Schedule

Week Date Topic Reading/Assignment

1 Thu. 29 Aug Introduction
2 Tue. 3 Sep Food as cultural invention
Culture and Ethnography. In Spradley and
McCurdy eds., Conformity and Conflict:
  Thu. 5 Sep Food and culture
Readings in Cultural Anthropology. 2012.
Pp. 2-5.
3 Tue. 10 Sep Holiday, no class
Pp. 1-8 from Small Places, Large Issues by
  Thu. 12 Sep Anthropology and key approaches
Eriksen
Anthropology and key approaches Fish, J. 2012. Mixed Blood. In Spradley and
McCurdy eds., Conformity and Conflict:
4 Tue. 17 Sep Introducing race
Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Pp.
After class or at home: Movie – Green Book 217-225.
Race as a social construct (discussion of
  Thu. 19 Sep Test 1
movie)
Race as a social construct
‘Small Places, Large Issues’ by Eriksen, P.
5 Tue. 24 Sep Ethnographic fieldwork and Ethical
24-29
considerations
Observation exercise (in-class)
  Thu. 26 Sep Ethnographic fieldwork and Ethical
considerations
Ethnographic fieldwork (Cont’d) and more
Miller, B. Anthropology and the Study of
6 Tue. 1 Oct on anthropology
Culture. Cultural Anthropology. Pp.9 -12.
History of Anthropology
Major theoretical debates in Anthropology
  Thu. 3 Oct
Movie: Babies
Human as social person: Socialization and
7 Tue. 8 Oct social norms
Introducing Language
Deutscher, G. 2012. Whorf Revisited: You
Are What You Speak. In Spradley and
  Thu. 10 Oct Language McCurdy eds., Conformity and Conflict:
Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Pp. 49-
56.
Language - Movie: The Grammar of
8 Tue. 15 Oct
Happiness
Mid-term exam Covering material from introduction till
  Thu. 17 Oct
‘Language’
9 Tue. 22 Oct
  Thu. 24 Oct No classes
10 Tue. 29 Oct
Transitional session (discussion, feedback
  Thu. 31 Oct
on essays)
11 Tue. 5 Nov Lecture on Personhood and Gender
  Thu. 7 Nov Classic Kinship studies Goldstein, M. 2012. Polyandry: When
 Brothers Take a Wife. In Spradley and
McCurdy eds., Conformity and Conflict:
Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Pp.
172-178.
12 Tue. 12 Nov No class
Thu. 14 Nov No class
13 Tue. 19 Nov Kinship studies
Scheper-Hughes, N. 2012. Mother’s Love:
Death without Weeping. In Spradley and
Modern Kinship Studies (Cont’d)
  Thu. 21 Nov McCurdy eds., Conformity and Conflict:
Reciprocal Exchange and Gift Giving
Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Pp.
155-163.
Lee, R. 2012. Eating Christmas in the
Kalahari. In Spradley and McCurdy eds.,
14 Tue. 26 Nov Reciprocal Exchange and Gift Giving
Conformity and Conflict: Readings in
Cultural Anthropology. Pp. 13-19.
Harris, M. 2012. Life without Chiefs. In
Economic Distribution and Social Spradley and McCurdy eds., Conformity
  Thu. 28 Nov
Hierarchies and Conflict: Readings in Cultural
Anthropology. Pp. 238-245.
Essay/Creative Project Due (by
15 Tue. 3 Dec Rituals and Rites of Passage
midnight)
E.E. Evans Pritchard (1976). Witchcraft,
oracles and magic among the Azande.
Thu. 5 Dec
Magic and Religion Oxford: Clarendon Press. [ONLY
highlighted parts]
16* Tue. 10 Dec Revision session
Covering material from ‘Personhood and
Gender’ till ‘Magic and Religion’ + from
Thu. 12 Dec Final exam
the first topics ‘Culture’ and
‘Anthropology’
* Monday, December 9: Last day for withdrawal from courses for the Fall 2019-20