Painting by Mr. Canute Caliste, Carriacou, Grenada, 1999

WORLD CULTURES 9:ANTH 105 81 Tu 5:30-8 Room: HIRC 2 Fall 1999 Dr. Donald R. Hill Office: Fitz 403a Office hours: TTh 8-9 AM Tu/W 8:30-9 PM. tel. 2018 hilldr@oneonta.edu http://www.oneonta.edu/~hilldr

BOOKS:

1. Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, U of Calif. Press, 1991.
2. Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli, Noonday Press, 1998 (1947).
3. Colin M. Turnbull, The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo, Simon & Schuster, 1961.

DATES OF EXAMS: Exam I: 28 Sept (30% of grade); Exam II: 11 Nov (30%); Final: 16 Dec (40%)

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE:

Introduction:

1. Concepts in Anthropology
2. The variety of human cultures (matrix)

   Ethnographic Unites:

3. Foragers: The M’Buti and the Netsilik, read all of The Forest People
4. Exam I. Kin Based Societies: Ongka’s Big Moka
5. Early States: the Inca
6. Pastoralism: The Kirgis

   Issues in Society and Culture:

7. Migration and Labor: El Norte (proctor)
8. Exam II. Women in North Africa: Some Women from Marrakech (proctor)
9. Colonialism in Martinique: Sugar Cane Alley
10. Poverty in Italy and Greece: read all of Levi; Zorba the Greek
11. Urban Festivals: Black Orpheus or One Hand Don’t Clap
12. Racism in Commercial Film: I Walked with the Zombies
13. Religion in the Modern World (Vodou); read all of Mama Lola
14. Final Exam: 21 Dec.; 5:30-8 PM note: the final exam will be given only at this date & time.