Anthropology 101-04
TheAnthropological Perspective
Fall 2008

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September 3 (W): The Concept of Culture

September 5 (F): The Roots of Cultural Anthropology: Race, Evolutionism and the Concept of Cultural Relativism

September 8 (M): The "Science" of Culture: The Role of Ishi

September 12 (F): The Anthropological Method

September 17 (W): Functionalism: Is Society like an organism?

September 22 (M): Margaret Mead and Culture and Personality

September 24 (W): Is Anthropology a Science? The Mead-Freeman Debate

October 1 (W): Interpretive Anthropology and Intersubjectivity

October 8 (W): Witchcraft and Spirit Possession

October 10 (F): Belief: How and why do we come to believe?

October 17 (F): Kinship and Its Role in Anthropology

October 20 (M): Wolf and the Confucian Family

October 24 (F): The Anthropological Study of Kinship Today

October 27 (M): Kinship Discussion

October 29 (W): Gender: Are Women Subordinate Everywhere?

OCtober 31 (F): Third Sex, Third Gender, and the Performance of Gender

November 7 (F): Bio-Medicine as a Cultural System

November 12 (W): Other Ways of Healing

November 17 (M): Exchange in Pre-Capitalist Societies

November 19 (W): Money, Gender, and Value under Capitalism

December 1 (M): Modernization, Globalization, and Culture

December 3 (W): Art, Tourism, Beauty Contests, and McDonald's: Selling Culture and Difference?

December 5 (F): Debate on Globalization

December 8 (M): Can We Use Culture in the 21st Century?

 

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