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Summer Session 2003

    
  86208-001 LEC 09:30 am - 12:20 pm MTWThF (07/07/03-08/01/03), Cina 214, 4 cr
   
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July  2003

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>> Day 03
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>> Day 04
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  Ch. 1 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Companion WebSite
~ study questions
And page through
pp. 387 - 395
Ch. 2 Methods [and Basic Concepts] in Cultural Anthropology
Companion WebSite
Ch. 3 Economies and Their Modes of Production
Companion WebSite
Ch. 4 Consumption and Exchange
Companion WebSite

Production, Exchange, and Consumption  
 
Slides: 01A -- Intro

Video: "The Nature of Anthropology"
(VC 2466, pt. 1, 30 min.)

Slides: 03B -- Studying . . .
Case Studies:
  #1 due Day 07
  #2 due Day 17
Library Resources, including JSTOR
Extra Credit Option
Slides: 03A -- Major Characteristics of Anthropology
Ch. 2 Introduction

Video: "How Cultures are Studied"
(VC 2466, pt. 3, 30 min.)
Controversy: Darkness in El Dorado
~ Texas A & M

Major Figures in Anthropology (intro.)

Video: Off the Verandah
(from Strangers Abroad)
(VC 1760, 52 min.)

map
Cf., Trobriand Islands
Cf., Day 18

Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
World Ethnographic Sample (WES)
Video: "The Nature of Culture"
(VC 2466, pt. 2, 30 min.)

Ch. 3 Economic Production
~ foraging
~ horticulture
~ pastoralism
~ agriculture
~ industrial / post-industrial

Case Study, Foraging / Horticulture -- Video: Nomads of the Rain Forest
(VC 2426, 59 min.)

Video: Economic Anthropology
(VC 2466, pt. 9, 30 min.)

Video: Affluenza
(VC 3060, 56 min.)

cycles:
 ~ annual
 ~ domestic
 ~ life

Preview of Week 2
including an introduction to marriage and kinship

[read Buffalo paper for next Wednesday]
 
13 14 >> Week 02
>> Day 06
15
>> Day 07
16
>> Day 08
17
>> Day 09
18
>> Day 10
19
  Ch. 5 Birth and Death
Companion WebSite
Ch. 6 Personality and Human Development
Companion WebSite

Ch. 7 Illness and Healing
Companion WebSite

Ch. 8 Kinship Dynamics
Companion WebSite

Love and/or Marriage

Mid-Term Exam
 
 
Introduction
Video: Dead Birds
(VC 1248, 83 min.; start at 10:50)
Video: "Alejandro Mamani" (VC 2466, pt. 6, 30 min., 1994)

Kinship and Descent (cont.)
 ~ Descent Terms

 ~ Kinship Systems
  ~ Eskimo
  ~ Iroquois
  ~ Hawaiian
  ~ Sudanese

 ~ Omaha (patrilineal)
 ~ Crow Kinship (matrilineal)

"Postmarital Residence Patterns"
Video: "Psychological Anthropology"
(VC 2466, 1994, pt. 5, 30 min.)

VC 2238 A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr.
Video: An Interview with Paul Buffalo, Leech Lake, Anishinabe
(VC 266
/ VC 266b, 18 min.)
~ excerpts transcript
Buffalo paper

Anishinabe
Curing
(slides)
Video clip: "Latah" 
marriage and kinship
(cont.)
~ marriage terms . . .}
~ bridewealth and other manners of acquiring a spouse
~ divorce

Video: "Kinship and Descent, parts I & II"
(VC 2466, pts. 14 & 15, 30 min. each)

genealogy

Review for mid-term exam
Video: Strange Relations
(VC 1974, pt. 2, 60 min.)

