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Note: This syllabus is a 2003 version. The 2008 version will be substantially revamped, and posted on the web prior to the start of Fall Quarter. Meanwhile, you can look at the required texts for this class.
This class deals with a series of topics of anthropological relevance: persons, genders and families, rural communities, migration and the city, class and consumption, state and society, nation and world. It traces the changes in each of these areas from a baseline somewhere in the late Qing dyansty through the tentative modernization of the early 20th century and the period of High Socialist revolution to the consumer society of today.
There are six assigned paper topics, of which students will be required to turn in three. Each topic will be posted on the first day of the unit to which it pertains, and due on the first day of the following unit. Electronic submission is welcome; send them to my email address as attachments. Electronic submissions are due at 5:00 p.m.; hard copy submissions are due at 8:30 a.m. Class readings are from the required texts at the University Bookstore, from electronic reserve, and from some articles available directly on the internet.