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Schedule of readings, notes, slides, tests, and due dates: Shows what you should read before the class on each date. Most readings are in the textbook. Others are links to online material. The schedule also shows dates of tests, assignment due dates, and so on. Lecture notes for each class are usually posted in advance, while the Powerpoint slides are usually posted after it. Some people print the the lecture notes and bring them to class to take notes on. The notes and Powerpoint slides are useful for studying and preparing assignments, but they are no substitute for reading the assigned material and attending class.
The schedule will be adjusted during the semester, so check it frequently for current readings and deadlines.Handouts: The syllabus, assignment details, study guides, and so on.
Links: Links to other web pages about subjects we cover. These are optional, but may help you study or pursue questions raised by the course. Many have good photos or maps that add a visual element to the readings.
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So why come to class?
First, we will discuss the material; conversing and debating will clarify the ideas and help you remember. Second, hearing me explain the notes and slides will be far clearer than trying to figure them out without help. Third, numerous studies show that you understand and remember things better if you get the information in various different ways, like reading, hearing, seeing, and in dialog about it. Third, you can ask questions or try out interpretations, and listen as others do the same in ways you might not have thought of. Finally, I fill in details, explain arguments, and highlight the important points, which should make it easier to see the big picture rather than getting lost in the details.
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Schedule of readings, notes, slides, tests, and due dates
This schedule will be filled out, added to, and adjusted during the semester, so don't rely on a printed copy. Read the assignments before the class session. Scroll down for more. Most items are PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files and should open in a new window to view, save, or print. Move it aside or close it to see this one again. If the PDF files do not open, install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or a less standard but faster alternative, the free PDF-XChange Viewer.
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- Thursday, Aug. 25: Introduction to the course
- No notes postedSlides
- No reading
- No notes posted
- Tuesday, Aug. 30: Culture
- Notes 3Slides shown Aug. 30 and Sept. 1
- Kluckhohn 1949 - "Queer Customs" in Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology (7 pgs)
- Middleton 2003 - "Introduction" in The Challenge of Human Diversity (7 pgs)
- Middleton 2003 - "Culture Shock" in The Challenge of Human Diversity (17 pgs)
- What we actually covered in this class: Kluckhohn and related ideas about culture
- Notes 3
- Thursday, Sept. 1: Approaches to explaining culture, change, and interaction
- Notes 2 (Cannibal tours)Slides (Cannibal Tours)
- Notes 4 (Approaches)Slides shown on Sept. 6
- Slides: Group changes and photo instructions
- Middleton 2003 - Extracts from Ch. 3, "Our Lived Difference" inThe Challenge of Human Diversity (15 pgs)
- Chavez Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgments: pp. vii-xiii (7 pgs)
- Thought questions about Cannibal Tours (1 pg)
- Here is the video, in six chunks on YouTube: Cannibal tours, Dennis O'Rourke, 1989 (60 minutes). Click the link to watch on any computer with reasonably fast internet access. This version appears to end appropriately, but it actually lacks the last 6 1/2 minutes.
- Optional: Dennis O'Rourke's comments about making Cannibal Tours. Clues and insights into the film, from the guy who made it. (23 small pages of large type)
- What we actually covered in this class: Middleton on culture shock and related ideas, background on Cannibal Tours
- Notes 2 (Cannibal tours)
- Tuesday, Sept. 6: Approaches to explaining culture, change, and interaction; and Cannibal Tours, an extreme case
- Notes and slides are the same as for Sept. 1
- No additional readings.
- Review Middleton extracts from Chapter 3; Cannibal Tours thought questions, and watch Cannibal Tours on YouTube. Links to all of these are posted for Thursday, Sept. 1. Be ready to discuss in class.
- What we actually covered in this class: Middleton's three approaches to explaning aspects of culture, a little discussion of Cannibal Tours
- Thursday, Sept. 8: Processes of globalization: Capitalism; and Chavez on anthropology, reflexivity, and historical particulars
- Notes 5Slides
- Robbins 2011 - Extracts from Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (40 pgs). Readable, but complex. Allow time to read and digest this. This is a large file because it contains pictures and maps, so it may take a while to open. Be ready to discuss in class.
- Review Chavez Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgments: pp. vii-xiii (7 pgs) Be ready to discuss.
- What we actually covered in this class: Most of my explanation about capitalism and the society of perpetual growth.
