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Summer Session 2004

    
  11:00 am - 01:40 MTWThF (07/06/04-07/30/04), Cina 214, 4 cr
   

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URL: <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1604/>
      

July  2004

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        1 2 3
             
4 5 6
>> Day 01
7
>> Day 02
8
>> Day 03
9
>> Day 04
10
 
Holiday
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

 
 
   
Slides: 01A -- Intro

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

Slides: 03B -- Studying . . .

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 17

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.)

[cf., Trinkets and Beads]

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

Video: Affluenza
(VC 3060, 56 min.)

Preview of Week 2
[read Paul Buffalo paper for next Thursday]
 
11
12
>> Day 05
13
>> Day 06
14
>> Day 07
15
>> Day 08
16
>> Day 09
17
  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
 
 
cycles:
 ~ annual
 ~ domestic
 ~ life
   ~ "Rites of Passage"


Introduction
Video: Dead Birds
(VC 1248, 83 min.; start at 12:10)
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" (8.25 min., 1978)
or Video: Latah (VC 4651, 38 min., 1978)
["culture-bound syndromes"]

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 questions)
18 19
>> Day 10
20
>> Day 11
21
>> Day 12
22
>> Day 13
23
>> Day 14
24
  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  
 
functions of the family
Video: "Family and Household"
(VC 2466, pt. 12)

Video: "The Yucatec Maya"
(VC 2466, pt. 13, 30 min.)
Video: Kypseli: Women and Men Apart -- A Divided Reality
(VC 3286, 41 min.)

{arranged marriage}

CNN: ARRANGED MARRIAGE.MOV

Video: Arranged Marriages (VC 4684, 50 min.)

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

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

kinship and marriage review / wrap up

~ {functions of the family}

~ {modes of acquiring a spouse}
  ~ bridewealth
 
~ {marriage terms}

~ segmentary lineage


Video: The Nuer
(VC 3236, 75 min., pts. 1& 2)
~ divorce
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.)
 
25 26
>> Day 15
27
>> Day 16
28
>> Day 17
29
>> Day 18
30
>> Day 19
31
  Ch. 13 Communication
Companion WebSite

Ch. 14 Religion
Companion WebSite
Ch. 15 Expressive Culture
Companion WebSite
Ch. 16 Development Anthropology
Companion WebSite
The Future?

Final Exam
  Language and communication (cont.) 
religion

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

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

Video: Appeals to Santiago
(VC 3283, 27 min.)

~ cargo system
Disscussion of final exam
Video: The Shakers
(VC 3331, 50 min.)

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

cultural change
slides (intro.)

Video: "Culture Change"
(VC 2466, pt. 24, 30 min.)
 
Video: "Cricket the Trobriand Way: A Case Study in Cultural Change"
(VC 2466, pt. 25, 30 min.)
Cf., Day 02

expressive culture: the arts, play. . . .

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

Course Evaluation
Call #: 87005
Qtr: 2
YR: 04

Video: Ocamo is My Town
(VC 1339, 22 min.)

 Video: Trinkets and Beads
(VC 2840, 53 min.)

[cf., Nomads of the Rain Forest]

Questions about final exam?
changing customs
 ~ CNN: CHINESE
WEDDINGS.MOV
 
Video: "The Future of Humanity"
(VC 2466, pt. 26, 30 min.)

Final Exam

~ 4 of 13 or 18 questions

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

 

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