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ANT THL 352
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic:
The Anthropological Study of Religion
Course Schedule - SPRING 2009
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CLASS # |
DATE |
READINGS |
TASKS |
Tasks and readings are to be completed before the beginning of class
on the day they are assigned
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WEEK 1 |
| Class # 1 |
Thursday
January 15, 2009
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What is Religion?
Film: Dead Birds
(shown in class)
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Quiz #1
(due before 9:30 AM
Tuesday, January 20)
Quiz Upload Folder
Do not open others' papers
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WEEK 2 |
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Class # 2 |
Tuesday
January 20, 2009
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Religion: Social and Psychic Origins
Durkheim, "The Elementary Forms
of the Religious Life"
In Lessa and Voget pp 27 - 35
Tylor, "Animism"
In Lessa and Voget pp 9 - 19
Kipling: The White Man's Burden
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline: Key Terms and Ideas
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| Class # 3 |
Thursday
January 22, 2009
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Religious Functionalism: What Exactly Do You Do Do?
Malinowski, "The Role of Magic and Religion"
In Lessa and Voget pp 37 - 46
Radcliffe-Brown, "Taboo"
In Lessa and Voget pp 46 - 56
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline: Key Terms and Ideas
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Quiz # 2 Answer Key
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| WEEK 3 |
| Class # 4 |
Tuesday
January 27, 2009
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Magic, Witchcraft, Divination and Definitions
Titiev, "A Fresh Approach to the Problem
of Magic and Religion"
In Lessa and Voget pp pp 334 - 337
Frazer, "Sympathetic Magic"
In Lessa and Voget pp 337 - 352
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline: Key Terms and Ideas
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| Class #5 |
Thursday
January 29, 2009
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Religion - Me and We
Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System"
In Lessa and Voget pp 78 - 90
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline: Key Terms and Ideas
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Quiz # 3 Answer Key
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| WEEK 4 |
| Class #6 |
Tuesday
February 3, 2009
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Religious Symbols Can Get Hairy....
Ortner, "On Key Symbols"
In Lessa and Voget pp 92 -99
Homans, "Anxiety and Ritual"
In Lessa and Voget pp 57-62
Hallpike, "Social Hair"
In Lessa and Voget pp 99 - 105
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline: Key Terms and Ideas
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| Class # 7 |
Thursday
February 5, 2009
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... and Full of Bull Too
Marvin Harris: Cultural Ecology
Alan Dundas: Psychoanalysis and Bull Roarers
Hear and see a bull roarer
Emic and Etic - Concise Definitions
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline: Key Terms and Ideas
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Quiz #4 Answer Key
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| WEEK 5 |
| Class # 8 |
Tuesday
February 10, 2009
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Locked Into Religion: Sort Answers Welcome
Douglas, "The Abomination of Leviticus"
In Lessa and Voget pp 149 - 153
Leach, "Anthropological Aspects of Language:
Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse"
In Lessa and Voget pp 153 - 166
Myerhoff, "The Deer-Maize-Peyote Symbol Complex
Among the Huichol Indians of Mexico"
In Lessa and Voget pp 105 - 112
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline: Key Terms and Ideas
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Inital Paper Proposal Guide:
You may document your
plans up to the day before
the actual proposal is due
Submit Initial Proposal
Initial Proposal Due today before 9:30 AM
Final Proposal Due February 26th
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| Class # 9 |
Thursday
February 12, 2009
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Miss Myth Mr Myth
Rosaldo and Atkinson, "Man the Hunter and Woman:
Metaphors for the Sexes in Ilongot Magical Spells"
In Lessa and Voget pp 129 - 141
Levi-Strauss, "The Structural Study of Myth"
In Lessa and Voget pp 185 - 197
Willis, "The Head and the Loins: Levi-Strauss and Beyond"
In Lessa and Voget pp 197 - 207
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline: Key Terms and Ideas
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Quiz #5 Answer Key
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| WEEK 6 |
| Class # 10 |
Tuesday
February 17, 2009
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The Structural Study of Myth
Going Whole Hog
The Three Little Pigs |
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| Class # 11
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Thursday
February 19, 2009
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Please Don't Squeeze the Shaman
Levi-Strauss, "The Effectiveness of Symbols"
In Lessa and Voget pp 318 - 327
Borgoras, "Shamanistic Performance in the Inner Room:
In Lessa and Voget pp 302 - 308
Rasmussen, "A Shaman's Journey to the Sea Spirit"
In Lessa and Voget pp 308 - 311
Intorduction to Readings
Spiritualism and Spirit Photography
Lecture Outline and Key Terms
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Quiz #6 Answer Key
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| WEEK 7 |
| Class # 12 |
Tuesday
February 24, 2009
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A Shaman Is A Shaman Is A Shaman?
