Lecture and Reading Schedule for

INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

(ANTHROPOLOGY 212)
Spring 2010


Re-creation date 12/20/09
Last Update 3/21/10

Texts:
Yanomamö: The Fierce People. N. Chagnon, (5th ed.)
The Netsilik Eskimo. A. Balikci
The Isthmus Zapotecs: A Matrifocal Culture of Mexico, B. Chiñas (2nd ed.)

Key for readings:
 B=Balikci, C=Chagnon, BC=Chiñas

COURSE SCHEDULE
Week of Topic Readings Web Readings
January 11-15 Fieldwork & Cultural Theory B: ix-xxiv; C: 1-43; BC: xi-xx; 1-5

Chimpanzee Culture?
January 18-22 Cultural Evolution & Environment C: 45-60; BC: 6-15  
January 25-29 Ecology & Human Adaptation C: 60-71;  BC: 16-22

Garden of Eden?
February 1-5 Demography & Subsistence B: 23-90, BC: 23-41

 
February 8-12 Technology & Settlement Pattern
Exam (11th)		 B: 3-22; C: 71-97

Some Like it Hot

February 15-19 Family Life B: 93-109 & 147-162; C: 121-137; BC 43-60 

 
February 22-26 Kinship B: 111-131; C:137-158 BC: 72-84; 

Honor Killings
March 1-5 Marriage B: 133-144;

Marriage and Inbreeding
March 8-12 Inter-village relationships C 159-183  

Spring Break 14-21 No Class
March 22-26 Exam (25th March)
Review Session: March 24, BURN 107 5-7 pm		 B: 163-193; C:185 207; BC 85-112

Evolution & Morality
March 29-April 2 Sex Differences & Sexual Behavior B: 241-257; B: 197-238; C: 99-119 & 207-226; BC 61-71  
April 5-9 Politics War & Conflict Management C:227-260 

More Peace Today?
April 12-16 Religion
 		BC 113-125  
April 19-23 Acculturation & Change: current situations
Book Report Preliminary Drafts Due, April 23rd   		Review Biopiracy: Whose Property is it Anyway?
April 26-30 Book Report due, April 29th  
Review Session April 30th, 5-7 PM, 107 Burnett		 Dead Week Final Exam Review  
Finals Week Final Exam
May 5th: 1-3 PM		    
  

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