Syllabus is comprised of Compendium (a compilation of texts) and online articles.
Compendium has to be purchased from “Kopiutsalget”, the department on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card must be presented upon the purchase. 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
READINGLIST
Compendium / compilation of texts
Barth, Fredrik (1978) Conclusions. In F. Barth, ed., Scale and Social Organization, pp. 253–272. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Bateson, Gregory (1972a) Double bind 1969. In Steps to an ecology of mind, pp. 271–278. New York: Chandler.
Bateson, Gregory (1972c) Ecology and flexibility in urban civilization. In Steps to an ecology of mind, pp. 494-505. New York: Chandler.
Bateson, Gregory (1972b) The roots of ecological crisis. Steps to an ecology of mind, pp. 494-498. New York: Chandler.
Goody, Jack (1998) The globalisation of Chinese food. In J. Goody, Food and Love, pp. 161–172. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Maurer, Bill (2012) Finance 2.0, in J. Carrier, ed., A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, 2nd edn., pp. 183–201. London: Edward Elgar.
Mintz, Sidney (1985) Introduction, pp. xv-xxx, and Chapter 1: Food, Sociality, and Sugar, pp. 1-18, in Mintz: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Pleyers, Geoffrey (2010) Alter-Globalization. In Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani, eds. (2010) The Human Economy, pp. 63–74. Cambridge: Polity.
Wolf, Eric (1982) The movement of commodities. In E. Wolf: Europe and the People Without History, pp. 310–353. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Online articles
Ballard, Chris and Glenn Banks (2003). Resource wars: The Anthropology of Mining. Annual Review of Anthropology 32: 287-313.
Bear, Laura (2014) 3 For labour: Ajeet's accident and the ethics of technological fixes in time. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20: 71–88.
Berge, Trond (2012) The worse, the better: On safe ground in ‘the most polluted town on Earth’. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 21 (1): 81–102.
Blommaert, Jan (2007) Sociolinguistic scales. Intercultural Pragmatics, 4 (1): 1–19.
Borovnik, Maria (2011) The mobilities, immobilities and moorings of work-life on cargo ships. Sites, 9 (1): 59–82. Sites
Breman, Jan (2013) A bogus concept? New Left Review, 84: 130–138.
Caldwell, Melissa (2004) Domesticating the French Fry: McDonaldʼs and Consumerism in Moscow. Journal of Consumer Culture, 4(1): 5–26.
Comaroff, John and Jean L. Comaroff (2000) Millennial capitalism: First thoughts on a second coming. Public Culture, 12 (2): 291–343.
Crate, Susan (2011) A political ecology of ‘Water in Mind’: Attributing perceptions in the Era of Global Climate Change. Weather, Climate, and Society, 3 (3): 148-164.
Van Daele, Wim (2013) Oscillating between Village and Globe: Articulating Food in Sri Lankan Activism. In Carole. Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, eds,. Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy, pp. 211-224. London: Bloomsbury.
Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani (2006) The study of social movements: Recurring questions, (+partially) changing answer. In D. Della Porta and M. Diani, Social Movements: An Introduction, pp. 1–22. Basingstoke: Wiley.
Emel, Jody, Matthew T. Huber and Madoshi Makene (2011). Extracting sovereignty: Capital, territory, and gold mining in Tanzania. Political Geography 30 (2): 70–79.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2007) Stacking and continuity: On temporal regimes in popular culture. In Robert Hassan and Ronald E. Purser, eds., 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society, pp. 141–160. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2015) Globalization and its contradictions: Anthropological research in an overheated world. In Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology, pp. 293–316. Basingstoke: Ashgate.
Ferguson, James (2005). Seeing like an oil company: space, security, and global capital in neoliberal Africa. American Anthropologist 107 (3): 377–382.
Ferguson, James (2006) Decomposing modernity: History and hierarchy after development. In J. Ferguson, Global Shadows, pp. 176–193. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Gregson, Nicky, M. Crang, F. Ahamed, N. Akhter and R. Ferdous (2010) Following things of rubbish value: End-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer. eroforum, 41: 846-854.
Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson (1997) Beyond ‘culture‚: Space, identity, and the politics of difference. Cultural Anthropology, 7 (1): 6–23.
