Daily Learning Goals and Terms anth 103–Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Week #1: Monday, September 1



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1Daily Learning Goals and Terms

ANTH 103–Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Week #1:

Monday, September 1

A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What are student expected to do in this class and how will they be assessed?

  • What are the four sub-fields of anthropology and how do they differ from one another?

B. Terms to know

four-fields approach

cultural anthropology

archaeology

physical or biological anthropology

linguistic anthropology

Wednesday, September 3

A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What ideas about non-Western peoples tended to dominate the popular imagination in the late 1800s, just before anthropology was born as a discipline?




  • What is social evolutionism and how is it related to (and different from) Darwin’s ideas of evolution?

B. Terms to know

Scientific racism

Charles Darwin

evolution

social evolutionism/evolutionism/unilineal evolution

Friday, September 5

Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What is Franz Boas’s critique of race?

Is this critique of race still valid today?

  • How do Boas’s ideas about culture differ from the ideas of the social evolutionists?

  • What enduring concepts has he contributed to cultural anthropology?

B. Terms to know

Franz Boas

biological determinism vs. cultural constructionism

historical particularism

cultural relativism

holistic

1Week #2



Monday, September 8

1Learning Objectives for the Day



  • What does the following article tell us about an important goal of anthropology?

➤”Body Ritual Among the Nacirema,” by Horace Miner

  • 1What is culture, and what are some of its key features?

Terms to know

culture

1Wednesday, September 10



  1. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What is the difference between ethnography and ethnology, and how are they related?

  • What is anthropological fieldwork and what methods does it involve?

  • What is so paradoxical about the method of participant-observation?

  • What do the following readings tell us about the personal challenges of conducting fieldwork?

➤ “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari,” by Richard Lee

➤ “Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief,” by Richard Kurin

“The Midday Sun and other Hazards,” by Douglas Raybeck

Wisdom from a Rainforest, by Stuart Schlegel

  1. Terms to know

Bronislaw Malinowski

ethnography

ethnology

participant-observation

kinship charts

census

1Friday, September 12



A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What was fieldwork like in rural Senegal?!

B. Terms to know

Senegal

Wolof peoples

1Week #3:



Monday, September 15

A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What are some advantages and disadvantages of long-term participant-observation as a method for collecting data about society and culture?

B. Terms to know

emic/etic perspective

ideal versus real culture

1Wednesday, September 17



  1. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • Why might cultural relativism pose ethical dilemmas for the anthropologist?

  • How might cultural relativism be a took in the pursuit of universal human rights rather than an obstacle to it?

1➤Focus on female genital operations through the excerpt from Aman: Story of a Somali Girl

B. Terms to know

1cultural relativism



ethnocentrism

universal human rights

female genital operations

Friday, September 19

A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What are some advantages and disadvantages of long-term participant-observation as a method for collecting data about society and culture? (Cont’d)

  • What are some general characteristics of forager/hunter-gatherer societies?

➔How does the film “N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman” illustrate typical hunter-gatherer traits as well as the predicament of hunter-gatherers in the present day?

  1. Terms to know

Cultural ecology

subsistence strategies

hunter-gatherers/foragers

Week #4

1Monday. September 22



  1. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What are some general characteristics of forager/hunter-gatherer societies? (cont’d)

B. Terms to know

reciprocity

“gatherer-hunters”

egalitarian individualism

original affluent society

1Wednesday, September 24



  1. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What are some general characteristics of pastoralist societies?

➔ How does the film “People of the Wind” exemplify the pastoralist lifestyle?

What lesson does “Beating the Odds in Arid Africa” teach us about pastoralism?



B. Terms to know

pastoralism

transhumance vs. nomadism

Friday September 25

  1. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What are some general characteristics of agriculturalist societies? (Cont’d)

What lesson does the article “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” teach us about agriculture?

  • What are some features of the horticultural production strategy

➔What lessons does “Guarani Production” teach us about horticulturalism?

  1. Terms to know

horticulture

swidden agriculture

slash-and-burn

fallow

intercropping

extensive cultivation

1inputs



intensive cultivation

mono-crop

agricultural-industrial complex
Week #5

1Monday, September 29



  1. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What basic questions does the book Wisdom from a Rainforest raise?

➔ The WfR classroom competition!

*the questions asked here are “nuts and bolts” questions–important issues that are easily answered by the book.

  1. Terms to know

Shaman

Cosmology

Animism

Polytheism

Sacred versus profane

Mediation versus law
Wednesday, October 1

A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What do the people and places described in Wisdom from a Rainforest look like?

➔ slides by Stuart Schlegel

  • What are people’s general impressions of the book Wisdom from a Rainforest?

  1. Terms to know

none

1Friday, October 3



A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What deeper questions does the book Wisdom from a Rainforest raise?

  • 1What reasons do anthropologists give for the near-universal sexual division of labor?

B. Terms to know

sexual division of labor

Strength hypothesis

Fertility maintenance hypothesis

Child care compatibility hypothesis

1Week #6



Monday, October 6

A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What reasons do anthropologists give for the universal sexual division of labor?

  • Do anthropologists agree on whether there is universal oppression of women?

    • What are the views of the cultural constructionists like Margaret Mead?

B. Terms to know

Universal sexual division of labor

Strength hypothesis

Fertility maintenance hypothesis

Child care compatibility hypothesis

Margaret Mead

cultural constructionist view of gender

Wednesday, October 8

A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • Do anthropologists agree on whether there is universal oppression of women? (continued)

    • What are the views of the cultural constructionists like Margaret Mead?

    • What are the views of those who proclaim the universal oppression of women?

  • 1Is marriage the most basic tie that society is built around?

B. Terms to know

Sex versus gender

Marriage

1matrifocal unit or hearthhold

1Friday, October 10

A. Learning Objectives for the Day


  • What is the anthropological definition of marriage and why is it so different from the old-fashioned definition of marriage?

  • What is the cultural logic of arranged marriages?

  • What is the cultural logic of polygyny?

B. Terms to know

polygamy

polygyny

polyandry
Week #7

1Wednesday, October 15



A. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What is the cultural logic of polygyny? (cont’d)

B. Terms to know

Levirate

Patrilocal/virilocal

Matrilocal/uxorilocal

neolocal

1Friday, October 17



  1. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What is the cultural logic of polygyny? (cont’d)

  • What questions does the case of the Mosuo people raise for anthropologists?

  • What is the cultural logic of polygyny? (cont’d)

  • What is the cultural logic of walking marriage?

B. Terms to know

Walking marriage/friend marriage

Bridewealth
Week #8

1Monday, October 20



  1. Learning Objectives for the Day

  • What is the cultural logic of polyandry?

  • What is the cultural logic of woman-woman marriage?

B. Terms to know

Polyandry

Woman marriage
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