SOAN 110: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
SOAN 110: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Syllabus
Course Reserves
Course Slides
FMOOWMP
Office Hourse Sign-Up
Readings
An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Bohannan: Shakespeare
Benedict: Patterns of Culture
Geertz: Concept of Culture
Fields and Fields: Racecraft
Linton: Status and Role
Abu-Lughod: Writing Against Culture
Malinowski: Argonauts
Hurston: Mules and Men
Nader: Up the Anthropologist
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
Fieldwork Project
Research Resources
Materials
I'm My Own Grandpa
Kaplan: The Darker Side
Linguistic Theory / ‘Arrival’
Resources
Structural Functionalism
Kinship Terms
Films
Off the Veranda
Along the Incan Trail
The Couple in the Cage Trailer
The Couple in the Cage
Number our Days
Maquilapolis
Krippendorf's Tribe
Trobriand Cricket (Trailer)
Trobriand Cricket (Full)
Five Minute University
Enchilada Skit - SNL