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Resources Available on This Site

The following files were developed over the years to be of help to students in my classes. Students and teachers should feel free to use them as desired. China-related materials, from reference tables to full on-line books, are listed on a separate page. (Link)

Advice to College Students

1. College Study Hints ("How to Prevent Homework From Screwing Up Real Life")
2. Academic Integrity & Cheating
   This is a more detailed (and useful) discussion than a student is likely to find elsewhere. (It even includes the infamous "Disastrous Adventures of Jimmy Gimmie.") Although it focuses on UCSD, and is based in my experience as professor and administrator at UCSD, most of it is broadly applicable elsewhere.
3. How To Avoid Sounding Like an Idiot: An Underground Guide to Literacy Even in Termpapers
   This is the famed and dreaded "gorilla paper." Since people will judge you by your writing, you might as well know what they are going to be annoyed by.
4. How to Cite Sources As Painlessly As Possible: Bibliographic Format Specimens (& stuff your English teacher never told you)
   Comment: This is a very useful guide to doing citations and bibliographies in termpapers and articles in the simplest way possible. Examples include kinds of sources that writing teachers never tell people about.
5. Interviewing Tips for Student Interviewing Projects

Materials Developed for Various Courses

China Resources

1. Huge Collection of Stuff (Separate Index Page)

General Anthropology

1. Annotated Dictionary of Anthropology
2. Quick Essays on Social Theory and Other Abstractions
   (This entry page briefly describes each of the essays.)
   1. Two Kinds of Definitions
   2. Classification: Lumping & Splitting
   3. The Idea of Evolution
   4. Variables & Models
   5. Explaining Human Behavior: The Question "Why?"
   6. Symbols, Sumptuation, and Mystification
   7. Conflicting Loyalties, & Cross Cutting Ties
3. Slightly Geeky Beginners' Guides for Pronouncing
   Mandarin, Taiwanese, Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Near Eastern Languages.
4. Background Note on Tea
5. Hopi Social Order (Equivalent to about 17 printed pages.)

Physical Anthropology

1. Mitochondrial Eve
2. Human Birth and Bipedalism
3. Essential Fossils: A Folio
4. Reference Table of Hominid Classification

Archaeology

1. Tables & Maps
   1. Chronological Table of Mesoamerican Archaeology
   2. Chronological Table of Southwestern Archaeology
   3. Chronology of Troy
   4. Geological Time & European Prehistoric Assemblages
   5. Map of Mexican State Names for use in any course related to Mexico
   6. Map of Southwestern River Systems
2. Essays
   1. Basic Stone Tools
   2. Paleo-Indian Spear Points
   3. Ancient Metallurgy
   4. Ancient Cloth
   5. Prehistoric Beringia
   6. The Bantu Expansion
   7. The Neolithic & the Metal Ages (Four Essays)
      
      
   8. Egyptian Origins (Equivalent to about 30 printed pages.)
   9. The Aztecs: A Tributary Empire (Equivalent to about 50 printed pages.)
   10. Most Ancient China (Equivalent to about 12 printed pages.) (Also listed on China page.)
   11. Background to the Iliad & the Trojan War (Equivalent to about 35 printed pages.)

Materials for Teaching & Learning Esperanto

1. Note on Esperanto
2. Diversaj Helpiloj por Instruistoj
3. Being Colloquial in Esperanto
   (Full text of the printed book, with a a few proof corrections, provisionally reformatted for on-line use.)

Materials for Studying Classical Nahuatl (Aztec)

1. Notes on the Classical Nahuatl (Aztec) Language
2. On-line Nahuatl Textbook
3. On-line Reference Grammar of Classical Nahuatl

Reference Materials From a Course on the Ethnography of Christianity

1. Annotated Bibliography on Christianity
2. Catholic Religious Vocabulary
3. The Life of Jesus (Abridged)
   (Gospel extracts combined to make a quick overview of the canonical account of Jesus' life and ministry.)
4. Christian Documents for Class Discussion (Credos & Common Prayers)
5. Major Christian Heresies
6. Voragine: The Story of St. Nicholas (Latin and English)
7. Nican Mopohua: Here It Is Told
   (The original text of the alleged apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531. Bilingual presentation, with pictures, originally intended for use with the Nahuatl materials listed above.)
8. Amazingly Cool Christianity Quiz
9. Miscellaneous Web Links on Christianity

Miscellaneous Texts or Translations for (non-China) Class Discussion

These are texts I have put into HTML format for class use. To the best of my knowledge all are available for free use by anybody. China-related texts are indexed on the China Resources page.

1. Voragine: The Story of St. Nicholas (Tr. by DKJ. Bilingual.)
2. Three Stoic Writers (Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus; VariousTranslations. Bilingual)
3. Augustus: The Deeds of the Divine Augustus (Tr. by T. Bushnell)
4. Muirchu: Life of St. Patrick (Tr. by N.J.D. White)
5. Caesar: The War in Gaul (Book 1) (Tr. by W.A. MacDevitt)
6. Breasted: History of Egypt (Chapters 18-19) (James Henry Breasted)
7. Budge: Babylonian Life & History (Chapters 5, 7, 9) (E. A. Wallis Budge)
8. Three Egyptian Tales (from Petrie, Egyptian Tales, available from the Three Tales page)

On-Line Utilities for Teachers

1. Self-Grading Quizzes for Your Web Site
   Comment: Quizzes made with these pages, designed to be mounted on a teacher's site, but also usable off-line, have been very well received by my students. Several teachers have emailed me to the effect that they have also had great success with them and prefer them to commercial products. Datails are provided on linked group of pages.
2. Interactive Glossaries for Your Web Site
   Comment: Glossaries made with this page can be used on a teacher's web site or downloaded from the teacher's site to a student's own computer. They provide study aids roughly on a par with flashcards. The script here works fine, but I have decided that, like flashcards, I don't think it is very effective educationally.
3. Color Tester to check codes for background and text colors on your web pages. (Primitive, but occasionally useful. Works off-line.)

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