Course materials are comprised of a compilation of texts (Compendium), online articles and one text to be downloaded from Canvas.
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Compendium
Anderson, Benedict: “Imagined Communities,” pp. 48-59 in Spencer, P. and H. Wollman (eds.): Nations and Nationalism: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
Appadurai, Arjun: “Here and Now,” pp. 1-23 of Appadurai: Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996 (23 pages).
Barth, Fredrik: “Introduction,” pp. 9-38 in F. Barth (ed.): Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference. Bergen and Oslo: Universitetsforslaget (30 pages).
Foucault, Michel: “Truth and Power,” pp. 109-133 in C. Gordon (ed.): Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. New York: Random House, 1988 (25 pages).
Geertz, Clifford: “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” pp. 3-30 in C. Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: BasicBooks, 1974 (28 pages).
Keenan, Elinor: “Norm Makers, Norm Breakers: Use of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community,” pp. 125-143 in Bauman, R. and J. Sherzer (eds.): Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974 (19 pages).
Malinowski, Bronislaw: “The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages,” pp. 296-336 in Ogden, C.K. and I.A. Richards: The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language Upon Thought, and of the Science of Symbolism. London: Routledge, 1949 (41 pages).
Melhuus, Marit: “Procreative Imaginations: When Expert Disagree on the Meaning of Kinship,” pp. 37-56 in Lien, M.E. and M. Melhuus (eds.): Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging. New York: Berghahn, 2007 (20 pages).
Popenoe, Rebecca: “Ideal,” pp. 9-28 in Kulick, D. and A. Meneley (eds.): Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2005 (20 pages).
Sahlins, Marshall: “The Original Affluent Society,” pp. 79-98 in J. Solway (ed.): The Politics of EgalitarianismTheory and Practice. New York: Berghahn, 2006 (20 pages).
Online articles
Abu-Lughod, Lila: The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power through Bedouin Women. American Ethnologist, 1990, 17(1): 41-55 (15 pages).
Bashkow, I. (2004): “A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries”. American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 3, September 2004. PP 443-458 (16 pages).
Clifford, James: On Ethnographic Authority. Representations, 1983, 2: 118-146 (29 pages).
Durkheim, Émile: “What Is a Social Fact?,” pp. 50-59 in (ed.) S. Lukes: The Rules of Sociological Method. New York: The Free Press, 1982 (10 pages). generation-online.org
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland: “Le Monde Est Trop Plein,” pp. 1-15 in T.H. Eriksen, Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change. London: Pluto Press, 2016 (15 pages).
Gal, S. “A Semiotics of the Public/Private Distinction”. differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Vol 13, Number 1, Spring 2002, pp. 77-95 (19 pages). Published by Duke University Press.
Howell, Signe (2003): “Kinning: the creation of life trajectories in transnational adoptive families”. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 9, No. 3: 465-484 (20 pages).
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: “The Science of the Concrete,” pp. 1-33 in C. Lévi-Strauss: The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966 (33 pages).
Mauss, Marcel: Techniques of the Body. Economy and Society, 1973, 2(1): 70-88 (19 pages).
Martin, Keir: “‘This Custom from the Past Is No Good,’” pp. 87-104 in Gregory, C. and J. Altman (eds.): The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times. Canberra: ANU Press, 2018 (18 pages).
Narayan, Kirin: How Native Is a ‘Native’ Anthropologist? American Anthropologist, 1993, 95: 671-686 (16 pages).
Nustad, Knut Gunnar: Property, Rights and Community in a South African Land-Claim Case. Anthropology Today, 2011, 27(1): 20-24 (5 pages).
Ortner, Sherry B.: Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? Feminist Studies, 1972, 1(2): 5-31 (27 pages).
Ortner, Sherry B.: Thick Resistance: Death and the Cultural Construction of Agency in Himalayan Mountaineering. Representations, 1997, 59: 135-162 (28 pages).
Piliavsky, A. (2017): “Disciplinary Memory against Ambient Pietism”. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (3): 13–17 (5 pages).
Presterudstuen, Geir Henning: The Mimicry of Men: Rugby and Masculinities in Post-Colonial Fiji. Global Studies Journal, 2010, 3(2): 237-247 (11 pages).
Remme, Jon Henrik Ziegler: A Dispositional Account of Causality: From Herbal Insecticides to Anthropological Theories on Emergence and Becoming. Anthropological Theory, 2014, 14(4): 405-421 (17 pages).
Robbins, Joel: Beyond the Suffering Subject: Toward an Anthropology of the Good. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2013, 19: 447-462 (16 pages).
Schuster, Caroline: The Social Unit of Debt: Gender and Creditworthiness in Paraguayan Microfinance. American Ethnologist, 2014, 41(3): 563-578 (16 pages).
Stasch, Rupert (2016): “Dramas of Otherness. ‘First contact’ tourism in New Guinea. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6 (3): 7–27 (21 pages).
Vilaça, Aparecida: Chronically Unstable Bodies: Reflections on Amazonian Corporalities. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2005, 11(3): 445-464 (2o pages).
Weber, Max: “Politics as a Vocation,” pp. 77-128 in H.H. Gerth and C.W. Mills (eds.): From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Abridged version: 9 pages.
Students’ choice: select 10 of the 16 articles on “From Reciprocity to Relationality: Anthropological Possibilities”, September 2018. Editor: Paige West. ((Approx. 30 pages in total.) Posted at this website: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/from-reciprocity-to-relationality-anthropological-possibilities