Readings:
None for today. You need a break and you have a paper to write.
Formal Paper Assignment:
1. Choose any particular facet of the El Dorado foodfight over scientific and professional morality and either weigh in with your own opinion or analyze the positions of the disputants in as neutral a way as possible. In the latter case, emphasize what brought people to their specific positions. Confine the analysis to a particular issue; do not try to answer a broad question such as "Is Napoleon Chagnon a good person" or "how can anthropological fieldwork be conducted ethically."
2. Consider the rather frightening but still plausible hypothesis that people's opinions on whether Chagnon acted ethically in his research, and/or their opinions on whether Tierney's book is malicious, libelous, etc. correlate with their theoretical stances in anthropology. Pay particular attention to the UCSB website and to the writings/opinions of Turner and Sponsel at various stages of the controversy.
In class:
2nd hour: Evaluate how well this core course worked as an introduction to evolutionary anthropology and as an introduction to disputes about anthropological rhetoric and about fieldwork ethics.
Choose one of the following topics:
1st hour: Talk about what you wrote.