Lecture, Reading & Exam Schedule for

INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

(ANTHROPOLOGY 212)
Spring 20123


Re-creation date 12/20/11
Last Update 12/23/12

Texts:
Yanomamö N. Chagnon, (6th ed.)
The Netsilik Eskimo. A. Balikci
The Isthmus Zapotecs: A Matrifocal Culture of Mexico, B. Chiñas (2nd ed.)

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


COURSE SCHEDULE

Week of Topic Readings Exams and Due Dates Web Readings
January 7
 Fieldwork & Cultural Theory B: ix-xxiv; C: 1-44; BC: xi-xx; 1-5  

Chimpanzee Culture?
January 14 Cultural Evolution & Environment C: 45-60; BC: 6-15    
January 21 Ecology & Human Adaptation C: 60-72;  BC: 16-22  

Garden of Eden?
January 28 Demography & Subsistence B: 23-90, BC: 23-41
  • Review Session:
     Tuesday (29th) 7 PM, Bessey Hall
  • 1st exam Jan 31st

 
February 4 Technology & Settlement Pattern B: 3-22; C: 72-100  

Some Like it Hot
February 11 Family Life B: 93-109 & 147-162; C: 123-139; BC 43-60  Video: Mende

 
February 18 Kinship B: 111-131; C:140-162 BC: 72-84;  Video: Dadi's Family

The Romantic Life of the Educated Women
February 25 Marriage B: 133-144;

 
March 4 Divorce
Food Exchange		 C 163-188 and 211-231
  • Review session: 7:30-8:30 117 Bessey, March 4
  • 2nd exam March 5
  
March 11 Division of Labor B: 163-193; Video: Some Women of Marrakech  
March 17-24

Spring Break
March 25 Sex/Gender  Differences & Sexual Behavior

 

 C:189-210;
BC: 85-112
  Video: The Feast

Evolution & Morality
April 1
 Warfare  
  • Review Session: April 2
    7-8pm
    Burnett 103
  • 3rd exam, April 4th
  
April 8
 Politics & Conflict Management BC:113-125 Video: We are Mehinaku

More Peace Today?
April 15 Religion
 
BC: 61-71
C: 101-122.
B: 241-257; B: 197-238;		 Book Report Preliminary Drafts Due: April 19th

Magical Thinking: Clapton's Guitar
April 22 Acculturation & Change: current situations
 

  

C: 233-268

Review
Dead Week

 

 Book Report due: April 26th

 
April 30- May 4

Finals Week

     4th Exam
 April 29, 1-3 PM
 		  
  

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