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Professor Orna Johnson
E-mail: [email protected]
Please only use e-mail to reach me
Office: SH 240M
Lectures: Mondays 7:00-9:45pm
Office hours: M 6:30-7 and 9:45-10:15
Classroom: SH 203
Anthro 150 – Spring 2004
http://www.csun.edu/~oj53461/index.html
OVERVIEW:
This course offers an introduction anthropology. It focuses on the five fields of anthropology
to understand the variation among people in different societies at different points in time.
To this end, anthropologists engage in field research—intensive on-site studies--around the world. They
compare these societies and develop ways of understanding cultures that differ from their own.
REQUIRED READING:
 Cultural Anthropology (6th edition) Marvin Harris and Orna Johnson, Allyn and Bacon Publishers
 Readings posted on the class website (see web address above).
EXAMS, PAPERS, SECTION DISCUSSIONS AND GRADING:
 There will be two exams – a midterm and a final—as well as a life history assignment. The midterm
exam is 25 points; the final is 30 points and the life history paper is 20 points.
 Six films, marked (F) below, will be shown in class. You will be asked to write a three page TYPED
response paper for FIVE of the films, summarizing each film and showing how it relates to the
reading. Each paper is due the following week and is worth two points, for a total of ten points. No
late papers will be accepted. Hold on to the papers after they are returned to you and hand them in
as a packet on the last day of class.
 Attendance and participation in class is mandatory. Please do not come late to class. If you have to
leave early, please let me know at the beginning of class.
 The Life History paper should be a minimum of 8 pages and must include an appendix of interview
notes. The paper is due on May 10th at the beginning of class. One point will be deducted each day
the paper is late.
 Summary of grading: 25 (midterm exam)
10 (5 film and reading response papers)
20 life history paper
30 final exam
POLICY NOTE:
No make up exams will be given without prior consent from the instructor.
Attendance is mandatory and you must be in class on time–absence and tardiness will negatively impact
your grade. Anyone who contests a grade must do so in writing, within five days after the exam is returned.
Feb. 2
Introduction to Anthropology
Chapter 1
Feb. 9
What is Culture (F)
Chapter 2;
Feb. 16
Biological Anthropology and Evolution
Chapter 3
Feb. 23
Linguistic Anthropology (F)
Chapter 4;
Mar. 1
The Mode of Production & Reproduction (F)
Chapter 5- 6; Reading on the Web
Mar. 8
Economic Anthropology
Chapter 7
Mar. 15
Kinship and Domestic Relations
Chapter 8-9
Mar. 23
Pre-state political Systems
Chapter 10
Mar. 29
MIDTERM EXAM
Apr. 5
Reading on the Web
Reading on the Web
Reading on the Web
SPRING BREAK
Apr. 12
The Evolution of State Society (F)
Chapter 11
Apr 19
Class and Caste/Race and Ethnicity (F)
Chapter 12-13; Reading on the Web
Apr. 26
Gender (F)
Chapter 14;
May 3
Psychological Anthropology
Chapter 15
May 10
LIFE HISTORY PAPER IS DUE
May 17
Religion
Chapter 16
Applied Anthropology
Chapter 18
Take home exam
Reading on the Web
Reading on the Web