Section 1: Four Approaches to Anthropology
1/15
Welcome Introductions- The four field Approach in
Anthropology
1/17
Miner, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.”
1/22
Zora Neale Hurston, “Hoodoo” in Mules
and Men. 1-4, 183-205
1/24
Robert Root-Bernstein and Donald L. McEachron “Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy.”
And “Darwinism” in A History of Anthropological Theory; Erickson and Murphy, 60-72.
1/29
Film: “Becoming Human: Unearthing our Earliest Ancestors.”
1/31
Quiz 1
2/5 Lewis
Henry Morgan, Ancient Society, 1-12.
2/7 Guy
Duetscher, “ Whorf Revisited, You are What You Speak.”
Section 2: Cultural Anthropology
2/14 Clifford Geertz, “Thick Description” and “Notes
on the Balinese Cockfight.”
2/19
Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa,
1-10, 130-138
2/21
Quiz 2
2/26
Sobo,
Elisa. “The
Sweetness of Fat: Health, Socioability, and Procreation in Rural Jamaica.”
In, Food and Culture: A Reader
2/28
Mintz, Sidney
and Christine Du Bois. “The Anthropology of Food and Eating.” Annual Review of
Anthropology, 2002.
3/3 Food and
Culture Paper Due
3/5 E.
E. Evans-Pritchard. The Nuer.
3/7 Joyce
Fleukiger, Chapter 3, In Amma’s Healing
Room.
3/12
Regis, Helen. “Second Lines, Minstrelsy and The Contested Landscapes of New
Orleans Afro-Creole Festivals.” American Anthropologist, 1999.
3/19
Midterm
3/21
Film: Dr. Money and The Boy with No Penis
Section 3: Gender and Anthropology
3/26
Sherry Ortner, “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?”
3/28
Wynne Maggi, “Our Women are Free.”
4/4 Our Women Are Free
4/9 Group Presentations
4/11 Quiz 3
4/14
Ethnographic Papers Due
4/16 Sinnott, Megan J. Introduction, Chapters 4 and
5 in Toms and Dees: Transgender
Identity and Female Same Sex Relationships in Thailand. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i
Press, 2004.
4/18
Naryan, Uma. “Cross Cultural Connections, Border Crossing, and Death By
Culture.
and
Lila Abu-Lughod, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?”
and
Lila Abu-Lughod, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?”
4/23 Film: Happy
4/25
Fernandez-Kelly, Patricia. For we are
sold, I and My People. Albany: The State University of New York Press:
1983. Pp. 1-5, 108-143.
4/30
Case Study: Violence against Women at the U.S.-Mexico Border
5/2
Group
Presentations
5/7 Last
Day of Class-Final exam review ***Life
History Papers Due in Class
Final Exam Tuesday 5/14 12-2 pm
Note that time is different from our regular
meeting time.
