SOAN 110: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology - Fall 2021
Syllabus (updated)Course ReservesCourse SlidesOffice Hours
Midterm Review SheetPaper #1Fieldwork ProjectFinal Exam Review
Readings
Bohannan: Shakespeare
Benedict: Patterns of Culture
Geertz: Concept of Culture
Levi-Strauss: Nature and Culture
Tylor: The Science of Culture
Trouillot: Savage Slot
Linton: Status and Role
Malinowski: Argonauts
Nader: Up the Anthropologist
Hurston: Mules and Men
Abu-Lughod: Writing Against Culture
Appadurai: Global Ethnoscapes
Lee: Eating Christmas
Sahlins: Original Affluent Society
Harris: India's Sacred Cattle
Goldstein: When Brothers Share
Scheper-Hughes: Maternal Thinking
Malinowski: Rational Mastery
Turner: Liminality and Communitas
Durkheim: Elementary Forms
Myerhoff: So What Do You Want
Materials
Richard Dawkins: Religion a Computer Virus
I'm My Own Grandpa
Kaplan: The Darker Side
Resources
An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Watzek SOAN Guide
Structural Functionalism
Kinship Terms
Glossary of Anthropological Terms
Films
The Couple in the Cage
Along the Incan Trail
Number our Days