Dekin Syllabus S03 Anth 111

Anthropology 111 Spring, 2003
[this course is coded C-composition and N-social science for general education requirement]

Instructor: Professor Albert A. Dekin, Jr.
Class Location: SCI I, 149
Class Time: MWF 9:40 - 10:40 AM

Office Location: Sci I, Room 139B
Office Hours: Mondays 1:00-2:00 PM or by appt
or online at adekin@binghamton.edu
Office phone: 777-6300

Sections of ANTH 111: Section instructors will set their own office hours.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.	Marta Alfonso Jason Tiefel Sean Tallman Helene vanBerge-Landry Bretton Giles Chris Loy	8:30-9:30 SW 305 10:05-11:05 SW 307 11:40-12:40 SW 324 1:15-2:15 SW 313 2:50-3:50 SW 309 11:40-12:40 SW 305	SW 305 SW 307 SW 324 SW 313 SW 309 SW 305

SYLLABUS
TEXTS:
1.	Chagnon, Napoleon, 1997. Yanomamo, 5th Edition. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch; paperback.
2.	Kottak, Conrad Philip, 2002. Anthropology, the Exploration of Human Diversity, 9th Edition. McGraw Hill; paperback.
EVALUATION: There are two scheduled hour examinations to be held in class. There will also be a cumulative final examination held during finals week. Because this is a composition course, all of the scheduled examinations will be essay and short answer in format. We will distribute questions to guide your study at least a week before each of these three examinations. A significant portion of your course grade will be derived from your performance in discussion section. The 100 total points used in evaluation to determine the final course grade are distributed as follows: Hour Examinations 20 pts. each, Final Examination 20 pts., and discussion section 40 pts. This course is a writing emphasis course, hence essay quizzes and a report or paper (requiring revisions) can be expected in each section. You must formally register for both a lecture section and a discussion section. Enrollment is limited by the size of the lecture classroom and by the necessity of limiting section sizes. SYLLABUS: The brackets [] in the syllabus indicate the topic or title of slides, video, or film scheduled for a portion of class time on that day. Since these materials are integrated into the class content and since we rent some of them for a one-time showing, it is not usually possible to schedule alternate or make-up times for students to view them. Readings should be completed PRIOR to the class for which they are scheduled in the syllabus. This is extremely important -- I will assume that the class has read the materials assigned and will guide my lectures and examples accordingly, expecting students to be able to relate the lecture content to their readings and to be thoughtful in class. Our experience in this course is that students who are conscientious about their readings prior to class time are better prepared to benefit from the class content and consequently do better and learn more. EXTENSIONS: Students must request any extensions of deadlines for course assignments or make up examinations PRIOR to the scheduled deadlines. We will attempt to honor reasonable requests received in advance, while discouraging wanton postonements of the inevitable. Incompletes have only rarely been successfully completed and are extremely difficult logistically. Please review the entire course schedule with special attention to holiday and vacation periods. It is not likely that this syllabus will be modified significantly during the semester.

SCHEDULE

Class		Topic(s)	Readings/Media
1	22 Jan	Introduction – essential concepts	n.a.
2	24 Jan	Anthropologists	K1
3	27 Jan	Participant Observation, what the fieldworker brings to the field	[Yanamamo, A Multidisciplinary Study] C1
4	29 Jan	Fieldwork – observations	K2
5	31 Jan	Language and Culture	K13, K11
6	3 Feb	Human Evolution – the basics	K3 [The Skeleton]
7	5 Feb	Primates and Evolution	K4, 5 [Survey of the Primates]
8	7 Feb	Hominid Evolution	K6, 7 [Lucy and the First Family]
9	10 Feb	Human biological and cultural diversity	K8, K12
10	12 Feb	Race and racism	[Evolution and Human Equity]
11	14 Feb	Material culture and behavior	K9 [trash] [Flintknapping]
12	17 Feb	Hunters and Gatherers and exploitation	K10 [At the Winter Sea Ice Camp 1]
13	19 Feb	Agriculturalists and production	[The Nuer, Part 1] C2
14	21 Feb	Civilizations and organization
15	24 Feb	Hour Examination in class	n.a.
16	26 Feb	Culture and difference	K11, 12
17	28 Feb	Language, society and communications	K13
18	3 Mar	Economic Systems	K14
19	5 Mar	Economizing and social behavior	[The Kawelka: Ongka's Big Moka]
20	7 Mar	Human Adaptation	[Nanook of the North]
21	17 Mar	Kinship and Descent	K15
22	19 Mar	Marriage and social relations	K16 [Mehinaku] C4
23	21 Mar	Social and political organization	[The Nuer, Part 2]
24	24 Mar	Politics and political organization	K17
25	26 Mar	Confinement and Ethnicity	[Japanese Relocation]
26	28 Mar	Politics and conflict	[The Feast] C5, 6
27	31 Mar	Gender and Culture	K18
28	2 Apr	Gender 2
29	4 Apr	Religion	K19
30	7 Apr	World View (and framing)	C3
31	9 Apr	Hour Examination in class	n.a.
32	11 Apr	Art and Society	K20 [Sedna, the Making of a Myth]
33	14 Apr	Art and symbolic expression
34	16 Apr	Globalization and the Modern World System	K21
35	23 Apr	The 3rd World	[Contact, the Yanomami Indians] C7
36	25 Apr	Colonialism and Development	K22
37	28 Apr	The cultural basis of conflict
38	30 Apr	Exploitation and what survives?	K23
39	2 May	Managing Heritage as a civil right – keep your hands off my past!
40	5 May	Applying Anthropology	K24
41	7 May	Judgments for better or for worse – ethical issues in application	C8
42	9 May	Using what you have learned – understanding the present and shaping the future	K Appendix

12-15 May Final Examination Period. Readings are assigned from two textbooks; K=Kottak; C=Chagnon; Bartle Library reserve readings will be announced in class.