ANT 220 - Cultural
Anthropology
Course Outline
Jan 13
Course Goals/Requirements/Syllabus/Books/etc.
Introduction to Anthropology
Handouts:
Map for Quiz on 1/22
Class Policies/Syllabus/Outline
Jan 15
Intro to Culture
Exercises: Nacirema discussion
Cultural slide identification
Jan 20 – No Class, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan 22 – Quiz 1: World Map
Other Anthropologies (no lecture, just quiz and movie)
Physical Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Archaeology
Movie: Wanted: Butch and Sundance (with Clyde Snow)
Jan 27
Rudiments of Language
Acquisition and Evolution
Historical and Descriptive Linguistics
Language and Culture
Jan 29
Physical and Cultural Evolution
From Australopithecines to Hominids
Handouts: Hominid taxonomy
Feb 3
What is culture?
Diversity
Movie: The Nature of Culture, 30min
Feb 5
Biology versus Culture
Instinct and Personality
Variation
Feb 10
Early Theories
Historical Theories
Modernist Theories
Postmodernist Theories
Website: Summaries of cultural theories on-line
Feb 12
Fieldwork
Creating Ethnographies
Cross-Cultural Research
Movie: The Yanomamo (Napoleon Chagnon's fieldwork) - 40 mins
In-class Review for Test
Feb 17 – Test 1 - Rescheduled for February 24
10 Multiple choice questions
10 True/False questions
3 Short essay questions (1/2 to 3/4 blue book page)
Feb 19
Technology, Economics, Politics, Religion
Homework: Interview
Feb 24 – Test 1 (makeup)
Test Makeup
Feb 26 - Homework 1 Due
Environment, Technology, Politics, Religion, Law, Art, Music
Mar 3
Tribes II/Chiefdoms I
Mar 5
Ethnographic
Examples (Bands or Tribes)
Movie: Polyandrous marriage
Handout: Jared Diamond, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" HW 5 - Create a kinship diagram
Mar 10 -
Homework 2 due
Chiefdoms
II (see slides under Chiefdoms I above)
In class: How to make kinship diagrams
Mar 12 – Inclement
Weather Make-up Day
Mar 17 - Homework 5 due (snow make-up)
Handout: Vocab List
Mar 19
Mar 24
Ethnographic Examples
Mar 26 - Vocab Quiz, Homework 3 Due
Review for Test 2 -
In-class exercise (create topics for your test - see slides)
Mar 31 - Test 2
10 Multiple choice questions
10 True/False questions
3 Short essay questions (1/2 to 3/4 blue book page)
Apr 2
Movie: Nomads of the Rainforest (55 min - clips)
- on reserve in DTCC library
Apr 7
Globalization III - South/Latin America (Guest Lecture)
Movie: Contact - Yanomamö (28 mins)
Apr 9
Globalization II - Middle
East
Movie: Masters in the Colonies (30 min)
Apr 14
Ethnographic Examples
Movie: First Contact -
Leahy Brothers in New Guinea (55 mins)
Homework 4: Movie questions
Apr 16 - Homework 4 questions due
Nisa Discussion
Please have finished the book by this date. We will discuss it in class to help you
prepare for your
paper assignment, due 4/28.
Movie: The Hunters, 72min (clips)
Apr 21
Spring Holiday – No Class
Apr 23
World “Races”
Forensic Science
Problems with Definitions
Handout: AAA Race Statement
Apr 28 – Paper
Due
Apr 30
Medical Anthropology
Forensics
Cultural Resource Management
May 5
Anthropology in Movies
Movie: The Gods Must Be Crazy (109 minutes)
May 7 – Quiz
3 (participation)
Course Review
May 12 – Final
Exam (cumulative)
20 Multiple choice questions
20 True/False questions
3 Short essay questions (1/2 to 3/4 blue book page)
1 Long (1-page) essay