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Investigation of the history of the development of theory and method in anthropological thought and practice from the nineteenth century to the present. Seminar format.
Please note the
REQUIRED TEXTS (AVAILABLE IN THE BOOKSTORE): P. Bohannan & M. Glazer, Editors (1988) High Points in Anthropology L.L. Langness (1987) The Study of Culture: Revised Edition. TOTALLY OPTIONAL TEXTS (AVAILABLE IN THE BOOKSTORE): Ute Gacs et al., (1989) Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies R. J. McGee and R.L. Warms, 1996, Anthropological theory: An introductory History. Douglas J. Preston (1986) Dinosaurs In The Attic George W. Stocking (1991) Victorian Anthropology Bruce Trigger (1989) A History of Archaeological Thought Eric Trinkhaus & Pat Shipman (1993) The Neanderthals: Changing The Image Of Mankind TWENTY-TWO ITEMS ON TWO-HOUR RESERVE FOR READING SELECTIONS: D. Bidney (1953) Theoretical Anthropology [GN/24/B492/1967] D.J. Boorstin (1983) The Discoverers [CB/69/B66/1983] R. Darnell (1974) Readings in the History of Anthropology [GN/17/D35] A. de Malefijt (1974) Images of Man [GN/17/D44/1974] U. Gacs et al. [Editors] (1988) Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies [GN/20/W63/1988] P. Golde (1986) Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences [GN/20/G6/1986] M. Harris (1968) The Rise of Anthropological Theory [GN/17/H3] Hayes & Hayes (1970) Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Anthropologist as Hero [GN/21/L4/H3] H. R. Hays (1958) From Ape to Angel [GN/405/H34] J. Helm (1966) Pioneers of American Anthropology C. Hinsley (1981) Savages and Scientists: The Smithsonian.... [GN/17.3/U6/H56] A. Kardiner & E. Preble (1961) They Studied Man [GN/405/K3] A.L. Kroeber & C. Kluckhohn (1952) Culture: A Critical Review [GN/27/K7] A. Kuper (1973) Anthropology and Anthropologists [GN/17/K26] M. Mead & R. Bunzel (1960) The Golden Age of American Anthropology [E/77/M48] A. Montagu (1974) Frontiers of Anthropology [GN/17/M/59/1974] Naroll & Naroll (1973) Main Currents in Cultural Anthropology [GN/17/N37/1973] T.K. Penniman (1936) A Hundred Years of Anthropology [GN/17/P4] H. Powdermaker (1966) Stranger and Friend [HM/73/P67]
Exam Schedule
Evaluation and Important Dates:
Writing Assignment #1 DUE 9/23/96 0r 9/25/96 (10%) Due.
Exam I TUE 10/7/96 (25%): Information presented/discussed to date.
Exam II THU 11/13/96 (25%): Information since EXAM I (and major points).
SF American Anthro Meetings 11/20/96->11/24/96
Thanksgiving Break 11/25/96->11/29/96
Writing Assignment #2 Due 12/16/96 (25%) Due.
Participation/Paper Presentation 8/26/96 ->12/16/96 (15%).
Grading Policy
See Exam Schedule.
Class Attendance and Participation
See Exam Schedule.
Absences, Late Work, and Excuse Policy
See Exam Schedule.
Schedule/Course Calendar
SPECIFIC READING ASSIGNMENTS AND TOPICS FOR THE DAYS OF:
1. 8/26/96+ Introduction & Overview to the course.
8/28/96 The profession: 1967-1996+. Please glance at both required texts and
some of the RESERVE items by WEDNESDAY September 4, 1996.
2. 9/2} No Class History of theory continued, key concepts, and Pre/Post-Darwin.
9/4/96 Langness: pp. xi-12 and please glance at Ch 7 (pp. 188-217)
Bohannan & Glazer: pp. 553-554
Please Glance at the Kroeber & Kluckhohn 1952 publication Culture Please Glance at Slotkin, pp. v-243
PLEASE read any one of the following items from the selections on RESERVE:
Any appropriate selection in U. Gacs et al.
Boorstin: pp. 626-635.
