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Relevant Courses:
Cultural Anthropology Courses
Relevant topics for Cultural Anthropology could include subsistence activities in an arid environment, nomadism and settlement of nomadic peoples, household economics, economic production by women, symbiotic relations between herders and farmers, and research methods.
What role does the environment play in the transition from a nomadic way of life to settled village life for people of the Middle East?
In what ways do villagers interact with surrounding groups and how is this symbiotic relation maintained
Old and New Testament Courses
Relevant topics for New and Old Testament courses could include survival of Christians in the Middle East, continuation of traditional herding and farming activities, tribalism and the Christian churches, and the history of village formation and disintegration.
What parallels can you draw from your reading of the Bible and what you have learned about the history and traditions of people in the village of al-Simakiyya?
How does the study of a Christian village in Jordan change you idea of the Middle East?
Murl Dirksen
Email: mdirksen@leeuniversity.edu
Richard Jones
Email: rjones@leeuniversity.edu
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