Fall Semester 2009 - DVD
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
NOTE: You must view the taped lectures to pass this course. There are also tests that must be scheduled through the DELTA DE Proctor. See below for instructions.
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Instructor: Tim Wallace |
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Office: 220 1911 Building; Office Hrs: MWF 1:30-3:30 |
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Email: tmwallace@mindspring.com |
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Secretary: Bruce Cheek |
Secretary Telephone: 919-515-2491 |
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY, ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED FOR THE COURSE IS ON THIS WEBPAGE.
PLEASE NOTE!!!!!!!! THIS IS NOT AN 'ONLINE/INTERNET' COURSE. IT IS A DVD-FORMATTED COURSE. YOU MUST GET THE DVD-formatted LECTURES BY ACQUIRING THEM AT:
1) THE NC STATE UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORES. They will "loan" them to you for a refundable deposit of $50. You may also order the textbooks through the NCSU Bookstores. I have found the webcasts to be a less satisfying method of viewing the programs. I suggest you use the DVD set, if you can.
2) As a WEBCAST and/or Streaming Video. These will be made available to you after you have registered for the course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Six fundamental objectives that underlie this course:
1) To acquaint you with the diversity of peoples, places and cultures that make up our global village.2) To learn about our own socio-cultural system by studying other socio-cultural systems.
3) To learn some theories anthropologists have developed about the why's and how's of human behavior.
4) To improve analytic and research skills.
5) To provide some applied, practical anthropological perspectives and skills.
6) To have some fun while we are doing the above.
The achievement of these objectives will in large part be determined by the degree of your attention to detail, reading the assignments in a timely way and completion of periodic assignments, and sharing comments, ideas and questions via email or other media. The nature of the subject matter is both factual and interpretative. Anthropology is a unique field of inquiry, and while the subject is complex, the learning of it can also be fun. You are in for quite an adventure. Of course, you are also in for an adventure if you are taking this course as a distance learning course. To do this course as a cable course, you must keep in touch with me, the instructor, especially if you have any questions. I have started a listserve (ANT252-002@wolfware.ncsu.edu) for the course, so if you have any general questions you can post them to the list and I will respond so that everyone knows the answer. You can also communicate with other class members that way, too. You may also communicate via forums/chat board. To check your grades, please use wolfware: http://courses.ncsu.edu and click on the appropriate anthropology course number and title.
PROCTORING TESTS: Please note that you will have to have your tests proctored. All proctoring must be scheduled through DELTA, both local and remote. All testing appointments are now made online, and everything you need to know about proctoring for your tests through the DELTA Testing Center (directions to the office, link to the online scheduling system, parking instructions, office hours, what to do if you don't live close to campus, etc) is located on the Local Proctoring page of the DE website. The Local Proctoring page URL is http://distance.ncsu.edu/students/localproctor.html. To schedule your exam, follow the link on the page entitled “Click here to schedule your appointment online.” You will be prompted to create a login name and password, and then you can use the system to schedule, reschedule, or cancel your exams from home. You are encouraged to schedule all your exams, including your final exam, as early on as possible. Take note that DELTA Testing Center is on Centennial Campus, Building VENTURE II, Suite 500. Information with directions to the facility and parking info are on the local proctoring link given. If you have any questions with the system, feel free to email John Pugh at deproctor@ncsu.edu, or call at 919-513-1513.
For local proctoring appointment times are on a first-come, first-served basis, and students
MUST SCHEDULE THEIR EXAMS by September 15. If not, there may
not be space available.
Remote
Proctoring
Students outside of a 50-mile radius are allowed to use a remote proctor
instead of coming into the DELTA Testing Center. All information on this
process is found on our Remote Proctoring page (http://distance.ncsu.edu/students/remoteproctor.html).
Please note both the Student Proposed Proctor form and Proctor
Agreement Forms are online. You must also schedule your exams by
September 15 or there may not be any space available. DELTA
has found that about half of the remote students did not start the
proctor approval process until 48 hours or less before their first exam.
Waiting till the very last minute puts everyone in a bind (instructor
extensions, frantic emails, etc), so they are now putting a time limit
on when we will be approving proctors.
| Tests/Exams | Percent of Grade | Approx. Due Date | Assignments | Percent of Grade | Due Date |
| Test one - lectures 1-18 | 26% | Complete no later than 9/25 | Ethnic Store Assignment | 7% | 9/12 |
| Test two - lectures 19-32 | 26% | Complete no later than 10/30 | Food Ways Assignment | 7% | 10/23 |
| Final lectures - 33-38 | 26% | Complete by 12/15 | Marriage Decisions Assignment | 8% | 11/30 |
TEXTBOOKS
Principal Textbook:
Gary Ferraro and Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, 8e. Belmont, Ca: Wadsworth/Cengage, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-495-60192-0. (Please note that I have had to update the textbook with a new edition, since they have stop producing new texts of the previous edition. However, if you would like to use an earlier edition (6th edition or 7th edition), that will be ok. The chapters, though significantly rewritten in certain sections retail the same order and names.)
