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Daily Learning Goals
Terms
1/18
Anthropology
►What is anthropology, and what sub-disciplines comprise it?
►How do the holistic and comparative approaches of the discipline
reinforce one another and strengthen the pursuit of knowledge
about humanity and culture?
►Who is Bronislaw Malinowski, and why is he the anthropologist most
associated with fieldwork methods?
►What is anthropological fieldwork like, and what specific research
methods do anthropologists use to study culture?
Anthropology
Biological anthropology
Cultural anthropology
Linguistic anthropology
Archaeology
Applied anthropology
Holistic
Comparative
Ethnography
ethnology
Fieldwork
Bronislaw Malinowski
Participant-observation
Emic perspective
1/20
►What do today’s readings tell us about the challenges of conducting
fieldwork?
Informants/collaborators
●"Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief," by Richard Kurin
●"The Midday Sun and Other Hazards," by Douglas Raybeck
1/22
►What do today’s readings and film tell us about the challenges of
conducting fieldwork?
Multi-sited fieldwork
●"Swimming Through Fieldwork: Constructing Trust in the Mexican
Caribbean," by David M. Hoffman
●"Eating Christmas in the Kalahari," by Richard B. Lee
●"A World of Differences—Understanding Cross-Cultural MisCommunication"
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1/25
Culture
►What are some advantages and disadvantages of long-term
participant-observation as a method for collecting data about society
and culture?
1/27
1/29
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2/1
Culture and the Individual
EXAM #1
2/3
2/5
5
2/8
2/10
Focus on Book: Nest in the Wind
2/12
6
Language
2/15
2/17
2/19
7
Expressive Culture: Religion, Worldview and Art
2/22
2/24
2/26
8
The Dimensions of Social Organization
3/1
3/3
EXAM #2
3/5
9
10
BREAK
3/15
Economic Anthropology
3/17
3/19
11
3/22
Political Anthropology
3/24
3/26
3/29
Relatedness: Kinship and Descent
12
3/31
3
4/7
4/8
EXAM #3
4/9
14
Focus on Book: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
4/12
4/14
4/16
15
Marriage and Family
4/19
4/21
4/23
16
Globalization and the Culture of Capitalism
4/26
4/28
4/30
FINAL’S WEEK
EXAM #4