Human Adaptations in the Valley of Mexico
Women, Family, and Daily Life
Craft, Trade, and Tribute
Writing and the Calendar
Religion, Ritual, and Worldview
Aztec Art, Poetry, and Music
Nahuatl Language
Epistemology and Sources of Information
The Individual in the Cosmos: Souls and the Afterlife
Destiny: Tonalpohualli and Tonalamatl
Life Cycle
House and Big House: Calli and Calpulli
Social Estates: Pilli and Macehualli
Maize Agriculture
Crafts and Market: Toltecatl and Tianquiztli
Philosophy, Poetry, and Games
Cosmology: Cemanauatl
Cosmogony: World Creation
Sacred History of the Mexica
Religion: Teotl and Teopixqui
Ceremonies of the Xiuhmolpilli
Divine Kings: Huey Tlatoani
Warfare (Yaoyotl) and Sacrifice
Warfare for Conquest
Pochte3ca: Traders and Travelers
Neighbors: Tarascans to the West
Neighbors: Totonacs, Huaxtecs, Tlaxcaltecs, and Cholultecs to the East
Aztecs and the Popular Imagination
Precolonial South America
85 Topics
Geography and History of Research
Chronology, Historicity, and Temporalities
Landscapes and Subsistence Strategies
Monuments and Artworks
Shamanism
Everyday Life
Warfare
Feasting
Ritual Killing
State Formation and Urbanism
Record Keeping, Bureaucracy, and Empire Building
Animals and Plants in Ancient Andean Art
Early Preceramic Period and the First Settlers in the Andes
Adaptation and Emerging Social Complexity
The First Evidence of Monumental Architecture and Complex Social Organization
Caral, America’s First City?
The First Ceramic Objects in the Central Andes and Beyond
Gramalote: Domestic Aspects of Common People during the Second Millennium BCE in the Central Andean Region
The Early Horizon
The Great Temple of Chavin de Huantar
After Chavin: Social, Political, and Religious Re-Organization in the Central Andes
The Early Intermediate Period
Moche Society
Lima and Nasca Societies
The Tiwanku
The Middle Horizon
The Royal Tombs of Castillo de Huarmey
The Late Intermediate Period in the Central Coast, Cloud Forest, and Andean Highlands
The Sacred Sanctuary of Pachacamac
Lambayeque Society
Lambayeque Elite Burials
The Kingdom of Chimor (Chimu)
The City of Chan Chan
The Inca: Social Organization and Statecraft
Inca Roads, Architecture, and Agricultural Systems
Machu Picchu and its Implications for Inca Archaeology
The Inka Empire, Administration, and Khipu Recordkeeping System
What is “recordkeeping” and why is it not necessarily “writing”?
Cloth as a Communication Medium in the Andes
Structure, Memory, and Information
Precursors of the Inka Khipu
A Theory of Khipu Signs – Binary Coding
Khipus in Inca Administration
Khipus in Colonial Administration
Khipu Writing/Khipu Narratives
Khipus and Confession in the Colonial Andes
Ethnographic/Patrimonial Khipu
A Look Beyond the Khipus and the Andes
The Myth of Ancestral Origins
The Central Andes at the Time of Inca Origins
Archaeological Origins of the Inkas
Reconstructing Inka Origins at Different Archaeological Sites
The Emergence of an Imperial Heartland
Social Transformations in the Imperial Heartland
Campaigns and Reign of Pachuacutic Inca Yupanqui
Inca Yupanqui’s Campaigns and the Ideals of Male Sovereignty
Campaigns and Reign of Topa Inca Yupanqui
Campaigns and Reign of Huayna Capac
A Demilitarized Empire and its Savage Frontiers
Provincial Rule in Collasuyu
Provincial Rule in Contisuyu
Provincial Rule in Chinchayusuyu
Provincial Rule in Antisuyu
Inka Religion and Society through Spanish Eyes
Inka Ways of Thinking, and the Catholic War on Andean Cultures
Inka Religion and the Andean Pantheon
Observing and Celebrating the Inka Cosmos
Temples and Sacred Landscapes
Ritual and the Inka Calendar
Comparing Inka Calendars
Gender and an Idealized Highland Life Cycle
Royal Families and Factions in Cuzco
The Power of the Palace