Required Supplementary Texts:
Katherine A. Dettwyler, Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1994. ISBN: 088133748. (There is a study guide for this book available.)
Donald D Stull and Michael J Broadway, Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America. Belmont CA: Thomson-Wadsworth, 2004. 0534613039.
Eric Hansen, Motoring with Mohamed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea. New York: Random House, 1991. (This is a book used only for the DE section and not discussed in the campus course when it was produced. I think you'll find this author's experiences in the Red Sea area very, very fascinating and may even give us some insight into that tough-to-understand-from-a-distance region of the world.)
Required Articles to Read:
I have put about 25 articles on electronic reserve. You will need to download them from the library reserves when you connect to the library from a remote computer. You can also find them by going to (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/reserves/, and click on Courses and E-Reserves. The articles are accessible 24/7 with your unity computing account. Every student enrolled at NCSU automatically gets a unity account. If you are unfamiliar with unity computing accounts, call DELTA or the NCSU Computing Center. If you find any of the readings hard to find or not catalogued, please let me know asap or, better yet, contact Tripp Reade, a librarian specialist in distance learning services and electronic media at the D.H. Hill Library (kim_duckett@ncsu.edu) (919-513-3364). Please let me know if you have any problems accessing the materials, but often a direct call to Mr. Reade may work faster. Please note that a complete copy of the readings can be found at the end of the syllabus.
COURSE OUTLINE
A word about the outline and the readings may be useful first. Each course topic will be discussed in class for about 3-5 class periods; though, some topics will be discussed at greater length than others. In fact, we will be go through the first 4-5 topics more slowly than the final five. This is because there is a lot of material to learn in the beginning and some of the material mentioned at the beginning necessary for understanding the material at the end of the course will be more briefly referred to in the later topics. There are two tests and a final test (exam). None of the exams are cumulative. The first test will cover the first four topics and all the associated readings, discussions and films that there will have been during that section of the course. The second test will cover the topics 5, 6, 7 and 8, while the final test covers the remaining sections (9-13). Copies of previous semesters Powerpoint class notes can be accessed by clicking on the underlined Topic titles. Remember that the class notes are not comprehensive of everything that may be discussed in class and are no substitute for good personalized class lecture notes.
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Course Topics |
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Topic 1 |
Ferraro, chap 1, Electronic Reserves readings: Elizabeth Whittaker; Leon Fink; Ron Suskind, go to this site for NOVA Mayan Lost King site - related to archaeology section and observe ruins and here talk by David Stuart |
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Topic 2 |
Applying Anthropology | Ferraro, chap. 3; David McCurdy; Jack Greer; Electronic Reserves Readings: Gerald Murray; begin Dettwyler (Dancing Skeletons) book (see study guide for Dettwyler) |
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Topic 3 |
Ferraro, chap. 2; Electronic Reserves Readings: Horace Miner; Continue Dettwyler book (Dancing Skeletons) | |
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Topic 4 |
Ethnographic Methods, Ethics & Theory | Ferraro 4, 5: discussion of Dettwyler book; Electronic Reserve Readings: Tim Wallace, Richard Kurin, Richard Lee; Phil DeVita; William Beeman |
| Topic 5 | Culture Change | Ferraro 16; Electronic Reserves Readings: Jared Diamond; George Gmelch (basketball in Japan, 2002; |
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Topic 6 |
Ferraro 15; Electronic Reserve Readings: Mary O'Neill; Richard Robbins; begin Motoring with Mohamed | |
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Topic 7 |
Ferraro, 14; 13 (pp.331-341); Electronic Reserve Readings: Stephen Leavitt; finish Motoring with Mohamed | |
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Topic 8 |
Language and Culture | Ferraro 6; Electronic Reserve Readings: Matt Cartmill; Peter Farb (listed under ANT254) |
| Topic 9 | Environment and Food Getting | Ferraro 7; Electronic Reserve Readings: Emily Hornback; Dunlap Farm ppt.; start Stull and Broadway book |
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Topic10 |
Economics: Production, Exchange, Consumption | Ferraro 8; Electronic Reserve Readings: David Counts, Lee Cronk; finish Stull and Broadway book |
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Topic 11 |
Gender Diversity | Ferraro 11; Electronic Reserve Readings: David France; Anne Pyburn |
| Topic 12 | Marriage and Family | Ferraro 9; Electronic Reserve Readings: Carroll Dunham; Melvyn Goldstein, Serena Nanda |
