ANTHROPOLOGY
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of Topics and Readings
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WEEKS of 9 & 16 Sept
I.
"Culture"
Note
on the Photography books
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"Culture": Definitions, Histories, and Discussions [8
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Kultur and Culture [7
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Berger, Peter & Thomas Luckman
1966
"Society as a Human Product.", from their: The Social Construction of
Reality. [4
@Persky
on Rorty on What can be Achieved
23 & 29 Sept
II.
Structuralism
@ Durkheim
and
Mauss on Primitive Classification. [3
+ Lane, Michael
1970 "Introduction." In: Introduction
to Structuralism (Lane, ed.), pp. 11-39. [29
Levi-Strauss,
Claude
1945
"Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology." [
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Some Quotes: Levi-Strauss and Structuralism [7
7 & 14 & 21 Oct
III.
Symbolic Anthropology
+Wagner,
Roy
1974
"Are There Social Groups in the New Guinea Highlands?"
Frontiers of
Anthropology (Murray Leaf, ed.), pp. 95-122. [28
SCHIEFFELIN,
Edward L.
1976
The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers. [225
+ Wagner,
Roy
1975
"Culture as Creativity." The Invention of Culture, pp. 17-34. [18
**Ortner,
Sherry B.
1984
Selection from: "Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties."
Comparative
Studies in Society and History 26#1: 126-144. [19
+ Geertz,
Clifford
1972
"Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." As reprinted in his: The
Interpretation of Cultures, pp. 412-453. [42
**Geertz,
Clifford
1980
"Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought."
American Scholar
49#2 (Spring): 165-79. [15
IV. Performances
**Goffman,
Erving
1959 "The Nature of Deference and Demeanor."
American
Anthropologist 58: 473-502. [30
+ Turner,
Victor
1964
"Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in the Rites of Passage." As reprinted
in his: The Forest of Symbols (1967), pp. 93-111. [19
**Ortner,
Sherry B.
1984
Selection from: "Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties." Comparative
Studies in Society and History 26#1: 144-166. [23
**Geurts,
Kathryn Linn
2002 "On Rocks, Walks, and Talks in West
Africa: Cultural Categories and an Anthropology of the Senses." Ethos
30#3: 178-198. [21
**Phillips,
Ruth B.
2000 "APEC at the Museum
of Anthropology: The Politics of Site and the Poetics of Sight Bite."
Ethnos
65 #2: 172-194. [23
SANDERS, Todd
2008 Beyond Bodies: Rainmaking
and Sense Making in Tanzania. [200
11 & 18 Nov
V.
Story and Text
+ Zweig,
Paul
1974
"The Adventure of Storytelling." The Adventurer, pp. 81-96. [16
**Marcus,
George & Dick Cushman
1982
Selection from: "Ethnographies as Texts." Annual Review of Anthropology
#11, pp. 25-46. [22
**Spencer,
Jonathan
1989
"Anthropology as a Kind of Writing." Man (new series) 24: 145-64.
[20
+ Ashcroft,
Bill; Gareth Griffiths; & Helen Tiffin
1998
"Discourse." Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, pp. 70-73.
[4
+ Cruikshank,
Julie
1990
"Life History and Life Stories." Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories
of Three Yukon Native Elders, pp. 1-20. [20
1998
"Claiming Legitimacy: Prophecy Narratives from Northern Aboriginal Women."
The
Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory,
pp. 116-137. [22
TSING,
Anna L.
1993
Selection from her: In the Realm of the Diamond Queen, pp. 72- 76.
(the whole chapter is appropriate) [5
25 Nov & 2 Dec
VI.
Modernity, Culture, Representations
+
Pratt, Mary Louise
2002
"Modernity and Periphery: Toward a Global and Relational Analysis." Beyond
Dichotomies (Eliz. Mudimbe-Boyi, ed.), pp. 21-47. [27
**Tsing,
Anna
2000 "Inside the Economy of Appearances." Public Culture
12 #1: 115-44. [30
TSING,
Anna L.
1993
"Opening"
and Part I of her In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in
an Out-of-the-Way Place, pp. 3-120. [120
TSING:
Part II and "Reprise" pp. 121-206 & 285-302. [100