Anthropology project

Course Outline

The following is a tentative schedule of topics, assignments, and dates. Please try to get ahead of assignments as soon as you can do so.

First Class day-Introduction to the course Guest, Chapter 1: Anthropology in a global age Mobasher, Preface & Introduction Article 1: Body Ritual among the Nacirema

Guest, Chapter 2: Culture Mobasher, Chapter 1 Article 2: When brothers share a wife Article 3: The Abominable Pig by Marvin Harris Article 4: India’s Sacred Cow

Guest, Chapter 3: Fieldwork and ethnography Article 5: Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS

Guest, Chapter 4: Language

Guest, Chapter 6: Race and Racism Mobasher, Chapter 2: To be or not to be an Iranian: politics, media, and the paradox of ethnic identity

Guest, Chapter 7: Ethnicity and nationalism

Guest, Chapter 8: Gender

Guest, Chapter 9: Sexuality

Guest, Chapter 10: Kinship, family, and marriage Mobasher, Chapter 5: Exile and the paradox of gender, marriage, and family

Guest, Chapter 11: Class and inequality

Guest, Chapter 14: Politics and power

Guest, Chapter 12: The global economy

Article 6: Untangling globalization

Guest, Chapter 13: Migration Article 7: The New Immigration by Douglass Massey

Mobasher, Chapter 3: Double Ambivalence and Double Detachment Mobasher, Chapter 4: To be an Iranian, American, or Iranian American