The Creation of Special Subjects and Objects
Inka Art and Artisans
Unity and Diversity in Inka Material Culture
Stonework, Estate Planning, and Style
Scale as an Andean Concern
Inka Art across Media
The Early Human Colonization of South America
Archaic Adaptation: Foragers and Collectors
Early Pottery Invention and Technological Dispersion in the Neotropics
The Rise of Complex Societies in Coastal Brazil
The Rise of Complex Societies in the Amazon Basins
Chiefdoms of Northern South America
After the Plague in Europe
36 Topics
The Decameron
Revolution in Rome: Cola di Rienzo
The Jacquerie
English Peasant Revolt
Plague, Heresy, and the Questioning Spirit
The Passionate Mystic: Margery Kempe
The Canterbury Tales and the Spectre of Death
Social and Economic Consequences of the Black Death
Historians and Primary Sources for the Study of the Hundred Years War
The Origins and Transformation of Knighthood
The Origins and Causes of the Hundred Years War
Strategy, Tactics, and Command Structure
Recruitment, Renumeration, and Composition of the Armies
John of Arc and the French Ascendancy
The Medieval Archer
The War at Sea
War and the Non-Combatant in France
The Home Front: Propaganda and Nationalism
The Costs and Rewards of the Hundred Years War
The Causes and Context of the Wars of the Roses
Soldiers during the War of the Roses
England in the 15th Century
Exploring Medieval Sources
The Reign of Henry VI
The First War: 1455-61
Reconstructing a Medieval Battle: Towton, 1461
Fortune’s Wheel: 1461-1471
Order Restored? The Second Reign of Edward IV
The Crisis of 1483 and the Princes in the Towers
Richard III
The End of the Wars?
The Tudor Dynasty – A New Age
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Edward VI and Bloody Mary
Elizabeth I and England’s Golden Age
Tudor and Stuart England
89 Topics
The Social Order
The Household
Communities
Social and Economic Networks
Utopia
The Structures of Power
Late Medieval Religion
The Henrician Reformation
Edward VI and Mary I
Economic and Social Problems
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement
Education and Literacy
The Elizabethan Monarchical Republic
Shakespeare
Witchcraft and Magic
Economic Expansion
Crime and Law
The Tudor Legacy
Making a Dynasty: Marriage, Finance, and Foreign Policy
Royal or Ministerial Government? Henry VIII and Thomas Wolsey
“The King’s Great Matter”
The Break with Rome
Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell
The English Reformation in European Context
Government by Courtier
Boy-King and Lord Protector: Edward VI and Somerset
Northumberland and the Succession Crisis
Mary Tudor, Spain, and Resurgent Catholicism
Protestantism in Mary’s England and in Exile
“Conciliar” Government
England and Europe
The Marriage Question
Scotland and the Scottish Reformation
War with Spain and the Armada
The Economic Crisis
The Problem of the Succession
The Problem of Essex
The “Invention” of Anglicanism
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Social Structure and Social Mobility
Marriage, Sexuality, and the Family
Agrarian Society and Enclosures
The Peerage
Humanism
Architecture
Elizabethan Puritanism
The Problem of Revolution
The New King
Political Factions at the Court of James I
King and Parliament, 1604-1629
Personal Rule, 1629-1640
Social Change and Revolution
The Crisis of the Aristocracy
The Ecclesiastical Establishment
Puritanism
The Universities and the Revolution
Universities and Arminianism in Ireland
The City of London
Precipitants of Revolution
The Spanish Match
Irish Peers, Politics, and Parliament
Revolution in Ireland: The 1641 Uprising
Scotland and the Covenant
England and Wales: The Long Parliament and the Localities
Whigs and Marxists
The Civil Wars and the Forces of History
Revisionism: The Accidental Civil War?