- Notes 5
- Tuesday, Sept. 13: Processes of globalization: Diasporas and the post-WWII world
- Notes 6Slides shown Sept. 13 and 15
- Cohen 1997 - Extracts from Global Diasporas, An Introduction (21 pgs)
- Kelleher and Klein 2011 - Extracts from "Introduction to the Modern World", in Global Perspectives, 4th edition (7 pgs)
- Case teams: 1st and 2nd choices of case to present are due today by email or on paper in class. Each team (including my other section) must present a different case. The first team to request a case gets it.
- What we actually covered in this class: The rest of Robbins on the construction of capitalism, and a little about diasporas.
- Notes 6
- Thursday, Sept. 15: Chavez on historical context, rites of passage, and imagined communities; Steckley on producing truth about the other
- Notes 7Slides shown Sept. 20, 22, Oct. 11, 13
- Chavez Introduction: pp. 1-14 (14 pgs)
- Chavez Chapter 1, The Setting: pp. 15-24 (10 pgs)
- Steckley Chapter 1, Imagining the Inuit: pp. 7-30 (24 pgs)
- What we actually covered in this class: Diasporas.
- Notes 7
- Tuesday, Sept. 20: Cultural relativism, cultural determinism, and academic colonialism
- Notes 8Slides
- Steckley Chapter 2, Four major white figures: pp. 31-50 (20 pgs)
- What we actually covered in this class: Chavez Foreword, Preface, Introduction.
- Notes 8
- Thursday, Sept. 22: Culturally constructed legitimacy and the push-pull model
- Notes 9Slides shown Oct. 20 and 25
- Chavez Chapter 2, Separation: pp. 25-43 (19 pgs)
- What we actually covered in this class: Chavez Chapter 1: Language, construction of "the immigrant", legitimacy, cultural hegemony
- Notes 9
- Tuesday, Sept. 27: Liminality
- Notes 10Slides shown Oct. 20
- Chavez Chapter 3, Crossing borders: pp. 45-65 (21 pgs)
- Case presentations and discussion: Historical context
- What we actually covered in this class: The first three presentations (see the Anth 203.1 Moodle page)
- Notes 10
- Thursday, Sept. 29: Linguistic relativity
- Notes 11Slides shown Oct. 25
- Steckley Chapter 3, Fifty-two words for snow: pp. 51-76 (26 pgs)
- Case presentations and discussion: Historical context
- What we actually covered in this class: The next three presentations (see the Anth 203.1 Moodle page)
- Notes 11
- Tuesday, Oct. 4: Barriers to integration; "people without history"
- Notes 12Slides shown Oct. 25 and 27
- Chavez Chapter 4, Life on the Farm: pp. 67-85 (19 pgs)
- Wolf 1982/1997 - Part of the Introduction to Europe and the People Without History (4 pgs). Wolf's literate, academic language and references mean you have to work at this reading. It is all to make one point. What is it?
- Case presentations and discussion: Historical context
- What we actually covered in this class: The next three presentations (see the Anth 203.1 Moodle page)
- Notes 12
- Thursday, Oct. 6: Differences of perception
- Notes 13Slides shown Oct. 27
- Chavez Chapter 5, Suburban shantytown and refuge: pp. 87-103 (17 pgs)
- Case presentations and discussion: Historical context
- What we actually covered in this class: The last three presentations (see the Anth 203.1 Moodle page)
- Notes 13
- Tuesday, Oct. 11: Appealing myths
- Notes 14Slides shown Nov. 1
- Steckley Chapter 4, The myth of the blond Eskimo: pp. 77-102 (26 pgs)
- What we actually covered in this class: Consolidating Case Team presentations 2 &3; Review of cultural hegemony; othering; "useful knowledge"
- Notes 14
- Thursday, Oct. 13: The power to frame discourse
- Notes 15Slides shown Nov. 3
- Chavez Chapter 6, Green Valley's final days: pp. 105-120 (16 pgs)
- What we actually covered in this class: Finished "useful knowledge"; covered Steckley Ch. 2, historical particularism, ethnographic present, cultural relativism and cultural determinism, etc.
- Notes 15
- Tuesday, Oct. 18: Midterm exam
- No additional reading
- Thursday, Oct. 20: Catch-up session. Scheduled theme: Errors in constructing knowledge of the Other, and anthropological authority
- Notes 16Slides shown Nov. 8
- Steckley Chapter 5, Elders on ice: pp. 103-130 (28 pgs)
- Review for discussion: Chavez Chapters 2, 3, 4; Steckley Chapter 3; Wolf Introduction
- What we actually covered in this class: Case team presentations; Ideas associated with Chavez Ch. 2 and 3, construction of the idea of migration, motivations for migration, liminality and vulnerability, but not the push-pull model due to my oversight.
