Cultural Anthropology

Course title

S2494000

Course description

This course introduces the discipline of cultural anthropology.
We are apt to understand different culture through sense of cultural value we have developed in our own society. In this lecture, to be begin with, we recognize our innermost “ethnocentrism” and in turn discover cultural diversity, by surveying the significant areas of human society and culture anthropologists have studied.

Purpose of class

My main purpose in this class is for students to develop an appreciation for and understanding of cultural difference, and to gain a relativistic view and regard our own culture as only one system among many ones.

Goals and objectives

	Goals and objectives	Course Outcomes
1.	Reflect on ethnocentrism and obtain cultural relativism
2.	Understand diversity of human beings in terms of gender
3.	See our values of our own culture in these days of globalization

Language

Japanese

Class schedule

	Class schedule	HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.)	Amount of Time Required
1.	Introduction to the class: the purpose and schedule of this class	You must read this syllabus in detail in advance.	90分
1.		you must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
2.	Culture and cultural relativism	You must conduct a Web search on the term cultural relativism in advance.	90分
2.	Culture and cultural relativism	you must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
3.	Tacit knowledge as means of cultural tradition and technical tradition	You must conduct a Web search on the term tacit knowledge in advance.	90分
3.		you must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
4.	Metacommunication	You must conduct a Web search on the term metacommunication in advance.	90分
4.	Metacommunication	you must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
5.	Field work and ethnography	You must conduct a Web search on the term ethnography in advance.	90分
5.	Field work and ethnography	you must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
6.	intermadiate test and review	You must be prepared for the test in advance.	200分
7.	Family, kinship, and blood relationship	You must conduct a Web search on the term descent in advance.	90分
7.	Family, kinship, and blood relationship	you must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
8.	Gender and sex	You must conduct a Web search on the term gender in advance.	90分
8.	Gender and sex	you must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
9.	Rite of passage and gender	You must conduct a Web search on the term rite of passage.	90分
9.	Rite of passage and gender	You must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
10.	The structure of impurity : classification and liminality	You must conduct a Web search on the term liminality in advance.	90分
10.	The structure of impurity : classification and liminality	You must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
11.	Religion, belief, and syncretism	You must conduct a Web search on the term syncretism in advance.	90分
11.	Religion, belief, and syncretism	You must organize your thoughts after lecture.	90分
12.	Rethinking the conventional concept of “tradition” through Anthropology of Tourism and landscape of anthropology	You must conduct a Web search on the term invention of tradition in advance.	90分
12.		You must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
13.	Reciprocity and its social funciton	You must conduct a Web search on the term reciprocity in advance.	90分
13.	Reciprocity and its social funciton	You must organize your thoughts after lecture.	110分
14.	Term-end exam and view	You must be prepared for the test in advance.	200分
Total.	-	-	2780分

Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

	Intermediate test	Term-end exam	comment paper	Total.
1.	20%	10%	10%	40%
2.	20%	15%	5%	40%
3.	0%	15%	5%	20%
Total.	40%	40%	20%	-

Evaluation method and criteria

Term-end exam: if you comprehend the technical terms and theories referred in the lectures, you will get more than 60%. If you organize your thoughts on them, you will get over 80%.

Feedback on exams, assignments, etc.

ways of feedback	specific contents about "Other"
Feedback in the class

Textbooks and reference materials

Textbooks and reference books will be introduced in each class.

Prerequisites

The Students who decide to attend this class are expected to have knowledge of world history which a a person with a high school education should have.

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