E200 | 4113 | Thomas

The ways in which people order their lives and understand themselves as
individuals who belong to a particular community is at the center of
social and cultural anthropology.  As social beings, all peoples have to
confront and resolve similar challenges; establish relationships;
resolving and solving conflicts; finding a satisfying identity; explaining
one's place in the world and so forth.  We will read and explore the
difference of human cultures and societies.

We will also examine the ways in which social and cultural anthropologists
understand people and their lives.  As anthropologists, we spend extended
field research are ethnographic texts that tell the stories of people's
lives.  Such ethnographies provide the reading for this course.

questions will guide our understanding: the first examines the external
and internal forces that shape cultures and individuals; the second
examines the processes by which anthropologists understand the cultures in
which they work.

Readings will include articles, journals and the following required texts
for the course:
1.	Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines.  Jeremy
MacClancy, editor.
2.	Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Cultural
Anthropology.  Robert L. Welsch & Kirk M. Endicott, editors.

1.  Four mini-field projects
2.  Class Attendance & Participation
3.  Midterm and Final exams