Readings:
Brian Ferguson, Yanomami Warfare
Assignment:
Well, does this make you think Chagnon is all wet? Why or why not? Post your thoughts.
In class:
First hour: A discussion of whether historical contingency and macro political economic forces, as set out by Ferguson, negate the effects of evolutionary pressures, just contain them, or are really just epiphenomena in the evolutionary process.
Second hour: Turning the corner: lecture on rhetoric and writing in Anthropology.