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ANTHROPOLOGY 356/556
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Department of Geography and Anthropology |
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ANTHROPOLOGY 356/556
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COURSE GOALS AND METHODS |
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| The course is designed to help you become able to think about issues of
gender in a cross-cultural and non-judgmental manner. You will become
aware of the major evolutionary and historical changes in gender roles and
the considerable variation in women's roles and status in societies
throughout the world. You will become familiar with anthropological
concepts and feminist research.
The course will use lecture, whole class discussion and small group
discussion. Videos showing the many societies we will read about will be
an important feature of the course. |
COURSE REQUIREMENTS |
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Quizzes
There will be 6 quizzes during the semester. The lowest grade will be dropped. The questions will be true/false or short answer. You can take a quiz you missed if you see me before they are handed back.
Midterm There will be one take-home essay exam covering the material through Nov. 5. It will be due Nov. 12 (or by Nov. 14). Exam guidelines Midterm questions You will be expected to submit 2 reaction papers during the semester. Each paper should be 2-3 pages and will be worth a maximum of 20 points. You will be required to write a research paper about 5 pages long on a topic related to women in societies other than or in addition to the United States. You will be expected to make a 5 minute presentation of your findings to the class. Turn in a brief proposal of the research topic along with 3 promising references on Oct. 22. Student presentation of articles A group of two or three students will prepare questions on a specific article which members of the class will discuss in small groups. The group should come up with about 4 questions which relate to the main points of the article and which will be interesting for other students to discuss. The questions must be sent to me the day before the class discussion. A sign-up list will be passed around in class. Assignment of course grade Quizzes 6@20 120 Reaction papers 2@20 40 Midterm 80 Research paper 100 340 The principle that will be used to determine grades: 94% A 90% A; 87% B+ 84% B 80% B- and so on. Meaningful contributions to class discussion will be considered very favorably when averaging grades. |
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| UWEC Academic goals | |
The UWEC Academic Goals which will be addressed by this course are
primarily:
I consider any academic misconduct in this course as a serious offense, and I will pursue the strongest possible academic penalties for such behavior. The disciplinary procedures and penalties for academic misconduct are described in the UW-Eau Claire Student Services and Standards Handbook(http://www.uwec.edu/sdd/publications.htm) in Chapter UWS 14—Student Academic Disciplinary Procedures. Any student who has a disability and is in need of classroom accommodations, please contact the instructor and the Services for Students with Disabilities Office in Old Library 2136 at the beginning of the semester. |
| Attendance Policy | |
| You will be expected to attend regularly. Excessive absences may result
in a lowering of your grade: if there are 6 unexcused absences, the course
grade may be lowered by 1/3 (e.g. from B to B-); if 10 unexcused absences,
the grade may be lowered by 2/3.
Attendance will be kept by your writing a short note at the end of each class. You choose the topic: you can comment on something you found interesting or puzzling in the lecture or a video; add your own relevant example; make a suggestion; ask a question... |
| Readings | ||
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Rental Textbooks
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Reader: Falk and Gross, 2001 Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives in Non-Western Cultures, 3rd ed. | |
| Text: Bonvillain, Nancy, 1997. Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender, 2nd ed. | ||
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Reserve Library (CRIM) |
Articles listed on syllabus by author's name. All are available on electronic reserve. | |
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Website |
The syllabus, reaction paper assignments and
topic guides will be available online at: http://www.uwec.edu/minkushk/antropology_
356syllabus.htm.
All the PowerPoint slides are available . Click on
the lecture topic that is highlighted in yellow.
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would be a very good idea to print the slides before class so that during
class you won’t have to copy the slides but can listen and take
additional notes.
PowerPoint slides highlighted in yellow Web page of important information Web page of material for your information |
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COURSE SYLLABUS
Sept. 5 Introduction Visit to "Albatross"
Sept.10 Video: Killing Us Softly 3 HF5827 K553 2000 Killing us softly discussion questions
Sept. 12 Feminist Methodology Reader: Introduction pp xiv-xvii Nilsen "Sexism in English: a 1990s Update" on Web Martin "The Egg & the Sperm" (optional)
Sept. 17 Evolutionary Theory and Ancient Foragers Hershberger "Josie takes the stand" Pringle "New Women of the Ice Age" Evolution Ethnocentrism Ethnocentrism
Sept. 19 Contemporary or Recent Foragers Reader: Gross #25 Text: pp. 16-24; 34-38; 45-48; 211-214 Reader: Talamentez #24 Quiz Gross, Ju/hoansi, Talamantez
Sept. 24 Discussion of Menstruation Video: Period Piece QP263 .P47 1996 Steinem If men could menstruate" on Web
Sept. 26 Tribes: Matrilineal: Hopi Kinship Schlegel "Male and Female in Hopi Thought and Action" Video: Winds of Change: Hopi
Oct. 1 Tribes: Matrilineal: Iroquois Text: Ch. 3 Huron & Iroquois pp. 69-78 Two Spirits pp. 187-193 Video: Onondaga
Oct. 3 Tribes: Patrilineal Reader: Binford #1 Van Allen "Sitting on a Man" Text: Yanomamo pp. 78-82 Quiz Binford, Van Allen, Yanomamo
Oct. 8 Chiefdoms: Akan of Ghana Smock “The Impact of Modernizaton on women's position in the family in Ghana"
Oct. 10 Neolithic Goddess Religion; Rise of Patriarchy Video: The Goddess Remembered Text: p. 124, 239 Kinsley “Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth” Reader: Marcos #21
Oct. 15 Video: Asante Market Women DT507 .A73
Oct. 17 The Muslim World Intensive Agriculture Abu-Lughod “Do Muslim Women really need saving?" Video: Under One Sky HQ1784.U545 Oct. 22 Smith "Women and Islam"
Oct. 24 Reader: Betteridge #11 Friedl #13 Pyburn "Worthless Women" Quiz Reader articles, Smith, Pyburn
Oct. 29 Hindu India Text: Ch. 5 pp. 132-142; 227-228 Singh "Indian Marriage a la Mode" Lessinger "Family, Gender Relations and the second generation" Disc "Cultural Differences in Mate Selection" Video: A Woman's Place: India Quiz: Text, Singh, Lessinger, Cultural Differences
Oct. 31 Video: Dadi's Family
Nov. 5 Reader: White #4 Freeman #9 Text: pp. 229-230 Quiz Reader articles
Nov. 7 An Anthropological View of Birthing Davis-Floyd "The Technocratic Body and the Organic Body" Text: pp. 201-204
Nov. 12 Visit to Sacred Heart Hospital Maternity Ward ov. 10 Nov. 14 Japan Video: Japanese Women Reader: Nakamura #14
Nov. 19 Shimomura “Too much Mommy-San” Nakano & Wagatsuma "Mothers and their unmarried daughters" Karino, Ayako "Husbands reform to keep from getting dumped" on Web
Nov. 21 Video: Ndebele Women 4422
Nov. 26 Women’s Bodies Ahmadu “Rites and Wrongs" Disc Kratz "Circumcision, Pluralism and Dilemmas of Cultural Relativism" Quiz Ahmadu, Kratz
Nov. 28 Development and Globalization Video: Sisters and Daughters Betrayed HQ411 .A4557 1995
Dec. 3 Burn "Women and Globalization" Toupouzis "The Feminization of Poverty Video: The Women’s Bank of Bangladesh HQ3290.6 A8 G737 1997
Dec. 5-12 Research reports
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