Cultural
Anthropology Fall 2009
Carol
Hayman TTH 12-1:15
ANT 2351-39082 RGC1-019
Calendar and Tentative Syllabus
Unit 1
8/25 Introduction to Course
8/27 Chapter 1:
The Nature of Anthropology
9/1 Chapter 2:
The
Essence of Anthropology
9/3 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
9/8
- 9/10 Chapter 5:
Language and Communication
Spradley
3: Shakespeare in the Bush
6: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
7: Conversation Style: Talking on the Job
9/15
- 9/17 Chapter
6: Social Identity, Personality,
and Gender
Spradley 16: Mother's Love
9/22 (Tue.) Review
9/24 (Thur.) Exam 1
Unit
2
9/29 (Tue.) First
essay due
9/29 - 10/1 Chapter 7: Patterns of Subsistence
Spradley 10: The
Hunters
12:
10/6 - 10/8 Chapter 8: Economic Systems
Spradley 13:
Reciprocity and the Power of Giving
26: Life Without
Chiefs
10/13 – 10/15 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
10/20 Chapter 10:
Kinship and Descent
10/22 Chapter 11:
Grouping by Gender, Age, Class
10/27 (Tue.) Review
10/29 (Thur.) Exam 2
Unit
3
11/3 (Tue.) Second
essay due
11/3 Chapter 12: Politics, Power, and Violence
11/5 – 11/10 Chapter 13: Spirituality, Religion, and the Supernatural
Spradley 27: Taraka’s Ghost
11/12 – 11/17 Chapter 14: The Arts
Spradley 8:
Kinds of
Talk
11/19 Chapter 15:
Processes
of Change
Spradley 34: The Kayapo Resistance
11/24 – 12/1 Chapter
16: Global Challenges
Spradley 11:
Adaptive Failure: Easter's End
35: Medical Anthropology: Nutrition in
11/26-27 Thanksgiving
Holiday, no class
12/3 (Thur.) Third essay due
12/3 Conclusion and Review
12/8 (Tue.)
Exam 3