SS 111 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
INSTRUCTOR: MARIA K. DONRE
BY: WILLAM A. HAVILAND
CLASS TIME:
10:00-10:55 a.m. MWF
OFFICE HOUR:
11:00-12:00 Noon Daily
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Cultural Anthropology is a course that is aimed to study different patterns of lives, through human adaptations to their environments. The students in the course will familiarize themselves with the different human groups, and societies. The students will compare and contrast the cultures studied to their own. The concept to be aware of is that cultures are all different but there is no one culture is superior to another. The students will also relate how cultural anthropology is related to other sciences.
The students will be given a general overview of what is Cultural Anthropology.
The students will be able to define anthropology and how it is related to other social sciences.
The students will define the concept of culture and compare similarities in cultures studied.
The students will identify different groups in different lands.
The students will try to relate family system of their own with others, and identify the different marriages, kinships, and lineages that do exist in the specific areas.
The students will be familiarize themselves with the concept of cultural relativism as opposed to ethnocentrism.
The students will be able to view the world in many perspectives, like in many cultures,
Languages, customs, music, arts, and how to deal with all these differences effectively.
After reading discussing Chapter 1, the students will be able to:
List other discipline of anthropology
Discuss the evolution of man
In an essay explain why anthropology is important to the
everyday life.
After viewing a video on Culture and reading Chapter 2, the students will be able to:
Define Culture, describe the culture in the video how is
it related to your own.
Describe the aspects of cultures, and list them. Compare similarities and Contrast
differences.
Explain what it means by culture is learned. How can culture be integrated?
Identify these anthropologists: Leslie A. White, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Brownislaw Malinowski.
After discussing Chapter 3, the students will be able to:
Define evolution, and describe how man is related other
apes.
Define hominine, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens
Discuss how is the basic knowledge of these can be
important to anyone in the world today.
After reading Chapter 4, the students will be able to:
Describe the nature of language.
Explain what is gesture.
Describe the linguistic change and causes.
Discuss how language transfer thoughts.
After studying Chapter 5, the students will be able to:
Define The Self, and Personality
Review the life of Margaret Mead
Refer to Ruth Fulton Benedict
Define normal and abnormal personality
After studying Chapter 6, the students will be able to:
Define horticulture: the Gururumba, pastoralsim: the
Bakhiari
After studying Chapter 7, the students will be able to:
Describe the distribution and exchange of goods in
different societies
Define redistribution, distribution of wealth
Discuss market exchange in Papua New Guinea and other
cultures
After studying Chapter 8, the students will be able to:
Discuss sex and marriage and the control of sexual
relations
Define Incest Taboo/ rules of sexual access
Identify types of marriages like endogamy, exogamy etc.
After studying Chapter 9, the students will be able to :
Discuss the members of household and their roles
Identify the forms of family
In Chapter 10, the students will be able to:
Identify the double descent and ambilineal descent
Differentiate lineage from clan
Discuss the phratries, moieties, bilateral kinship and
kindred
In Chapter 11, the students will be able to:
Describe the principles besides Kinship and Marriage are
used to organize people
within societies.
Discuss what is Age Grading.
Identify the Common- Interest Associations.
Define Social Stratification, and name some examples
areas with their types of social stratification.
In reviewing Chapter 12, the students will be able to:
Identify Uncentralized political systems, centralized
political systems
Define internalized controls and externalized controls
In Chapter 13, the students will be able to :
Discuss the Anthropological approach to religion
Discuss the practice of religion
Discuss the supernatural beings and powers
In Chapter 14, the students will be able to:
Define verbal arts, myth, legend, tale, and other verbal
arts
Discuss the art of music and its functions
Show pictorial arts
In Chapter 15, the students will be able to :
Define innovation, diffusion, cultural loss, forcible
change
Identify the role of acculturation in culture
Define genocide, directed change
Find out important contributions of Franz Boas in
anthropology
In Chapter 16, the students will be able to:
Define ethnic resurgence, culture pluralism,
ethnocentrism, global apartheid
Analyze problems of structural violence
Summarize the rights of the indigenous peoples of the
world, and what most of them are turning to and what do they want to be
WEEKLY READING ASSIGNMENTS
Week 1 : Chapter 1 The Nature of Anthropology
Week 2 : Chapter
2 The Nature of Culture
Week 3 : Chapter 3
The Beginnings of Human Culture
Week 5 : Chapter 5
Growing up Human
Week 6 : Chapter 6
Patterns of Subsistence
Week 7 : Chapter 7
Economic Systems
Week 8 : Mid term
Special Project
Week 9 : Chapter 8
Sex and Marriage
Week 10 : Chapter 9
Family and Household
Week 11 : Chapter 10 Kinship and Descent
Week 12 : Chapter 11 Grouping by Sex, Age, Common
Interest, and Class
Week 13 : Chapter
12 Political Organization and Social Control
Week 14 : Chapter
13 Religion and the Supernatural
Week 15 : Chapter
14 The Arts
Week 16 : Chapter
15 Cultural Change
Week 17 : Chapter
16 The Future of Humanity
Week 18 : FINAL EXAM
EVALUATION
100 %
All students will be subject to the standard COM-FSM attendance Policy.