这门课程向学生介绍了文化人类学的方法和观点。阅读资料的重点是在十分不同的背景下（一个核武实验室，苏丹的畜牧群协会和位于洛杉矶的一个犹太人养老中心）的案例研究。尽管会讨论人类学的一些结果和结论，但重点将会放在鉴赏文化的差异和内涵上，通过长期的实地考察来研究文化和社会。最重要的是，学会分析性地思考别人和我们的生活。
This class introduces students to the methods and perspectives of cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize case studies in very different settings (a nuclear weapons laboratory, a cattle-herding society of the Sudan, and a Jewish elder center in Los Angeles). Although some of the results and conclusions of anthropology will be discussed, emphasis will be on appreciating cultural difference and its implications, studying cultures and societies through long-term fieldwork, and most of all, learning to think analytically about other people's lives and our own.