Hannerz, Ulf (2000) Flows, boundaries and hybrids: Keywords in transnational anthropology. Working paper no. WPTC-2K-02. Oxford: University of Oxford. Transnational Communities Programme.
Hart, Keith (2005): "Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the Informal Economy". Paper presented at the EGDI–WIDER Conference on Unlocking Human Potential – Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors in Helsinki, 17-18 September 2004. Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU), No.2005/11, ISBN 9291906905, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki. wider.unu.edu
Harvey, David (2004) The ‘new’ imperialism: Accumulation by dispossession. Socialist Register, 63–87.
Hilgers, Mathieu (2012) The historicity of the neoliberal state. Social Anthropology, vol. 20 (1): 80-94.
Hornborg, Alf (2013) The fossil interlude: Euro-American power and the return of the physiocrats. In S. Strauss, S. Rupp & T. Love (eds.), Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies, pp. 41-59. Left Coast Press.
Kopytoff, Igor (1986) The cultural biography of things: Commoditization as process. In A. Appadurai (ed.), The Social Life of things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, pp. 64–91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Leichenko, Robin M., Karen O'Brien and William D. Solecki (2010) Climate change and the global financial crisis: A case of double exposure. Annals of the Assoiciation of American Geographers, 100 (4): 963–972.
Li, Fabiana (2013) Relating divergent worlds: Mines, aquifers and sacred mountains in Peru. Anthropologica, 55: 399–411.
Luning, Sabine (2014). The future of artisanal miners from a large-scale perspective: From valued pathfinders to disposable illegals? Futures 62 (A): 67–74.
Marcus, George (1995) Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24: 95–117.
Mathews, Gordon (2012) Neoliberalism and globalization from below in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. In Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Carlos Alba Vega, eds.: Globalization From Below: The World's Other Economy, pp. 69-85. London: Routledge.
Nuttall, Mark (2009) Living in a world of movement: Human resilience to environmental instability in Greenland. In Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, eds. Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall, pp. 292-310. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Narotzky, Susana (2012) Europe in crisis: Grassroots economics and the anthropological turn. Etnográfica, 16 (3): 627–638.
Orlove, Ben (2009) The past, the present and some possible futures of adaptation. In Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance, eds. W. Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni and Karen O'Brien, pp. 131-163. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Price, Richard (2001) The miracle of creolization: A retrospective. New Westi Indian Guide, 75 (1/2): 35–64.
Richter, Melvin and Michaela W. Richter (2006) Introduction: Translation of Reinhard Koselleck's ‘Krise’ in Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe. Journal of the History of Ideas, 67 (2): 343–356.
Standing, Guy (2011) The Precariat‚ in Standing: The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class, pp. 1–25. London: Bloomsbury.
Steffen, Will, Paul J. Crutzen og John R. McNeill (2007) The Anthropocene: Are Human Beings Now Overwhelming the Forces of Nature?, AMBIO, 36(8):614–21.
Stensrud, Astrid B. (2014) Climate change, water practices and relational worlds in the Andes. Ethnos, 1–24.
Tainter, Joseph (2014) Collapse and sustainability: Rome, the Maya, and the Modern World. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 24: 201–214.
Tsing, Anna (2000) The global situation. Cultural Anthropology, 15 (3): 327–356.
Vertovec, Steven (2007) Super-diversity and its implications. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30 (6): 1024–1054.
Vigh, Henrik (2008) Crisis and chronicity: Anthropological perspectives on conflict and decline. Ethnos, 73 (1): 5–24.
Wacquant, Loïc (2012) Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism. Social Anthropology, vol. 20 (1): 66–79.
White, Leslie (1943) Energy and the evolution of culture. American Anthropologist, 45 (3): 335–356.
Wimmer, Andreas and Nina Glick Schiller (2002) Methodological nationalism and beyond: Nation-state building, migration and the social Sciences. Global Networks, vol. 2 (4): 301–334.
Yang, Yang (2012) African traders in Guangzhou: Routes, reasons, profits, dreams. In Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Carlos Alba Vega, eds.: Globalization From Below: The World's Other Economy, pp. 154-170. London: Routledge.
Zaloom, Caitlin (2003) Ambiguous numbers: Trading technologies and interpretation in financial markets. American Ethnologist, 30 (2): 258-272.