CLASS SCHEDULE

Unit One: INTRODUCTION
Monday, September 30:

Introduction to the Class
Introduction to the Sociocultural faculty

Thursday, October 3:
Introduction to the Yanomami controversies

Unit Two: THE PROBLEM OF GENERAL EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
Monday, October 7:

Perspectives on the Problem

Thursday, October 10
Nineteenth-century Approaches and the First Demise of General Evolution

Monday, October 14
Marxist Approaches

Thursday, October 17
Recent General Evolutionary Models
Paper due today

Unit Three: THE PROBLEM OF SPECIFIC EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL PROCESS
Monday, October 21
Individualistic Approaches to Social Explanation

Thursday, October 24
Darwinism from its Source

Monday, October 28
Gender and Sex in Evolutionary Terms

Monday, November 4
Feminist Evolutionary Explanation
Paper due today

Thursday, November 7
Analogies Between Biological and Cultural Evolution

Thursday, November 14
Evolutionary Ecology: Recent Advances

Monday, November 18
A Very Alternative Explanation

Unit Four: THE PROBLEM OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AUTHORITY AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL RHETORIC
Thursday, November 21
Anthropological Rhetoric

Monday, November 25
Teaching Anthropology
Paper due today

Unit Five: THE PROBLEM OF ETHICS IN FIELDWORK
Monday, December 2
The Book that Caused the Ruckus

Thursday, December 5
The Ruckus

Monday, December 9
Evaluating the Ruckus
Paper due today

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