Introduction:
Mesoamerica, The Area and the People

nlt 2:50 video

Woman of Chamula [Maya]
(14 min., 1969, VC 128)

Mayan woman at Market
Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Mayan Worlds

Introduction to Ancient Middle America
(slides: ma-intro.pptx)

• Question: "What do I already know about Ancient Middle America?"
  
  
• Introduction to You: Meet Yourselves
  
  
• What do you expect to get out of this class?
  
  
  • What would you like to know about your profs?
    
    
• Laptops
  
  
• Textbooks

• Assignments
  
  
  • listed on the calendar syllabus for Fall 2009
    
    
  • listed on the web text assignments semester summary page
    
    

nlt 2:51 video

Sentinels of Silence (sites map)
(19 min., 1990, VC 1611)

Tikál, Guatemala

Results: What do I already know?

• Question: "What do I already know about Ancient Middle America?"
  
  
  • Results

Review:
Woman of Chamula

Mayan woman at Market
Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Mayan Worlds

• Review of "terms/concepts" and "notes" of video viewing guide: Woman of Chamula [Maya]
  (14 min., 1969, VC 128)

• Syllabus Information on the Web

  • Course Web Pages
    
    
  • Course Requirements Summary
    
    
    • Exams
      
      
    • MAforum
      
      
    • Case Study
      
      
  • Maps

Requirements Summary

• Exams
  
  
  • Exams (a midterm and a final) -- more about this next week
    
    
    • The f2009 Midterm Exam will be on Thursday, 22 October 2009, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
      
      
    • The f2009 Final Exam will be on Monday, 21 December, 8:00 - 9:55 a.m. in Cina 214
    • basic information
    • makeup exams
    • other exam information
    • extra credit (optional)
    • eGradebook

• MAforum
  
  
  • MAforum (presentation/discussion next time)
    
    
    • Enrolled members of the class are required to participate in class discussions on the MAforum at
      <http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/MAforum/>
      (10 postings @ up to 10 points = 100 points = 8.3% of the final grade)
      
      
    • Topics for postings will be announced in class and via e-mail
      
      
      • Postings are due within two weeks of the date of announcement
        
        
      • There will be 10 of them during the semester, including one relating to an on-line evaluation of the course

• Case Study
  
  
  • Case Study -- more about this next week
    • on "Middle American Personality"
    • (call your paper something like YourUMDid_case_study_1)
    • more about this next time
    • The MA Case Study is due no later than Friday, 4 December 2009

• Fall 2009 Class Calendar
  
  
• weekly / daily class schedules: Week 01 Day 01 . . .
  
  
• assignments summary (alternate format than calendar)
  
  
• office hours Fall 2009
  M 4:00-4:45; T, Th 1:00-1:45
  or e-mail/text-message for a time
  convenient to your schedule

 

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• special facilities
  
  
• overview of course
  
  
  
• Course Web Pages
  
  
  • Welcome Page / HomePage
  • Times to Remember
  • Site Map
    
    
    
• Web information on new discoveries can be found at Anthropology World News -- Texas A&M

Maps

• Maps
  
  
  1. Map hardcopy handout: Major Political Divisions of Mexico and Central America
     Source: Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers, Mary W. Helms
     (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975), p. 4
     
     
  2. Map hardcopy handout: Major Archaeological Sites of Mesoamerica
     (general sites map)
     
     
  • compare this with the sites map for the video, Sentinels of Silence
    
    
  3. Other maps relating to Mesoamerica can be found on the Main Mesoamerican Maps WebPage
     
     
  4. Other maps in general can be found on the General Maps Page

Introduction to Anthropology:
The Nature of Anthropology
(time permitting)

• The Main Characteristics of Anthropology (slides: ma-main_char_anth.pptx)