Anth, 7 Jan 2002

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This should probably be wiki, not weblog..

Syllabus (ho)

• Instructor Introduction



• Liberal Arts Education <-- World Tours



• Grading
  
  
  
  • Three exams (100), one comprehensive final (150)
  
  
  • Missed exams, when excused are replaced by final grade
  
  
  • Class participation: 20%
  
  
  • unannounced quizzes (sp)
  
  
  • professor pleasantly suprised that my typing is class notes
  
  
  • Projects (ho) ..
  
  
  
  

Projects

• Artifacts (Carlos):
  
  
  
  • quality over quantity
  
  
  • long tour
  
  
  
  


• Communication:
  
  
  
  • two of (one Asian, one African, one Middle Eastern)
  
  
  • at least two www sites
  
  
  
  


• Families:


• Art & Music:
  
  
  
  • 10 min presentation, non-European
  
  
  • instruments
  
  
  • music sample, explanation -> themes>/li>
    
  
  


• Cuisine (sp?): new exotic food type


• Interview:
  
  
  
  • Start now, find two people
  
  
  • several appointments
  
  
  • start with 8 questions, follow up, follow along
  
  
  • paper can be essay or FAQ / Q&A format
  
  
  • data will indicate format
  
  
  • non-European: Asian, African, ..
  
  
  • rule of thumb:
    ask some of the Qs, If they answer "the same way you do" get another subject
  
  
  • targets: ESL, neighbourhood, convenience store
  
  
  • in class: foreign nationals may interview Americans (Nigerian: Ibu(sp?))
  
  
  • Russians: differ by geography, time
  
  
  • no one who came here as a young child
  
  
  • They need strong English.
  
  
  • Need not do different areas/cultures for each project.
  
  
  • Reservation born Native American, native aborigones (sp)
  
  
  • Do not need to use their real name is report
    
  
  

Schedule (ho)
Books: Reader and Coursepack
first few Coursepack articles on her site: http://www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~rcarrie/anthlinks.htm

which is also an official resource for the course.

What is anthropology?

• Study of Man?


• started Man's culture


• What is culture?
  
  
  
  • shared beliefs
  
  
  • traditions
  
  
  • material and non-material
  
  
  
  


• Components of Culture (slide):
  
  
  
  • Social Structure
    
  • Belief Systems
    
  • Technology
    
  • Subsistence
    
  • Communication
    
  • Politics
    
  • Aesthetics
    


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  • Physical
    
    
    
    • Primatology
      
      
      
      • Monkeys have tails
        
      • Chimps share 98% genome with humans
        
      • language, thumbs, intelligence
        
    
    
    • Human Paleo
      
      
      
      • pre-human (H. erectus) skull (shown)
        
      • brow ridges
      
      
      • smaller brain case
      
      
      • half the size of ours
      
      
      • diff is in frontal lobes
      
      
      • likely lacked long term storage
      
      
      • less have to re-learn daily
      
      
      • likely non-verbal and verbal comms
        
    
    
    • Forensic
      
    • Human Variation
      
  
  
  • Archaeology
    
    
    
    • study extinct societies
      
    • study things left behind or thrown away
      
    • artifact: portable item left behind by previous
      
    • feature: non-portable, eg: building foundations
      
    • spheroid artifact: ... ball from gambling game northern illinois 130 ya
    
    
  
  
  • Linguistics
    
    
    
    • not just language, but communication
      
    • body language
      
    • facial expressions
      
    • music, song in non-literate cultural
      
    • art in many cultures
      
  
  
  • Cultural
    
    
    
    • most of this class
      
    • components of culture (above)
      
    • participant-observation
      
    • immersion: live as they do
      
    • attempt to be non-invasive
      
    • this is quite difficult bc of technology, et al
      
    • scientific observation -> accurate portrait of target organization
      
    • gather in most miunte data to get "big picture"
      
    • ethnography: in-depth study of a community
      
    • typically 2-3 years:
      
    • comfort,
      
    • seasons,
      
    • different individuals, aging (births, deaths, and funerals)
      
  
  
  • ethnology: study a particular aspect of a culture, eg drums
  
  
  
  

Subcultures:

• Prostitution,
  
• firefighters,
  
• cocktail waitresses
  
  Corporate Ethnography: how a business works, why it doesn't
  
  Office hours: Mo and We, Tu and Th not on campus (Alpharetta), Fridays odd