A History of Anthropology
A Graduate Seminar at the University of Kansas
Course Schedule
September 2, 9,
16, 23, 30;
October 7, 14, 21,
28,
November 4, 11,
18, 25; December 2,
9
WEEK 1--August 26 ANTHROPOLOGY: SCIENCE OR ART?
READING ASSIGNMENT: Boas 1928, Benedict 1948, Evans-Pritchard 1950,
Childe 1953
WEEK 2 --September 2 SAVAGES & PHILOSOPHERS:
THE "HISTORY" OF CIVILIZATION BEFORE THE Origin of Species
READING ASSIGNMENT: Léry 1578; Vico 1744; Rousseau 1755;
Hegel 1878; Comte 1798-1857 [Evans-Pritchard 1981]; Lewis & Clark
1806, Spencer 1860; Gould 1979
WEEK 3--September 9 THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION
READING ASSIGNMENT: Darwin 1859, Darwin & Wallace 1858, Mendel
1865, Eiseley 1958
WEEK 4-- September 16 ORIGINS &
THE INVENTION OF PRIMITIVE SOCIETY
READING ASSIGNMENT: Lubbock 1869, Morgan 1877, Cushing 1879-84, Engels
1884, Lowie 1937, Tylor 1871, Frazer 1890
WEEK 5--September 23 THE BOASIANS &
THE CRITIQUE OF EVOLUTIONISM
READING ASSIGNMENT: Boas 1912, 1915, 1932, 1895, 1896, 1933, Mason
1943 Kroeber 1919, Benedict 1930, Parsons 1940, Hurston 1942
WEEK 6--September 30 HUMAN VARIATION
& THE QUESTION OF RACE
READING ASSIGNMENT: Hooton 1926, Montagu 1941, Shapiro 1952, Boyd 1957,
Garn 1961, Livingstone 1962
WEEK 7--October 7 CULTURE HISTORY
READING ASSIGNMENT: Childe 1929, Childe 1939, Childe 1951, Steward
1949, Taylor 1948, Willey & Phillips 1953, Spaulding 1957
WEEK 8--October 14 CLASSIFICATION, TYPOLOGY
& POPULATIONAL THINMNG
READING ASSIGNMENT: Dart 1925, Mayr 1951, Weiner 1955; Kroeber
1916, McKern 1939, Binford 1965, Clarke 1968
(ONE HOUR IN CLASS EXAMINATION)
WEEK 9-October 21 STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
READING ASSIGNMENT: Durkheim 1893, 1895, Radcliffe-Brown 1952,
Richards 1950, Evans-Pritchard 1951, Mair 1962
WEEK 10--October 28 STRUCTURALISM
READING ASSIGNMENT: Durkheim & Mauss 1903, Neeciham 1963, Levi-Strauss
1949, 1963, Leach 1961, Yalman 1967
WEEK 11--November 4 NEOEVOLUTIONISM
READING ASSIGNMENT: White 1943, Steward 1949, Sahlins & Service
1960, Fried 1967
WEEK 12-- November 11 HUMAN ECOLOGY
READING ASSIGNMENT: Steward 1955, Binford 1964, Wheat 1967,
Flannery 1968, Bartholomew & Birdsell 1953, Newman 1953
WEEK 13-- November 18 CHANGING STRATEGIES
IN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
READING ASSIGNMENT: Washburn 1951, Livingstone 1958, Watson & Crick
1953, Brues 1954, Hulse 1957, Chagnon et al. 1970
WEEK 14-November 25 MALE & FEMALE
READING ASSIGNMENT: Mead 1928, Freemen 1983, Malinowski 1921, Wiener
1976, Washburn & Lancaster 1968, Slocum 1975
WEEK 15--December 2 APPLYING ANTHROPOLOGY
READING ASSIGNMENT: Quimby 1979, Malinowski 1945, Mead 1979, Asad 1973,
Tambiah 1985, Johnston & Low 1984
WEEK 16--December 9 GENEALOGIES FOR THE
PRESENT & THE FUTURE
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