| I: The Scope of Cultural Anthropology | |
| 28 30 | Syllabus Perspectives, Chapter 1 |
| 4 6 | No class Perspectives, The Culture Concept |
| II: Fieldwork | |
| 11 13 | Perspective, Doing Fieldwork: Methods in Cultural Anthropology “Looking to the Past from Behind the Windshield of a Car: Car Riding as Ethnographic Research Tool in Belfast” |
| III: Race and Racism | |
| 18 20 | Perspective, Race (204-220) Mullings “Interrogating Racism: Towards an Antiracist Anthropology” |
| IV: Ethnicity and Nationalism | |
| 25 27 | No Class Perspective, Ethnicity (220-229) |
| V: Ethnicity and Nationalism, and Midterm | |
| 2 4 | “Introduction” in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Review for Midterm (No readings assigned) |
| VI: Gender and Sexuality | |
| 10 11 | Perspectives, Gender and Sexuality “The Egg and the Sperm” |
| VII: Families, Kinship, and Marriage | |
| 16 18 | Perspectives, Family and Marriage Goldstein, Melvyn. 1987. “When Brothers Share a Wife,” pp. 214-220. |
| VIII: Foodways | |
| 23 25 | “Foodways” (Welsch and Vivanco) “Feeding the Crisis” |
| IX: Globalization, Colonialism, and Development | |
| 30 1 | Perspective, Globalization “From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony.” |
| X: Economics | |
| 6 8 | Perspective, Economics “Anthropology Goes to Wall Street” |
| XI: Politics and Power | |
| 13 15 | Perspective, Political Anthropology “‘Landmine Boy’ and Stupid Deaths” |
| XII: Religion | |
| 20 22 | Perspective, Religion No Class |
| XIII: Environment and Sustainability | |
| 27 29 | Perspective, Environmental Anthropology in the Anthropocene “Environmental gentrification: sustainability and the just city” |
| XIV: Engaged and Public Anthropology | |
| 4 6 | Perspectives, Public Anthropology “Producing Knowledge for Public Use: New Challenges in the U.S. Academy” |
| Last Day of Classes | |
| 11 | Discussion of Final Assignment |
This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
