Published in 2001, Places in the World a Person Could Walk was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.

 

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David Syring, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology

University of Minnesota, Duluth

Office Location: Cina Hall 220A
Office Phone: (218) 726-8317
Email: dsyring@d.umn.edu

Fall 2008 Office Hours:
M,Tu,W 10:00-11:00 a.m. & Th 12:45-1:15 p.m., C220A

Fall 2008 Cultural Anthropology

Anth 1604, Cultural Anthropology Syllabus

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Discipline An Unsettling Approach

Chapter 2: Characteristics of Culture Plus Beginning of Race Discussions Lecture Outline

Guidelines for Creating Typed Expanded Notes

Exam #1 Study Guide

End of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4: Human Evolution—Primate Adaptations

Chapter 5: Language and Communication

Chapter 6: Social Identity, Personality and Gender

Chapter 7: Patterns of Subsistence

Chapter 8: Economic Systems

Chapter 9: Sex, Marriage and Family