| 1.Course introduction |
| 2.The Hutterites: a people of preservation in a global world |
| 3.A people of preservation: defensively structured and intentional communities-1 |
| 4.A people of preservation: defensively structured and intentional communities-2 |
| 5.A people of preservation: defensively structured and intentional communities-3 |
| 6.Victims of progress: the impact of expansive global civilizations and economies of scale |
| 7.Victims of progress: the question of "gross national happiness" |
| 8.Victims of progress: the commercial explosion and culture of consumption; and, impact of the frontier |
| 9.Victims of progress: genocide, ethnocide, and ecocide: armed struggle against and resistance to forms of government control / engagement with large-scale commercial societies |
| 10.Victims of progress: Intervention in cultural practices, existing social structures and practices |
| 11.Victims of progress: policies of forceful social engineering: Australia's "lost generation" |
| 12.Victims of progress: creating progressive consumers; tourism and indigenous people; marginalization and "mixed blessings" of involvement with large-scale commercial societies |
| 13.Victims of progress: assertions of indigenous rights and self-determination |
| 14.Victims of progress: natural resources and indigenous claims: local to global hierarchy |
| 15.Victims of progress: "realists" and "idealist": debate regarding exploitation of resources and accommodating the existence of autonomous micro-politics of small-scale cultures |
| 16.Review of documentary film segments; review for MIDTERM EXAM |
| 17.MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
| 18.Tribal culture, national culture, world culture |
| 19.The anthropology of globalization: tracking global flows; disjunction and difference in the global cultural economy |
| 20.The anthropology of globalization: the global situation |
| 21.The anthropology of globalization: itinerant capital; situating global capitalism: a view from Wall Street investment banks |
| 22.The anthropology of globalization: mobile subjects; the moral economy of immigration policies in France; cyber-publics and diaspora politics |
| 23.The anthropology of globalization: roving commodities; mental illness and the global trade in DNA |
| 24.The anthropology of globalization: traveling media; itineraries of Indian cinema: African videos, Bollywood, and global media; new digital media and activist networking within anti-corporate globalization movements |
| 25.The anthropology of globalization: nomadic ideologies; disorderly development: globalization and the idea of "culture" in the Kalahari |
| 26.Falling Off The Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies - class debate regarding this book |
| 27.A Bend In The River - class presentations and discussion of this novel-1 |
| 28.A Bend In The River - class presentations and discussion of this novel-2 |
| 29.Catch-up |
| 30.FINAL EXAM preparation and course conclusion |