ANTHROPOLOGY 2: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

FALL 2008

TTH 9:40A – 11:05A

OAK 12

9433

CLASS AND EXAM SCHEDULE

WEEK	DATE	ASSIGNMENT	WEEK	DATE	ASSIGNMENT
1	Aug 26^th	First day of class	9	Oct 21^st
	Aug 28^th			Oct 23^rd	All materials DUE
2	Sept 2^nd		10	Oct 28^th	2^nd Exam Assigned
	Sept 4^th			Oct 30^th	2^nd Exam DUE
3	Sept 9^h		11	Nov 4^th
	Sept 11^th			Nov 6^th
4	Sept 16^th		12	Nov 11^th	Holiday: Veteran’s Day
	Sept 18^th	All materials DUE[1]		Nov 13^th
5	Sept 23^rd	1^st Exam Assigned	13	Nov 18^th
	Sept 25^th	1^st Exam DUE[2]		Nov 20^th
6	Sept 30^th		14	Nov 25^th	All materials DUE
	Oct 2^nd			Nov 27^th	Holiday: Thanksgiving
7	Oct 7^th		15	Dec 2^nd
	Oct 9^th			Dec 4^th	Last Day of Instruction
8	Oct 14^th		FINAL EXAM: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11^TH, 8:00A – 10:00A
	Oct 16^th

ANTHROPOLOGY 2: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

FALL 2008

TTH 9:40A – 11:05A

OAK 12

9433

CLASS AND EXAM SCHEDULE

1^st E X A M	THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18^TH– All Materials DUE
	TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23^RD – 1^ST Exam Assigned
	THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25^TH – 1^ST Exam DUE
	Preparation: See Exam Questions
2^nd E X A M	THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23^RD – All Materials DUE
	TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28^TH – 2^ND Exam Assigned
	TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30^TH – 2^ND Exam DUE
	Preparation: See Exam Questions
FINAL E X A M	TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25^TH – All Materials DUE
	THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11^TH, 8:00A – 10:00A – FINAL EXAM DUE
	Preparation: See Exam Questions

* If Notes, Readings, and Outlines are not approved by the due date, the student may still receive full credit if they are appropriately modified before the time of the Exam due date (although they will not receive choice of Exam Questions).

Grades based upon:

· (3) Sets of Notes/Readings @ 50 Points each = 150 points · (3) Sets of Outlines @ 50 Points each = 150 points · (2) Graphic Presentations @ 50 points each · (1) Graphic Presentation @ 100 points · (2) Essays @ 100 points each = 200 points · (1) Final Exam @ 200 points TOTAL: 900 Points

A = 810 – 900 B = 720 – 809 C = 630 – 719 D = 540 – 629 F = > 540 * Plus improvement on final per Contract

REQUIRED READINGS:

1. Bourgois, Philippe. 2003. In Search of Respect: Selling crack in El Barrio. New York: Cambridge University Press.

2. Kottak, Conrad. 2007. Mirror for Humanity: A concise introduction to cultural anthropology. Fifth edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill College.

3. Menchú, Rigoberta. Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, ed. 1984. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian woman in Guatemala. London : Verso.

4. Turnbull, Colin M. 1976. The Forest People. London: Cape.

5. Van der Elst, Dirk. 2003. Culture as Given, Culture as Choice. Second edition. Illinois: Waveland Press Inc.

RECOMMENDED READINGS, VIDEOS, ETC.:

GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY

1. Barfield, Thomas. 1997. The Dictionary of Anthropology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

2. Eriksen, Thomas Hylland and Finn Sivert Nielsen. 2001. A History of Anthropology. London: Pluto Press.

3. Gilovich, T. 1991. How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. New York: The Free Press.

4. Massey, Douglas S. 2002. “A Brief History of Human Society: The Origin and Role of Emotion in Social Life.” American Sociological Review, vol. 67: February: 1-29.

5. Omohundro, John T. 1998. Careers in Anthropology: Career advice for undergraduates. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing.

6. Peacock, James L. 1995. “The Future of Anthropology.” Presidential Address presented at the 94^th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 1995.

7. Whitten, Phillip and David E. K. Hunter. 1990. “What is Anthropology?” Anthropology : contemporary perspectives. Sixth Edition. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education.

8. See also Dr. Paula Clarke’s website: “Useful Videos for Anthropology 2”.

MODERN HUMANS

1. AAPA Statement on Biological Aspects of Race. 1996. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, pp. 569-570.

2. Allen, Garland E. 1989. “Eugenics and American Social History, 1880-1950”. Genome, Vol. 31, pp. 885-889.

3. Boyd Eaton, S. and Melvin Konner. 1985. “Diet: Paleolithic Genes and Twentieth Century Health”. Anthro Quest, pp. 173-176.

4. Coe, Sophie D. and Michael D. Coe. 1996. The True History of Chocolate. New York : Thames and Hudson.

5. D’Andrade, Roy. 1995. “Moral Models in Anthropology.” Current Anthropology. Vol. 36 number 3: June: 399-408.

6. David-Floyd, R.E. 1990. Ritual in the Hospital: Giving birth the American way. Berkeley, ca: University of California press.

7. Eldredge, Niles. 1998. Life in the Balance: Humanity and the biodiversity crisis.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

8. Eriksen Paige, Karen. 1978. “The Ritual of Circumcision.” Human Nature, May: pp. 41-48.

9. Fish, Jefferson M. 1995. “Mixed Blood.” Psychology Today. Nov/Dec: pp. 55-61, 76, and 80.

10. Gannon, Martin J. 1994. American Football. Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications, pp. 302-320.

11. Horgan, John. 1993. “Eugenics Revisited”. Scientific American, June, pp. 122-128, 130-131.

12. Kurlansky, Mark. 2002. Salt: A World History. New York: Walker and Co.

13. Lemert, Charles (ed.). 1999. Social Theory: The multicultural and classic readings. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

14. Lewontin, Richard C. 2000. The Triple Helix: Gene, organism, and the environment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

15. “Marcos Terena: Address to United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil”. 1992. Speech transcribed from Yakoana: The Voice of Indigenous Peoples.

16. Marks, Jonathan. 1994. “Black, White, Other.” Natural History. December: pp. 32-35.

17. Maybury-Lewis, David. 1984. “Surviving the Present”. Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, Summer, Vol. IX, No. 2, pp. 42-53.

18. Maybury-Lewis, David. 1993. “A New World Dilemma: The Indian Question in the Americas”. Symbols, Fall, pp. 17-23

19. Miner, H. 1956. “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” The American Anthropologist, vol. 58: pp. 503-507.

20. Mintz, Sidney. 1985. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books.

21. Morgan, Lynn. 1989/1990. “When Does Life Begin? Abortion Rights and Fetal Personhood.” Doerr & Prescott (eds.). Centerline Press and Americans for Religious Liberty.

22. Rensberger, Boyce. 1981. “Racial Odyssey.” Science Digest. Jan/Feb: pp. 36-41.

23. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1992. Death without Weeping: The violence of everyday life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press.

24. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1995. “The Primacy of the Ethical.” Current Anthropology, vol. 36 number 3: June: 409-420.

25. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1979. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental illness in rural Ireland. Berkeley: University of California Press.

26. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1998. Small Wars: The cultural politics of childhood. Berkeley: University of California Press.

27. Smith, Dan. 1999. State of the World Atlas. Sixth edition. London ; New York : Penguin Books.

28. Thompson, Neil B. 1972. “The Mysterious Fall of the Nacirema.” Natural History Magazine: December.

29. Wolf, Eric. 1982. Europe and the People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press.