Business and Social Science

Foothill College Business and Social Science

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

COURSE CONTENT

Week 1 9/20-9/23 Course Overview & Introduction to Culture Mirror For Humanity Chapter 1

Week 2 9/29-10/2 Ethnographic Methods Mirror For Humanity Chapter 2 Ties That Bind Chapter 1 Minorities and Drugs Chapter 2 Urban Ethnography Culture and Conflict (1) Ethnography and Culture ~ Spradley (3) Shakespeare in the Bush ~ Bohannan (4) Fieldwork on Prostitution ~ Sterk

Week 3 10/6-10/9 Ethnicity Mirror For Humanity Chapter 3 Ties That Bind Chapter 3 Gerald by His Own Bootstraps Chapter 4 Akosua’s Ties That Bind Culture and Conflict (26) Mixed Blood ~ Fish (27) Blood on the Steppes ~ Weatherford Monday – Project Proposal Due

Week 4 10/13-10/16 Language and Communication Mirror For Humanity Chapter 4 Culture and Conflict (6) Homo grammaticus ~ Nowak (7) Body Art as Visual Language ~ Schildkrout (8) The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis ~ Thomson (9) The Military Name Game ~ Boxer Monday - Geography Quiz #1 – Latin America

Week 5 10/20-10/23 Ecology and Subsistence Mirror For Humanity Chapter 5 Culture and Conflict (11) The Hunters ~ Lee (12) Adaptive Failure: Easter’s End ~ Diamond (13) Cultivating the Tropical Forest ~ Reed (15) Reciprocity and the Power of Giving ~ Cronk Monday - Geography Quiz #2 Asia and Middle East Thursday - TAKE-HOME QUIZ #1

Week 6 10/27-10/30 Family & Gender Mirror For Humanity Chapter 6 & 8 Ties That Bind Chapter 6 – Denise’s Family Fault Lines Chapter 5 – Dread: The Baccra Maasa Chapter 7 – Liz: The Cultural Broker Chapter 8 – Where Do We Go From Here? Culture and Conflict (20) Mother’s Love ~ Shepard-Hughes (22) Matrilineal Kinship ~ Yuan and Mitchell (23) Uterine Families ~ Wolf (24) Symbolizing Roles~ Fernea and Fernea (25) Society and Sex Roles ~ Friedl Monday - Geography Quiz #3 – Africa

Week 7 11/3-11/6 Religion, Magic, and Worldview Mirror For Humanity Chapter 9 Culture and Conflict (32) Taraka’s Ghost ~ Freed and Freed (33) Baseball Magic ~ Gmelch (34) Witchcraft Tswana Style ~ Burke (35) Cargo Beliefs ~ Leavitt Thursday - MID-TERM EXAM

Week 8 11/10-11/13 Law and Politics Mirror For Humanity Chapter 7 Culture and Conflict (29) Law and Order ~ Spradley and McCurdy (30) Cross-Cultural Law ~ Sutherland (31) Life without Chiefs ~ Harris Thursday – Fieldnotes Due

Week 9 11/17-11/20 The Modern World System & Development Mirror For Humanity Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Culture and Conflict (21) Family and Kinship ~ McCurdy (16) Cocaine ~ Weatherford (17) Workaday World – Crack ~ Bourgois (18) Illegal Logging ~ Williamson TAKE-HOME QUIZ #2 Thursday - Rough Draft of Research Project Due

Week 10 11/24-11/27 Cultural Survival Mirror For Humanity Chapter 12 Culture and Conflict (36) The Kayapo Resistence ~ Turner (28) New Americans ~ Shandy (14) Domestication and the Evolution ~ Diamond TAKE-HOME QUIZ #3

Week 11 12/1-12/4 Applied Anthropology Mirror For Humanity Chapter 13 Culture and Conflict (37) Medical Anthropology ~ Patten (38) Using Anthropology ~ McCurdy (39) Career Advice ~ Omohumdro Thursday - Ethnographic Research Project Due

Week 12 12/8 Final Exam Preparation Tuesday – FINAL EXAM