Anthropology 101: World Cultures
Dr. MaryCarol Hopkins
Fall 1999
Note: Reading assignments are heavier for some topics than others, so you may want to read a bit
ahead, especially when the assignment is a whole book. The following is intended as a general
guide; we may spend more or less time on each culture, or even add or eliminate topics or readings.
Unless there is no class on Monday, assignments are due on Mondays.
WEEK TOPIC AND READING ASSIGNMENT
1. Aug. 25 Introduction to Anthropology
Read the syllabus carefully!
Podolefsky & Brown, "Introduction"
Podolefsky & Brown, #1: Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"
I. Hunter-Gatherers
2. Aug. 30 Eskimos
Hopkins: Ernest S. Burch, "North Alaskan Eskimos: A Changing Way of Life"
Podolefsky & Brown, #22: Ernestine Friedl, "Society and Sex Roles"
film: Eskimo: Fight for Life (on the Netsilik Eskimo)
3. Sept. 8 Hunting and Cultural Evolution
no classes Monday, Sept. 6: Labor Day
P&B, #11: Eaton & Konner, "Ancient Genes and Modern Health"
P&B, #12: Whitaker, "Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health"
P&B, #16: Diamond, "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race"
4. Sept. 13 Bushmen of the Kalahari
Marjorie Shostak, Nisa, through Chapter 5
film: The Hunters (on the !Kung San)
Tuesday, Sept. 14, is the last day to withdraw without a grade
5. Sept. 20 Bushmen of the Kalahari, continued
Marjorie Shostak, Nisa, finish
P&B #19: Lee, "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari"
(possible film: Nai ?)
6. Sept. 27 Review of hunter-gatherers; first test
7. Oct. 4 Intensive Foragers in a Rich Environment
Hopkins: Donald Mitchell, "Nimpkish: Complex Foragers on the Northwest Coast of North America"
P&B, #41: Bodley, "The Price of Progress"
film: Crooked Beak of Heaven (on Northwest Coast Indian arts)
II. Horticulturalists
8. Oct. 11 Yanomamo
Hopkins: Hames, "Yanomamo: Varying Adaptations for Foraging Horticulturalists"
P&B, #26: Hern, "Family Planning, Amazon Style"
film: The Yanomamo: a Multidisciplinary Study
9. Oct. 18 Cherokee
Hopkins: Anderson, "Cherokee: European Impact on the Cherokee Culture"
P&B #41: John Bodley, "The Price of Progress"
Culture Areas of North America
Tuesday, Oct. 19, is the last day to receive a W and remove incompletes
10. Oct. 25 Cultures of East Africa
Hopkins: Regina Smith Oboler, "Nandi: Cattle-Keepers to Cash-Crop Farmers"
film: The Nuer
Culture Areas of Africa
11. Nov. 1 Cultures of West Africa
Hopkins: Mary Moran, "Glebo: Civilizing the Anthropologist"
P&B, #30: James Gibbs, "The Kpelle Moot"
film: Cows of Dolo Ken Paye (on the Kpelle, also by James Gibbs)
Hopkins: Sandra Barnes, "Yoruba: Political Representation in Old States and New Nations"
P&B, #28: Kilbride, "African Polygyny: Family Values and Contemporary Changes"
film: A Great Tree Has Fallen (on the Ashanti of Ghana)
Possibly no class on Nov. 5: Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky Annual
Meeting; students, especially majors, are welcome to attend (in Pikeville).
12. Nov. 8 Review and second test
13. Nov. 15 Cultures of the Pacific
Martha Ward, Nest in the Wind, to p. 67
No class Nov. 19American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in
Chicago; majors are encouraged to attend.
14. Nov. 22 Cultures of the Pacific, continued
Martha Ward, Nest in the Wind, finish
no classes Nov. 24-26: Thanksgiving holiday
III. Industrial Society
15. Nov. 29 Japan
Hopkins: Margaret Lock, "Japan: Glimpses of Everyday Life"
P&B #25: Millie Creighton, "'Edutaining' Children: Consumer and Gender Sociali-zation in Japanese Marketing"
P&B #40: Noreen Janus, "Advertising and Global Culture"
film: Preschool in Three Cultures
16. Dec. 6 The United States
P&B #9: Maltz & Borker, "A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscom-munication"
P&B #41: John Bodley, "The Price of Progress"
Final Week of Class--review for final
EXAM WEEK: There are no classes during Exam Week. Your final exam will be:
Section 1 (12:00 class) Exam is Fri., Dec. 17, 10:10-12:10
Section 2 (1:00 class) Exam is Weds., Dec. 15, 1:00-3:00