Class participation will also be considered when your final grade is determined. Exams will be based on class lectures and discussion as well as readings. At the discretion of the instructor, make-up exams may be given on the day of the final exam. These comments are intended as a guide to enhance understanding of issues and information in the class texts. These comments are not intended as a substitute for comments about the readings made in class.
Readings are to be completed by the dates for which they are assigned.
Also, you should be able to discuss how anthropological concepts considered in class lectures relate to what is discussed by the two authors. For example, I expect you to be able to discuss the general course of events in the text you are discussing. This means, among other things, describing when and where Glittenberg carried out research among the highland Maya and Werner researched the Kayapo-Mekranoti. For each author you should be able to talk about the goals of the field work and whether they are fulfilled by the author's work. Also, you should be aware of the challenges faced by the author in carrying out field work and have a sense of how challenges helped or hindered research.