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Cultural Anthropology – Fall 2012Week 1IntroductionsPeoples & Bailey: Ch. 1, “The Study of Humanity” (1-20)(8-27) Introductions(8-28) Working Backward: In The Emerald Forest - Is There a Trajectory of Civilization?(8-29) Interdisciplinary Thoughts: Anthropology, History, SociologyWeek 2Wrestling with the Culture ConceptP&B: 2, Culture (21-46) and 5, Methods of Investigation (95-111) ; Gottlieb: 1, Premonitions (3-23)(9-3) Labor Day – no class(9-4) What Is Culture?(9-5) Do You Have a Culture?Week 3Anthropology, Cultural Relativism, Colonialism, and HegemonyP&B: 4, “Development of Anthropological Thought” (68-94); Gottlieb: 2, Choosing a Host (24-57)(9-10) Cultural Relativism; Power and Resistance; Does Ethnography Benefit the Subject?Response Paper #1 due; choose movie for Project #1(9-11) The Concept of Hegemony(9-12) Can There Be Real Understanding Among Cultures?Week 4Evolution and RaceExtra reading on evolution; Gottlieb: 3, Trespassing (58-82)(9-17) Darwinian Evolution: Adaptation and Survival; Evolution as Applied to H. sapiens(9-18) Race Is Not Real, but It Is Also Oh, So Real(9-19) Cultural Constructions and Naturalization: WhitenessWeek 5Staying Alive: ReproductionP&B: 6, Culture and Nature (112-141) ; Gottlieb: 4, Adrift (83-110)(9-24) “The Communism of Daily Life” and “Debt”(9-25) Agriculture and PastoralismTurn in notes for Project #1(9-26) Industrialization: Our Factories, Our Selves
Week 6Exchange and Value: Deconstructing “Markets”P&B: 7, Exchange in Economic Systems (142-162) ; Gottlieb: 5, Elusive Epiphany (111-141)(10-1) Reciprocity(10-2) The “Market” Transformation: Forced or Natural?Outline of Project #1 (Movie Ethnography) due(10-3) Finance Capital and the Source of ValueResponse Paper #2 dueWeek 7Creating Relations: Marriage and Extending the FamilyP&B, 8, Marriages and Families (163-190) ; Gottlieb: 6, Bedazzled (142-173)(10-8) Who Is Your Family? – Kinship Workshop(10-9) Refreshing the Gene Pool; Creating Alliances; The Cultural Meanings of Marriage(10-10) Does Blood Make Family?Project #1 (Movie Ethnography) dueOctober 15-19 – FALL BREAK – NO CLASSESWeek 8Close Relations: Relatives and AncestorsP&B: (divided) 9, Kinship, and Descent (191-213) and 10, Enculturation and the Life Course (214-236); Gottlieb: (entire) 7, Divination (174-208) and 8, Transgressions (209-248)(10-22) Kinship: Are We Related?(10-23) Patriarchy Is Just Natural – or Is It?Choose informant for Project #2(10-24) EnculturationWeek 9Now Even Sex Is Cultural? and LanguageP&B: (divided) 11, Gender in Comparative Perspective (237-267) and 3, Culture & Language (47-68);Gottlieb: 9, Metamorphoses (249-278)(10-29) Gender: “Sex” as Cultural Construct(10-30) Shifting Gender, Challenging Patriarchy; The New Seduction: Sex and Advertising(10-31) In the Beginning Was the Word; Words Made Tangible; Abstraction and IdeasWeek 10Politics & World SystemsP&B: (divided) 12, The Organization of Political Life (268-289) and 13, Social Inequality andStratification (290-312); Gottlieb: 10, Parallel World (281-312)(11-5) Structure, Reciprocity, and Power Relations; Constructs of Power: Culture, Hegemony, and the Nation(11-6) The Big Picture: World Systems Theory and The Arrogance of Western ModernityResponse Paper #3 due(11-7) Querying the “Primitive”: Who Are the Beng?
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