E500 PROSEMINAR IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Dr. Richard Wilk

Spring 2007

Course Schedule

Texts are underlined, articles on reserve have a star

Lecture Schedule DATE TOPIC READING

Jan 12 & 19 Introduction and Common Ground Make sure you look at the theory website:

Anthropology and human nature www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm

Barnard, chapters 1-2, 5

Mason, A., Images of the Energy Future. At

http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1748-9326/1/1/014002/erl6_1_014002.html

Field Museum, Collaborative Research

Jan 26 Ecology & Cultural Materialism Barnard, chapters 3-4

*Harris, M., The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle

*Ellen, R., Environment, Subsistence & System, Ch 10

*Diener, P et al., Meat, Markets & Mechanical Materialism

*Sheridan, T., Where the Dove Calls, Intro & Conclusions

*Milton, K., Environmentalism and Cultural Theory, Ch 2

*Biersack, A., Reimagining Political Ecology

Feb 2, Feb 9 Political Economy/ Marxism Barnard, chapter 6

Wolf, E., Europe and the People Without History

*Donham, D., History, Power, Ideology, Ch 2

*Kearney, M. , Reconceptualizing the Peasantry, Ch 7

*Brown, M., On Resisting Resistance

*Marx, K., Economico-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

Feb 16 Applied/Development *Escobar, A., Anthropology and the Development Encounter..

*Kottak, C., Culture and "Economic Development"

*Bernal, V. The Politics of Research on Agricultural Dev…

*Sacherer, ,J., Applied Anthropology and the Development… *Green, E., Anthropology in the Context of a Water-Borne…

*Aguilera, F., Is Anthropology Good for the Company?

*Neitschmann, B. Protecting Indigenous Coral Reefs…

Feb 23 Politics and Culture *Comaroff, J., Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Politics of ….

Questioning the Nation *Bailey, F., Stratagems and Spoils, Intro, Chs 1 &2

*Giddens, A., Central Problems in Social Theory, Chap.2

*Lofgren, O. Materializing the Nation in Sweden and America

*Hannerz, U. The Withering Away of the Nation?

March 2 Praxis Theory Jenkins, Pierre Bourdieu

* Ortner, S., Theory in Anthropology since the-Sixties.

*Selections from Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice

*Selections from Bourdieu, Distinction

March 9 Structuralism Barnard, chapters 7 and 8

*Sahlins, M., Culture and Practical Reason, Chs 2-3

*Douglas, M., Purity and Danger, Intro & Chs 1-3

*Foucault, M., The Birth of the Clinic, Chs 6-7

*Rabinow, P & N. Rose, Introduction, Foucault Today

March 23 History and Ethnography Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook

*Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff, Ethnography and the

Historical imagination

March 30-April 6 Reflexivity I Fabian, Time and the Other

*Marshall, M., The Wizard of Oz meets the Wicked …

*Sutton, D., Is Anybody out There?

*Malkii, L. National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples

*Latour, B., We Have Never Been Modern, Ch 4

April 13-20 Reflexivity and the Crisis of Authority Barnard, chapters 9, 10

Marcus, Anthropology as Cultural Critique

Gupta, A. and J. Ferguson, Discipline and Practice

April 27 Consumer Culture Eagleton, After Theory

Barnard, chapter 11

*Friedman, J., The Past in the Future…

Feb 16, 23 Class presentations of assignment 1

March 2 Assignment One Write-Up Due

March 23, 30 Class Presentations of assignment 2

April 6 Assignment Two Write-Up Due

April 20, 27 Class presentations of assignment 3

May 2 Assignment 3 Write-Up Due