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Anthropology & the Human Condition Search Anthropology & the Human Condition Welcome to the Wiki for SC2218: Anthropology and the Human Condition. This is an introductory course in Anthropology at the National University of Singapore . It is a course within the Department of Sociology . The wiki will be an integral part of the course for the first semester of 2012/2013. The wiki is intended as a exploration of new modes of learning, harnessing the power of the Internet to engage you (participants in the course) in an interactive, dynamic learning environment. Much of what we will undertake in this class - especially via the wiki - is inspired by the ground breaking pedagogical work of Mike Wesch, an anthropologist who teaches cultural anthropology at Kansas State University . An article about Wiki's in Singapore classrooms was published in September 2010 in the Chronicle of Higher Education: read it here , and comment! (See also, my blog post on this .) You are encouraged to view Wesch's video lecture on " A Portal to Media Literacy ". This will give you an idea of what and why we're trying to do with the Wiki. Information for those: CONFUSED, ANXIOUS, WORRIED about the Wiki . Information about: Assessment of Wiki Assignment (including due dates). Tell me and I might forget. Show me and I might remember. Involve me and I will understand. - Confucius That's all for now.... Socect Links: NUS IVLE Site Dr. Eric's blog Department of Sociology Blog ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY IN THE NEWS Other Anthropology Course Wikis: American Anthropology (American University) Anthropology in the Global Age (Metropolitan State University) Cultural Anthropology at KSU (Kansas State University) Cultural Anthropology (Cascadia Community College) More pages Anthropology & the Human Condition Home Information Anthropology and Singapore Working with the Wiki Deep Background on Wikis Don't Panic Assessment of Wiki Assignment Anthropology @ NUS FAQ Discussion Group Preparation SC2218 Syllabus 2012 SC2218 Schedule 2012 Lectures 2012 Lecture 1: Origins of the Anthropological Perspective (2012) Cultural Relativism and its Implications Anthropology: My journey so far from Scientific to Cultural Lecture 2: Human Diversity is Not in Our Genes (2012) Race from an Anthropological point of view Implications of the concept of race Lecture 3: Culture and Cultures (2012) Culture - Is it truly liberating? Cultural Rituals: Their Meanings and Symbolisms Becoming a Healer and the Entrance Barrier Sati: The Ultimate Act of Sacrifice Lecture 4: Culture and Everyday Life (2012) Sight Unseen (my own suggested answers to the questions posted in Lecture 4) Singaporean unite - Stand up for our food culture Prison 'culture' Social Stratification Lecture 5: Families and Kinship (2012) Families & Kinship in Singapore's Context Intergeneration ties in Singapore and the Language policy The Modern Family Finding a spouse then and now Fictive Kinship The Maasai Tribe Analysing The Modern Family (Sitcom) with Real Life Examples Kinship: Dobe tribe, Lisu people and Singaporeans Comparing Kinship Ties between the Ju and Singapore's society The Myth of Monogamy: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous or Polygamous? Lecture 6: Gender and Sexuality (2012) Virginity:The Purity Myth? Mulan: a reflection on gender constructs Marriage-by-capture in Various Societies The Third Gender: Hijras In India Elaborations based on sexual differences: Context of Singapore Gender Stereotypes (or not?) in Beauty and the Beast A Look Into Gender Gay in Singapore and Sweden Gender- a social construct? Title: Marriage and Gender relations between the Ju & Singapore society Lecture 7: Economics and Exchange (2012) Singapore's Exchange of 'Angpaos' Trade with people, not with things Value Exchange of the Singaporean Chinese and the Anxi Village The Economics in Social and Cultural Exchange - Perhaps implicit, but nonetheless present Gift Giving Across Cultures Lecture 8: Culture and Commodification (2012) The Commodification of Everyday Life Commodification of Singapore Culture Placing importance on money and commodities “Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” Playing Devil's Advocate: Is Commodification all that bad? The Commodification of Nature Lecture 9: Ethnicity, Nation & Other Imagined Communities (2012) Singapore: Promoting Imagined Communities Disney and Racial Stereotypes The struggle to define Singapore heritage and identity Collective Memory in Imagined Communities Imagined Communities: the Singapore diaspora The Law of Return and Imagined Communities Imagined communities online “Online Communities Y U NO REAL???” Marketing National Identity Imagining communities through cultural technologies: Malaysian muslims Lecture 10: Modernity and Change (2012) Lecture 11: Poststructuralism and Discourse (2012) The Singaporean Style Lecture 12: Anthropology Today (2012) Readings Required Readings 2012 Lee (2012) The Dobe Ju'/honsi, Fourth Edition Egalitarianism in the Ju/’Hoansi "Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it." Chapter 6 – Marriage and Sexuality Perception of Marriage and Sexuality Female autonomy in the Ju/'hoansi society Homosexuality: What Does It Mean? Comparing Hxaro Exchange with 'Jeong' Culture in Korea Name Relationships and Marriages in the Ju/’hoansi and Traditional Korean Culture Adams & Gillogly (2011) Everyday Life in Southeast Asia Chapter 3 (Poverty and Merit: Mobile Persons in Laos) Poverty and Merit Commentary Chapter 19 Producing the People: Exchange Obligations and Popular Nationalism Nationalism and Culture Stranger King Chapter 1 Living in Indonesia without a Please or Thanks Chapter 2 Toba Batak Selves: Personal, Spiritual, Collective Who are we exactly? Chapter 5 Maling, a Hanunoo Girl from the Philippines Chapter 6 Marriage and Opium in a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand Looking at an All Rounded Approach Chapter 7 Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order Summary and Commentary of Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order Chapter 9 Everyday Life and the Management of Cultural Complexity in Comtemporary Singapore Review of Management of Cultural Complexity in Singapore by John Clammer Chapter 15 The Fall of Thai Rocky Muai Thai from the Eyes of a Native The Fall of Thai Rocky Commentary The Fall of Thai Rocky - A commentary Chapter 17 Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam Who we are is what we eat The Hoianese and Singaporean (Chinese) Culture of Food Chapter 12 Javanese Women and the Veil Is the veil a symbol of oppression or liberation? Javanese Women and the Veil: Female empowerment? A Summary of 'Javanese Women and the veil: Female Empowerment?' Veiling practices in Java Commentary on “Javanese Women and the Veil” A Commentary: Seen and Unseen/Javanese Women and the Veil Chapter 11 The Ordination of a Tree Chapter 13 Everyday Catholicism: Expanding the Sacred Sphere in the Phillippines Chapter 10 Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi: A commentary and comparison to Singapore Pathways of Experience Chapter 10: The Risk Vietnam Faces Commentary on Youth Culture and fading memories of War in Vietnam Summary and Commentary of Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam Chapter 4 A Question of Identity: Different Ways of Being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia Malaysian Muslim Commentary on Nagata's Chapter: A Question of Identity Commentary on “Narrative of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia’s Borderlands” Everyday Life as Art: Thai Artists and the Aesthetics of Shopping, Eating, Protesting and Having Fun Race and Poverty and merit: mobile persons in Laos "Narratives of Agency" Commentary: Sex Work and Power Relations Chapter 20: The question of Collaborators: Moral order and Community (Khmer Rouge) Moral Order and Community: The Importance of Elders Chapter 18 Living with the War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam Vietnam: How a national community is imagined Shaping nat...