1 M 9/3

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

1 T 9/4

UNIT: ETHNOGRAPHY, FIELDWORK, AND CULTURE

9:15 a.m. Presentation by folks from the Writing Center

readings:
Geertz, "Thick Description"
Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the Bush"
Spradley and McCurdy, "Cultural Scenes"
Kutsche, "Ethics"
American Anthropological Association, Code of Ethics (read on-line, click here)

*** VIDEO 1:00: "OFF THE VERANDA" ***
see film notes assignment

DUE IN CLASS TODAY: Images of Anthropologists Assignment

1 W 9/5

UNIT: ANTHROPOLOGY'S HISTORY/WAYS OF KNOWING ANOTHER CULTURE

readings:
McHugh, Love and Honor in the Himalayas, pp. xv-xviii AND pp. 1-91
Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"

*** VIDEO 1:00: "SHACKLES OF TRADITION" ***
see film notes assignment

1 R 9/6

readings:
Briggs, "Kapluna Daughter"
McHugh, Love and Honor in the Himalayas, pp. 93-137

*** VIDEO 1:00: "COMING OF AGE" ***
see film notes assignment

1:00 PRESENTATION ON GRAFFITI ART AND ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS
ALBERT FARIAS, SENIOR ANTHROPOLOGY MAJOR

1 F 9/7

UNIT: SELF, EMOTION, TRANSFORMATION

readings:
McHugh, Love and Honor, pp. 140-169
Rosaldo, "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage"
Shweder, "Menstrual Pollution, Soul Loss, and Emotions"

PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE TODAY AT 3:00

2 M 9/10

UNIT: RELIGION, MAGIC, AND THE POWER OF BELIEF

readings:
Stevens, "Religion"
Turner, "Betwixt and Between"
Douglas, "Secular Defilement"
Malinowski, "Rational Mastery by Man of His Surroundings"
Gmelch, "Baseball Magic"

*** VIDEO 1:00: "Macumba, Trance and Spirit Healing"
see film notes assignment

2 T 9/11

MIDTERM EXAM - MEET IN CLASSROOM; EXAM WILL BE ADMINISTERED BY PARAPROF

2 W 9/12

RESEARCH DAY - SIGN UP TIMES WILL BE AVAILABLE WITH INSTRUCTOR

2 R 9/13

UNIT: ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY: MAKING A LIVING

Presentation: Material World

readings:
Cronk, "Reciprocity and the Power of Giving"
Robbins, "The Meaning of Progress"
Jacobson, "Work, Trouble, and the Pleasurable Word in Charigaon"

***VIDEO: 1:00 "BLACK IS . . . BLACK AIN'T"***
see film notes assignment

FORMAL DINNER, BEMIS; OUR SEATING IS AT 5:40PM
7:30 PM: PERFORMANCE EVENT: "LES MERVEILLES D'AFRIQUE" (PERFORMANCE EVENT CANCELLED--PERFORMERS STRANDED)

2 F 9/14

UNIT: SOCIAL DIFFERENCE, INEQUALITY AND POWER

readings:
McIntosh, "White Privilege"
AAA "Draft Official Statement on Race"
Diamond, "Race without Color"
Foley, begin reading
Robbins, "The Cultural Construction of Hierarchy"

FIELDNOTES DUE TODAY IN CLASS

3 M 9/17

readings:
Foley, Learning Capitalist Culture, to page 158

optional reading:
Foley, Learning Capitalist Culture, pp. 206-223

***VIDEO: 1:00 "AMERICAN TONGUES"***
see film notes assignment

3 T 9/18

UNIT: GENDER, FAMILY AND KINSHIP

readings:
Abu-Lughod, Veiled Sentiments, preface, 1-35 AND 78-117
Malinowski, excerpts from Sex and Repression in Savage Society

Tricia Waters: Guest Lecture on Freud

3 W 9/19

readings:
Abu-Lughod, Veiled Sentiments, 118-207
Lahiri, "The Third and Final Continent" (short story)

2:00 Afternoon Presentation by Bonnie Stapleton

ASSIGNMENT DUE: ANALYSIS OF PERSONALS

3 R 9/20

RESEARCH AND WRITING DAY

3 F 9/21

UNIT: LANGUAGE AND GENRE IN SOCIAL LIFE

readings:
Abu-Lughod, Veiled Sentiments, 208-271
Basso, "Stalking with Stories"

4 M 9/24

UNIT: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS

*** ETHNOGRAPHIC PROJECTS DUE AT 4:00; BE SURE TO TURN IN ALL PROPOSALS, NOTES, ETC. WITH THE FINAL PAPER***

4 T 9/25

UNIT: RETHINKING CULTURE IN A CHANGING WORLD

readings:
Rosaldo, "The Erosion of Classic Norms"
Feld, "Notes on World Beat"
Kadi, "Moving from Cultural Appropriation Toward Ethical Cultural Connections"

4 W 9/26

FINAL EXAM

	AN 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Syllabus
	Calla Jacobson x6824 cjacobson@coloradocollege.edu