Outline of Course:

Block 1 (18 classes):

I. Defining Culture: Boundaries in Anthropology and Literature (2 classes)

II. Anthropology’s Beginnings in Practice: Fieldwork as a Distinctive Methodology (2 classes)

III. Anthropology’s Beginnings in Theory: The Great Chain of Being and Beyond (6 classes including The Tempest and 6 page paper)

IV. Kinship and Gender: They R Not Us (6 classes including Antigone)

Fieldwork assessment and exam (2 classes)

Block 2 (18 classes):

V.  Political Boundaries: Ethnicity, Nation, State (5 classes including Waiting for the Barbarians and 6 page paper) 

VI.  THE Anthropological Dilemma: Relativism in the Study and the Field (5 classes including Things Fall Apart and debate) 

VII. Writing (Righting) Culture: Being There to Being Here (7 classes including ethnography and PowerPoint presentations)

Final exam (1 class)