- Notes 16
- Tuesday, Oct. 25: Catch-up session. Scheduled theme: Networks
- Notes 17Slides shown Nov. 10
- Chavez Chapter 7, Families, domestic groups, and networks: pp. 121-140 (20 pgs)
- Review for discussion: Chavez Chapters 4 and 5; Steckley Chapter 3; Wolf Introduction
- What we actually covered in this class: The push-pull model; linguistic relativity as "useful knowledge"; incorporation and barriers to it, some of Wolf.
- Notes 17
- Thursday, Oct. 27: Catch-up session. Scheduled theme: Immigant ethics
- Notes 18Slides for notes 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 shown Nov. 10
- Chavez Chapter 8, Work: pp. 141-157 (17 pgs)
- Review for discussion: Chavez Chapters 5 and 6; Steckley Chapter 4; Wolf Introduction
- What we actually covered in this class: Finished with Wolf; geographic or migration patterns of contact; truth vs. "knowledge"; why meanings about others are widespread; more on how "othering" works; the underlying problem.
- Notes 18
- Tuesday, Nov. 1: Getting personal
- Notes 19See slides for Oct. 27, shown Nov. 10
- Chavez Chapter 9, Learning to live as an "illegal alien": pp. 159-173 (15 pgs)
- Review for discussion: Steckley Chapters 4 and 5; Chavez Chapter 6
- What we actually covered in this class: More on "useful" knowledge: the Blond Eskimo, Von Daniken, "Clovis first" (Notes 14, Steckley Ch. 4); started on framing discourse (Notes 15, Chavez Ch. 6).
- Notes 19
- Thursday, Nov. 3: Assimilation and illusory membership
- Notes 20See slides for Oct. 27, shown Nov. 10
- Chavez Chapter 10, Incorporation: pp. 175-188 (14 pgs)
- Review for discussion: Chavez Chapter 6 and 7, Steckley Chapter 5
- What we actually covered in this class: Framing discourse (Notes 15, Chavez Ch. 6)
- Notes 20
- Tuesday, Nov. 8: "Who is American?"
- Notes 21See slides for Oct. 27, shown Nov. 10
- Chavez Epilogue: pp. 189-200 (12 pgs)
- Review for discussion: Steckley Chapter 5, Chavez Chapter 7 and 8
- What we actually covered in this class: Essentializing; Common mistakes in constructing knowledge of the Other; Anthropological authority (end of Notes 15; Notes 16; Steckley Ch. 5)
- Notes 21
- Thursday, Nov. 10: The Other and cultural appropriation
- Notes 22 not yet postedSee slides for Oct. 27, shown Nov. 10
- Steckley Chapter 6, The lies do not stand alone: pp. 131-145 (15 pgs)
- What we actually covered (briefly!) in this class: Networks, immigrant ethics, personal impacts, assimilation and illusory membership, production and reproduction, cultural appropriation, boundary maintenence, alienation and commodification (Notes 15-22)
- Notes 22 not yet posted
- Tuesday, Nov. 15: Culture, medical and scientific beliefs, and truth
- Notes 23Slides
- Fadiman Preface, Note on Hmong orthography, pronunciation, and quotations, and Chapters 1-4: pp. vii-ix, 291-292, 3-37 (40 pgs)
- Case presentations: Team 7 (Turks in Germany); Team 1 (Pakistanis in England)
- What we actually covered in this class: Both presentations, started background and images of Hmong (Notes 23)
- Notes 23
- Thursday, Nov. 17: Real impacts
- Notes 24Slides
- Fadiman Chapters 5-8: pp. 38-105 (68 pgs)
- Case presentations: Team 10 (Romani in Europe); Team 9 (Bedouins in the Middle East)
- What we actually covered in this class: Both presentations.
- Notes 24
- Tuesday, Nov. 22: More othering the different
- Notes 25Slides posted, not yet shown
- Fadiman Chapters 9-12: pp. 106-170 (65 pgs)
- Case presentations: Team 4 (Jews in Spain); Team 12 (Chinese in Japan)
- What we actually covered in this class: Both presentations; a few words about The Spirit Catches You.
- Notes 25
- Thursday, Nov. 24: No class - Thanksgiving Break
- Consider how fortunate you are to have your family and friends...
- Tuesday, Nov. 29: Melting pot, salad bowl, or fish soup?
