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Comparative Studies of World Cultures

Anthropology 306

Spring 2000

 

Course Topics, Readings, and Films:

 Week 1: January 11- 13:
Doing Anthropology and Key Anthropological Concepts
Read:  Bodley (1999:1-24)
Film: First Contact
Start reading Hobbs’ Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness

Week 2: January 18-20:
The World Before the State: Australian Aborigines
Read:  Bodley (1999:25-53)
BE prepared to discuss all of Hobbs’ Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness

Week 3: January 25-27
Native Amazonians: Villagers of the Rain Forest
Read: Bodley (1999:54-87)
Film: The Natural History of Our World: The Time of Man

Week 4: February 1-3:
African Cattle Peoples: Tribal Pastoralists
Read:  Bodley (1999:88-119)
Film:  Bakhtiari Migration

February 1: Quiz #1 on readings, lectures, and video viewing from January 10 through 27.

Week 5: February 8-10:
The Quality of Tribal Life: Body, Mind, and Soul
Read: Bodley (1999:120-149)
Film: An Ecology of Mind

Week 6: February 15-17:
The End of Equality: Pacific Islanders and the Ranked Chiefdoms
Read: Bodley (1999: 150-180)
Film: Margaret Mead: Taking Notes

Week 7: February 22-24:
Early States: The Near East and the Andes
Read: Bodley (1999:181-215)
Start Reading Huang’s The Spiral Road

Week 8: February 29- March 2:
The Chinese Great Tradition
Read: Bodley (1999:216-248)
BE prepared to discuss all of Huang’s The Spiral Road
Start reading Kapchan’s Gender on the Market in Morocco

February 2^nd: Quiz #2 on readings, lectures, and film viewing from February 1 through February 24.

Week 9: March 7-9:
Great Traditions: Hinduism and Islam in South Asia
Read: Bodley (1999:249-278)
BE prepared to discuss all of Kapchan’s analysis of gender in Morocco

Spring Break: March 13-17

Week 10: March 21-23
The Breakdown of States
Read:  Bodley (1999:279-297)
Start reading Sheridan’s Where The Dove Calls

Week 11: March 28-30:
Europe and the Commercial World
Read:  Bodley (1999:298-329)
Keep reading Sheridan’s Where The Dove Calls

Week 12: April 4-6:
The American Capitalist State
Read: Bodley (1999:330-361)
BE prepared to discuss all of  Sheridan’s Where The Dove Calls
Start reading Lansing’s Priests and Programmers

April 4^th: Quiz #3 on readings, lectures, and film viewing from February 29 through March 30.

Week 13: April 11-13
The Impoverished World
Read: Bodley (1999:361-393)
BE prepared to discuss all of Lansing’s Priests and Programmers

Week 14: April 18-20:
Indigenous People
Read: Bodley (1999:394-425)
Film: Anthropology On Trial

Week 15: April 25-27:
Beyond 2000: The Future in the Global Greenhouse
Read: Bodley (1999:426-444)

Semester Paper due on April 25^th

April 27^th: Quiz #4 on readings, lectures, and film viewing from April 4 through April 27.

Wrap-up and Course Evaluation

Week 16: May 1-5

Finals Week.