You are expected to attend every class period, and to complete the readings for the day in order to contribute productively to class discussion. Don't think of anything as being too trivial or too obvious. While there is, of course, no maximum limit, a query or comment every 2 or 3 weeks would indicate your active participation. Keeping the bulletin board alive and interesting is your responsibility as a class, so please jump in to answer and respond, in addition to asking questions. For the third, you may work as a group to prepare an analysis of a food ritual.
All papers are due at the beginning of class time on their respective due dates.
In addition to these formal papers, there will be several short informal take-home assignments, including kinship diagraming, analysis of the Yanomamo ax fight, comparison of Chagnon and Robertson's methodologies. Other methods of testing will be quizzes and exams. The midterm and final will consist primarily of essay questions and a few short answer questions. Also, e-mail is a very good way to make appointments and ask quick questions.