A 3-4 page paper on an aspect of cultural development between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages. Come up with one main idea for the paper and state it clearly ; write the paper in a clear and organized way, dont use big words or complicated sentences. In other words, make the paper easy to read. It would be better to provide one or two specific examples to support the main idea of the paper. Below is a description of the class, and the topics were covered before the midterm paper( related topics should be mentioned in the paper): —-This course will examine the anthropology of art and its relationship to contemporary practices and thought. Through lectures, class discussions, readings, and direct engagement with works of art, we will explore the changing ways art functions as a record of how humans perceive themselves and their place in the world. The main objectives of the course are to introduce key social, political, religious, and cultural values and ideas that are represented in pre-modernist visual forms. To arrive at a clearer understanding of these we will do close analysis of works of art as to how they produce and elicit meanings. To critical thinking skills will be developed through readings, writing assignments, and discussion. WEEK 1 (SEPTEMBER 10): Introduction to the pre-Modern World. Discussion of the Syllabus. WEEK 2 (SEPTEMBER 17) Read: Kublers The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things, Chapters 1. The History of Things and 2. The Classing of things Class Topic: On Anthropology versus Art History, as the study of human culture and development. They both differ from sociology in that they take a historical and comparative approach. WEEK 3 (SEPTEMBER 24) Read: Georg G. Iggers Historiography, Chapter 7 Marxist Historical Science from Historical Materialism to Critical Anthropology Topic: Making Culture, Making History The Making of Self in the post-pre- Modernist world WEEK 4 (Oct1): Read: EH Gombrich, A Little History of the World, Chapter 19 thru Chapter 26 Class Topic: On History: the branch of knowledge that analyzes a period in time or the development of a people, an institution, or a place. WEEK 5 (OCTOBER 8): Visit The Metropolitan and Museum of Natural History Non Western Arts collections. Required. Write a one-page-paper (250-300 words) on how each the display their non-western collections. Due date: Oct 15. WEEK 6 (OCTOBER 15): Read EH Gombrich, A Little History of the World, Chapters 27 thru 33 Topic: Chronology (order of events), synchronic (in its time) diachronic (through time), chronic (persistent), anachronistic (of another time)