Syllabus for: Cultural Anthropology - College of the Redwoods

Week 11“Religion”: Where Are the Spirits and What Do They Do?P&B: 14, Religion and Worldview (313-342); Sarris: Sarah Taylor’s Granddaughter (1-34)(11-12) A Spirit in Everything: Polytheism(11-13) Monotheism; The Religion of Crisis: Salvation and Missionizing(11-14) Where Was Lolsel and Who Was Sarah Taylor?Project #2 (Kinship) dueNovember 19-23 – THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASSESWeek 12Art: The World through Other EyesP&B: 15, Art and the Aesthetic (343-362); Sarris: Carnivals, Madams (35-67)(11-26) Challenging the Vision(11-27) Is There Any Use for Art?(11-28)Week 13Dispossessed; Modernity is Complex, Primitive is Sooooooo SimpleP&B: (divided) 16, Globalization (363-386) and 17, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict (387-410); Sarris:Medicine Woman (68-121)(12-3) Colonialism: “Development” for Whom?(12-4) The Colonial Project, Neocolonialism, and the Culture of GlobalizationEthnicity: Slippery but Powerful(12-5) Native American Life in Northern California; Locking the RoundhousesWeek 14Ethnohistory: Challenging the Linear, Speaking from the DreamP&B: 18, World Problems (411-438); Sarris: Prayer Basket (122-165)(12-10) Ethnohistory(12-11) Syncretism(12-12) Cultural Destruction, Cultural Revival, Cultural SurvivalWeek 15McCulture? Where In the World Are You?(12-17) Semester Roundup and Review(12-18) “The Spirit Is Everlasting”(12-19) Final Examination