Course Schedule and Activities:

August 23                  Introduction and Course Mechanics

August 25                  Colonialism and Early Evolutionary Views

                                    Read: Naylor, Chaps. 1, 2, and 3

August 30                  Colonialism and Early Evolutionary Views Continue

Film:  The Last Tasmanian: Extinction

Sept. 1                       Historical Approach to Culture Change

                                    Read: Naylor , Ch. 4.

(Mini-project 1: Maps of Colonial Empires due September 6)            

Sept. 6-8                     Functionalist Approach to Culture Change

                                    Read: Naylor , Ch. 5

                                    Film: The Legacy of Colonization

Sept. 13, 15, 20          Ecological Approach to Culture Change

                                    Read: Naylor , Ch. 6

                                    Class Presentation on Mobile Pastoralists.

                                    (Mini-project 2: Origin and Diffusion of Ideas and Artifacts  due September 20).

Sept. 22, 27                Psychological Processes of Culture Change

                                    Read: Naylor , Ch. 7.

                                    Film: The Sweat of the Sun: The Frustrated Colossus

Sept. 29-Oct. 4           Social Protest and Religious Movements

                                    Read: Naylor , Ch. 8 & 9

October 6                   Social Protest and Religious Movements Continued

                                    Film: Ghost Dance

Oct. 11, 13, 18         The Development of Applied Anthropology

                                    Read: Ervin , Ch. 1, 2, and 3.

Oct. 20-25-27             Policy Analysis and Practice

                                    Read: Ervin , Ch. 4, 5, & 6

Nov. 1-2                    Policy Analysis and Practice

                                    Read: Ervin , Ch. 7 & 8

                                    Film: The legacy of Malthus

Nov. 8-10                   Policy Analysis and Practice

                                    Read: Ervin , Ch. 9 &10

                                    Class Presentation on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development .

                                    Film: Cashing in on Culture: Indigenous Communities and  Tourism.                     

                                    Playing the Planner’s Game: Tourism development in Berber land!

Nov. 15, 17               Methods for Applied Research in Anthropology                                

Read: Ervin , Ch. 11, 12, and 13

                                    Class Presentation on Social Change in a Brazilian Village .

Nov. 21-25                 Thanksgiving Break

Nov. 29                      Methods for Applied Research in Anthropology Continued

                                    Read: Ervin , Ch. 14, 15, 16, and 17           

                                    Presentation on Social Change in a Brazilian Village

                                    Start reading The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach.

Dec. 1, 6, 7                 The Fate of CULTURE in the E-world of information and communication Technologies (ICTs)

Case Study: The cultural and economic impacts of mobile phones on small-scale

businesses in urban Morocco .

  (Mini-project 3: High Tech Ethnography Exercise due December 6)

Class Presentation on The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach

Dec. 12-16                  Final Examinations Week