Monday, 12 Jan

What is Culture, what is Anthropology?

Course Introduction
Handouts: Response Paper Guide
Citing Sources Guide
American Anthropological Association Style Guide
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 14 Jan

Reading: Horace Miner essay (read this one first, please);
Renato Rosaldo essay (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 16 Jan

Reading: Nanda and Warms pp 2-40
Film: First Contact

Monday, 19 Jan

Martin Luther King Holiday

Wednesday, 21 Jan

Anthropological Methodology

Reading: Nanda and Warms, pp 44-65.
Clifford Geertz essay (available on Blackboard)
Assignment: Quiz #1
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 23 Jan

Reading: Laura Bohannon essay (available on Blackboard)
Assignment: Response Paper Due
Lecture notes for class

Monday, 26 Jan

Class Meeting in Library, Electronic Resources Room
Handout: Library Project Assignment, due 6 Feb
Sara Swanson's Lecture Notes

Wednesday, 28 Jan

Doing Fieldwork
Reading: Claire Sterk essay (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class
Web Resource: G Strings and Sympathy

Friday, 30 Jan

Taking Fieldnotes
Reading: Jean Jackson essay (available on Blackboard)
Web Resource: Software for taking Fieldnotes
Evernote Video
Microsoft OneNote
Lecture notes for class

Monday, 2 Feb

Families and Kinship

Reading: Nanda and Warms, pp. 141-166
Margery Wolf, Chapters 1 and 2
Slide show for class
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 4 Feb

Getting Married in China
Reading: Continue reading Margery Wolf, Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6
Assignment: Quiz #2
Handout: Fieldwork Project Guide
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 6 Feb

Reading: Continue reading Margery Wolf, Chapters 7, 8
Film: Dadi's Family
Assignment: Response Paper Due (Library Project)

Monday, 9 Feb

Lineage vs. Uterine Family
Reading: Nanda and Warms, pp. 169-191
Continue reading Margery Wolf, Chapter 11
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 11 Feb

American Kinship
Reading: Murphy essay; Stack essay (available on Blackboard)
Assignment: Quiz #3
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 13 Feb

Film: Small Happiness
Assignment: Response Paper Due
Handout: Questions and Instructions for the First Review

Monday, 16 Feb

Race and Ethnicity

Reading: Nanda and Warms, pp. 239-262
AAA statement on race (available on Blackboard)
Web Resource: Race, the Power of Illusion: Sorting People
Obama Won't Be First Black President
Our First Black President? NYT article on Warren Harding
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 18 Feb

Reading: Stephen Gould essay; Franz Boas essay (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 20 Feb

Reading: Diamond article; Lozada article on ethnicity (available on Blackboard)
Film: American Tongues

Monday, 23 Feb

Assignment: Midterm Review

Wednesday, 25 Feb

Economy and Exchange

Reading: Nanda and Warms, 115-139
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 27 Feb

Film: Ongka's Big Moka

2-6 Mar

Spring Break! Have a good holiday.

Monday, 9 Mar

The Spirit of the Gift
Reading: Yan chapter; Sahlins article (available on Blackboard)
Web Resource: NYT article on Philanthropy and reciprocity
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 11 Mar

Production and Consumption
Reading: Nietschmann article; Mintz article (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 13 Mar

Reading: Bestor essay (available on Blackboard)
Film: Cannibal Tours

Monday, 16 Mar

Religion and Ritual

Reading: Nanda and Warms, pp 263-284; Geertz essay on religion (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 18 Mar

Reading: Myerhoff, Chapters 1, 2
Film: Number Our Days
Assignment: Quiz #4 (cancelled)
Web Resource:More on Myerhoff
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 20 Mar

Reading: Myerhoff, Chapter 3; Turner article (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Monday, 23 Mar

Reading: Myerhoff, Chapters 4, 5
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 25 Mar

Reading: Continue reading Myerhoff, Chapters 6, 7
Assignment: Response Paper Due
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 27 Mar

Science, Religion, and Rationality
Reading: Evans-Pritchard article; Gmelch Baseball Magic article (available on Blackboard)
Film: Trobriand Cricket

Monday, 30 Mar

Politics, Power, and Globalization

Reading: Nanda and Warms, pp 193-214; Llewelyn article (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 1 Apr

The Power of Culture
Reading: Bourdieu article (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 3 Apr

Film: China's Lost Girls
Assignment: Fieldwork Project Due

Monday, 6 Apr

Case Study: Love Parade
Reading: Borneman article (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 8 Apr

Development and Anthropology
Reading: Nanda and Warms, pp 312-336; Miller, Chapter 16 (optional; available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 10 Apr

Reading: Escobar article (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Monday, 13 Apr

Easter Break!

Wednesday, 15 Apr

Reading: Hannerz article; Appadurai article (available on Blackboard)
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 17 Apr

Reading: Watson McD's essay (available on Blackboard)
Web Resource: Expansion of fast food franchises in China: 2,300 KFC's vs. < 1,000 McD's
Lecture notes for class

Monday, 20 Apr

Ethnographic Study of Globalization: People and Popular Culture
Reading: Shankar, p. 1-52
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 22 Apr

Reading: Shankar, p. 53-99
Lecture notes for class

Friday, 24 Apr

Reading: Shankar, p. 100-141
Lecture notes for class

Monday, 27 Apr

Reading: Shankar, p. 142-212
Assignment: Response Paper Due
Lecture notes for class

Wednesday, 29 Apr

Last Day of Class
Course Overview

Self-Scheduled

Final Review
Questions for the Final Exam