September 13: What Is Culture?
September 15: Ethnography and Kate Fox
September 20: Film, Becoming Human (available on Netflix)
September 22: Anatomically Modern Humans, Agriculture
September 27 and 29: World Food Systems
October 4: The Value of Trash
October 6: Intro to Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
October 11: Performativity
October 13: Performativity, Poststructuralism, and Gender
October 18: Material Culture and Performativity (see above lecture)
October 25: Film, "Race: The Power of an Illusion" (available on course e-reserves)
October 27: Sexuality, Reading Notes
November 1: Language and Race (Mock Spanish/Whiteness of Nerds)
November 3: Language and Sex/Gender ("Dude")
November 8: Ritual and Performance
November 10 and 15: Representing the "Other"
November 17: Righteous Dopefiend Overview
November 22-December 8: Discussion-based
**NOTE: If you email me your presentation powerpoints, I will post them as well as study aids for the final.
