Meets second eight weeks only

This course explores ethnography as an intellectual process, not just
a set of facts.  For  students interested in learning about issues of
changing family values, world development and comparative economic
systems, this course bridges the gap between a first general or
cultural anthropology course and more specific advanced courses. The
full-length ethnographies studied present different theoretical and
methodological approaches to the unifying themes of residence,
production, ownership, exchange and historical change.  Students
develop the analytic skills to define and answer questions about
economic and social changes, how these patterns are continually
renewed through cultural processes, and their implications for
personal life and the world at large, whether encountered in actual
future family and work relations or in reading and video.  Assignments
will be short essays, each  comparing two books.  This course is
approved for Intensive Writing credit.