Student Resources

Video Links Chapter 11

Guns, Germs, and Steel

8:03

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgnmT-Y_rGQ&feature=related

First of 18 parts based on Jared Diamond’s famous book on the history of contact and conflict between Western societies and other societies.

What Would Alien Anthropologists Think of Us?—Wade Davis

2:12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LRx9jpfwW8

“Wade Davis, author of The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, criticizes the United States for viewing technological prowess as the only sign of progress. ‘Climate change should finally teach us that we're not the paragon of humanity’s potential,’ he says.”

Lakota Culture 104: Acculturation

8:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3fYExCPW0w&feature=related

“Native people adopt White culture to varying degrees. In this video, Lakota Elder Larry Salway describes four different levels of acculturation - from totally integrated to totally isolated. View this video with additional material at http://www.lifeinitiativesinc.org/trainingculture104.html or www.LakotaLife.org

Acculturation”—playlist of 25 videos

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D1B1133AEAA6BDA4

Schumann’s Acculturation Model and Pidginization

4:08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftH4xBsd8XQ

A discussion of acculturation and change, specifically referring to language but generally applicable to other phpects of culture.

Australian Aboriginal Genocide

6:18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eubc-Yk3M

A short film, essentially a Powerpoint presentation set to didgeridoo music, that chronicles the history of contact between Anglo-Australians and Australian Aboriginals.

to kill the Indian in the child…

8:34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQwO2pDjwlA

A discussion of the Residential School system in Canada and the forced assimilation of and prejudice against Native peoples in Canada

Rwandan Genocide

22:24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrOtTD_iM2U&feature=fvw

A film from Journeyman Pictures: “Special Assignment takes a look at the genocide in Rwanda and where those who were responsible are now.”

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