INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY


Desmond Bristol of Carriacou, Grenada

8:ANTH 100 01 TTh 10-11:15
Room: HIRC 3 Fall 1999

Dr. Donald R. Hill

Office: Fitz 403a Office hours: by apt.
tel. 2018

hilldr@oneonta.edu

http://www.oneonta.edu/~hilldr/

TEXT: Peoples and Bailey, Humanity, 5th ed.
http://www.wadsworth.com/humanity/

ASSIGNMENTS:

Exam I (Th 30Sep): 30% of course grade
Exam 2 (Tu 9Nov): 30% of course grade

Final (Th 16Dec 8-10:30): 40% of grade
note: all students must take the exams on the times and dates stipulated.

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE
Part I:

Introduction
Culture
Culture and Language
Development of Anthropological Thought
Methods of Investigation
Adaptation: Environment and Cultures

Part II:

Exchange in Economic Systems
Marriage, Family, and Residence
Kinship
Gender in Comparative Perspective
The Organization of Political Life
Social Inequality and Stratification

Part III:

Relations with the Supernatural
Art and the Aesthetic
Personality, Culture, and the Life Cycle
The Changing Human World
Ethnicity in the Modern World
Applied Anthropology and World Problems
The Survival of Indigenous Peoples

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6



Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12



Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19