Anthropology 102                                                                                                                                 Los Angeles Valley College

Sections 8192/8193

Dr. Leanna Wolfe                                                                                                                                 Fall 2010

CULTURAL and VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Links to assigned power points and readings.

 

Week                  Day                   Links                                                                Topic     

1                          9/9                   Festival!!                                                            What is Anthropology? Culture Counts

                                                   Photography Projects

 

2                          9/16                  No links                                                             Doing Cultural Anthropology

                                                                                                                              Communication

 

3                          9/23                   No links                                                            Making A Living

 

 

4                         9/30                    No links                                                            Economics

 

5                         10/7                    MIDTERM #1      

 

6                         10/14                  PPT: Sex and Culture Project                            Marriage, Family and Kinship                            

                                                      PPT: How the Bough Bends: Users of Donated Gametes                  

 

7                         10/21                   “Arranging a Marriage in India”                          Sex and Gender                                                           

                                                   

8                         10/28                   Adding A Co-Wife                                             Polyamory and Polygamy

                                                      PPT: Adding A Co-Wife

                                                      “Polyamory: The Next Sexual Revolution”  (Only You. And You. And You.)

                                                     “On Kittens and the Very Invented Culture of Polyamory

     “America’s Fidelity Crisis”

 

9                         11/ 4                    No links                                                              Political Organization                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                  Social Control and Social Conflict

 

10                       11/11                   NO CLASS--Veterans Day                                  

 

11                       11/18                   MIDTERM #2

                                                            

12                       11/25                   NO CLASS--Thanksgiving

                      

13                       12/2                     Burning Man Pastiche                                          Religion and Burning Man

                                                      Burning Woman (blog)

 

14                       12/9                      No links                                                             Power, Conquest and a World System

                                                                                                                                 Globalization and Change

 

15                      12/16                     FINAL EXAM