Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Ph.D.

WK

Date

Topic

Reading Assignment

1

8/30

Introduction

9/1

What is Anthropology

9/3

Setting the Scene

IC:  pp 1-8

2

9/6

HOLIDAY – NO CLASS

9/8

Culture

IC:  pp. 9-18

9/10

Fieldwork

IC:  pp. 19-31

3

9/13

Spatial Orientations

IC:  pp. 35-44

9/15

Spaces

IC:  pp. 44 – 63

9/17

Metaphors of Space

IC:  pp. 63 – 73

4

9/20

Clothing Matters

IC:  pp. 324- 336

9/22

The Politics of Fashion

IC:  pp. 336 – 357

9/24

Do project p. 366 #2

IC:  pp. 360-366;

CP:  Margolis & Arnold

5

9/27

Clothes Video

9/29

Time

IC:  pp. 80 – 94

10/1

Social Class and Time

IC:  pp. 95 – 109

6

10/4

Modes of Production

10/6

Video:  Nomads of the Rainforest

10/8

The End of Time

IC:  pp. 109 - 133

7

10/11

Language:  An introduction in thinking about language

10/13

We are what we speak

IC:  pp. 137 - 147

10/15

Sapir and Whorf & Metaphor

IC:  pp. 147 – 153;

8

10/18

Sapir and Whorf Continued

10/20

Sociolinguistics

IC:  pp. 153 - 165

10/22

Language and Gender

In Class Exercise

CP:  Martin

9

10/25

Video:  American Tongues

10/27

The Final Word

IC:  pp. 169-174

10/29

Review

10

11/1

Mid Term

11/3

Family Matters

IC:  pp. 178-190

11/5

Video:  Marriage without Husbands

CP:  Baca Zinn

11

11/8

Discussion

CP:  Coontz;

CP:  Collins

11/10

Kin and Family Continued

IC:  pp. 201-227

11/12

Bodies

IC:  pp. 231-249;

IC:  pp. 265 - 269

12

11/15

Bodies, Nations, and Body Parts

IC:  pp. 249-262

11/17

Man kind of Bodies

CP:  Fausto-Sterling

11/19

American Anthropological Association Annual Conference

No Class

13

11/22

Food

IC:  pp. 273 –284;

IC:  pp. 311 - 319

11/24

Making Julia Childs Proud!

IC:  pp. 284 – 294;

CP:  Thompson

11/26

HOLIDAY – NO CLASS

14

11/29

Mystery Meat

IC:  pp. 294 - 307

12/1

VIPs

IC:  pp. 371 - 380

12/3

Evaluations

IC:  pp. 380-387

15

12/6

Love, Love me Do!

ESSAY DUE IN CLASS

IC:  pp. 387 -398

12/8

Pilgrimage, Myth, & Religion

IC:  pp. 398 – 406

12/10

Man and Culture

IC:  pp. 410 - 422

12/13

FINAL EXAM IN CLASS:  10:15 – 12:15