ANT110 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Offered at Union College, Fall 2006
Office Hours for Derick Fay:
Tuesday 1:30-2:30 PM, Wednesday 3-4 PM or by appointment
36 Union Ave., Room 205
Fall 2006 Course Syllabus Revised Syllabus for November
Final Exam - Take Home, due November 21
E-mail copies of your final to me by noon on November 21 to each of the following e-mail addresses:
Course Texts (all available at the Union Bookstore):
John Monaghan and Peter Just, Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short IntroductionJ. MacClancy, ed. Exotic No More
Margery Wolf, The House of Lim
Paul Stoller, Money Has No Smell
Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life
Course Readings
| Readings from Previous Weeks |
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| Week Ten: | Emily Martin, "The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles" Available on JSTOR Celia Lowe, "Making the Monkey: How the Togean Macaque Went from 'New Form' to 'Endemic Species' in Indonesians' Conservation Biology" Cultural Anthropology 19:4 (2004), pp. 491-516. |
| Week Eleven: | Paris: the Invisible City "A virtual book," by Bruno Latour and Emile Hermant. Requires Flash. I highly recommend downloading the PDF version of the text & printing relevant sections rather than trying to read and view the images on-screen. Bruno Latour's home page |
Additional Resources
Watching
Ethnographic Film
From Mark Peterson's course at American University
in Cairo
Terence Turner, "Social Body and Embodied Subject: Bodiliness, Subjectivity, and Sociality among the Kayapo"
Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 10, No. 2, Anthropologies of the Body. (May, 1995), pp. 143-170. Terence Turner has worked among the Kayapo off and on for more than thirty years. Pages 153-154 focus specifically on the symbolism of ear and lip plugs.