ANTH-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ethnography, Trobriand Islands, Beacon Press
17 Mar 2019
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Office: 11 price hall: phone 8-3829; e-mail: nt01 [note: that"s a zero ] Office hours: 11:00-12:00 mwf, by appointment, or chance. Purpose: to develop an understanding of the ways cultures assign different values and. We will do this through a thorough grounding in ethnography that will provide the background to examine the historical development of anthropological theories about gender and gender construction. I will lecture to provide background for the anthropological ideas and concepts. Students are expected to do the readings before class. The first essay on classical vs. current approaches -- malinowski and weiner [27. 5% of grade]. The second essay, analyzing violence and gender antagonisms. The third, comparing neither man nor woman and the left hand of darkness and how it illuminates issues related to the study of gender raised throughout the course. Essay three receives more weight because i expect you to integrate material from the previous sections of the course.
