Anthropology exam
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WrapUp.pptxEnd of Term Wrap Up
Remember 10 -11 weeks ago…..
Eons ago…
Going over the syllabus for the first time
Being introduced to the course …
course text for the term…
Beginning discussions on anthropology, anthropologists and what they do, culture, and cultural diversity
Covered A LOT of material over the course of the term…Culture and ethnography
“Ethnography and Culture” (Spradley)
“Using Anthropology” (McCurdy)
“Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” (Lee)
“Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS” ( Sterk)
“Nice Girls Don’t Talk to Rastas” (Gmelch)
Language and communication
“Shakespeare in the Bush” (Bohannan)
“Manipulating Meaning: The Military Name Game” (Boxer)
“Conversation Style: Talking on the Job” (Tannen)
Film: American Tongues
Ecology and subsistence
“The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari” (Lee)
Film clip: Ancient Futures Learning from Ladakh
“Illegal Logging and Frontier Conservation” (Williamson)
“We are going underwater” (Crate)
“Forest development the Indian Way” ( Reed)
Economic systems
“Reciprocity & Power of Giving” (Cronk)
“Poverty at Work: Office Employment and the Crack Alternative” ( Bourgois)
“Women in the Mine” ( Smith Rolston)
“Malawi Versus the World Bank” (Patten
Film: Life and Debt
Relatives, relations & kinship
“Mother’s Love: Death Without Weeping” (Scheper-Hughes)
“Family and Kinship in Village India” (McCurdy)
“Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife” (Goldstein) AND
“Marriage and Adulthood in West Africa.” (Fioratta)
Identity, roles and groups
“Negotiating Work and Family in America” (Shandy and Moe)
“Becoming Muslim in Europe” (Rogozen-Soltar)
“Mixed Blood” (Fish)
“Motorcycles, Membership, and Belonging” (McCurdy)
“Symbols of Category Membership” (Eckert) H/O
Religion, magic and worldview
“Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” ( Miner)
“The Worst Lovers: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal” (Mueller)
“Baseball Magic” (Gmelch)
“Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage” (Dubisch)
Globalization and change
“How Sushi Went Global” (Bestor)
“Village Walks: Tourism and Globalization Among the Tharu of Nepal”(Guneratne and Bjork)
“Nuer Refugees in America”(Shandy)
“Global Women in the New Economy” (Ehrenreich and Hochschild)
Part 10: Using and Doing Anthropology
Anthropology…applicable to any social environment… any social group
Serving in the Peace Corps
Businesses and Corporations
Working to solve some of the biggest challenges in local communities or the global arena
No questions in the Final from Part 10…. Or Part 7 Law and Politics
Asst #3 Mini-Ethnographies
Sports fans……..K-Pop fans… Rockers and Ravers
Working women…..Immigrants……Cosmopolites……Attendees at Korean church services….multi-cultural groups in Upper Darby
Nigerians using social media….diverse Americans celebrating Thanksgiving
Participant-observation * Auto-ethnography * Interviewing
Particular cultures in particular environments
Different environments
Different populations…
Different cultures
Regardless of method,
All (of you) took a qualitative approach engaging insider's viewpoints
(n contrast to quantitative approaches)
Course Overview:
This course is an introduction to cultural anthropology as a field of inquiry. While students will learn about cultural diversity in general, students will take an active approach to investigating “culture” in a wider sense by thinking about and applying core concepts in engaging in culture, locally.
“Emphasis in the course
will be placed on gaining familiarity with core concepts, basic methods and social theorists …and in so doing with gain a sense of appreciation for applying an anthropological perspective.
Students will gain insights about cultural differences and how [cultural] symbols and meanings are expressed and embedded in social activities and practices as well as how particular meanings are learned, shared, shaped and contested including gaining some understanding of how societies and cultures change.”
Final grades will be based on:
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS (3) 45%
Asst 1 – How an anthropological perspective or ethnographic approach could be applicable…(10%)
Asst #2 proposal for a mini-ethnography (5%)
Asst #3 Ethnography (30%)… .grading this week/next
EXAMS (2) 45%
MidTerm (20%)
Final (25%) opens up today after class…closes 11:59 pm 12/12
ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION… 10%
TOTAL % 100%
Any final questions….
comments…
Good luck in all remaining assignments, projects, papers in ALL your courses… as you wrap up this term!
Hope to see you in a future class.
