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Anthropology 2 Intro. To Cultural Anthropology
A. A. Yengoyan Office: 226 Young Hall
Fall Quarter, 2010
Handout Number 1
This course is designed to survey the major ethnographic, institutional, and theoretical concepts
which are the basis of cultural anthropology. Through the analysis of cultural diversity, the scope
of our subject matter will be devoted to understanding what cultural anthropology can contribute
to our human past as it related to contemporary social and cultural problems. By focusing on
some aspects of the present, we will attempt to interpret issues of racism, class structure, gender
and inequality.
Required Reading: all of the readings are in paperback.
The textbook for this course is:
Investigating Culture: By Carol Delaney. Blackwell Publ., paper, 2004
Other Required Readings are:
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians , 1980, Penguin Books. This is a novel about
colonialism and racism in South Africa. In the lecture outline referred to as Coetzee.
Murphy, Yolanda and Robert F. Women of the Forest (Second edition). Columbia
University Press, 1985. A description of gender roles and social structure in the Amazon of
central Brazil. In the lecture outline referred to as Murphy.
Orwell, George. The following three articles by Orwell are all required. They have been xeroxed
and can be purchased at Davis Copy Shop on 3 rd Street. The articles have been duplicated on two
sides of the sheet to cut cost. Ask for the course pack for Anthropology 2.