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Quizzes 24points
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May 8th
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Final Exam - May 13th 100 points

World Sim Reflection - May 2nd 30 points Presence (attendance)The 100Spring points Participation2008 (gradedsemester byis peers) 100over. points TOTALThank POINTSyou REMAINING:all 354for points
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May 6 - Ethnography of Now

May 8 – Ethnography of the Future
Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Future
Quiz 11 Due by 9 am

May 13 – FINAL EXAM IS ONLINE– DUE BY 4 pm

























PAST SCHEDULE:

January 17 – Introduction

January 22 – 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

January 24 – Virtual Fieldwork Experience in Central New Guinea – Part One
Haviland Chapter 3
Reader: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner

January 29 – Watch Merchants of Cool online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/
Reader: Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo by Napoleon Chagnon
Reader: Eating Christmas in the Kalahari by Richard Lee

January 31 – Race and Structural Racism
Haviland Chapter 4 (pages 91-95)
Examine Website: Race: The Power of an Illusion

February 5 – Introducing the World Simulation
Assignment to Groups: Rituals of Social Solidarity
Read: The Crisis of Significance by Michael Wesch (Online)

February 7 – Language & Gesture
Haviland Chapter 5
Reader: Fighting For Our Lives by Deborah Tannen

February 12 – Language, Worldview, and Media Ecology (Environment Draft Due)
Reader: Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannon
Online: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

February 14 – Language, Gender, Personality, Self, and Identity
Haviland Chapter 6
Reader: “I Can’t Even Open My Mouth!” by Deborah Tannen

February 19 – EXAM ONE (35 min) – Name Rituals (40 min)

February 21 – A Brief History of the World and Subsistence Discussion
Haviland Chapter 7
Reader: Understanding Eskimo Science
Language and Gender Draft notes should be posted on the wiki by this time

February 26 – Exchange & Coca-Colonization and Subsistence & Exchange Discussion
Haviland Chapter 8
Reader: Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?
IMPORTANT: Special Group-Specific Assigned Readings of Ethnographies Online

February 28 – Sex and Marriage + Sex, Love, and Marriage Discussion
Subsistence & Exchange Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 9
Reader: When Brothers Share a Wife (87-89)

Quiz 4 deadline extended until Saturday March 1st (due to KSOL outage and wiki confusion)

March 4 – Love and Beauty + Sex, Love, and Marriage Discussion Part 2
Reader: Who Needs Love! In Japan, Many Couples Don’t (112-115)
Reader: Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty (137-138)

March 6 – Family & Household + Family & Household Discussion
Sex, Love & Marriage Draft Due March 7th
Haviland Chapter 10

March 11 – Kinship, Social Organization & Stratification + Discussion
Family & Household Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 11

March 13 – EXAM TWO (35 min) – Optional Group Meeting after Exam

March 17-21 – Spring Break

March 25 – Power (Hard, Soft, and Structural)
Kinship / Social Organization Draft Due
Haviland Pages 381-384

March 27 – Political Organization, Law & Order + Political Organization Discussion
Haviland Chapter 12
Reader: The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead by Del Guercio
QUIZ 6 DUE
April 1 – Culture and the Supernatural + Political Organization
Monsoon Wedding and/or Bend it Like Beckham Extra Credit Due
Haviland Chapter 13
Reader: Baseball Magic by George Gmelch

April 3 – New Religious Movements, The Matrix,+ Religion & Core Cultural Values Discussion
Online Reading: World Simulation Rules from Spring 2007
Political Organization Draft Due
Language and Gender Notes Due
QUIZ 7 DUE

April 8 – Art & Music + Art Discussion
Religion Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 14
QUIZ 8 DUE
April 10 – EXAM THREE - Cultural Integration Workshop
Art & Cultural Values Draft Due


April 15 – Very Important World Simulation Workshop: Creating the Rules Part One
Haviland Chapter 15
Final Drafts of Ethnography Sections are due
Integrator can make edits and changes until class on April 17th

April 17 – World Simulation: Creating the Rules Part Two
Haviland Chapter 16
Ethnographies due
QUIZ 9 DUE
Submit presentations by e-mail or mediafire.com by April 20th (Sunday)

April 22 – Introducing Our World – Culture Videos & Presentations
Reader: The Price of Progress
Re-read: Why Can’t People Feed Themselves
Posters due in Waters 206 by 4:30 pm (slide under door if I am not there)
SpaceShip Earth Statistics (Extra Credit) Due
April 24 – World Simulation in Union Ballroom
Special Quiz 10 over the World Simulation Rules due by 9 am


Videographers submit clips to Dr. Wesch by 5 pm Friday, April 25th
Historians post first drafts of main events to Wiki by 5 pm Friday, April 25th

May 1 - World Simulation Reflection Workshop
World Simulation Reflections Due May 2nd by midnight (If you were in class on May 1st, you probably turned it in after class)


May 6 - Ethnography of Now

May 8 – Ethnography of the Future
Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Future
Quiz 11 Due by 9 am

May 13 – FINAL EXAM IS ONLINE– DUE BY 4 pm

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