A Cultural and Ethnic Conflict?
The Civil Wars: Revolt or Revolution?
The Solemn League and Covenant and the Cessation
Faction and Faith: The Making of the New Model Army
The Politics and Problems of Armies, Foreign and Domestic
Neutrals and Localists? Clubmen and Committees
The Local and the National in the Civil Wars
Post-War Politics: The Army, the Levellers, and the Search for Settlement
The Second Civil War, 1648
1649: Regicide and Revolution
The Nature of the British Revolutions
Print and Propaganda: The Mechanics of Mobilization
Gangraena and the World of Civil War Print
Censorship and Freedom: John Milton’s Areopagitica and the Politics of Print
A Public Transformed? Print and Political Opinion
Newsbooks, Petitions, and Pamphlets
Popular Radicalism? The Levellers, the Army, and the People
Democratic Revolutoinaries? The Nature and Influence of the Levellers
Religious Radicalism: Sects, Heretics, and Hysteria
“Radicalism”: A Useful Category of Analysis?
The Quakers
Oliver Cromwell
The European Renaissance
56 Topics
Life in the 16th Century
Carnival
The Printing Press
The New Warfare
Renaissance Humanism
Renaissance Courts and Manners
Renaissance Arts
Patrons and Artists
Formation of the Early Modern State
The Italian State System and International Rivalry
The Prince of the State: Theories of Sovereignty
Economic Foundations
Literature and Poetry
Humanist Education and Self-Fashioning
Imitating Nature: Art and Architecture
Renaissance Philosophy
Church and State
Politics and History
Northern Humanism
Women Writers and Artists
Venice: Ritual, Myth, and Republican Realpolitik
The Renaissance Papacy and Rome Reborn
The Collector’s (and Collective’s) Pride: Art in the Italian City
Women and Power(lessness?) in the Renaissance
Portraying Power
The Aesthetics of Art and Experience of Objects
Political Realism and the “Crisis” of the Renaissance
Erasmus
Thomas More
Michel de Montaigne
Dante
Petrarch
Florence
Other Major States
Neoplatonism and Mysticism
Marriage, Family, and Women
The Renaissance and Science
Learning and Education
Life in Renaissance Italy
The Late Italian Renaissance
Gutenberg and the Gutenberg Bible
The Spread of Printing in Europe
The Impact of Printing on the Renaissance
Valla
The Call for Rebirth
The Invention of the Medieval
Medieval and Ancient Manuscripts
Book-Hunters
The Manuscript Explosion
Latinity and Competition
Platonism and Patronage
The Great Italian Printers
New Printing Centers: Paris, Lyons, Amsterdam
What was burned in a book burning?
Censorship and Expurgation
Was Machiavelli a humanist?
