1. Mead, Margaret. 1961. “Anthropology Among the Sciences”. American Anthropologist, 63: 475-482.     
2. Pierpont, Claudia Roth. 2004. “The Measure of America: How a Rebel Anthropologist Waged War on Racism”. The New Yorker 8 March: 48-63.
3. Haller, John S. 1971. “Race and the Concept of Progress in Nineteenth Century American Ethnology”. American Anthropologist, 73(3): 710-724.
4. Stocking, George. 1960. “Franz Boas and the Founding of the American Anthropological Association”. American Anthropologist, 62: 1-17.

Optional

• Fluehr‐Lobban, Carolyn. 2005. "Cultural Relativism and Universal Rights in Islamic Law." Anthropology News (Arlington, Va.) 46 (9): 23-23.
• Recommended! Kimberley D. McKinson, 2020. "Dear White Anthropologists, Let Not Symbolism Overshadow Substance" in Anthropology News. 

1. Understanding Race: https://www.understandingrace.org/ (see discussion board prompt before completing assignment) 
2. Borofsky, Robert, et al. 2001. “WHEN: A Conversation about Culture”. American Anthropologist, 103(2): 432-446.
3.  Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1996. “Writing Against Culture” in Fox, Richard G. 1991. Recapturing anthropology: working in the present. Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press.
4. Harrison, Faye. 1998. “Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on Race”. American Anthropologist, 100(3): 609-631.

Optional (recommended)

• Omi, Michael and Howard Winant, eds. 1996. “Racial Formations” in Racial Formation in the United States, Second Ed. New York: Routledge. Pp. 3-13.

1. Farmer, Paul. 2004. An Anthropology of Structural Violence, Cultural Anthropology 45(3): 305-325.
2. Douglas, Mary. 1966. "Introduction" to Purity and Danger: an Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo". In Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition, edited by Paul A. Erickson, and LIam Murphy, University of Toronto Press, 2021.
3. Rosaldo, Renato. 1989. “Grief and a Headhunters Rage”. In Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press.

Recommended

• Ortner, Sherry B. 1984. "Theory in Anthropology since the sixties". Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 26, No. 1.

• Ortner, Sherry B. 2016. "Dark anthropology and its others: Theory since the eighties." HAU:Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Vol. 6, Iss. 1.

• Appadurai, Arjun. 2016. "Moodswings in the anthropology of the emerging future: Comment on Ortner, Sherry. 2016. "Dark anthropology and its others: Theory since the eighties." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Vol. 6, Iss. 2.

• Skim: Rodseth, Lars. 2018. "Hegemonic Concepts of Culture: The Checkered History of Dark Anthropology." American Anthropologist, Vol. 120, Iss. 3. 

1. Bernard, H. Russell. 2018. “Participant Observation”. In Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press.
2. Choose one of the following:

   1. Crain and Tashima. 2005. "Anthropology and Evaluation: Lessons from the Field." Napa Bulletin: 24, Pp. 41-48.

      OR

   2. Bohren, Lenora. 2005. "Evaluation of Environmental Issues." Napa Bulletin: 24, Pp. 49-56.

      OR

   3. Goodman, Trainor and Divorski. 2005. "Using Ethnographic Methods to Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs Patient Safety Program" NAPA Bulletin: 24, Pp. 57-70.

3. Cassell, Joan. 2002. “Perturbing the System: ‘Hard Science,’ ‘Soft Science’ and Social Science: The Anxiety and Madness of Method.”      Human Organization: 61(2), Pp. 177-185.
4. Evans, et al. 2009. “Common Insights, Differing Methodologies: Toward a Fusion of Indigenous Methodologies, Participatory Action Research, and White Studies in an Urban Aboriginal Research Agenda.” Qualitative Inquiry: 15(5), Pp. 893-910

1. Case Studies from Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology, AAA website (see link in Lesson)
2. Singer, et al. "Am I My Brother’s Keeper? A Case Study of the Responsibilities of Research"
3. Baba, "The Theoretical Foundation for a Fifth Sub-Discipline in Anthropology"

Optional (recommended)

• Fine, Gary Alan. 1993. “Ten Lies of Ethnography: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research”. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22:3. Pp. 267-294.