Cannon, ""Voodoo" Death"
In Lessa and Voget pp 367 - 373
Needham, "Percussion and Transition"
In Lessa and Voget pp 311 - 318
Shweder, "Aspects of Cognition in Zinacanteco Shamans:
Experimental Results"
In Lessa and Voget pp 327 - 331
In-Class Film: The Power of Belief
Introduction to Readings
Percussion and Transition - Russian Church Bells
Transition - Shaker Hymns
Lecture Outline and Key Terms
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| Class # 13 |
Thursday
February 26, 2009
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Divinization and Explanation
Turner, "Divination as a Phase in a Social Process"
In Lessa and Voget pp 373- 376
Moore, "Divination--A New Perspective"
In Lessa and Voget pp 376 - 379
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline and Key Terms
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Quiz #7 Answer Key
Submit Final Proposal Here
Due by 9:30 AM
Bring a hard copy to be handed in at the beginning of class
Guide for Final Paper Proposal
Last day to change your ethnographic topic
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| WEEK 8 |
| Class # 14 |
Tuesday
March 3, 2009
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Religion, Revival and Restructuring
Linton, "Nativistic Movements"
In Lessa and Voget pp 415 - 421
Wallace, "Revitalization Movements"
In Lessa and Voget pp 421 - 430
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline and Key Terms
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Active Participation Self-Evaluation
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| Class # 15 |
Thursday
March 5, 2009
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Midterm Exam Answer Key
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Midterm Course Evaluation
Please fill out after you complete the midterm exam
(Document Folder in case direct link does not work)
Please use the "Lecture Outline and Key Terms" documents from each class for your midterm review sheet
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WEEK 9: SPRING BREAK - NO CLASSES
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WEEK 10
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| Class # 16 |
Tuesday
March 17, 2009
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Fr. Bucko in Kurdish Iraq
Guest Lecturer -- Professor Alexander Rodlach
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Class will take place in our regular classroom
With guests from another class
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| Class # 17 |
Thursday
March 19, 2009
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The Grateful and Ever-Present Dead
Opler, "An Interpretation of Ambivalence
of Two American Indian Tribes"
In Lessa and Voget pp 382 - 393
Brian, "Ancestors as Elders in Africa- Further Thoughts"
In Lessa and Voget pp 393 - 400
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline and Key Terms
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Fr. Bucko In Kurdish Iraq
Be sure to do the readings
No Class Meeting Today
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| WEEK 11
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| Class # 18 |
Tuesday
March 24, 2009
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Ritual and the Social Self
Turner, "Betwixt and Between:
The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage"
In Lessa and Voget pp 234 - 243
Leach, "Ritualization in Man in Relation to
Conceptual and Social Development"
In Lessa and Voget pp 229 - 234
Introduction to Readings
Lecture Outline and Key Terms
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| Class # 19 |
Thursday
March 26, 2009
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Evans-Pritchard's Brain
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande: Introduction
Film: Strange Beliefs
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Quiz #8 Answer Key
Closed book exam -- downlaod the quiz when you are ready to take it.
Quiz Due at beginning of class on Thursday, March 29
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| WEEK 12
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| Class # 20 |
Tuesday
March 31, 2009
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Do Witches Make Spells or Make Sense?
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande Chapters 1 and 2 |
Last day to change your theorist
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| Class # 21 |
Thursday
April 2, 2009
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How To Make It Work
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande Chapters 3 and 4
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Quiz # 9 Answer Key
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| WEEK 13
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| Class # 22 |
Tuesday
April 7, 2009
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Becoming a Witch-Doctor
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande Chapters 5 and 6 |
Final day to submit
optional draft of your paper
for critque
(deadline-- high noon)
Please submit paper draft in class or
Submit Electronic Draft Here
Do not open others' papers
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| Class # 23 |
Thursday
April 9, 2009
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Holy Thursday
Cyber Class
Ghosts on the Web
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Please Choose Only One!
Cyber Option 1
Cyber Option 2
Cyber Option 3
Cyber Option 4
Counts for Quiz # 10
Deadline:
Sunday, April 12, 11:59 PM
No late entries accepted!
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| WEEK 14
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| Class # 24 |
Tuesday
April 14, 2009
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Social Roles of Witch Doctors and Oracles
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande Chapter 7 and 8 |
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Class #25
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Thursday
April 16, 2009
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Consulting the Oracle Other Types of Oracles
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande Chapters 9 and 10
How to Write a Superior Paper
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Quiz # 11 Answer Key
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| WEEK 15
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Class # 26
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Tuesday
April 21, 2009
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Magic and Curing
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande Chapter 11
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Class # 27
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Thursday
April 23, 2009
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Secret Associations and Historic Change
In-Class Film: Fieldwork
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande Chapter 12
Please hand in a PAPER COPY of your term paper
at the beginning of class (9:30 AM) AND upload a digital copy
prior to the class
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Term Paper Due:
Deadline 9:30 AM
For both electronic and paper submissions
Paper Guide
Upload Your Paper Here
Instructions for Uploading
If you submitted a preliminary draft
be sure to give me the draft also.
Do not open others' papers
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| WEEK 16
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Class # 28
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Tuesday
April 28, 2009
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Life Crisis Events and Religious Belief
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande Chapter 13
"The Mighty Azande Art Players" perform their play
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Quiz #12
Submit a copy of your
Azande Reading Notes
Due at Beginning of Class
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Class # 29
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Thursday
April 30, 2009
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Review Class |
Evaluate Your
Class Participation
Final Survey
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WEEK 17 - Final Exam
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| Final Exam |
Monday
May 4, 2009
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Time: 1:00 - 2:40 PM |
Review Guide for Final Exam
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