MIT OpenCourseWare
How Culture Works
Art: Rijksmuseum, Rariteitenkabinet, RP-P-1982-1368, between 1725 · Public domain (CC0)
- Instructor
- Dr. Xenia Cherkaev
- Term
- Fall 2019
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 6 other files · 6 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.01 How Culture Works, Fall 2019, Dr. Xenia Cherkaev — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
34 items from the source could not be safely included:
- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (34 items)
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Assignments
Ethnographic Assignment 1
Ethnographic Assignment 2
- 21A.01_F19 Assignments_EthnographicAssignments2: Eggs Download
- 21A.01_F19 Assignments_EthnographicAssignments2: Venmo Transactions Download
Ethnographic Assignment 3
MIT OpenCourseWare, Dr. Xenia Cherkaev, 21A.01 How Culture Works, Fall 2019.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2019 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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