k-12 syllabus
sample arrangements of anthro material
ANTHROPOLOGY ELECTIVE at SEATTLE ACADEMY 2007-8
Taught by A. Dexter Chapin, dchapin@seattleacademy Dot org
This course is a one-trimester, senior history elective. The goal is to provide students a context for understanding the facts and flows of regional history courses. What follows is a partial syllabus. The course is a seminar that follows student interests and current events. Therefore the contents are never certain until after the fact.
SECTION 1
1. The Essence of Anthropology.
I. http://www.aaanet.org/anthbroc.htm
2. The Characteristics of Culture.
MOVIES: Dead Birds; Nanook of the North; The Weeping Camel; The American Mullet
Major Assignment: Produce a high quality, useful beautiful cultural artifact using no man-made materials or tools.
SECTION 2
3. Language and Communication.
http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/default.htm
http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/social.html sociolinguistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
A. Write a page essay in E prime writing assignment
B. Write page essay in E prime without prepositions assignment
C. Decode the following postcard sent from the Azores by your Uncle George. XLIAIEXIV’WLIVIAMWLCSYAIVIASRHIVJYP
PSZI,YRGPIKISVKI
Would this help? XLI AIEXIV’W LIVI
AMWL CSY AIVI ASRHIVJYP
PSZI,
YRGPI KISVKI
What were the clues that you used in the decoding? (Hint: the first clue was to assume the same alphabet) What clues did the Japanese code breakers lack? What are the differences in this paragraph?
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.
D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralanguage
http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/spbweb/lifestyl/122/how.html
SECTION
4. Recruitment of Children
http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/playing-with-children-and-other-cultural-oddities/
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0268-540X%28199506%2911%3A3%3C10%3ATAAMRO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
5. Patterns of Subsistence and Economic Systems.
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/anth307/papers/LandscapeNatureCulture.pdf
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lansing/docs/Lansing_JPE_5.pdf
MOVIES: Personal Space; The Great Dance - a hunter’s story
MAJOR ASSIGNMENT: Derive culture traits from material traits using photos from Material World (1994, Menzel P. Sierra Club San Francisco)
6. Family and Household.
Kinship and Descent.
Sex and Marriage.
Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interest and Class.
http://seattleacademy.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=12991
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/kinmenu.html
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/descent/
Stretch Marks for Dad - http://slate.com/id/2168389/
7. Politics, Power, and Violence.
Schismogenesis, http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~rfrey/PDF/220/220%20Schismogenesis.pdf
MOVIE: The Stanford Prison Experiment
8. Spirituality, Religion, and the Supernatural
http://anthro.palomar.edu/religion/rel_1.htm
http://www.insects.org/ced2/beetles_rel_sym.html
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/419/419www.htm
9. Culture Change
http://anthro.palomar.edu/change/change_2.htm
http://www.thn.fhsk.se/english/Folkschool.asp
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC09/Jewell.htm
MOVIE: The Saltmen of Tibet
THE MAJOR ASSIGNMENT FOR SECOND HALF OF TRIMESTER: Write an explication of your worldview and compare and contrast with your understanding of the American worldview.
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~funkk/Personal/worldview.html
http://www.hsp.org/files/dynamicsoffolklorereading.pdf
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CLEA/reports/WorldviewsBook.html