Mid-Term Exam
(4 of 13 or 18 or 20 questions)
 
20 21 >> Week 03
>> Day 11
22
>> Day 12
23
>> Day 13
24
>> Day 14
25
>> Day 15
26
  Ch. 9 Domestic Groups
Companion WebSite
Ch. 10 Social Groups and Social Stratification
Companion WebSite

Ch. 11 Politics and Leadership
Companion WebSite
Ch. 12 Social Order and Social Conflict
Companion WebSite
Language and Communication  
 
return exams
~ grading
~ "the strike zone"
~ "the curve"

Extra Credit Option

marriage and kinship
(cont.)
~ marriage terms . . .
~ endogamy / exogamy
~ bridewealth and other manners of acquiring a spouse

Video: "Sex and Marriage"
(VC 2466, pt. 11)

functions of the family
Video: "Family and Household"
(VC 2466, pt. 12)

Video: "The Yucatec Maya"
(VC 2466, pt. 13, 30 min.)
{arranged marriage}
{rites of passage}

Video: Two Girls Go Hunting
(VC 2371, 50 min.)

Video: N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
(VC 2371, 26 of 59 min.
) or,
N!ai, "Arranged Marriages" (VC 182, 10 min.)

Video: Kypseli: Women and Men Apart -- A Divided Reality
(VC 3286, 41 min.)

changing customs
 ~ CNN: CHINESE
WEDDINGS.MOV

 
~ CNN: ARRANGED MARRIAGE.MOV
(AL 2002-01)

 
Guest: Yien Kongduongdiit
kinship and marriage review / wrap up

~ {functions of the family}

~ {modes of acquiring a spouse}
  ~ bridewealth

~ {divorce} 

~ {marriage terms}

~ segmentary lineage

 
Video: The Nuer
(VC 3236, 75 min., pts. 1& 2; start at 11:00)
Video: "Political Organization"
(VC 2466, pt. 18, 30 min.)
{political systems}

~ {bands}
slides bands

~ tribes

~ chiefdoms
~ states
~ folk cultures
~ microcultures
Babakiueria
(30 min.)

Video: American Tongues
(VC 1013, 56 min.)
 
27 28 >> Week 04
>> Day 16
29
>> Day 17
30
>> Day 18
31
>> Day 19
   
  Ch. 13 Communication
Companion WebSite

Ch. 14 Religion
Companion WebSite
Ch. 15 Expressive Culture
Companion WebSite
Ch. 16 Development Anthropology
Companion WebSite
   
  Language and communication (cont.) 
religion

Video: "Religion and Magic"
(VC 2466, pt. 20, 30 min.; start at 10:10)

Video: "The Asmat of New Guinea: A Case Study in Religion and Magic"
(VC 2466, pt. 21, 30 min.; start at 10:50)

Video: Appeals to Santiago
(VC 3283, 27 min.; start at 11:47)

~ cargo system
Video: The Shakers
(VC 3331, 50 min.)

expressive culture: the arts, play. . . .

Video: "The Arts"
(VC 2466, pt. 22, 30 min.)

Video: "New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts"
(VC 2466, pt. 23, 30 min.)


Video: The Amish: A People of Preservation (VC 3244, 54 min.)

Video: "Culture Change"
(VC 2466, pt. 24, 30 min.)

cultural change slides (intro.)
Video: "Cricket the Trobriand Way: A Case Study in Cultural Change"
(VC 2466, pt. 25, 30 min.)
Cf., Day02

 

Course Evaluation
cultural change slides (cont.)

Video: Trinkets and Beads
(VC 2840, 53 min.)
   
2003.07.10 -- MPR: Latin America's Oil Legacy - Part III
Review for final exam and brief course review
Video: Ocamo is My Town
(VC 1339, 22 min.)

 

      

August  2003

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          The Future?

Final Exam
 
          Video: "The Future of Humanity"
(VC 2466, pt. 26, 30 min.)

Final Exam

~ 4 of 18questions

~ focus will be on Chs. 09 - 16, and class materials since the midterm exam

 

SS 2003 Grades

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