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Announcements: * We need to totally redesign the World Simulation. It will not be in the ballroom this year. About this class: Cultural Anthropology explores different cultures in all of their manifestations - from how people make a living to what people live for. In an increasingly interconnected world, cultural differences lie at the root of many of our most pressing challenges, throughout the world and in our own personal lives. There has never been a time when Cultural Anthropology has been more important than it is right now. | Recent Activity |
| Fall 2008 Class Schedule August 25 – Introductions August 27 – a brief history of Anthropology and why they don’t eat cows in India Haviland, Chapters 1 & 2 Online Reading: Holy Cow Remains Subject of Legal Fight September 1 – No class. (Labor Day) September 3 – Virtual Fieldwork Experience in Central New Guinea Haviland Chapter 3 Reader: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner September 8 – Race and Structural Racism Haviland Chapter 4 (pages 91-95) Examine Website: Race: The Power of an Illusion September 10 – Language (& Body Language) Haviland Chapter 5 Reader: Fighting For Our Lives by Deborah Tannen September 15 – Language, Worldview, and Media Ecology Reader: Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannon Online: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman September 17 – Language, Gender, Personality, Self, and Identity Haviland Chapter 6 Reader: “I Can’t Even Open My Mouth!” by Deborah Tannen Koobecaf Assignment due by Saturday at Midnight (submit by e-mail to TA or bring to class) September 22 – EXAM ONE September 24 – Introducing the World Simulation Haviland Chapter 7 Discussion Section Name Quiz - 20 points. September 29 – A History of the World ... Haviland Chapter 8 Reader: Too Many Bananas ... by David Counts SPECIAL READING FOR YOUR GROUP (ASK TA FOR DETAILS) October 1 – Exchange and Coca-Colanization Reader: Why Can’t People Feed Themselves by Lappe & Collins October 6 – No class. October 8 – Sex, Love and Marriage Haviland Chapter 9 Reader: When Brothers Share a Wife (87-89) Reader: Who Needs Love! In Japan, Many Couples Don’t (112-115) Discussion: Sex, Love and Marriage ... Brainstorm Basic Simulation Rules October 13 – PreRecorded (video shown in class) Family, Social Organization, and Stratification Haviland Chapters 10 and 11 October 15 – A Portal To Media Literacy (Online Lecture About the World Simulation shown online AND in Umberger 105 at normal class time.) Read "The Crisis of Significance." by Michael Wesch Exam Two Review Sheet Discussion: Family, Social Organization and Stratification ... Brainstorm Simulation Rules WHAT IS LOVE? Extra credit due before section this week (submit by e-mail to TA or bring to class) October 20 – EXAM TWO (100 points) October 22 – Power (Hard, Soft, and Structural) Haviland Pages 381-384 Discussion: Family, Social Organization and Stratification ... Brainstorm Simulation Rules of Engagement October 27 – Political Organization, Law & Order Haviland Chapter 12 Reader: The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead by Del Guercio October 29 – Culture and the Supernatural Haviland Chapter 13 Reader: Baseball Magic by George Gmelch Discussion: Political Organization & Religion + Brainstorm Simulation Rules November 3 – New Religious Movements November 5 – Art & Music Haviland Chapter 14 Discussion: Religion, Art, and Cultural Values + Brainstorm Final Simulation Rules November 7th (Friday) EXAM THREE DUE ON-LINE BY 11:59 pm (open book) (100 points) November 9th (Sunday) Simulation Rules Proposals Due by 11:59 pm (100 points) November 10 – Culture Change and the World System Haviland Chapter 15 Reader: Why Can’t People Feed Themselves (Read Again – really, it’s that important.) TAs & Wesch will begin preparing props and other necessities for the World Sim November 12 –Introduction to Structural Power and the World Simulation (final rules will be revealed) Haviland Chapter 16 Posters Due. Bring them to Waters 206 or leave in Waters 204. FINAL ETHNOGRAPHY SECTIONS DUE BY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th at 11:59 pm! (100 points) (Final integration of ethnographies due by Sunday, November 16th at 11:59 pm) Discussion: Go over World Simulation Rules November 17 – WORLD SIMULATION PART ONE Review pages 381-393 SimUpdate Quiz Due by Tuesday at Midnight November 19 – WORLD SIMULATION PART TWO Reader: The Price of Progress by John Bodley Discussion: World Simulation Outcomes & Correspondences to Real World History Historians send first draft of history reports Wednesday night to Wesch so he can start piecing it all together for the final video November 24 - Discuss World Simulation - Structural Power and Structural Violence Videographers must submit short video histories in class or before class (see instructions) World Simulation Reflection (30 points) due by midnight November 25th! (on K-State Online like a Quiz) November 26 – THANKSGIVING BREAK December 1 – No class ... sorry! :-( I'll be in Rome, Italy. Online Readings may also be assigned as appropriate, depending on results of simulation. December 3 – Arrive at 8:25 am: Watch "An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube" by Wesch (shown online AND in Umberger 105 at normal class time.) I will be in Berlin, Germany discussing results of World Simulation. December 8 - Video and Discussion of World Simulation / Finding Solutions to Global Problems December 10 – An Ethnography of the Future Online: Read Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Future Final Exam Friday, December 19th at 11:50 am in Umberger 105 | ||
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