Course Outline

Date	Topic	Readings
5-30	Course Introduction, Defining Culture & Cross-Cultural Methods	Bates-Chapter 1
5-31	Evolution of Humans, Evolution of Modern Human Culture Movie- “Mysteries of Mankind”	Bates-Chapter 2
6-1	Language and Communication Movie- “First Signs of Washoe”
6-2	Library/On-line research: Start working on a topic for your annotated bibliography. Search the library, internet or your books for a subject and either email me with this topic or turn it in on paper by Monday.
6-5	The !Kung Movie- “Bushmen of the Kalahari”	Lee-Chaps 1-4
6-6	!Kung Social Organization Movie- “N!ai-Story of a !Kung Woman"”	Lee-Chaps 5-8
6-7	!Kung Religion Movie- “The Gods Must Be Crazy” Exam 1 Review
6-8	Exam 1
6-12	Families, Kinship & Descent Race & Ethnicity Gender & Marriage	Bates-Chapter 3
6-13	Pastoralists Movie- “Maasai Women”	Bates-Chapter 5
6-14	Horticulturalists Movie- “A Man Called Bee & The Ax Fight”	Bates-Chapters 4 & 6
6-15	Chiefdoms & States, The Aztec & Movie- “Secrets of the Aztecs” Exam 2 Review	Berdan-Chapters 1-5
6-19	Exam 2
6-20	Class in Library Milne 305-work on Annotated Bibliography
6-21	Religion, Art & Trade Movie-“Them and Me”	Berdan-Chapters 6 & 7
6-22	Modern World System, Colonialism Movie- “Conquistadors”	Bates-Chapter 7 Berdan-Chapter 8
6-26	Amish Movie- “Not to be Modern”
6-27	Cultural Survival, Applying Anthropology Exam 3 Review	Bates-Chapter 8 Assignment Due
6-28	No Class-College Closed due to Flooding
6-30	Exam 3