E500 PROSEMINAR IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Dr. Richard Wilk
Remember: Mondays are Lectures and Tuesdays are Discussions
Texts are underlined, xeroxed articles have a star
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Jan 11-25 |
Introduction and Common Ground Anthropology and human nature |
Make sure you look at the theory website: |
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Feb 1 |
Ecology & Cultural Materialism |
Layton, chapter 6 |
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Edgerton, R. Sick Societies |
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*Harris, M., The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle |
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*Ellen, R., Environment, Subsistence & System, Ch 10 |
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*Diener, P et al., Meat, Markets & Mechanical Materialism |
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*Sheridan, T., Where the Dove Calls, Intro & Conclusions |
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* Milton, K., Environmentalism and Cultural Theory, Ch 2 |
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Feb 8, Feb 15 |
Political Economy/ Marxism |
Layton, chapter 5 |
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*Wolf, E. Europe and the People Without History, Intro & C1 |
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*Donham, D., History, Power, Ideology, Ch 2 |
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*Brown, M., On Resisting Resistance |
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* Kearney, M. , Reconceptualizing the Peasantry, Ch 7 |
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Feb 22 |
Applied/Development |
*Aguilera, F., Is Anthropology Good for the Company? |
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*Escobar, A., Anthropology and the Development Encounter.. |
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*Kottak, C., Culture and "Economic Development" |
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*Bernal, V. The Politics of Research on Agricultural Dev… |
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*Sacherer, ,J., Applied Anthropology and the Development… |
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*Green, E., Anthropology in the Context of a Water-Borne… |
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*Breslin, P., and M. Chapin Conservation Kuna-Style |
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March 1 |
Politics and Culture |
*Comaroff, J., Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Politics of …. |
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Questioning the Nation |
*Bailey, F., Stratagems and Spoils, Intro, Chs 1 &2 |
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*Giddens, A., Central Problems in Social Theory, Chap.2 |
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*Lofgren, O. Materializing the Nation in Sweden and America |
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*Hannerz, U. The Withering Away of the Nation? |
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March 8-22 |
Praxis Theory |
Jenkins, Pierre Bourdieu |
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Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice |
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Layton, chapter 4 |
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March 24- |
Reflexivity & the crisis of authority |
Fabian, Time and the Other |
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*Marshall, M., The Wizard of Oz meets the Wicked … |
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*Sutton, D., Is Anybody out There? |
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*Gilroy, P., It Ain't Where you're from… |
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*Latour, B., We Have Never Been Modern, Ch 4 |
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April 5 |
Structuralism to postmodernism |
Layton, chapters 3 and 7 |
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*Sahlins, M., Culture and Practical Reason, Chs 2-3 |
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*Douglas, M., Purity and Danger, Intro & Chs 1-3 |
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*Foucault, M., The Birth of the Clinic, Chs 6-7 |
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*Foucault, M., Space, Knowledge, and Power. |
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April 12 |
Gender, Kinship |
Abu-Lughod, Writing Women's Worlds |
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*Weismantel, M. Making kin; kinship theory… |
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With commentary by Mckinnon |
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*Moore, H., A Passion for Difference, Ch 1 |
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April 19-26 |
History and Identity |
Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook |
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Harrison, Decolonizing Anthropology |
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*Friedman, J., The Past in the Future… |