Cultural Anthropology: the Human Challenge

WEEK 1 Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge Chapter 1 The Essence of Anthropology Annual Editions - Unit 1: Anthropological Perspectives Weekly Reading List  The September 11 Effect on Anthropology  Eating Christmas in the Kalahari Anthropology 2A

WEEK 2 Winter 2015 Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge Chapter 2 Characteristics of Culture Annual Editions - Unit 1: Anthropological Perspectives (cont.)  Tricking and Tripping  The Yuck Factor

WEEK 3 Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge Chapter 3 Ethnographic Research Chapter 4 Becoming Human Annual Editions - Unit 2: Culture and Communication  War of Words  How Language Shapes Thought  Shakespeare in the Bush  Vanishing Languages WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT  My Two Minds  Pick 1 Annual Editions article from each WEEK 4 week to write on. Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge Chapter 5 Language and Communication  Your chosen article is due the following Chapter 6 Social Identity, Personality, and Gender week Annual Editions - Unit 3: The Organization of Society and Culture  9 readings due for the course in total.  The Evolution of Inequality  Breastfeeding and Culture  3 paragraphs required. MUST BE TYPED!  The Inuit Paradox o 1 paragraph summarizing the  Cell Phones, Sharing, and Social Status in an African Society main arguments of the reading  Spoiled Rotten: Why do Kids rule the roost? o 1 paragraph critically evaluating WEEK 5 the reading (what did you think of Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge the author’s argument? What are Chapter 7 Patterns of Subsistence the reading’s strong and weak Chapter 8 Economic Systems points? Annual Editions - Unit 4: Other Families, Other Ways  The Invention of Marriage o 1 paragraph explaining how the  When Brothers Share a Wife reading connects to either  Death without Weeping another reading/topic, academic  Arranging a Marriage in India subject, pop culture or your own  Who Needs Love! In Japan, Many Couples Don’t life experience. ------WEEK 6 - MIDTERM------WEEK 7 Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge Chapters 9 Sex, Marriage and Family Chapter 10 Kinship and Descent Annual Editions - Unit 5: Gender and Status  The Bedarche Tradition  The Hijras  Where Fat is a Mark of Beauty  Kidnapping Women  Rising Number of Dowry Deaths in India  The Untold Story of Amputees  Sex and Society

WEEK 8 Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge Chapter 11 Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interest, and Social Class Chapter 12 Politics, Power, and Violence Annual Editions- Unit 6: Religion, Belief, and Ritual  The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual  Understanding Islam  Religious Terror and the Secular State  The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead  The Great New England Vampire Panic  Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

WEEK 9 Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge Chapter 13 Spirituality, Religion, and the Supernatural Chapter 14 The Arts Annual Editions - Unit 7: Sociocultural Change  Ruined  Why Can’t People Feed Themselves  The Arrow of Disease  The Americanization of Mental Illness  The Price of Progress WEEK 10 Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge Chapter 15 Processes of Change Chapter 16 Global Challenges, Local Responses, and the Role of Anthropology Annual Editions - Unit 7: Sociocultural Change (cont.)  The Lost Tribes of the Amazon  We Belong to the Land  Spirits of the Forest  Being Indigenous in the 21st Century  Population Seven Billion