Anthro 500

Fall term 2002 assignments and topics

 

name
session
commentary
brief guide note
for course web site
tentative project topics
Allison Alexy
9/26
  Trobriand Islanders video Ruth Benedict
Sheriden Booker
10/10
  B Malinowski video Franz Boas: Culture and Race
Devika Bordia
12/5
  E-P video Srinivas, R-B, and the development of social anthropology in India
Judith Casselberry
10/3
 F Boas video  Zora Neale Hurston: Anthropologist
Myra Jones
9/26
  The Ax Fight video The Fateful Hoaxing of Anthropology
Nazima Kadir
11/14
  M Mead video  The Chagnon-Tierney controversy
Moon-Hee Lee
10/31
 Trobriand cricket video  The Making of the "Bushmen": the Khoi and San People
Ravenna Michalsen
11/7
  The Pathans  Authorial presence in early ethnography and travel writing
Christina Moon
11/14
    
Juan Orrantia
10/24
  Azande Witchcraft video Visual Fields: Three Moments in The History of nthropology and Photography
Jonathan Padwe
10/10
  overview of RAI series  The Anthropology of Violence in Historical Perspective
Arian Schulze
10/24
  The Pathans video  Nuer and Swat Pathan
Olga Sooudi
10/17
  field letters & diaries  The Emergence of Ethnographic Form: An Analysis of Four Classic Texts
Cathy Timura
11/7
 WHR Rivers video The History of Medical Anthropology Through Its Textbooks
Gavin Whitelaw
10/3
 Boas field letters A History of the Human Relations Area Files

 

See also the schedule of session commentaries arranged by session