Latour and Woolgar - Laboratory Life

Morgan -  Ancient Society, pp. 3-60
Sahlins and Service - Evolution and Society, pp. 12-44

Recommended Reading: Stocking - "The Dark-Skinned Savage:  The Image of Primitive Man in Evolutionary Anthropology" in Race, Culture and Evolution; Burrow - Evolution and Society

 

 

Durkheim - Rules of the Sociological Method, pp. 1-46

Mauss - Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo, pp. 19-62

October 7-11Boasian Anthropology

Boas - "Alternating Sounds," "The Ethnological Significance of Esoteric Doctrines," "The Documentary Function of the Text," "The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians," "The Study of Geography"

            Benedict -  "The Science of Custom"

October 14-18 Structural-Functionalist Argument

paper 2 due

Malinowski - "Myth in Primitive Psychology" in Magic, Science and Religion, pp. 93-148.

Radcliffe-Brown - Structure and Function in Primitive Society "The Sociological Theory of Totemism," "Taboo," pp. 117-152

October 21-25Models and Metaphors

            Ohnuki-Tierney - "The Monkey as Self in Japanese Culture"

Ortner - "Patterns of History:  Cultural Schemas in the Foundings of Sherpa Religious Institutions."

            Feld - "The boy who became a muni bird," Chapter 1 in Sound and Sentiment

October 28-Nov 1Biological Argument - The Ol' Polygenous-Monogenous Debate

paper 3 due

Wolpoff and Thorne - "The Multiregional Evolution of Humans" Scientific American

Stringer - "Replacement, continuity and the origin of Homo sapiens"

Stocking, "The Persistence of Polygenist Thought in Post-Darwinian Anthropology"

November 4-8Archaeological Argument - Bering Strait Prehistory

Rainey - Eskimo Prehistory:  The Okvik Site on the Punuk Islands

Ackerman - "Prehistory of the Asian Eskimo Zone"

Fitzhugh and Arutiunov - "Prehistory of Siberia and the Bering Sea"

November 11-15 Ethnographic Writing

Geertz - " Thick Description:  Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture"

            Clifford - "Introduction:  Partial Truths"

            Additional recommended reading:

            Malinowski - "Introduction" in Argonauts of the Western Pacific

            Evans-Pritchard - "Fieldwork and the Empirical Tradition," Ch. 4 in Social Anthropology

November 18-22 Indigenous Issues and Anthropological Argument

Keskitalo - "Research as an Inter-Ethnic Relation"

Mather and Morrow - "There are no more words to the story". Slavica 13(1):200-242.

Moore ' "The changing nature of anthropological knowledge"

November 25-29Culture as a System

paper 4 due

            Schneider  "Notes toward a Theory of Culture"

December 2-6Gender and Culture

Goodale - "Gender, sexuality and marriage:  a Kaulong model of nature and culture"

            Collier and Rosaldo - "Politics and gender in simple societies"         

Shapiro - "Transsexualism:  Reflection on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex"

            Rethmann - "skins of desire:  poetry and identity in Koriak women's gift exchange"

December 9-13 Language and Culture

paper 5 due

Whorf - "Science and Linguistics"

Friedrich - "Poetic Language and the Imagination:  A Reformulation of the Sapir Hypothesis"

Rosaldo, Knowledge and Passion, Chapter 3 "Knowledge, identity, and order in an egalitarian world"

            Additional Recommended Reading:

Sapir - "The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society"

Requirements:

Required reading, participation in online discussion board and "quizzes" (10% of grade)

Postings (online presentations) - related to the readings, the postings can take the form of written answers to questions raised by the readings, graphic representations of points made in the readings or summaries of closely related research that describe the relationship (20%)

5 short papers (3-5 pages) with assigned questions and topics - (14% of grade each, total 70%).