Readings and assignment are due on
the day they appear on our schedule
AE refers to your text Annual
Editions
07/08
Chapter numbers refer to your text Cultural
Anthropology, 3rd Edition - Robbins
Part I - The Anthropological
Perspective
Week 1 What is
Anthropology? The Concept of
Culture
January 22 Introduction to the
class,
A discussion and overview of the class. Purchase books and look
them over.
Information sheets handed out and completed.
January 24 What is Anthropology?
ÒSome QuestionsÓ – in-class
Begin reading:
Assigned: Reading and Reflection (AE #31) ÒBody Ritual Among the
NaciremaÒ
(also online and handed out), (25 points). Due January
31
Week 2 What is
Anthropology?
Anthropology As A Way Of Seeing Our World
January 29
Have Read For Class: AE #1 ÒDoing Fieldwork Among the YanomamšÓ
AE
#2 ÒLessons from the FieldÓ
Chapter
1 Culture and Meaning
Assignment: Fieldwork Observation – Cell phones at Chabot
College – refer to handout Due: February 7
January 31
Have Read For Class: AE #7 One Hundred Percent American
AE
#31 ÒBody Ritual among the Nacirema"
Þ Due: Nacirema (Reflection) - 25
points
Extra
Credit Opportunity – Superbowl
(5 points) Due Tuesday Feb. 5 – see handout
Note: Feb. 8 - last day to drop classes for No Grade of Record (NGR) in person, Feb. 10 online
Week 3 Anthropology as a Way of Seeing
Our World & Doing Anthropology
February 5 Doing Anthropology – Fieldwork
Have Read For Class: Ch. 1
AE #4 Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution
AE #6 Anthropology and Counterinsurgency: The Strange Story of their
Curious Relationship
Þ Due: Extra Credit– Superbowl
February 7
Fieldwork learning from others
Þ Due: Fieldwork
Observation –
Cell phones at Chabot College. Hand in field notes and analysis (25pts)
Assigned: AE #3 ÒEating Christmas in the KalahariÓ –
Reflection Due Feb. 12
Week 4 Analyzing Societies – The Idea of Progress
February 12 Small Scale
Societies
Have
Read For Class:
Chapter
2
AE #3 ÒEating Christmas in the KalahariÓ
AE #9 ÒUnderstanding Eskimo ScienceÓ
AE #13 ÒThe Inuit ParadoxÓ
Þ Due: AE #3 ÒEating
Christmas in the KalahariÓ Reflection - 25 points
Assigned: Article ÒLife Without ChiefsÓ (also posted on the
website) – A reflection is due on this Feb 21
Your
questions for the exam - 7 exam questions (with answers) (10 pts) Due: by Feb.
21.
February 14 *** No day classes ***
Week 5 Analyzing Societies,
Modes of Production and Progress
(continued)
February 19 &
21
Have Read For Class:
AE
#14 ÒThe Ties That Bind
Þ Due February 21:
Reflection ÒLife Without
ChiefsÓ - 25 points
Your
questions for the exam - 7 exam questions (with answers) (10 pts)
Assigned: Take home essay questions (Due February
26) (60 points)
Note: Deadline to apply for
Credit/No Credit - February 22
Week 6 Discussion/Review for Exam and Exam
February 26
Discussion and Review for quiz/exam
Þ Due: Take home essay questions
(60 points)
All Assigned to Reading Groups (numbered and lettered For future
readings you need to remember your group and read the article assigned to your
group, at least. Feel free to read the others.
February 28
Exam #1 (100 points)
Bring: a Scantron, pencil, paper
and a pen. (55 points)
PART
II - Who We Are and the Forces that Shape Us
Week 7 The Social and
Cultural Construction of Reality - Language and Culture
March 4
Have Read For Class: Chapter 4 pp. 99-114
AE #5 ÒFighting for Our LivesÒ
AE #10 ÒI CanÕt Even Open My MouthÓ
March 6
Have Read For Class: AE # 11 ÒShakespeare in the Bush"
Week 8 Ways of
Viewing the World – Ideology, Magic, Religion and Witchcraft
March
11
Have Read For Class: Chapter 4 pp.
114-135
AE #32 "Baseball Magic
AE #30 "The Secrets
of HaitiÕs Living Dead"
March 13
Have Read For Class: AE #27 The Adaptive value of Religious Ritual
Group A
AE #25 Eyes of the Ngangas: Ethnomedicine and PowerÉ.
