Lecture 1

Course overview

  • Privilege is what’s not been asked
    • White will not been asks where are they from
  • In the earlier days, most specialist are white men, but most of the groups they studied are people of colour
    • Therefore, according to this tradition, it created a belief there are great differences between different cultures
    • Physical, archaeology, linguist, social-cultural all developed in order as information was passed back from the studies around the world
    • Contemporary anthropology have developed out of the white-male dominated group, and more emphasized were placed on the unique cultures among everyone

How the course works

  • Pre-class work (readings)

    • Most available on Quercus site
    • Lehman (Evo) and Gosden 2018 from UofT bookstore
  • Weekly synchronous (live) lecture with a limited Q&A

  • All lectures will be recorded and released Friday at 12 noon

    • The post-class quiz (worth 4% of the mark), it will be due on the following Monday at noon
  • Tutorials

    • Begin Sept. 21 (week 1), every another week a tutorial will take place
    • Will be held on BB collaborate
    • Attendance and participation worth 10% of the final mark