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