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Introduction
Activity 1.1: Setting Goals
Activity 1.2: Thinking Like an Anthropologist
Activity 1.3: Functionalism in Bali's Water Temples
Activity 1.4: Baseball Magic
Activity 1.5: Origins of Religion
Challenge 1: Origins of Religion
Activity 2.1: Cosmology in a Thai Soap Opera
Activity 2.2: What's your cosmology?
Activity 2.3: Is religion belief?
Activity 2.4: Pluralism
Activity 2.5: Ethnographic Data Collection
Challenge 2: Defining Religion
Activity 3.1: Subsistence, Size, and Scale
Activity 3.2: Types of Practitioners
Activity 3.3: Altered States of Consciousness
Activity 3.4: The Tale of the Nisan Shaman
Activity 3.5: Ethnographic Data Collection
Challenge 3: Categorizing Practitioners
Activity 4.1: Symbolic Communication
Activity 4.2: What Makes a Myth?
Activity 4.3: What Makes a Ritual?
Activity 4.4: Rites of Passage
Activity 4.5: Ethnographic Data Collection
Challenge 4: Observing Rituals
Activity 5.1: Unlocking the Healing Power of You
Activity 5.2: Did Antidepressants Depress Japan?
Activity 5.3: How does culture affect hallucinations?
Activity 5.4: Trance, Ritual, and Healing
Activity 5.5: Ethnographic Data Collection
Challenge 5: Medical Anthropology Grand Rounds
Activity 6.1: Witchcraft Beliefs and Social Structure
Activity 6.2: Witchcraft Among the Azande
Activity 6.3: Witchcraft Film Response
Activity 6.4: Witchcraft and Functionalism
Activity 6.5: Ethnographic Data Collection
Challenge 6: Witch Trials
Activity 7.1: Cosmology and Eschatology
Activity 7.2: Funerary Rituals and Death Ceremonies
Activity 7.3: Funerary Rituals as Rites of Passage
Activity 7.4: Speaking of and relating to the dead
Activity 7.5: Ethnographic Data Collection
Challenge 7: Funerals and Functionalism
Activity 8.1: New Religious Movements
Activity 8.2: Waiting for John
Activity 8.3: Strict Church Theory
Activity 8.4: Ethnographic Data Collection
Activity 8.5: Cultural Diffusion and Appropriation
Challenge 8: New Religious Movements
Appendix
Appendix 2: Definitions of Religion
Appendix 3: Religious Practitioners
Reading and Video Response
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