Teaching
Prof. Murphy has taught a wide range of courses in cultural anthropology for both the Anthropology Department and the Blount Undergraduate Initiative, but until his retirement he regularly taught three courses: ANT 436 (Social Structure), ANT 419/519 (Myth, Ritual and Magic) and ANT 641 (Culture)
Other Anthropology Courses taught include Introduction to Anthropology, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Culture and Personality, Comparative Science of Culture, Peoples of Europe, Political Anthropology, Problems in European Ethnology, Background of Anthropological Thought, Peoples of Latin America, Anthropology of Modern Life, Maritime Anthropology, Culture & Human Experience.
Courses taught for the College of Arts & Sciences’ Blount Undergraduate Initiative include, Freshman Foundations Seminar: Possibilities, The Individual & Society in Spanish Expressive Culture, The Properties of Culture.
Publications about Anthropological Education:
- Michael Dean Murphy (1982) “The Yucatan Course and Research Opportunities in Anthropology” SECOLAS Annals. 13: 42-43.
- Michael Dean Murphy and Agneta Johannsen (1990) “Ethical Obligations and Federal Regulations in Ethnographic Research and Anthropological Education” Human Organization 49(2): 127-134.
- Michael Dean Murphy (1994) “Episodes of Accountability in the Teaching of Anthropology” Human Organization 53(4): 323-329.
Websites Constructed for Anthropology Students:
Anthropological Theories
Kinship Glossary
A Bibliographic Search Strategy for Anthropology
Bibliographic and Writing Tools