The Reformation
136 Topics
Themes and Idioms in Medieval Political Thought
St. Augustine
Political Thought in the High Middle Ages (c. 1000-1200)
Late Medieval Political Thought (c. 1200-1500)
Political Community
Church and State
Kingdom and Empire
Natural Law and Rights
Limited Government: Kingship, Counsel, and Representation
The Market Economy and its Critics
Just War and the Crusades
Society
Spiritual Life in the Medieval Church
Institutional Structure in the Medieval Church
Gregorian Reform
The Apostolic Life
The Rise of the Papacy and Innocent III
Universities
Mendicants
Bretano
The Sacramental Life
The Scholastic Synthesis and its Fraying
The Fall of the Papacy
The 14th- and 15th-Century Church
Late Medieval Popular Piety
Gender, Mystics, and Civic Religion
Humanism and Religion from Valla to Erasmus
Late Medieval Reform
Early Luther
Theological Themes in Luther
Early Expressions of Theologia Crucis
The Righteousness of God
Freedom in Christ
The Lord’s Supper
The Bondage of the Will
Law and Gospel
Marriage and Domestic Life
Antisemitism
Meditation on the Cross of Christ
Preparing to Die
Meditations on Evils and Blessings
A Method of Comfort in Luther’s Letters
Theology and the Practice of Prayer
The Shape of Christian Life in Luther’s Catechisms
Salvation
Reformation of the Cities
Political Landscape of the Holy Roman Empire
Martin Luthern in Germany
Reformation Doctrines
Lutheran Liturgy and Rituals
Dissemination of Reformation Ideas
Doctrinal Divisions
Reformation Writing
Rural Reformation
The German Peasants War
Radical Reformation
Urban Reformation
Gender Roles
The Princes’ Reformation and Their Clergy
Protestantism and Other Faiths
Imperial Politics
Long-Term Effects
Bullinger, Zwingli, and the Swiss Reformation
Zwingli and the Anabaptists
Humanism and the Reformation
Zwingli and Luther: Disputes of Doctrine
Calvin and Farel: The Genevan Reformation
Papal Schism and the Counter-Reformation
The Confessional Era and Beyond
Theodore de Beze: Reformation and the Academy
Iconoclasm and Art
Calvin and the Reformed Tradition
Calvin on Providence: Between “Chance” and “Stoicism”
Calvin on the Fall and “Total Depravity”
Person and the Work of Christ: The Grace and Wrath of God in Calvin’s Doctrine of Reconciliation
Closing with Christ: The Believer’s Privilege
Regeneration and Justification: Order and Freedom in the Christian Life
Predestination and the Means of Grace
Reconciliation, Election, and the Church: A Calvinist Dilemma?
Baptism
The Lord’s Supper
The Eucharistic Controversy in the Protestant Reformation
Church and State
The English Reformation: The Rise of Lollardy
Christian Humanism
William Tyndale
The Growth of Erastianism
Tensions between Church and State
Parliament
The Rise of Thomas Cromwell
The Henrician Statutes
Early English Bibles
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Protector Somerset
The Edwardian Injunctions
The Act of Uniformity
The First Prayer Book and the Rebellions
Northumberland’s Rise
The Second Prayer Book
The Articles of Religion
The Marian Injunctions
The Martyrs
The Protestant Underground
Failure of the Reaction
The Exiles
The Act of Supremacy
The Act of Uniformity
The Elizabethan Injunctians
The Development and Spread of the Radical Reformation
North German and Dutch Anabaptism
Views of Scripture
Martyrdom
Views of Sword and Oath: Swiss and South German
Views of Sword and Oath: Hoffman and the Melchiorites
Ideals and Reality: Socioeconomic and Gender
Authority for the Movement: Inner or Outer?
Ecclesiology: What is the church?
Christology: Who is Christ, and what difference does it make?
The Legacy of the Radical Reformation
Who are the Jesuits?
Ignatian Spirituality and Pedagogy
Jesuit Plan of Life and its Expansion
How They were to Govern Themselves
Their Basic Spiritual Program
Why and How They Engaged in Education
The Jesuits and the Scientific Revolution
Expansion, Europe, and Latin America
Expansion in the Far East
Jesuit Theater in Italy
Further Arts
Women
The Jesuits’ Enemies
The Suppression of the Society of Jesus
The Council of Trent
The Servetus Affair and Religiosu Toleration
Columbus the Christ-Bearer
Reformation, Women, and Witchcraft
54 Topics
16th-Century Understandings of Women
Reinterpreting Marriage
Reinterpreting Motherhood
Female Theologians
Female Political Leaders
Reforming Practice and Women’s Devotion
Convents and the Reformation
Reform and Prayer in the Catholic Reformation
The Study of Witchcraft
The Problem of Evil: Judaic, Classical, and Christian Versions
Christianity and Paganism: The Conversion of Europe
Early Medieval Witchcraft Legislation
Witchcraft Belief in the High Middle Ages
13th-Century Heresy and the Medieval Inquisition
Witch-Hunting from the 13th through 15th Centuries
Scholasticism and Demonology: Thomas Aquinas on Demons
Sorcery and Politics in 14th-Century Europe
Scapegoating: Demonization and the Jews
Women in the Middle Ages: Attitudes and Images
The Inquisitor as Witch Hunter
The Malleus Maleficarum: A Demonological Compendium
Natural Magic in the Renaissance Learned Tradition
Popular Witchcraft Belief
Witchcraft Trials
Witchcraft Persecutions
Witchcraft and the Family
Did witchcraft exist?