| Topic 13 | Kinship, Stratification & Politics | Ferraro 10, 12, 13 (pp.312-330): Electronic Reserve Readings: Michael Rynkiewich; Marvin Harris Click on readings (Rynkiewich, Harris) for a synopsis. |
| Tests/Exams | Percent of Grade | Approx. Due Date | Assignments | Percent of Grade | Due Date |
| Test one - lectures 1-18 | 26% | Complete no later than 9/25 | Ethnic Store Assignment | 7% | 9/12 |
| Test two - lectures 19-32 | 26% | Complete no later than 10/30 | Food Ways Assignment | 7% | 10/23 |
| Final lectures - 33-38 | 26% | Complete by 12/15 | Marriage Decisions Assignment | 8% | 11/30 |
Exams: There are three tests, including the final exam. The first test will have fifty multiple choice questions, the second has 55, but the final test will have, in addition to 50 multiple choice questions, three essay questions. You may take the test any time before the final date listed in the table above. However, it is essential that you schedule all three tests as early as possible so you can find dates that are convenient to your schedule. Test 1 will test on Topics 1-4; test 2 on topics 5-8; and the final will cover topics 9-13.
Proctors: Each test, especially in the case of remote distance students, must be proctored by a person approved by the Distance Education Proctor (deproctor@ncsu.edu).
You must do all three assignments . In order to do the assignments you must read very carefully the specifics of what to do and what to write. The assignments are described in detail in the documents listed below. Click on the links to get them. If you have any trouble downloading the information, please contact the instructor as soon as possible. Each one will be graded. Mistakes are expected, but you should make a strong attempt to carry out the assignments as best you can. Try to do each assignment to the best of your ability, you will not be graded harshly for making a good effort at doing a good job.
Films:
During the semester you should see the following films: Tubabs in Africa; Borneo: Beyond the Grave; N'ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman; Millenium Series; Odyssey Series-Dadi's Family; Indian By Birth. These films are available at the DH Hill Library Circulation Desk and via Tripsaver.
Grading Scale: A+ = 97.0 -100; A=95.9-93.0; A-=92.9-90.0; B+= 89.9-87.0; B=86.9-83.0; B-82.9-80.0; C+=79.9-77.0; C=76.9-73.0; C-=72.9-70.0; D+=69.9-67.0; D=66.9-63.0; D-=62.9-60.0; F= <60.0
To check your grades, please use wolfware: http://courses.ncsu.edu and click on the appropriate anthropology course number and title.
End of Course Evaluations:
Online class evaluations will be available for students to complete during the last two weeks of class. Students will receive an email message directing them to a website where they can login using their Unity ID and complete evaluations. All evaluations are confidential; instructors will never know how any one student responded to any question, and students will never know the ratings for any particular instructors.
Evaluation website: https://classeval.ncsu.edu
Student help desk: classeval@ncsu.edu
More information about ClassEval: http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/classeval/index.htm
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Exams and missed tests: All the tests are essay. If you miss a test due to for a good reason or an excused absence, you may be given the opportunity to take a make-up test in the space is available at the DE proctoring Center at a mutually convenient time of if the DE proctor has time to schedule the test with a remote proctor..
Incompletes: Incompletes will only be given if the student meets the university requirements outlined in the following document: http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/academic_affairs/pols_regs/REG205.00.13.php
Academic Integrity Statement: Cheating will not be tolerated. Any form of cheating results in an automatic "F" for the test/assignment/homework with which it is connected. Violations of academic integrity may result in an F for the course. For a clear statement of NCSU’s Academic Integrity policy, please visit this website: http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/student_services/student_discipline/POL11.35.1.php
Violations of the Student Honor Code will be reported to the appropriate person in your department/College (advisor, Dean, etc.). Everything turned in should be individual work. NCSU has a policy on academic integrity found in the Code of Student Conduct and you should consult it. Note that this policy includes an Honor Pledge. This means that on tests and other individual student assignments that the teacher expects that the student understands that she or he neither gave nor received unauthorized aid.
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Most of these items in this list are found through electronic reserves, except for a few items which can be accessed directly through the underlined links. Please note that not all of the readings on this are required, but the readings listed above in the course outline ARE required. Please note also the appropriate form used below that you should follow for listing references in your own papers.
