| 1 | Introduction: Anthropology and Its Divisions | |
| 2 | Being Cultural | |
| 3 | Evolution and Adaptation | |
| 4 | Film: Number Our Days | Paper #1 due |
| 5 | Doing Fieldwork | |
| 6 | Ethnography | |
| 7 | Writing and Pain | |
| 8 | Uniqueness and Cultural Difference | Paper #2 due |
| 9 | Race and Biological Difference | |
| 10 | Giving and Receiving | |
| 11 | Potlatch and Kula | |
| 12 | Morality and Cultural Relativism | |
| 13 | Film on Exchange, with Discussion | |
| 14 | Anthropological Studies of Science | Paper #3 due (Gift exchange) |
| 15 | Thinking Symbolically | |
| 16 | Kinship and Marriage | |
| 17 | TBA | Paper #4 due (Moral judgments) |
| 18 | Film: The Nuer | |
| 19 | The Nuer of the Sudan | |
| 20 | Film: Strange Practices | |
| 21 | Making Sense of the Nuer | Paper #5 due (Arguments) |
| 22 | Making More Sense of the Nuer | |
| 23 | Problems with Culture | Final paper due (Nuer) |
| 24 | More Problems with Culture | |
| 25 | Wrap-up | |