| Introduction to Cultural Diversity and the World System
(ANTH 1005W) Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota Spring 2005 David Valentine Class location: Anderson Hall 270 Class dates:10:10 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. , M,W,F (01/18/2005 - 05/06/2005) Office: 364 HHH Center Phone: 612.626.8692 Office Hours: Wednesday 3-5pm Email: [email protected] TA: Xenia Cherkaev Email: [email protected] Office Hours: MWF 11:05-12:05 What do love and globalization have in common? The brief answer is that both are products of the ways human beings make meaning about and take action in the world. The longer answer is available to students who enroll in this class, an exploration of similarities and differences in these processes across cultures. We will take a broad approach to culture and meaning making, examining a range of topics including love and globalization, but also other issues central to anthropology: kinship, political and social organization, religion, language, gender/sexuality, and social change. There are three primary goals of this class: (a) to give students an introduction to the discipline of anthropology and its basic methods and theories; (b) to give students the tools to understand how, across the globe, human beings employ different frames of meaning to make sense of common human experiences; and (c) to think about how globalization is complicating and changing the terms in which people can make sense of their worlds. This class fulfils the Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives CLA requirements, and is also a writing intensive class. Course Requirements Your grade will be assessed according to a formula which takes into account not only your written work, but also your participation in classroom and section discussion, and your preparedness. As such, it is expected that you will have completed the reading assignments listed prior to attending class so that you can fully participate in discussions. The grade formula is: Paper 40 % Midterm Exam 20 % Final Exam 20 % Section Projects: 10 % Participation 10% Finally, attendance at all classes is essential. If you have a medical or other emergency that prevents you from attending class, you should inform me prior to the class, or as soon after as is possible. Absences that are not accounted for by a doctor's note or other documentation will be reflected in your grade. Plagiarism and Grading Plagiarism will not be tolerated, will result in a failing grade, and will be reported to the Student Conduct Committee. The university policy on plagiarism is available at: http://writing.umn.edu/tww/plagiarism/definitions_sara.htm The university grading policies can be found at: http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/policies/gradingpolicy.html Required Texts Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms 2004 Cultural Anthropology. 8th Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. (NW in syllabus) William A. Haviland, Robert J. Gordon, and Luis A. Vivanco 2002 Talking about People: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill. (HGV in syllabus) Cathy Small 1997 Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press Lila Abu-Lughod 1986 Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society. Berkeley: University of California Press. Honors section: Becker, Anne E. 1995 Body, Self and Society: the view from Fiji. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Course Outline 1. Week of 1/17/05 � Introduction to Anthropology and the Idea of Culture Wednesday: Introduction to the course (no reading) Friday: NW chapters 1 and 4 McIntosh and Maybury-Lewis (article 5 in HGV) 2. Week of 1/24/05 � What do Cultural Anthropologists do? Monday: NW chapter 3 Garland (article 33 in HGV) Wednesday: Benedict (article 2 in HGV) Cornish (article 37 in HGV) Welsch (article 4 in HGV) McRae (article 45 in HGV) Friday: Veiled Sentiments (chapter 1) 3. Week of 1/31/05 � Being a Person and Expressing the Self Monday: NW chapter 6 Wednesday: Veiled Sentiments (chapter 2) Friday: Morgan (article 7 in HGV) Ojeda (article 12 in HGV) Martin (article 14 in HGV) Gottlieb (article 13 in HGV) 4. Week of 2/7/05 � Social Control and Social Power Monday: NW chapter 12 and 13 Wednesday: Veiled Sentiments (chapter 3) Friday: Shearing and Stenning (article 34 in HGV) Van Den Berghe (article 35 in HGV) Whitehead and Ferguson (article 36 in HGV) Williams (article 27 in HGV) 5. Week of 2/14/05 � Gender and Sexuality Monday: NW chapter 11 Wednesday: Veiled Sentiments (chapter 4) Friday: Coggeshall (article 23 in HGV) Buijs (article 24 in HGV) di Leonardo (article 25 in HGV) 6. Week of 2/21/05 � Language and Culture Monday: NW chapter 5 Wednesday: Veiled Sentiments (chapters 5 and 6) Friday: O'Barr and Conley (article 8 in HGV) Mufwene (article 9 in HGV) Sheidlower (article 10 in HGV) Stavenhagen (article 11 in HGV) 7. Week of 2/28/05 � Marriage and Kinship Monday: NW chapters 9 and 10 Yuan and Mitchell (article 28 in HGV) Egan (article 29 in HGV) Nanda (article 22 in HGV) Houston (article 26 in HGV) Wednesday: Veiled Sentiments (chapter 7) Friday: Film: Dadi's Family 8. Week of 3/7/05 � Emotion Monday: Veiled Sentiments (chapter 8) Wednesday: Mid Term Course Review Friday: Mid Term Exam Week of 3/14/05 � SPRING BREAK (No classes) 9. Week of 3/21/05 � Ritual, Religion, Magic, And Science **Paper Draft Due** Monday: NW chapter 15 Wednesday: Film: Friday: Niehaus (article 38 in HGV) Rodgers (article 39 in HGV) Nordstrom (article 40 in HGV) Reichel-Dolmatoff (article 16 in HGV) 10. Week of 3/28/05 � Work and Labor Monday: NW chapter 7 and 8 Wednesday: Voyages (pp. 3-49) Friday: McNamara (article 19 in HGV) Sennett (article 21 in HGV) Bourgois (article 20 in HGV) 11. Week of 4/4/05 � Group Identity in a Global Context Monday: NW Chapter 14 Wednesday: Voyages (chapter pp.51-100) Friday: Zarembo (article 30 in HGV) Williams (article 31 in HGV) de Waal (article 32 in HGV) 12. Week of 4/11/05 � Social and Cultural Change I **Paper Due** Monday: NW chapter 17 Wednesday: Voyages (pp. 121-146) Friday: Voyages (pp.147-158) 13. Week of 4/18/05 � Social and Cultural Change II Monday: Voyages (pp.159-205) Wednesday: Film: Trobriand Cricket Friday: Brain (article 41 in HGV) Ferguson (article 42 in HGV) Apffel-Marglin (article 43 in HGV) de Waal (article 44 in HGV) 14. Week of 4/25/05 � The Uses of Anthropology in a Globalizing World Monday: Voyages (pp. 101-120) Wednesday: Voyages (pp.206-216) Friday: Bodley (article 1 in HGV) McIntosh (article 46 in HGV) Ginsburg (article 47 in HGV) Cleaver (article 48 in HGV) 15. Week of 5/2/05 � Course Review Monday: Discussion Groups Wednesday: Group Reports Friday: Course Review Final Exam: Saturday, May 14 (10:30 am � 12:30 pm) |