Darnell Selection #5 (pp. 61-77) or pp. 289-321.
Golde: Introduction, pp. 1-15 or pp. 267-289.
Kardiner and Preble: pp. 11-32
Mead & Bunzel: pp. 1-12.
Montagu: pp. 91-97, 49-145, and 157-162.
Naroll & Naroll: Ch 2 (pp. 25-56)
Penniman: part of Ch. 4 (pp. 73-110)
3. 9/9 + Some 19th Century research in Europe and America.
9/11/96 Boas, Spencer, Morgan, Tyler, Frazer, Powell, Pitt-Rivers et al. Langness: Ch. 1 (pp. 13-49) and Chapter 2 (pp. 50-73).
Bohannan & Glazer: Selections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (pp. 3-100)
Glance at Slotkin, pp. 244-460
PLEASE read any one of the following items from the selections on RESERVE:
Any appropriate selection in U. Gacs et al.
Bidney: Ch 7 (pp. 183-214)
Boorstin: pp. 636-652.
Hays pp. vii-xv and Ch 1-5 (pp. 1-49)
Harris: Ch 5 (pp. 108-141)
Hinsley: pp. 7-63 or pp. 129-189.
Kardiner & Preble: pp. 33-94
Malefijt Ch 7 (116-137) or Ch. 8 (138-159) or Ch. 11 (215-255)
Mead & Bunzel: pp. 58-81
Mead & Bunzel: pp. 129-138
Mead & Bunzel: pp. 203-245
Mead & Bunzel: pp. 305-318
Naroll & Naroll: Ch 3 (pp. 57-121)
Penniman: part of Ch. 4 (pp.110-146)
Silverman: Ch. 1 (pp. 1-33)
4. 9/16 + SMTFPP-R et al. continued, into the 20th Century.
9/18/96 and preliminary discussion of your term paper topic interests.
[TO BE ASSIGNED: 1/2 the class on 9/23 and 1/2 on 9/25/96.
WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1 [10%] DUE 9/23 or 9/25/96.
5. 9/23 + DISCUSSION OF WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1 (10%)
9/25/96 (1/2 class each day: Class assignments will be made 9/18/96).
6. 9/30 + 19th/20th Century Reaction(s) Continued & REVIEW on 10/2/96.
10/2/96 Comte--> Durkheim/Van Gennep--> Mauss--> Lévi-Strauss
(including some Malinowski and others!)
Langness: Ch 2 (pp. 50-73)
Bohannan & Glazer: #6, 7, 8, 9 (pp. 104-171)
Bohannan & Glazer: # 14, 15, 16, 17 (pp. 229-293)
PLEASE read any one of the following items from the selections on RESERVE:
Any appropriate selection in U. Gacs et al.
Bidney: Ch 8 (pp. 215-249)
Darnell: #20 (pp. 260-273)
Golde: pp. 293-331.
Harris: Ch 9 + 10 (pp. 250-300) or Harris Ch. 18 (pp. 464-513)
Hays: Ch 23-29 (pp. 227-305)
Honigman: Ch 15 (pp. 637-716)
Kardiner & Preble: pp. 95-116 or pp. 117-139 and pp. 163-177.
Kuper: Ch 7 (pp. 204-226)
Mead & Bunzel: pp.477-484 & 617-628 or pp. 458-507.
Montagu: #18 (pp. 315-319) or Montagu #20 (pp. 344-391)
Silverman: Ch. 2 (pp. 35-65) or Ch. 4 (pp. 101-139)
Voget: Ch 13 (pp. 480-538)
7. 10/7 + EXAM I [25%] on MONDAY OCTOBER 7, 1996 and then into
10/9/96 20th Century Reactions/Discussions (Continued).
Exam I based on Langness (pp. xi-12, pp. 13-73) and Bohannan and Glazer pp. 3-100 , pp. 104-171, pp. 229-293, and pp. 553-554.
8. 10/14 + Comte->Durkheim/Van Gennep->Mauss-->Lévi-Strauss.
10/16/96 Continued, as well as British Social Anthropology, American Cultural Anthropology, as well as French anthropologie.
