Syllabus – Religious Presuppositions
Lecture Note 1 – Critical Issues in Role Theory
Lecture Note 2 – Critical Issues in Structural Functionalist Theory
Lecture Note 3 – Critical Issues in American Historical Particularism
Lecture Note 4 – Critical Issues in Culture and Personality Theory
Lecture Note 5 – Critical Issues in Acculturation Theory
Lecture Note 6 – Form and Meaning in Contextualization
Lecture Note 7 – Anthropological Theory
Lecture Note 8 – Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions Lecture Note 9 – Images of Man
Lecture Note 10 – Cultural Evolutionism
Lecture Note 11 – Goodenough – Cooperation in Change
Lecture Note 12 – Structural Functionalism
Lecture Note 13 – Radcliffe Brown
Lecture Note 14 – Gellner, Concepts in Society
Lecture Note 15 – Descriptive Linguistics
Lecture Note 16 – Communication Theory
Lecture Note 17 – Ecological Anthropology
Lecture Note 18 – Theories of Social Change
Lecture Note 19 – Bee, Patterns and Processes
Lecture Note 20 – Historical Development of Psychological Anthropology
Lecture Note 21 – The Epistemological Shift and Some Theological Implications
Lecture Note 22 – Laudan, Progress and its Problems
Lecture Note 23 – Symbolic Anthropology
Lecture Note 24 – Introduction to Grid and Group Analysis
Lecture Note 25 – Purity and Danger
Figure 1 – The Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant
Chart 3 – Models of Contextualization and their Foundations
Student Paper 1 – Hayashi – Frazer and Classic Evolutionism
Bibliography 1 – The Philosophy of Science and its Relationship to Anthropology
Bibliography 2 – Cultural Relativism
Hiebert Article 1 – Critical Contextualization
Hiebert Article 2 – Missions and Anthropology
Hiebert Article 3 – Epistemological Foundations for Science and Theology
Hiebert Article 4 – The Missiological Implications of an Epistemological Shift
Reading 1 – The Problem with Myth