The syllabus is comprised of articles in Readers and online articles.
Compendia can be purchased at the “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card must be presented on purchasing compendia. If “Kopiutsalget” has sold out of a compendium please contact the department as early as possible in the semester in order that more may be obtained.
Many of the online articles require that you use a computer within the university network. If outside the university network, open your web browser and go to https://vpn.uio.no
Curriculum Articles in Readers / Compendia
Anderson, Benedict: "Introduction", pp 11-16 in Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, ed. Benedict Anderson. London: Verso, 1983.
Cohen, D.W. og E.S. Atieno Odhiambo: "Silences of the Living, Orations of the Dead: The Struggle in Kenya for S.M. Otieno's Body, 20 December 1986 to 23 May 1987", pp 180-198 in Between History and Histories. The Making of Silences and Commemorations, eds. Sider and Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Gow, P.: "River People: Shamanism and History in Western Amazonia", pp Sidene 90-113 in Shamanism, History and the State, eds. Thomas and Humphrey. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson: "Introduction", pp.1-45 in Anthropological Locations. Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. California Press, 1997.
Carsten, J.: "Introduction", pp 1-36 in Cultures of Relatedness. New approaches to the study of kinship, ed. J. Carsten. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland: "Norwegian anthropologists study minorities at home: Political and academic agendas.", pp 36-53 in Toward Engaged Anthropology, eds. Sam Beck and Carl Maida.Oxford: Berghahn, 2013.
Krohn-Hansen, Christian: "Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State in the Southwestern Dominican Republic.", pp. 96-122 in State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives, eds. C. Krohn-Hansen and K. G. Nustad. London: Pluto Press, 2005.
Schneider, Arnd: "Art and Anthropology”, pp. 56 -71 in ASA Handbook of Social Anthropology, ed. Richard Fardon et al. London: Sage, 2012.
Scott, James: "Cities, People, and Language.", pp 53-83 and 369-376 in Seeing Like a State, ed. J. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Curriculum Online articles, lecturer Wenzel Geissler
Ceuppens, B.and P. Geschiere (2005): "Autochthony: Local or Global? New Modes in the Struggle over Citizenship and Belonging in Africa and Europe.", Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 34, pp 385-407. stor.org
Collier, S. J (2006).: "Global Assemblages", Theory Culture Society, Vol. 23 ( 2-3): 399-401. sagepub.com
Comaroff, J. (1989): "Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa", American Ethnologist, Vol 6, (4): 661-685 (25 pages). onlinelibraray.wiley.com
De Laet, M. and A. Mol (2000): "The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a fluid technology", Social Studies of Science, 30 (2): 225-253. jstor.org
de la Cadena, Marisol, Marianne E. Lien, Mario Blaser, Casper Bruun Jensen, Tess Lea, Atsuro Morita, Heather Anne Swanson, Gro B. Ween, Paige West, Margaret J. Wiener: "Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations". HAU Vol 5, No 1 (2015). haujournal.org
Gluckman, M. (1940): "Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand", Bantu Studies, Vol 14 pp 1-30.
Harrison, S. (1999): "Cultural Boundaries", Anthropology Today, 15 (5): 10-13. jstor.org
Hayden, C.(2007): "Taking as Giving: Bioscience, Exchange, and the Politics of Benefit-sharing", Social Studies of Science, 37(5): 729-758. jstor.org
de Jong, F. (2008): "Recycling Recognition: The Monument as Objet Trouvé of the Postcolony", Journal of Material Culture 13(2) :195-214 . sagepub.com
Marcus, G. E. (2010): "Contemporary Fieldwork Aesthetics in Art and Anthropology: Experiments in Collaboration and Intervention." Visual Anthropology, 23(4): 263-277. tandfonline.com
Martin, E.(1992): "The End of the Body?", American Ethnologist, 19(1): 121-140 (20 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Mauss, M. 1973 [1934]: "Techniques of the Body", Economy and Society, 2 (1): 70-88 (19 sider). monoscop.org
Sharp, L. A. (2000) "The Commodification of the Body and its Parts.", Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29: 287-328 (Volume publication date October 2000). annualreviews.org
Redfield, P. (2012): "Bioexpectations: Life technologies as Humanitarian goods", Public Culture, 24:1, pp 157-184. publicculture.dukejournals.org
Turner, T. (1995): "Social Body and Embodied Subject: Bodiliness, Subjectivity, and Sociality among the Kayapo", Cultural Anthropology, 10(2): 143-170 (27 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Navaro-Yashin, Y. (2009): “Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge,” Malinowski Memorial Lecture, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI), 15 (1): 1-18. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Curriculum Online articles, lecturer Keir Martin
Barth, F. (1989): "The analysis of culture in complex societies", Ethnos, 54, pp 120-142. book chapter
Hannerz, U. (1987): "The world in creolization.", Africa, 57 (4): 546–559. jstor.org
Vertovec, S. (2007): "Super-diversity and its implications", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30, pp 1024-1054. tandfonline.com
Besteman, C. (2013): "Three reflections on public anthropology.", Anthropology Today, 29(6): 3–6. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Low, S.and S. Engle Merry: "Engaged anthropology: Diversity and dilemmas.", Current anthropology, 52 (supp 2): 203–226. jstor.org
Lazar, S. (2013): "Citizenship, political agency and technologies of the self in Argentinean trade.", Critique of Anthropology, pp 110-28. sagepub.com
Wacquant, L. (2012). "Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism." Social Anthropology 20(1): 66-79. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Tsing, A. L. (2003). "Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers." Economic and Political Weekly 38(48): 5100-5106. jstor.org
Teman, E. (2009): "Embodying Surrogate Motherhood: Pregnancy as a Dyadic Body-project", Body & Society, 15(47): 47-69 (22 pages). sagepub.com
Peletz, M. G. (1995): "Kinship Studies in Late Twentieth-Century Anthropology.", Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24, pp. 343-372. annualreviews.org
Beatty, A. (2014) "Anthropology and emotion." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol 20 (3) :545-563, September 2014. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Stewart, K. (2012): "Precarity's Forms.", Cultural Anthropology 27 (3) : 518-525. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Ramos-Zayas, A. Y. (2011): "Affect, in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment (ed F. E. Mascia-Lees), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Hunt, N.R. (2008): "An Acoustic Register, Tenacious Images, and Congolese Scenes of Rape and Repetition.", Cultural Anthropology 23(2): 220-253. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Further recommended Reading Sosant 2000: download pdf-file