Group
B
AE #26
Ancient Teachings, Modern Lessons
Group C
AE #29 Drug Culture: Everybody Uses Something
Group D
AE #28 Shamans
Assigned: Project assignment #1 (Proposal) – Due: March 20 (15 pts)
Reflection
ÒA World Full of WomenÓ (Handout and posted on the website)
(25
pts) due: March 20
Week 9 Gender and Patterns
of Family Relations - Kinship
March
18
Have Read For Class: Ch. 6 (pp. 169-183) - Marriage and the Family
Everyone read: AE #21 ÒThe Berdache TraditionÓ
Groups
A & B AE #22ÒA WomanÕs Curse?Ó
Groups C & D AE
#23 ÒWhere Fat is a Mark of BeautyÓ
Assigned: Make up your 7 questions and answers for the quiz – Due
April 1 (10 points)
Take-home exam questions (handed
out). Due April 3
March
20 Social Organization and the Construction of Identity - Gender
Have Read For Class: AE #18 Our Babies, Ourselves
ÒA
World Full of WomenÓ
Þ Due: Reflection on AE #21 ÒA
World Full of Women
Project #1 Proposed topic (15 pts)
SPRING
BREAK March 24-29
Week 10 Patterns of Family
Relations – Kinship
April 1
Have Read For Class: Chapter 5 (pp. 139-167)
AE
#16 ÒWhen Brothers Share a WifeÓ
AE
17 ÒDeath Without WeepingÓ
Groups
A & B AE #19 "Arranging a Marriage In IndiaÓ
Groups
C & D " AE #20 "Who Needs Love! In Japan,É.."
Þ Due: Your 7 questions and answers
for the quiz – (10 points)
April 3 Discussion
and Review for Exam
Þ Due: Take home exam questions (60
points)
Any
Changes in Project Topic
Assigned: Project #2 - Progress (15 points), Due
April 15
NOTE: April 4 - deadline to
Withdraw with a "W"
Week 11 Exam, and Projects
April 8
Exam #2 Same supplies needed: Scantron, pencil(s), paper,
pen (55 points)
April 10
Project Orientation in the library (5 points)
The
focus will be the research component for the project - Make sure you attend.
PART
III The World We Live In
Social
Hierarchies and Inequalities
Week 12 Social Hierarchies
& Institutionalization of
Violence
April 15 & 17 Social Hierarchy–Race, Class
& Violence & Discussions about Projects
Have Read For Class:
Chapter
7 - pp. 197-218
Chapter
8 pp. 231-255 (Focus on pages 237-246)
Þ Due April 15: Project #2 – Progress
Report (15 points)
Assigned: Reflection AE #33 "Why People CanÕt Feed Themselves" (25 pts) Due April
22
Week 13 "Progress"
& Globalization and the Dominance of Capital
April 22
Have Read For Class: AE #34 "The Arrow of Disease"
Þ Due: Reflection on AE #33 "Why
People CanÕt Feed Themselves "
(25 pts)
Assigned: Your 7 questions and answers for the exam. Due May 1 (10 pts)
Project Update #3 – Research and Introductory Paragraph (25 points) Due: April 29
April 24 "Development" and
"Underdevelopment"
Have Read For Class:
Chapter
2 pp. 46-66
AE #35 Burying the White Gods: New
Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico
AE #36 The Price of Progress
Assigned: Take-home exam questions (handed out) Due: May 6 (60 points)
Week 14 Development
of the "Underdevelopment"
April 29 & May 1
Have Read For Class: AE #38 From Baffin Island to New Orleans
AE
#39 What
Native Peoples Deserve
Þ Due: April 29 Final Project Update #3 (25
points)
May 1 – Your 7 questions with answers for the exam (10 points)
Week 15 Discussion and Exam
May 6 The Shape of World We Live In & Discussion and Review
Þ Due: Take-home exam essay
questions (60 points).
May 8 - Exam #3
Bring: Same supplies needed: Scantron, pencil(s), paper, pen (55 points)
PART
IV Projects and Presentations and Discussion
Week 16 Projects and
Presentations and Discussion
May 13 & 15 Project presentations
and discussion and/or
Globalization and Our World
Þ Due: ALL Projects May 13
Week 17 Project
Presentations and Discussion (All Extra Credit in by May 20)
May 20 & 22 Project presentations and discussion
Final
exam Week
Our last class meeting is Tuesday, May 27 8:00 - 9:50
Project Presentations, Discussion & Final Grades
Þ Due: Last take-home exam question - on the project of
one of your classmates (you may hand it in before this).