Any appropriate selection in U. Gacs et al.
Langness Ch 3, 4, & 5 (pp. 74-164)
Bohannan & Glazer: # 10,11, 12, 13 (pp. 172-228)
Bohannan & Glazer: #17, 18, 19 (pp. 272-316)
Bohannan & Glazer: # 25, 26, & 27 (pp. 405-500)
PLEASE read any one of the following items from the selections on RESERVE:
Any appropriate selection in U. Gacs et al.
Darnell: #31 (pp. 426-439)
Hayes & Hayes: Any Chapter
Hinsley: pp. 262-292.
Kardiner & Preble: pp. 140-162 and pp. 178-186
Kuper: Ch. 1 (pp. 13-50) or Ch. 2 (pp. 51-88)
Malefijt: Ch 10 (pp. 181-214)
Montagu Selection #30: pp. 467-486
Naroll & Naroll: Ch 6 (pp. 185-215)
Powdermaker: Ch 2 (pp. 33-45)
Silverman: Ch. 5 (pp. 141-168)
9. 10/21 + Neo-Evolution & Cultural Ecology.
10/23/96 [A Preliminary Term Paper Topic DUE on THURSDAY 10/23/96]
Bohannan & Glazer: # 20, 21, 22, 23, & 24 (pp. 317-403)
PLEASE read any one of the following items from the selections on RESERVE:
Any appropriate selection in U. Gacs et al.
Hinsley: pp. 81-123.
Harris: Ch 22 (pp. 634-653) or Ch. 23 (pp. 654-687)
Honigman: Ch 5 (pp. 179-239)
Montagu Selection #35: pp. 539-565
Naroll & Naroll: Ch 8 (pp. 247-279)
Silverman: Ch. 6 (pp. 171-206) or Ch. 7 (pp. 209-252) Voget: Ch. 17 (pp. 676-696)
10. 10/28 + Symbolism (and Beyond): Acculturation, Reflexivity, and....!
10/30/96 [TO BE ASSIGNED: 1/2 the class on 11/4/96 and 1/2 on 11/6/96 and DISCUSSION OF YOUR SPECIFIC RESEARCH TOPICS].
Bohanan & Glazer: # 28 & 29 (pp. 501-552)
Langness: Ch 6 & 7 (pp. 165-217)
PLEASE read any one of the following items from the selections on RESERVE:
Any appropriate selection in U. Gacs et al.
Darnell: #25 (pp. 322-329)
Harris: Ch 20 (pp. 568-604)
Honigman: Ch 6 (pp. 241-288) or Ch. 13 (pp. 579-612)
Hays: Ch 36, 37, & 38 (pp. 390-427)
Kuper: Ch 7 (pp. 204-226)
Malefijt: Ch 14 (pp. 325-347)
Naroll & Naroll: Ch 7 (pp. 217-245)
Voget: Ch 20 (pp. 786-805)
11. 11/4 + DISCUSSION OF YOUR SPECIFIC TERM PAPER interests and 11/6/96 RESEARCH TOPICS [approximately 1/2-the-class each day].
12. 11/11 + REVIEW on 11/11 AND EXAM II [25%] on WEDNESDAY 11/13/96
11/13/96 (and TERM PAPER Presentation Order Distributed on 11/13/96).
EXAM II based on all assigned readings/lectures since EXAM I.
13. 11/13 + OPTIONAL RESEARCH and/or discussion day on 11/13/96 and
11/15/96 NO CLASS on 11/15/96} Am. Anthro. Meetings in San Francisco.
14. 11/25 + 11/27/96 THANKSGIVING VACATION WEEK!
15. 12/2 + 12/7/96 Term Paper Presentations/Discussions Begin
[If we agree, class might go these days from 4-:5:45pm]
16. 12/9 + 12/11/96 Term Paper Presentations/Discussions Continue
[If we agree, class might go these days from 4-:5:45pm]
17. 12/16/96 [Mon] Term Paper Presentations/Discussions CONCLUDE and
FINAL MEETING SCHEDULED FROM 6->7:50pm and TERM PAPER DUE (25%)
