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 +