|
|
This is a PREVIOUS SEMESTER'S website
Some items are obsolete or no longer available.
Click here for SSU's list of current class web pages
Click here for Bruce Owen's general web page, including old class pages
What's posted here?
Assigned readings: All the assigned readings will be posted here on a list showing what you should read for each class session.
Virtual Handouts: The syllabus, assignment information, study guides, and so on.
Links: Links to other web pages about subjects we cover. These are completely 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. All are highly recommended, and many are fun.
Email: Click the "email" button to ask me a question or make a comment, to submit a draft for me to review, or to turn in the computer version of an assignment. If you are not using your own computer, be sure to include your email address so I can reply.
Everything on this site has been scanned for viruses and is safe to the best of my knowledge.
Assigned readings
Read the assignments before the class session, so you can understand references to them in the lecture and participate in discussions. Scroll down if you don't see what you need. The readings and class notes are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format and should open in a new window. Move it aside or close it to see this one again. Most computers will open PDF files automatically to view, save, or print. If yours won't, download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin for your browser.
"Slides" are the pictures and text you see in class, as Powerpoint files. They do not include all the information in the notes. Recent browsers on Windows PCs open the files automatically with Powerpoint, or display them in a separate browser window that you navigate with PageUp, PageDown, RightArrow, LeftArrow, Home, End, and the scroll bar. Close the window to quit. Apple browsers may download the file. Double-click the file to open it with Powerpoint. Some files are large and may take many minutes to download. They may be impractical if you have a telephone modem. If your computer does not have Powerpoint, download the free Powerpoint viewer for Windows or for Macintosh.
Password: Due to copyright restrictions, many items require the class user ID and password, announced in class. These are different from your Peoplesoft ID and password. If you can't recall them, email me.
Be patient: Some items may take many seconds or even minutes to load, especially on a telephone modem connection. Please be patient.
Tuesday, Jan. 30: Introduction to the course
Thursday, Feb. 1: What is anthropology?
Tuesday, Feb. 6: The concept of culture: Deeper than you think
Thursday, Feb. 8: Race
Tuesday, Feb 13: How diverse are we, and how do we deal with it?
Thursday, Feb. 15: Anthropology and ethnography
Tuesday, Feb 20: Approaches to culture and society
Thursday, Feb 22: Materialism, Configurations, and Text
Tuesday, Feb 27: Yahoo! Catch-up day. No new reading, and no quiz. Come anyway.
Thursday, Mar 1: Language
Tuesday, Mar 6: Language Use
Thursday, Mar 8: Yahoo! Catch-up day to finish with language. No new reading, no quiz. Come anyway.
- Suggestion: Get ahead on the somewhat lengthy reading for the next class.
Tuesday, Mar 13: Making a Living
Thursday, Mar 15: Discussion, catch-up, and review for the midterm exam.
Tuesday, Mar 20: Midterm exam.
Thursday, Mar 22: Reciprocity, redistribution, and socially embedded economic relations
Tuesday, Mar 27: Economic systems and the "M" word
Thursday, Mar 29: Naturalizing inequality: gender, rank, caste, and social race
Tuesday, April 3: Constructing identity: self, group, and rites of passage
- Notes (20 Kb)Slides (361 Mb)
- Monaghan and Just 2000 - "Chapter 8, Ñañuu María Gets Hit by Lightning: People and Their Selves", in Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (13 pgs, a real paper book)
- Monaghan and Just 2000 - Extract from Chapter 3: "Society and the Individual", pages 71-74, in Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (4 pgs, a real paper book)
- Saitoti 1986 - The Initiation of a Maasai Warrior, in Annual Editions: Anthropology 2004/2005 (5 pgs, 390 Kb)
- Simmons 1998 - Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty, in Annual Editions: Anthropology 2004/2005 (2 pgs, 149 Kb)
Thursday, April 5: Catch-up day on Constructing identity: self, group, and rites of passage
- DUE in class: Bus rider ethnography assignment
- No additional readings
Tuesday, April 10: Spring Break - No class
Thursday, April 12: Spring Break - No class
Tuesday, April 17: Catch-up day - We really do look at Constructing identity
Thursday, April 19: Constructing identity: gender and gender roles
Tuesday, April 24: Family, kinship, and descent
Thursday, April 26: Ethnographic video
- Monaghan and Just 2000 - "Chapter 5, La Bose Becomes Bakar: Caste, Class, Tribe, Nation", in Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (18 pgs, a real paper book)
Tuesday, May 1: Forms of marriage, residence, and their logic
Thursday, May 3: Religion, witchcraft, and magic
Tuesday, May 8: Religion and ritual, creating and maintaining belief
Thursday, May 10: Globalization: The modern world system
Tuesday, May 15: Applied Anthropology and Development
Thursday, May 17: Catch-up, review, discussion, evaluations
Tuesday, May 22: 11:00-12:50 - Final exam
Virtual handouts
Scroll down if you don't see what you need. The virtual handouts are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format and should open in a new window. Move it aside or close it to see this one again. Most computers will open PDF files automatically to view, save, or print. If yours won't, download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin for your browser.
Links to sites related to this course
Interesting, often illustrated, from easy to challenging... check these out. Some may help you prepare for tests or gather background for your critical summaries. Others take you to more about anthropology and class issues. All but the first one are optional. If you have been here before, press your browser's "reload" button to see the latest additions.
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology by Bruce Owen
Copyright (c) 2007, Bruce Owen. All rights reserved.
Please send comments on content and presentation to
bruce.owen@sonoma.edu.
URL of this document: http://bruceowen.com/introcultural/203-07s-1.htm
Revised: 16 May 2007
|
|