week one

  • Read "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"
  • Read "Of Headhunters and Soldiers"
  • Read "Hands Off Clitoridectomy: What Our Revulsions Reveal About Ourselves"
  • Metaphor for a Child
  • Read Hale family letters 1822-1846
  • Read Scheinfeld Foreward/Preface-chapter 1
  • Read Excerpt From "Arogonauts of the Western Pacific"
  • Read Boas bio
  • Read "Leaves" assignments for EDC

week two (2/2-2/8)

  • Read "American Woman's Home"
  • Read "Impressions of an Indian Childhood"
  • Read "Earliest Recollections" and "An Indian Boy's Training"
  • Read "Introduction" in Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
  • Read "Anthropologists on the Front Lines"
  • Read Schienfeld ch. 2-3 (p. 17-43)
  • Read "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
  • Read Suzuki ch. 1-6 and discussion questions (as much as possible)
  • Finish Suzuki & discussion questions
  • Watch a Global Warming Teach-In @ 4:15, one question
  • Read Evans-Prichard bio
  • Read "Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words"
  • Read Schienfeld chapters 4 and 5
  • Write American Studies paper (3 pages)
  • Read Sister Carrie

week three (2/9-2/15)

  • Finish AMS paper (Jacobson Center)
  • Read Sister Carrie
  • Read "One Hundred Percent American"
  • Read "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy"
  • American Studies paper due
  • Read Wilson ch. 1-4
  • Discussion Questions for Bio
  • EDC mini-assignment
  • Read Sister Carrie
  • EDC letter
  • Idea for writing ethnography (1 pg)
  • Worth and Grollman chapters 1-3 (p. 1-65)
  • Print "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture" (p. 1-25)
  • HOME with Dan!

week four (2/16-2/22)

  • EDC letter #2
  • Read Sister Carrie
  • Idea for ethnography due
  • Read Sister Carrie
  • Finish Wilson ch. 1-4
  • No class
  • EDC letter #2 due
  • Finish Sister Carrie
  • Read "Columbian Ode" excerpt
  • Read "The Vanishing City"
  • Copple and Bredekamp chapters 1, 6, 7 (p. 33-50, 187-253)
  • EDC letter #3
  • Read "The Tower of Flame"
  • Read "Why the Colored American is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition"
  • Read "Introduction: Partial Truths"
  • Anthropology ethnography project & field notes

week five (2/23-3/1)

  • Bio S-A curves & questions
  • Read "The Egg and the Sperm"
  • Read "The White Man's Burden"
  • Read "Treaty of Annexation of Hawaii"
  • Read "Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii"
  • Read Ch. 6-8 in Suzuki (p. 183-292)
  • Read Ch. 5-6 in Wilson (p. 103-148)
  • Bio discussion questions
  • Home for Dan's birthday!
  • ANT 130 midterm
  • Read Copple and Bredekamp, chapters 2 & 3
  • Read How The Other Half Lives chapters 1-6, 9-10

week six (3/2-3/8)

  • Read How the Other Half Lives 13, 15, 17, 20-21
  • Read "Freeing South Africa"
  • EDC letter
  • Focal Issue for Bio
  • Finish & email Focal Issue by 5pm
  • Read Worth and Grollman p. 66-98
  • Start AMS paper #2
  • Anthro field notes, day #2
  • Read Worth and Grollman p. 99-160
  • EDC letter #5
  • Read "The Family"
  • Read "Chinese In America"

week seven+break (3/9-3/22)

  • Read Copple and Bredekamp chapters 4-5 (p. 111-183)
  • Read "Women on the Market" (p. 1-17)
  • Read "A Soldier's Faith"
  • Read "The Strenuous Life"
  • ANT field notes
  • AMS paper
  • Finish AMS paper
  • AMS paper due
  • Bio tree project part 1
  • Study bio
  • Bio midterm in the AM
  • Go home!
  • Binghamton!
  • EDC paper (due 3/23)

week eight (3/23-3/29)

  • Read "The Steel-Engraving Lady and the Gibson Girl"
  • Read "The Economic Theory of Women's Dress"
  • EDC paper due by 4pm
  • Read "Charity Girls and City Pleasures"
  • Read "The Productive Life of Risk"
  • Read Scheinfeld et al ch. 6-9
  • EDC letter
  • Read "The Productive Life of Risk"
  • Choose topic for AMS final paper
  • Read "Globalization and the Power of Indeterminate Meaning"
  • Read "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?"
  • Read Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Kirp, introduction and ch. 1-3
  • Ecological Footprint project
  • Bio discussion #4

week nine (3/30-4/5)

  • Read TFL ch. 7
  • EDC letter
  • Read The Marrow of Tradition p. 1-28
  • Read The Marrow of Tradition p. 28-63
  • Context paragraph for Ethnography
  • Read Kirp ch. 4-6
  • Read The Marrow of Tradition p. 63-166
  • Read "Up From Slavery"
  • Read "Souls of Black Folk"
  • Read "Southern Horrors"
  • Read ch. 9 TSB
  • Dan visits!

week ten (4/6-4/12)

  • Dan visits!
  • Skim "Introduction: ISoR"
  • Read Page Law of 1875
  • Read Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
  • Dan visits!
  • Read over Footprint project & add more
  • Read The Geary Act of 1892
  • Read Dr. Harvey Saburo Hayashi Admonition to Japanese Immigrants
  • Read "In re Saito"
  • Read Supreme Court: US v. Wong Kim Ark
  • Read "On Suffering and Structural Violence"
  • EDC letter & email
  • Read "The Year 1899"
  • Bio Discussion 5
  • Read Kirp ch. 7-9
  • Anthropology paper: complete draft (5 pages)
  • AMS paper: research & outline
  • Finish The Marrow of Tradition
  • Read "An Ethnography of Displacement in the National Order of Things"
  • Read "At First I Was Laughing"

week eleven (4/13-4/19)

  • Adopt a Tree Log #2
  • EDC letter
  • AMS Discussion Questions
  • AMS paper Introduction/1st page
  • Meet with Advisor / Stop & Shop run
  • AMS paper pages 2-4
  • Revise Ethnography
  • AMS discussion question
  • AMS paper 5-6
  • EDC discussion questions
  • Finish AMS paper draft
  • Revise Ethnography
  • AMS paper - Jacobson Center @ 9am Friday
  • Revise AMS paper
  • Revise Ethnography
  • Read "The Rules of Beeping"
  • Read "The Subject and Scope of this Inquiry"
  • Read The Girl with the Brown Crayon

week twelve (4/20-4/26)

  • Revise AMS paper
  • Read Amusing The Million p. 1-20
  • AMS paper due by 5pm (no class)
  • EDC letter
  • Meet with ANT professor @ 3, finish ethnography
  • Read Amusing The Million p. 21-40
  • Ethnography due
  • Read for Focal Issue #2
  • Finish Amusing the Million
  • Scheinfeld et al chapters 10 & 12
  • Adopt a Tree Log
  • EDC Documentation Project
  • Amusing the Million questions
  • Bio self-performance review Focal Issue #2

week thirteen (4/27-5/1)

  • Finish Love Across the Color Line
  • EDC project
  • Finish Tree Log
  • BIO extra credit & self-evaluation
  • Finish EDC project
  • EDC final: section 2 of final assignment (1-2pgs)
  • Tree Log due
  • EDC project due 5/1
may 9 2009 ∞
may 9 2009 +