WEEK 1: WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY?
September 8: Introduction to the Course and Overview of the Four Subfields
WEEK 2: A CRASH COURSE IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
September 13: What is Culture?
Miner, Horace. 1956. “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” American Anthropologist, 58(3).
September 15: Methods in Cultural Anthropology: Ethnography
Fox, Kate. 2004. “Introduction” and “Road Rules.” In Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
WEEK 3: A QUICK AND DIRTY HISTORY OF THE HUMAN: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
September 20: Human Evolution
*Visit the following website:
http://www.livinganthropologically.com/anthropology/denisovans-neandertals-human-races/
Zimmer, Carl. 2003. “Great Mysteries of Human Evolution.” Discover. 5pp
September 22: The Beginnings of Agriculture: An Archaeological Perspective
*Visit the following blogs:
Pringle, Heather. 1998. “New Women of the Ice Age.” Discover.
WEEK 4: PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, WASTE, AND WANT
(Rosh Hashanah)
**In-Class Group Presentation #1**
Visit this link in Time magazine on "What the World Eats"
Patel, Raj. 2008. "Introduction" and "A Rural Autopsy" and "Glycine Rex." In Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power, and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
**MIDTERM PROJECT ASSIGNED**
Due: Monday October 10 no later than 5pm
Check out this article on anthropology and dumpster-diving:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3c78c6ac-1bca-11e1-8647-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1fZZg79bm
Rathje, W.L. "The Archaeology of Us”
Reno, Joshua. “Your Trash Is Someone’s Treasure: The Politics of Value at a Michigan Landfill.” Journal of Material Culture, 14(1): 29-46.
Suggested:
Millar, Kathleen. 2008. “Making Trash into Treasure: Struggles for Autonomy on a Brazilian Garbage Dump.” Anthropology of Work Review, 29(2): 25-34.
October 4: The Value of Trash, Part II: Ethnography
Douglas, Mary. "Secular Defilement." In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Pp. 36-50
Strasser, Susan. 1999. "Toward a History of Trashmaking." In Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. New York: Metropolitan Books. Pp. 3-16
Huysman, Marijk. 1994. "Waste Picking as a Survival Strategy for Women in Indian Cities." Environment and Urbanization,
October 6: Language and Culture
Duranti, Alessandro. 1997. “Linguistic Diversity.” 51-83
WEEK 6: LANGUAGE AND PRACTICE
October 10: MIDTERM PROJECTS DUE NO LATER THAN 5PM
October 11: Performance and Performativity: When Saying Something Does (or Doesn’t Do) Something
Austin, J.L. 1962. “Lecture 1.” How to Do Things with Words. 1-25
"You're born naked and the rest is drag." -RuPaul, American drag queen
**Watch film in class: "Paris Is Burning"
Sullivan, Nikki. 2003. "Performance, Performativity, Parody, and Politics." In A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. New York: New York University Press.Highly recommended:
Sullivan, Nikki. 2003. "Queer: A Question of Being or A Question of Doing?" In A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. New York: New York University Press.
WEEK 7:
**In-Class Group Presentation #2**
Miller, Daniel. 2010. “Why Clothing is Not Superficial.” In Stuff. Cambridge: Polity Press. 12-41.
**In-Class Group Presentation #3**
Bowen, John R. 2007. “Introduction,” “Scarves and Schools,” and “Sexism.” In Why theFrench Don’t Like Head Scarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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WEEK 8: RETHINKING BIOLOGY THROUGH CULTURE
October 25: Race
*Watch Film In Class: “Race: The Power of an Illusion" (available on course e-reserves)
Diamond, Jared. 1994. “Race Without Color.” Discover.
American Anthropological Association Statement on “Race.” 1998
October 27: Sexuality
** In-Class Group Presentation #4**
http://www.isna.org/files/xxxy.mov
Kulick, Don. 1997. "The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes." American Anthropologist, 99(3): 574-585.
Additional reading (optional):
Katz, Jonathan Ned. 1990. "The Invention of Heterosexuality." Socialist Review 20(1): 7-33.
WEEK 9: LANGUAGE AND POWER
November 1: Language Ideologies: Language and Race
Hill, Jane. 1998. “Language, Race, and White Public Space.” American Anthropologist, 100(3): 680-689.
Mary Bucholtz. 2001. “The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1): 84-100.
OPTIONAL:
Urciuoli, Bonnie. 1991. "The Political Topography of Spanish and English: The View from a New York Puerto Rican Neighborhood." American Ethnologist, 18(2): 295-310.
November 3: Language Ideologies: Language and Gender/Sexuality
** In-Class Group Presentation #5**
Kiesling, Scott. 2004. "Dude." American Speech, 79 (3): 281-305.
WEEK 10: SYMBOLIC BEHAVIOR
November 8: Ritual and Performance: Showing Ourselves to Ourselves
Election Day: VOTE!
Geertz, Clifford. 1973. "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." Interpretation of Culture. New York: Basic Books: 412–455. (43pp)
November 10: The Problems of Representing “Others,” Part I
Hall, Stuart. 1997. “The Spectacle of the ‘Other.’” In Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Ed. Hall. London: Sage Publications. 225-256.
November 15: The Problems of Representing “Others,” Part II
** In-Class Group Presentation #6**
Hall, Stuart. 1997. “The Spectacle of the ‘Other.’” In Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Ed. Hall. London: Sage Publications. 257-77.
November 17: Medical Anthropology: Biological Reflections of Social Systems
** In-Class Group Presentation #7**
Farmer, Paul. 1999. "Introduction." In Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
ETHNOGRAPHY AT HOME
November 22: Righteous Dope Fiend (Intro, 1)
November 24: Thanksgiving Day, No Class
November 29: Righteous Dope Fiend (2,3,4)
December 1: Righteous Dope Fiend (5,6)
December 2: FINAL EXAM ASSIGNED (Take-Home), DUE THURSDAY 12/15 no later than midnight
WEEK 14: ETHNOGRAPHY AT HOME, PART III
December 6: Righteous Dope Fiend (7, 8,9)
December 8: Righteous Dope Fiend (Conclusion), Exam Review
