A detailed GENERAL SYLLABUS (applies to all my courses) and a detailed syllabus for each course is available at my website and at the Reserve Desk in the Library.
Oswalt, Wendell H.
2002 This Land
Was Theirs: A study of Native Americans.
Garbarino, Merwyn S. & Sasso, Robert F.
Current Edition. Native American Heritage.
(Available in one or more of the following locations: Bookstore, Instructor, Library.
Bodley, John
Current Edition.
Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems.
Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing.
Bodley, John
Current Edition. Cultural Anthropology; Tribes, States, and the Global System.
Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing.
Bodley, John
Current Edition. Victims
of Progress.
Mountain View, California, Mayfield Publishing.
Calloway, Colin
Current Edition. First
Peoples: A documentary survey of American Indian history.
New York: St. Martin’s/Beacon.
Diamond, Jared
Current Edition.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The fates of human societies. New York: Norton.
Heizer, Robert F. & Theodora Kroeber (Editors).
1979. Ishi The Last Yahi: A documentary history. Berkeley: UC Press.
Kottak, Conrad Phillip
Current Edition. Mirror
for Humanity: A concise introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
New York: McGraw Hill.
Krech III, Shepard.
1999 The Ecological Indian: Myth and
history. New York: Norton.
Selected Video and Film Sources (some of these will be shown in part in class).
Film – Little Big Man, Dances With Wolves, Hiawatha, Cochise, Geronimo.
The Mission.
Video – Regional Studies (Northwest/Southwest/Eastern Woodlands)
The Way the West Was Lost. A Documentary History of New York. Myths and Moundbuilders. Science and Sacrilege: Native Americans, Archaeology, & the Law. Ishi – the last Yahi.
There are three (3) examinations, including the final exam. The first exam is scheduled approximately five weeks into the semester, the second exam is scheduled approximately 11 weeks into the semester and the final is due during finals week. Outlines for examination questions are required and are due the week before the exam.
A = 90% or above.
B = 80 – 89%.
C = 70 – 79%.
D = 60 – 69%.
F = Below 60%.
If the student earns at least a 70% average on the first two exams, the final may improve course grade.
EXAMINATION QUESTIONS – EXAMINATION #1
Representative Questions.
1. The idea or concept of `culture’ is basic to Anthropology. Describe and demonstrate the application of this idea or concept to the earliest life ways of the Native Peoples of North America. Graphically representing the centerpiece of your responses is highly recommended.
2. Anthropology involves a number of sub-fields each using unique methods and perspectives. List, describe, and critically evaluate the contributions of at least four of the sub-fields to our knowledge about NPNA. Responses should include methods or procedures, the kinds of questions asked, the findings, and the dilemmas encountered by the selected sub-field.
3. Many stereotypes and misconceptions are associated with the Native Peoples of North America. List, describe, and critically evaluate the most significant of these, their sources, the realities, and their current status.
4. One of the major goals of Anthropology has been to ask and try to respond to some of the `BIG’ questions about human societies via a comparative analysis of human societies in general. List, describe, and critically evaluate the most significant of these `BIG’ questions as they relate to the NPNA. Responses should clearly identify (1) the question (2) the comparative basis (3) the relative status of the NPNA. Another way of thinking about this question is to consider it in the following way --- Anthropologists often say, `each man ( human) is in some ways like all other men, like some other men, and like no other men.
Rules and Guidelines for all examinations.
---Use/apply the `10 criteria’ in preparing responses.
---Graphic presentations are always strongly recommended.
---Essay breakdown should approximate the following: one-third each – reading/class dialogue/original thinking (not opinion).
Practice Learned Resourcefulness. Avoid procrastination, develop appropriate help-seeking behaviors, ask questions, learn to recognize & utilize resources [e.g. other students, the instructor, the library, the AAC, study groups].
EXAMINATION #2 – Representative Questions
Contact between Native Peoples and Non-Natives, Motivations for & Expressions of Colonization and Domination, Indigenous Responses.
Rules and Guidelines for all examinations.
---Use/apply the `10 criteria’ in preparing responses.
---Graphic presentations are always strongly recommended.
---Essay breakdown should approximate the following: one-third each – reading/class dialogue/original thinking (not opinion).
Practice Learned Resourcefulness. Avoid procrastination, develop appropriate help-seeking behaviors, ask questions, learn to recognize & utilize resources [e.g. other students, the instructor, the library, the AAC, study groups].
ANTHROPOLOGY 15 – NATIVE PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA.
EXAMINATION #3 (Final).
Representative Questions.
Ishi As A Case Study, Current Trends Among Native Peoples in North America and the World, Changing Relationships With Science, and the Demands of a Changing World Order on Native Peoples.
Rules and Guidelines for all examinations.
---Use/apply the `10 criteria’ in preparing responses.
---Graphic presentations are always strongly recommended.
---Essay breakdown should approximate the following: one-third each – reading/class dialogue/original thinking (not opinion).
Practice Learned Resourcefulness. Avoid procrastination, develop appropriate help-seeking behaviors, ask questions, learn to recognize & utilize resources [e.g. other students, the instructor, the library, the AAC, study groups].