COURSE OUTLINE

CLASSES: Wednesday & Thursday (08:30 am to 10:00 am)

FACILITATOR: Shakeel Ahmad Bhatti (shakeel.ahmad@cuilahore.edu.pk)

INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY

The scope of Anthropology

The holistic approach
Week 1 What is Anthropology? Relativism in Anthropology
The Anthropological Curiosity
Fields of Anthropology
Week 2 What is Anthropology? Cont. Specialization
The Relevance of Anthropology
The evidence of the past
Finding the evidence
Week 3 How we discover the past? Analyzing the evidence
Dating the evidence
The results of Archeological Research
Pre-agricultural Developments
The Domestication of Plants and Animals
Week 4 Origins of Food Production and Why Did Food Production Develop?
Settled Life Consequences of the Rise of Food
Production

CULTURAL VARIATION

Defining Features of Culture

Attitudes that Hinder the Study of Cultures
Week 5 The Concept of Culture Some Assumptions about Culture
Week 6 Culture (Cont.) Cultural Relativism
Describing a Culture
Week 7 Research & Anthropology Explanations
Research in Cultural Anthropology
Communication
The Origins of Language
Week 8 Communication and Language Descriptive Linguistics
Relationship between Language and
Culture
The Ethnography of Speaking
Food collection
Food Production
Environmental Restraints on Food-Getting
Week 9 Getting Food The Origin of Food Production
The Spread and Intensification of Food
Production
The Allocation of Resources
Week 10 Economic Systems The Conversion of Resources
The Distribution of Goods and Services
Variation in Degree of Social Inequality
Egalitarian Societies
Rank Societies
Week 11 Social Stratification Class Societies
Racism and Inequality
Ethnicity and Inequality
The Emergence of Stratification
Gender Concepts
Physique and Physiology
Gender Roles
Week 12 Sex, Gender, and Culture Relative Contributions to Work
 Political Leadership and Warfare
The Relative Status of Women
Personality Differences
Sexuality
Marriage
Why Is Marriage Universal?
How Does One Marry?
Restrictions on Marriage: The Universal
Week 13 Marriage and Family Incest Taboo
Whom Should one Marry?
How Many Does One Marry?
The Family
Patterns of Marital Residence
The Structure of Kinship
Variation in Unilineal Descent System
Functions of Unilineal Descent Groups
Ambilineal System
Week 14 Marital Residence and Kinship Explaining Variation in Residence
The Emergence of Unilineal Systems
Explaining Ambilineal and Bilateral
Systems
Kinship Terminology
Variation in Types of Political
Organization
Week 15 Political Life: Social Order and The Spread of State Societies
Disorder Variation in Political Process
Resolution of Conflict
The Universality of Religion
Variation in Religious Beliefs
Week 16 Religion Variation in Religious Practices
 Religion and Adaptation
The Sacred and The Profane
The Universality of Psychological
Development
Cross-Cultural Variation in Psychological
Week 17 Psychology and Culture Characteristics
Psychological Explanations of Cultural
Variation

How and Why Cultures Change?

Culture Change and Adaptation
Types of Culture Change in the Modern
Week 18 Culture Change and World
Globalization Ethnogenesis: The Emergence of New
Cultures
Globalization: Problems and Opportunities
Cultural Diversity in the Future
Archaeology of Knowledge
What is Science?
Intended Anthropology of Science & Technology
Technology Interplay of Power, knowledge, Science
and Technology
Actor-Network Theory and STS
What is Marriage?
Incest and Exogamy
Value Adding Marriage Incest and its Avoidance
Endogamy
Marital Rights and Same-Sex Marriage
Marriage as Group Alliance
Divorce
 Plural Marriages
The Online Marriage Market
What is Culture?
Culture’s Evolutionary Basis
A Must Culture Universality, Generality, and Particularity
Culture and Individual
Sex and Gender
Recurrent Gender Patterns
Learning Gender Gender Roles and Gender Stratification
Edition Gender in Industrial Societies
Beyond Male and Female
Sexual Orientation
Media and Culture
Using the Media
Recommended Anthropology of Media Mediatization
Assessing the Effects
Networking and Sociability On- and
Offline
Religion in Comparative Perspective
World Religions and Local Variations
 Hinduism
Need of the Religion  Buddhism
Hour  Judaism
 Christianity
 Islam
Directions of Religious Change

Note: The Course Outline is tentative and subjects to change if and when needed.
Assignments;

 4 Assignments are mandatory as per departmental requirements.

o 1st Assignment to be submitted before March 14, 2019
o 2nd Assignment to be submitted on or before April 17, 2019
o 3rd Assignment to be submitted on or before May 15, 2019
o 4th Assignment to be submitted on or before June 06, 2019
 Students would have to go for a short-scaled research work as well.

Note: I have ZERO tolerance for plagiarism. I advise you, strongly, not to engage in plagiarism
in any capacity.

Internal Exam

 Class Quizzes as per the following schedule;

o 1st Quiz to be held before March 14, 2019
o 2nd Quiz to be held on or before April 17, 2019
o 3rd Quiz to be held on or before May 15, 2019
o 4th Quiz to be held on or before June 06, 2019
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 As per the academic policy, there would be 2 Mid-term exams (Sessional Exam)
o Sessional-I exams to be start from Monday, March 18, 2019
o Sessional-II exams to be start from Monday, April 29, 2019

Final Exams

 As per the academic calendar the final (terminal) exams are planned to start from June
18, 2019