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READING
Introduction
Mead and Samoa
Bedouins
Dopefiends
WRITING
Mead and Samoa
Bedouins
Dopefiends
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ANTHROPOLOGY 204
READING ETHNOGRAPHY
SPRING QUARTER 2011
| DATE | TOPIC | ACTIVITY |
| March 28 | What is Ethnography? | Introduction |
| March 29 | Basic Questions | Lecture |
| March 30 | Style Science and Art | Lecture |
| March 31 | Ethics | Section |
| April 1 | You as Ethnographer | Discussion |
| April 4 | Mead's Background | Lecture |
| April 5 | Samoa | Lecture |
| April 6 | What Mead Was Like | Guest Lecture |
| April 7 | Mead's Message | Section |
| April 8 | Mead's Idea of Culture | Lecture |
| April 11 | Mead and American Women | Lecture/discussion |
| April 12 | On Writing | Discussion and demonstration |
| April 13 | Freeman's attack | Lecture |
| April 14 | Popular Reaction to Freeman | Section |
| April 15 | Scholarly Reaction to Freeman | Lecture |
| April 18 | Mead's Methods | Lecture |
| April 19 | Samoans' Opinions of Mead | Guest Panel |
| April 20 | Mead as a Scientist | Lecture |
| April 21 | Mead's Popular Writings | Section |
| April 22 | Summary of My Ideas | Lecture |
| April 25 | Comparing Coming to the Field stories | Lecture |
| April 26 | Gender, Kinship and Honor | Lecture |
| April 27 | Empathy and Ethnography | Discussion |
| April 28 | Poetry and Translation | Section |
| April 29 | Structure and Sentiment | Lecture. Mead Essay Due 9:30 a.m. |
| May 2 | Fairly Standard Ethnography | Lecture |
| May 3 | Sinai | No Class but Writing Assignment |
| May 4 | Female Adolescence | Guest Lecture |
| May 5 | Storytelling and Culture | Section |
| May 6 | The Emotions of Readers | Discussion |
| May 9 | Photography | Illustrated Lecture |
| May 10 | The Politics of Authorship | Lecture |
| May 11 | Reviews of Lavie | Section |
| May 12 | Ethnographic Truth | Lecture |
| May 13 | Questions about Ethnography | Lecture |
| May 16 | Being Here | Lecture |
| May 17 | Reviews of Dopefiend | Lecture |
| May 18 | Writing about Race | Discussion |
| May 19 | Cultural Relativity | Section |
| May 20 | Being There Here | Lecture Bedouins Essay Due 9:30 a.m. |
| May 23 | American Families | Lecture |
| May 24 | Critique of Neoliberalism | Lecture |
| May 25 | Paradoxes in Dopefiend Culture | Lecture |
| May 26 | Irony and Morality | Section |
| May 27 | Ethnography as Advocacy | Lecture |
| May 30 | Memorial Day | Holiday, no class |
| May 31 | Relativity and Activism | Lecture |
| June 1 | Human Subjects | Lecture |
| June 2 | Ethnography and Journalism | Section, Class Evaluation |
| June 3 | Grand Finale | Short Essay, Class Evaluation, Signoff |
| June 8 | Righteous Dopefiend Essay | Due 9:30 a.m. |