Information for students - Contents

Advice for students(Acrobat Reader file) You can find another version of this file in the folder manual_pdf on the top level of this CD

  How to Use the ERA Resources

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  Element 1             Pitt Rivers: anthropology and  the history of museums      

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Layout of the element:

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  Reading and using the element:

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  Essay and seminar discussion topics:

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  Web sites:

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  Element 2                   Peasant Social Worlds

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  Introduction:

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  Reading & using the element:

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  Themes:

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  Essays/seminars/discussion:

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  Element 3                  ‘Venda Girls’ Initiation’:

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Reading and Using the element:

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  Essays/seminars/discussion:

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  Suggested further reading:

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  Element 4         Working Notes on the Kingdom of

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Reading and Using the element:

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  Essay and seminar discussion topics:

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  Further reading/Web sites:

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  Element 5             The Ascoli Project: a Puglian

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Reading and Using the element:

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  Essays/seminars/discussion:

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  Element 6              Ancestors in Africa: selected

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  Introduction:

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  Reading and using the element:

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  Essay and seminar discussion topics:

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  Further reading:

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  Element 7                         Mambila Riddles

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Using the element in teaching:

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  Layout of element:

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  Element 8                      Mambila Divination

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Using the interactive parts of the element:

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  Essay and seminar discussion topics:

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  Further reading:

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  Element 9             The work of Farnham Rehfisch

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Reading and using the element:

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  Essay and seminar discussion topics:

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  Element 10            Ritual spirit possession in the

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Essay and seminar discussion topics:

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  Layout of the element:

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  Further reading:

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  Element 11                   Representing Kinship

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  Introduction:

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  Suggestions:

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  Layout of the element:

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  Kinship editor

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  Calculating Kin

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  Other sites of interest:

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  Element 12             Computer-based Simulation

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Reading and Using the element:

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  Element 13             A day in the Life ...April 199 Somié Village, Cameroon

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Reading & using the element:

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  Essays/Issues:

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  Element 14                  Forty-five years in two

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  Introduction:

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  Reading and Using the element:

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  Essays/Seminars/Discussions:

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  Web sites:

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  Element 15              The Powell-Cotton Museum

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  Introduction:

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  Themes:

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  Reading and using the element:

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  Essay and seminar discussion topics:

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  Web sites:

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  Working Example                     ERA in Action:

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