Week 2 Ethnography and Ethnographies
films: The Hunters
Bitter Melons

Week 3 Modes of Human Subsistence
Reading: Chagnon, ch. 1-3
films: Slash and Burn Agriculture
Yanamama: A Multidisciplinary Study

Week 4 The Yanamamo: Environment, Economy and Society
Reading: Chagnon, ch. 4-6
films: Warriors of the Amazon

Week 5 Yanamamo Politics of War and Peace
Reading: Chagnon, ch. 7
film: Magical Death

Mid-term Exam

Week 7 The Anthropology of Civilizations: from Tribes to Peasants
Reading: Beals, chs. 1-3
film: North Indian Village

Week 8 Indian Village Economy, Society and Hierarchy
Reading: Beals, chs. 4-6, 8

Week 9 The Family in India
Reading: Re-read Beals, chs. 2-3
film: Dadi's Family

Week 10 and 11 Cultures in competition and the Victims of Progress
Reading: Chagnon, ch. 8; Beals ch. 7; Bodley, all.
films: N'ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
Contact: the Yanamamo Indians
The Kayapo: Out of the Forest

Final Exam