ANTHROPOLOGY 0780:  INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY       

                                                                                                SPRING TERM 2000

 

TIME AND PLACE:  MW, 12:45 – 2:00 p.m., G-04 BSC

TEXT:  Cultural Anthropology (9th Edition) by W. Haviland

            Dancing Skeletons by Dettwyler

FACULTY:            Dr. Linda A. Winkler, Office, G09 BSC

                        Phone:  827-4436            Hours:  M-W 2:00-3:00; TH 12:00-1:00

                        E-mail:  lawupt+@pitt.edu

 

WEEK

DATE

TOPIC

CHAPTER

MATERIAL COVERED

 

1

01/05

Introduction

1

“The Feast”

What is Anthropology?

2

01/10-

01/12

Nature of Culture

2

What is Culture?

 

3

01/19

Physical Anthropology

3

Origin of Culture

4

01/24

Primate Behavior

3

 “Primate Behavior”

 

 

01/26

Linguistics

4

Language and Communication

 

5

01/31

Archaeology

 

 

 

 

02/02

EXAM 1

 

 

 

6

02/07

Patterns of Subsistence

6

Adaptation

“Subsistence Strategies”

 

02/09

Patterns of Subsistence

6

 

“Subsistence Strategies”

7

02/14

Economic Systems

7

Spreading Resources Around

 

 

02/16

Sex and Marriage

8

“Love in Several Cultures”

“What is Family?”

8

02/21

Family and Household

9

 

 

02/23

Kinship and Descent

10

Who are Relatives?

 

9

02/28

Age, Common Interest

Stratification

11

Social Groupings

 

 

03/01

Political Organization and Social Control

12

Organizing Culture

10

03/13

Review

 

 

“Cows of Dolo Ken Paye”

Topics Due

 

03/15

 

EXAM 2

 

 

 

11

03/20

Religion

13

What is Religion?

 

 

03/22

Religion

13

Outline Due

“Holy Ghost People”

 

12

03/27

Growing Up Human

5

Culture and Personality

 

 

03/29

Growing Up Human

 

Video

 

13

04/03

Cultural Change

 

15

“Hunters of the Seal”

 

04/05

The Arts

14

 

 

14

04/10

Projects

 

 

 

 

04/12

Projects

 

 

 

15

04/17

Projects

 

 

 

 

04/19

Review

 

“Twilight of Dreamtime”

 

 

Final Exam Week

EXAM 3