- Notes 26No additional slides
- Fadiman Chapters 13-15: pp. 171-224 (54 pgs)
- Madrigal 2011: When Dreams Kill (4 pgs)
- Case presentations: Team 11 (African-Americans in LA)
- What we actually covered in this class: The presentation; some initial discussion of The Spirit Catches You, starting from the slides for Notes 23
- Notes 26
- Thursday, Dec. 1: The differently ethical
- Notes 27Slide with list of concepts
- Fadiman Chapters 16-19: pp. 225-288 (64 pgs)
- Case presentations: Team 8 (Pomos in Northern California); Team 6 (Mayas in Mexico)
- What we actually covered in this class: Both presentations; a quick look at the slide posted for this class, listing concepts to try applying to cases. Note that while this slide has many of the concepts used in this course, it is NOT quite a comprehensive list.
- Notes 27
- Tuesday, Dec. 6: Catchup and presentations
- No aditional notes or slides
- No additional readings
- Review Fadiman and the concepts listed on the slide for Dec. 1
- Case presentations: Team 5 (Kayapos in Brazil); Team 2 (San Francisco Chinatown)
- What we actually covered in this class: Both presentations; some ideas about the Hmong in Fadiman, cultural constructs, "consensual reality".
- Thursday, Dec. 8: Synthesis, discussion, review
- No additional notes or slides
- No additional readings
- Review Fadiman and the concepts listed on the slide for Dec. 1
- Case presentation: Team 3 (Muslims and Hindus in Kashmir)
Final exam week:
- Thursday, Dec. 15: Final Exam
- 2:00-3:50, in our regular classroom, Stevenson 2065
Handouts
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- Syllabus: Anthropology 340.1, Living in our Globalized World, Fall 2011
- Map: Location of North Light Books & Cafe relative to SSU
- What plagiarism is and how to avoid it
- World map (Grayscale, printable PDF): The same map on which you will mark places in the midterm and final exams. A useful study tool. Directly printable PDF format.
- World map (Color, JPG): The same map in color, relatively high resolution, JPG format. Please use this in your case team Powerpoint presentations, so everyone can compare and study the cases using the same base map that will be on the exams. Feel free to also use other maps for greater detail or to illustrate points about your case.
- World map (Grayscale, JPG): The same map in grayscale JPG format, to insert into Word documents or other case team materials that are meant to be printed. Using this version is optional; it is provided just in case you want to include a map in your printed materials.
- Simplified SAA style guide: How to handle citations and bibliographies in a form used by several leading archaeology journals, and similar to some major cultural anthropology journals. Please use this style for case team presentation handouts.
- Case teams: Pick a case: Instructions for picking a case, and a list of the cases picked by each case team.
- Case teams: Presentation 1: Introduction, setting, historical context: Instructions for the first presentation.
- Case teams: Schedule for Presentation 1: Introduction, setting, historical context: See which day your team is presenting.
- Tools for Thinking: List of concepts from the class to try applying to past and future presentations. The list is as of late September; more concepts will be added as we get back to discussing the readings and related ideas.
- Presentation evaluation prompts: The slide used in class to prompt your evaluations of the presentations and handouts, including the list of teams and presentation topics for September 29.
- Practical advice for presentations: Two slides shown in class.
- Study guide for the midterm exam.
- Case teams: Presentation 2: Current situation and future prospects: DRAFT Instructions and presentation schedule, as requested in class. Please review and comment in class or by email.
- Study guide for the final exam.
Links to sites related to this course
Interesting, often illustrated, from easy to challenging... check these out. Many of these make excellent study aids for preparing for tests. All are optional. If you have been here before, press your browser's "reload" button to see the latest additions.
...News, discoveries, and controversies
- Anthropology in the News. Links to the latest discoveries, interpretations, and controversies in cultural anthro, linguistics, biological anthro, and archaeology. Updated frequently.
...Ethics in anthropology
- American Anthropological Association Code of Ethics.
- Anthro Ethics Cases 1-12 and Anthro Ethics Cases 13-25. Challenging real-life dilemmas from the AAA Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology.
...Useful stuff for assignments
- SAA Style Guide: The full instructions on citation and bibliography formats for authors submitting articles to American Antiquity, Latin American Antiquity, and other journals. Useful for cases not covered in the simplified version under Handouts.
...University policies
- Important Policies and Procedures for Students: SSU policy details on adding and dropping classes, cheating and plagiarism, diversity, and so on.
...Annoyed by lack of classes, fee increases, etc.?
- Contact your Governor or legislators: Names, phone numbers, emails, and addresses. Let'em know how you feel.
Living in our Globalized World by Bruce OwenAnthropology 340.1, Sonoma State University, Fall 2011Copyright (c) 2011, Bruce Owen. All rights reserved.Please send comments on content and presentation to
bruce.owen@sonoma.eduURL of this document: http://bruceowen.com/global/a340-11f-1.htmRevised: 7 December 2011