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Sex, Gender, and Kinship, by Pasternak, Burton, Carol Ember, and Melvin Ember
(PEE=abbreviation in weekly schedule)
Date: week of |
Topics |
Reading |
1. Jan. 12 |
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Read PEE Chapters 1-2 Read WEIRD People |
2. Jan. 19 |
Monday is MLK Day, no class.
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Read PEE: Chapter 3; |
3. Jan. 26 |
Bride price and dowry systems |
Read PEE: Chapter 4 Read Read "Family and Marriage" on Blackboard |
4. Feb. 2 |
Marriage & The Incest Taboo |
Read PEE: Chapter 5-6 |
5. Feb. 9 |
First Exam Feb. 9th |
Read PEE: 7-8 |
6. Feb. 16 |
Divorce and Remarriage |
Read PEE:9 |
7. Feb. 23 |
Kin Selection |
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8. Mar. 2 | Residence, Descent, and Descent Groups Second Exam: March 6th |
Read PEE: 10-12 |
9. Mar. 9 |
The Mystery of Menopause |
Read: An evolutionary perspective on menopause |
10. Mar. 16 |
Alloparenting and Helpers |
Read Sanderson's Chapter entitled "Parenthood" on Blackboard |
March. 23 Spring Break |
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11. Mar. 30 |
Trivers-Willard and preferential investment by sex |
The evolution of socially imposed monogamy and problems with polygyny |
12. Apr. 6 |
A curious problem: RS, wealth, and & modern society |
Thursday: work on your papers and prepare to meet about your papers with the instructor individually next week. Read "Status and Wealth" on Blackboard |
13. Apr. 13 |
Third Exam: April 13th |
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14. Apr. 20 |
Discuss Term Papers with instructor: Complete rough drafts may be turned in early on 22 April for comments & preliminary grade. |
Work on your papers and meet with me on your papers office hours. |
15. Apr. 27 |
Graduate student presentations on April 29th, term paper due May 2nd |
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Useful Web Sites on Social Organization and Research Tools
The University of Nebraska Library has a number of useful web resources useful for this course.
Many can be found by clicking on this link http://library.unl.edu/search/?searchtype=f&searcharg=anthropology+and+archaeology. If you are off campus, you will be asked to log-in by entering your last name and NU ID number. If you are on campus, the links will bring you lead directly to the site.
Of those listed on the above link the “Anthropological Literature” (from Harvard’s Tozzer Library, see below for a few more details) is the most complete listing of anthropological works in the world. For those interested in Native Americans “Bibliography of Native North Americans” can’t be beat, and Electronic HRAF (eHRAF) is very useful for those with focused comparative research questions
There are also some useful web sites to broaden and deepen your understanding of material in this course.
Brain Schwimmer's Kinship Tutorial |
Annual Review of Anthropology |
Anthropological Literature (Tozzer Library of Harvard University) |