Beeman, William O.
1992 "Proprietary Research and Anthropological Ethics." Anthropology News 31(9):21-22 (LINK)
Cartmill, Matt
1998 The Gift of Gab. Discover. November: 56-94. (LINK)
Counts, David
1990 Too Many Bananas, Not Enough Pineapples, and No Watermelon at All: Three Object Lessons in Living with Reciprocity. In The Humbled Anthropologist: Tales from the Pacific. P.R. DeVita, ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
Cronk, Lee
1989 Strings Attached. The Sciences May-June(3):2-4.
DeVita, Phil
1992. Greasy Hands and Smelly Clothes: Fieldworker or Fisherman? In DeVita, P.R., ed. The Naked Anthropologist: Tales from Around the World. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth PublishingCompany:156-164.
Diamond, Jared
1995 Easter's End. Discover (8).
Dunham, Carroll
"One Bride for Five Brothers". In Salinger, Lawrence M., ed. Deviant Behavior 98/99. 3rd ed. Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw Hill, 1998. pp.73-76. (LINK)
Farb, Peter
1974 "Man at the Mercy of Language." In Word Play. New York, Knopf, 171-182. (LINK)
Fink, Leon
2003 "The Way It Is in Morganton." Chapter from The Maya of Morganton, by Leon Fink. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. (LINK)
France, David
2000 "An Inconvenient Woman." New York Times Magazine 24-9, May 28, 2000.
Gmelch, George
2002 "Pickup Basketball Meets Janken". In Anthropology 02/03, edited by E. Angeloni, New York: Dushkin/McGraw Hill (LINK)
Goldstein, Melvyn
1987 "When Brothers Share a Wife". Natural History (March):39-48.
Greer, Jack
2003 "A Life Among Watermen." Chesapeake Quarterly 2(3), 3-14 (LINK)
Harris, Marvin
1989 Life Without Chiefs. New Age Journal :42-45. Two former students wrote brief reports on this article. Click here to get them.
Hornback, Emily
2004 Women's Roles in Natural Resource Conservation: A Pre-Study in San Antonio Palopo. Final Report from the 2004 NC State University Ethnographic Field School in Guatemala.. San Antonio Palopo, Guatemala: NC State University July 7, 2004. (LINK)
Kurin, Richard
1980 Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief. Natural History (11).
Leavitt, Stephen C.
1997 Cargo Cults and Religious Experience. In Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. J.P. Spradley and D.W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 341-351. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Lee, Richard Borshay
1969 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari. Natural History 78(10).
McCurdy, David
2000 Using Anthropology. In Conformity & Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 10th ed. J.P. Spradley and D.W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 386-398. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. (LINK)
Middleton, Dwight R.
2002. Exotics and Erotics: Human Cultural and Sexual Diversity. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, pp.58-66.
Miner, Horace
1956 Body Ritual among the Nacirema. American Anthropologist 58(3).
Murray, Gerald F.
1987 The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution. In Anthropological Praxis. R.M. Wulff and S.J. Fiske, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (LINK)
Nanda, Serena
2000 Arranging a Marriage in India. In Stumbling Toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work. P.R. DeVita, ed. Pp. 196-204. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Pyburn, K. Anne
2003 Worthless Women. In Personal Encounters. Linda Walbridge and April Sievert, eds. Boston: McGraw Hill (LINK)
Robbins, Richard H.
2001. Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach, 3ed. Itasca, IL: Peacock Publishers, Inc.: 20-26.
Rynkiewich, Michael A.
1990 Matrilineal Kinship: Coming Home to Bokelab. In Conformity and Conflict, Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 7th ed. J.P. Spradley and D.W. McCurdy, eds. Pp. 177-189. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman/Little Brown Higher Education. There is a brief review document by a former student for this article. Click here to get it.
Suskind, Ron
2001. "A Plunge into the Present." The New York Times Magazine, December 2, 2001.
Wallace, Tim
1990 Ethnography and Studying Schools in a Peruvian Peasant Community. In Language, Culture and Society: Readings in Linguistic Anthropology. J.M.T. Wallace, ed. Dubuque, IW: Kendall/Hunt. (LINK)
Whittaker, Elizabeth D.
1998 Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs and Our Health. In Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, 5th ed. A. Podolefsky and P.J. Brown, eds. Pp. 58-67. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing. (LINK)
Williams, Brett
1984 Why Migrant Women Feed Their Husbands Tamales. In Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States. L.K. Brown and K. Mussell, eds. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.