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Curriculum Online articles
1. Culture and Society
Stocking, G. 1966. Franz Boas and the Culture Concept in Historical Perspective. American Anthropologist. 68(4):867-882. oria
Clifford, J. 1986. Introduction: Partial Truths, in Clifford, J. and G.E. Marcus Writing Culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-26. wordpress
2. Cultural Appropriations and the Appropriation of Culture
Schneider, A. 2003. On Appropriation: A Critical Reappraisal of the Concept and its Application in Global Art Practices. Social Anthropology. 11(2):215-229. oria
Berson, J. 2010. Intellectual Property and Cultural Appropriation. Reviews in Anthropology. 39(3):210-228. oria
3. Globalisation
Appadurai, A. 1996. Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology. In Appadurai, A. Modernity at large: cultural dimensions of globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 48-65. oria
Gupta, A and Ferguson, J. 1992. Beyond ‘Culture’: Space, Identity and the Politics of Difference. Cultural Anthropology. 7(1):6-23. jstor.org
4. Movement and Migration
Andersson, R. 2014. Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality. American Anthropologist. 116(4):795-809. oria
Glick Schiller, N. 2011. Localized neoliberalism, multiculturalism and global religion: Exploring the agency of migrants and city boosters. Economy and Society, 40(2):184–210. oria
5. New Social Classes and Neoliberal Subjects?
Gershon, I. 2011. Neoliberal Agency. Current Anthropology. 52(4):537-555. oria
Eriksen, T; Laidlaw, J; Mair, J; Martin, K; and Venkatesan, S. 2015. Debate: The Concept of Neoliberalism has become an Obstacle to Anthropological Understanding of the 21st Century. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 21:911-923. oria
6. Persons and Properties
Comaroff, J and Comaroff, J. 2001. On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa. Social Identities. 7(2):267-283. oria
Handler, R. 2003. Cultural Property and Cultural Theory. Journal of Social Archaeology. 2003(3):353-365. oria
7. Is human to culture as non-human is to nature?
Povinelli, E. 1995. Do Rocks Listen? The Cultural Politics of Apprehending Aboriginal Australian Labour. American Anthropologist. 97(3):505-518. jstor.org
Latour, B. 2002. Gabriel Tarde and the End of the Social. In Joyce, P. ed. The social in question : new bearings in history and the social sciences. London: Routledge, pp. 117-132. oria
8. Science, Technology and the Material
Strathern, M. 1995. Future Kinship and the Study of Culture. Futures. 27(4):423-435. oria
De Laet, M; and Mols, A. 2000. The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a Fluid Technology. Social Studies of Science. 30(2):225-263. jstor.org
9. Infrastructure
Larkin, B. 2013. The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology. 42:327-343. oria
Anand, N, Gupta, A and Appel, H. 2018. Introduction. In Anand, N., A.l Gupta, and H. Appel, eds.The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 1-40. dukepress.edu
10. Digital and mediated networks and relations
Miller, D. 2018. Digital Ethnography. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. anthroencyclopedia.com
Coleman, G. 2010. Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media. Annual Review of Anthropology. 39:1-19. oria
11. Colonialism, Culture and its Others
Said, E. 1989. Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocuters. Critical Inquiry. 15(2):205-225. jstor.org
De la Cadena, M. 2010. Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual Reflections Beyond Politics. Cultural Anthropology. 25(2):334-370. jstor.org
12. Revision and Summary
Thomas, N. 1992. Substantivization and Anthropological Discourse: The Transformation of Practices into Institutions in Neotraditional Pacific Societies. In Carrier, J. ed. History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California, pp. 64-85. oria
Sahlins, M. 1999. Two or Three Things that I know about Culture. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 5(3):339-421. jstor.org