16th-Century Witch Debate: Weyer, Brodin, Brenz, and Scot
English Witch Trials: A Separate Case?
The Scottish Witch Hunt
The German Witch Panic
Witch Trials in France and Switzerland
Possession and Exorcism in France, England, and Italy
Persecution from Below: Village Rivalries?
Persecution from Below: Economic Hardships?
Witchcraft and Social Control
Defining and Prosecuting Witchcraft in 17th-Century America
The Dominion of New England
The Glorious Revolution and the Second Indian War
The City on a Hill
Salem Village vs. Salem Town
Accusers and Accused
Salem Village: The Social Context of Witchcraft Accusations
The Court of Oyer and Terminer
Salem Possessed
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
Salem Village Witch Trials: Theological and Procedural Issues
Historical Interpretations
Roman Inquisition Trials in Italy: Heresy vs. “Superstition”
Witchcraft and Benandanti
Late Witch Trials: Scandinavia and Eastern Europe
Skepticism, Materialism, and the Scientific Revolution
The Decline of Witch Trials: Judicial Doubts and Rules of Evidence
Historical Postscript: 18th-Century Rationalism and 19th-Century Romanticism
Anthropology of Symbols, Mythology, Folk Beliefs, Ritual, Identity, and the Supernatural
144 Topics
The Anthropological Study of Witchcraft
Symbols
Human and Animal Communication
Your Brain on Metaphors
The Human Mind and the First Symbolic Representations in Prehistory
The Rock Art of the San of South Africa
The Logic of Symbolic Classification and Social Organization
Practicing Religion in Hong Kong
Case Studies: China and Australia
The World in Color
Gender: Two or more?
How the Human Mind Conceptualizes Gender
Case Studies: Ndembu (Africa) and Hijras (India)
Symbolizing Animals
Case Studies: Mexico – the Jaguar and Tezcatlipoca, and Iceland – the Idea of Fish
Food is Not Only Goot to Eat, but also Good to Think: Classification of Clean and Unclean
Case Study: Ancient Israel – Food Prohibitions
Case Study: India – The Sacred Cow
The Art of Tattooing: Symbolism, Myth, Social Structure, and Tattooing as a Means of Cultural Reproduction
Case Studies: Western and Eastern Polynesia
Worldview
Taboo
Totemism
The Mind and Mythmaking: What does mythology reveal about the human mind?
Analogy: Our Brain’s Best Talent
Myth-Making Principles and Cognitive Tools
Metaphoric Reality
The Mind and Mythmaking: Mnemonics
What is in the stars?
Case Study: The Tewa of the Southwest and Their Worldview
The Myth of Origin
Dual Organization
Human and Supernatural Categories
Myth and the Sacred
History of the Study of Myths
Myth and the Sustaining of Belief
The Web of Greek Mythology
Southwest Asian and Greco-Roman Creation Myths
Indigenous North, Central, and South American Creation Myths
Myth, Film, and Politics
Myth and Nationalism
What is folklore? What is a folk group?
