| Week |
Topic |
| 1 |
WEEK 1: Welcome!!!
General Introduction to the Course
Introduction to Anthropology
Read:
1) Kottak 2002. Chapter 1: “What is Anthropology?”
2) http://www.thisisanthropology.org/about-anthropology
3) http://www.thisisanthropology.org/anthropological-skills
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2IUVnnteNs |
| 2 |
WEEKs 2 and 3: THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE
Topics: Culture, Cultural Variation, Enculturation, Invention of Culture, Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism
Read:
1) Kottak, C 2002: Chapter 11: “Culture”
2) Wagner, Roy. 1981. “The Assumption of Culture” In The invention of Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3) Miner, Horace. 1956. Body ritual among the Nacirema. American Anthropologist 58(3): 503-507
4) Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn. 2004. “Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights”. In Anthropology Explored, edited by Ruth Osterweis-Selig. Washington: Smithsonian Books.
Film: God Grew Tired of Us (2006)
Film: Excerpts from Cannibal Tours (1987, Dennis O’Rourke)
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2HlTQPS40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpiIlemQK8o
https://www.sophia.org/tutorials/ethnocentrism-and-cultural-relativism
--THE METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGY: ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD WORK
Read: 1) Kottak, C. 2002. Chapter 2: In the Field. |
| 3 |
WEEKs 2 and 3: THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE
Topics: Culture, Cultural Variation, Enculturation, Invention of Culture, Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism
Read:
1) Kottak, C 2002: Chapter 11: “Culture”
2) Wagner, Roy. 1981. “The Assumption of Culture” In The invention of Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3) Miner, Horace. 1956. Body ritual among the Nacirema. American Anthropologist 58(3): 503-507
4) Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn. 2004. “Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights”. In Anthropology Explored, edited by Ruth Osterweis-Selig. Washington: Smithsonian Books.
Film: God Grew Tired of Us (2006)
Film: Excerpts from Cannibal Tours (1987, Dennis O’Rourke)
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2HlTQPS40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpiIlemQK8o
https://www.sophia.org/tutorials/ethnocentrism-and-cultural-relativism
--THE METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGY: ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD WORK
Read: 1) Kottak, C. 2002. Chapter 2: In the Field. |
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WEEK 4: CULTURE AND SYMBOLS
Topics: Symbols, Classification, the Sacred and Profane in Cultures.
Read: 1) Hendry, J. Chapter 5: Society: A Set of Symbols. In Sharing Our Worlds.
2) Hendry, J. Chapter 2: Disgusting, Forbidden and Unthinkable. In Sharing Our Worlds. |
| 5 |
WEEK 6: THE QUESTION OF ETHNICITY, “RACE” AND CULTURE
Read:
1) Jenkins, Richard. 2002. “Imagined but Not Imaginary: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Modern World” In Exotic No More. Edited by Jeremy MacClancy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
2) Kottak, C. Chapter 8: Human Diversity and “Race”
3) Angier, Natalie 2000 Do Races Differ? Not Really, Genes Show. New York Times
4) AAA Statement on Race [http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm]
Film: Race: The Power of an Illusion: The Story We Tell (Episode II) |
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WEEK 6: THE QUESTION OF ETHNICITY, “RACE” AND CULTURE
Read:
1) Jenkins, Richard. 2002. “Imagined but Not Imaginary: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Modern World” In Exotic No More. Edited by Jeremy MacClancy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
2) Kottak, C. Chapter 8: Human Diversity and “Race”
3) Angier, Natalie 2000 Do Races Differ? Not Really, Genes Show. New York Times
4) AAA Statement on Race [http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm]
Film: Race: The Power of an Illusion: The Story We Tell (Episode II) |
| 7 |
WEEK 7: MIDTERM EXAM!!!!!!! |
| 8 |
WEEK 8: COLONIALISM AND CULTURE
Read: 1) Conrad Kottak, C. Chapter 22: Colonialism |
| 9 |
WEEK 9: GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONALISM AND CULTURE
Read: 1) Lavenda and Shultz. Chapter 11: Globalization and the Culture of Capitalism.
2) Hendry, Joe, 2008. Chapter 14: Transnationalism, Globalization and Beyond, In Sharing Our Worlds.
3) Ferguson, James. 1999. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Chapter 7, “Global Disconnect”
Watch: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-companies-that-control-what-we-buy-2014-7#ixzz36oR9Vkkx |
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WEEK 10: Film:
1) T-shirt Travels: The Story of Secondhand Clothes and Third World Debt
(Shantha Bloemen, 2001), 57 min.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/sex_lies_and_cigarettes_2012/
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/stealing_africa_how_much_profit_is_fair/ |
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WEEKS 11-12: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT AND THE REFUGEE CRISIS
Read:
1) Daniel, E. V. 2002. “The Refugee: A Discourse on Displacement” In Exotic No More. Edited by, Jeremy MacClancy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2) http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Making-of-the-Migration-Crisis-20150619-0019.html
3) http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2015/09/08/the-refugee-crisis-is-real-but-only-because-it-is-now-affecting-western-nations/
4) Lubkemann, Stephen. 2004. “Refugees: Worldwide Displacement and International Response” In Anthropology Explored, edited by Ruth Osterweis-Selig. Washington: Smithsonian Books.
Film: http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/europe-or-die-2015/ |
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WEEKS 11-12: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION, DISPLACEMENT AND THE REFUGEE CRISIS
Read:
1) Daniel, E. V. 2002. “The Refugee: A Discourse on Displacement” In Exotic No More. Edited by, Jeremy MacClancy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2) http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Making-of-the-Migration-Crisis-20150619-0019.html
3) http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2015/09/08/the-refugee-crisis-is-real-but-only-because-it-is-now-affecting-western-nations/
4) Lubkemann, Stephen. 2004. “Refugees: Worldwide Displacement and International Response” In Anthropology Explored, edited by Ruth Osterweis-Selig. Washington: Smithsonian Books.
Film: http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/europe-or-die-2015/ |
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WEEK 13: NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE: society, education and culture in the Age of new media.
Read: 1) Miller, Daniel. 2012. “Social Networking Sites” In Digital Anthropology, edited by Heather, Horst and Daniel Miller. Bloomsbury.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU (An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaAHv4UTI8 (From Knowledgeable to knowledge-able)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE (the Machine is us/ing us) |
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Final Conclusions and Discussion |