Cultural Anthropology Fall 2009
Carol Hayman
MW 9:10-10:25
ANT 2351-39081 RGC1-110
Calendar and Tentative
Syllabus
Unit 1
8/24
Introduction to Course
8/26
Chapter 1: The Essence of Anthropology
8/31
Chapter 2: The Characteristics of
Culture
9/2
Chapter 3: Ethnographic Research
Spradley 2: Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
23:
Mixed Blood
36:
Using Anthropology
37: Career advice
9/7
Labor Day, no class
9/9
- 9/14 Chapter 5:
Language and Communication
Spradley 3: Shakespeare in the Bush
6: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
9: Conversation Style: Talking on the Job
9/16 Chapter 6: Social Identity, Personality, and Gender
Spradley 16: Mother's Love
9/21
(Mon.) Review
9/23
(Wed.) Exam 1
Unit 2
9/28
(Mon.) First essay due
9/30
- 10/5 Chapter
7: Patterns of Subsistence
Spradley
10: The Hunters
12:
10/7
- 10/12 Chapter
8: Economic Systems
Spradley 13:
Reciprocity and the Power of Giving
26:
Life Without Chiefs
10/14
- 10/19 Chapter 9:
Sex, Marriage, and Family
Spradley 17:
Family and Kinship in Village
18: Life without Fathers or Husbands
20:
Symbolizing Roles: Behind the
Veil
10/21
Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
10/26
Chapter 11: Grouping by Gender, Age, Common
Interest, and Class
10/27
(Mon.) Review
10/28
(Wed.) Exam 2
Unit 3
11/2
(Mon.) Second essay due
11/2 Chapter 12:
Politics, Power, and Violence
11/4 – 11/9 Chapter 13: Spirituality, Religion, and the Supernatural
Spradley
27: Taraka’s
Ghost
11/11
– 11/16 Chapter
14: The Arts
Spradley
8: Body Art as Visual Language
11/18
– 11/23 Chapter
15: Processes of Change
Spradley 34: The Kayapo
Resistance
11/30
– 12/2 Chapter
16: Global Challenges
Spradley
11: Adaptive Failure: Easter's End
35: Medical Anthropology: Nutrition in
11/26-27 Thanksgiving Holiday, no class
12/2
(Wed.) Third essay due
12/2 Conclusion and
Review
12/7 (Mon.) Exam 3