The Study of Folklore: Collecting and Documenting Folklore
Folk Narrative: Legends
Folk Beliefs and “Superstitions”
Jokes
Ballads and Folksongs
Riddles, Proverbs, and Folk Speech
Festivals and Celebrations
Folklore in Your Family
Folklore and Ethnic Identity
Folklore and Religious Identity
Folklore and Oppositionality: Children’s and Occupational Folklore
Folklore and Cultural Heritage
The Psychoanalytic Approach to Folklore and a Marxist Critique
Pocahontas and the Washington Redskins: Contested Images of Native Americans
Metaphors in the Study of Folklore
The Politics of Australian Aboriginal Rock Music
Debating Barbie
The Structural Approach to Myth and Folklore
Gender and Folkdance in Greece
Defining Ritual and Ritual Studies
Sacredness, Hierophany, and the Special
The Ritual Process, Liminality, and Communitas
Ritual Action
Ritual Time
Ritual Space
Ritual Objects
Rituals, Symbols, and Metaphors
Rituals, Societies, and Politics
Ritual Sacrifice
Ritual Genres
Ritual, Drama, and Theater
Ritual, Performance, and Daily Life
Rites of Passage
Calendric Rites
Therapeutic Ritual
New Rituals: Global Ayahuasca
New Rituals: The Internet
New Rituals: Burning Man
Witchcraft: Reclaiming Ecstatic Experiences and Traditional Ways of Knowing
Magic
Modern Personality Theory: An Overview
Levels 1 and 2 of Personality
Narrative Identity
The Person in Context
Postmodern Identity Theory
Postmodern Identity Theory: Sex and Gender
Postmodern Identity Theory: The Body
Ways of Knowing in Neuroscience
Neuroscience: The How of Identity
Learning and Memory: The Who of Identity
Emotion and Motivation: The Why of Identity
Multiple Levels of Analysis
Articulating Your Own Theory
Categorizing and Stereotyping
Expressing Stereotypes
Understanding Dynamics of Prejudice
Basic Concepts in Psychological Development Theories: Freud
Basic Concepts in Psychological Development Theories: Erikson
Race and Racism
Gender Stereotypes and Sexism
Weightism
Defining Power, Privilege, and Entitlement
Defining Dominant and Subordinate Cultures
Bronfrenbrenner’s Ecological Model: Influences on Identity Development
Sexual Identity Development: Defining Homophobia
Microaggressions in Contemporary America
Ageism
Understanding Age Stereotypes
Social Stigma
Overcoming Social Stigma
The Psychological Effect of Drug/Alcohol Use on Identity Development
Multicultural Dynamics in the Classroom
Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion
Evolution, the Brain, and Cognition
The Nature of the World
Pre-Life and Afterlife Beliefs
Supernatural Agents: Witchcraft
Supernatural Agents: Gods
Spirit Possession
Reincarnation
Religious Rituals
Religious Practitioners, Religion, and Healing: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Northwest Amazonia: Shamanic Knolwedge and the Power to Heal
Ayahuasca: Sound and Pattern Medicine
Shamanic Performance in the Himalayas: Feeling the Presence of the Spirits
New Age Shamanisms: Rekindling Lost Spiritual Awareness?
Life-Force and Balance: Mutual Understanding of Ancient Mayan and Chinese Medicinal Systems
Local Diversity vs. State Centralization in Traditional Tibetan Medical Systems
Hindu Ayurvedic Medicine: Ancient Practice in a Pluralistic and Globalized Setting
Charismatic Catholicism and Pentecostal Christianity Healing
Sufism and Healing in the Qawalli Devotional Tradition
Healing in Judaism
Healing in Islam
Naturopathy and Herbal Medicine
Contemporary Nature Religions: Healing the Planet, Revitalizing Ecosystems, and Native and Western Medicines
Protecting Traditional Medicinal Knowledge
Ghosts and Spirits: Methodological Overview
Scientific Debunking: Pseudoscience and Superstition
Religious Debunking: Whose Miracles?
Religious Debunking: Magic
Cross-Cultural Encounters
The Messiness of Paranormal Phenomena: Haunting NDEs