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07/30/18 AN101 - Ethnography and Theory | Reading lists @ LSE AN101 - Ethnography and Theory (Full Year 2018/19) View Online 240 items Michaelmas Term (87 items) The classical social theory of Marx, Durkheim and Weber continues to be important in social anthropology and sociology. This part of the course will examine some central issues in classical social theory in relation to concrete ethnographic examples, in order to understand the key ideas of the early theorists in greater detail and to see how they have influenced modern, fieldwork‑based anthropology. The choice of topics and readings has necessarily been highly selective, but it is intended to cover a fairly wide range of materials. It is expected that you will have completed all the essential readings prior to the relevant class, and they have been kept to a manageable size for this reason. Delving into the further readings will be invaluable for the essay and for the final exam, and you are strongly encouraged to do so wherever possible. The theoretical readings for each week comprise excerpts from primary sources. The writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber have been published in numerous different editions and translations, and selections of them have appeared in many 'readers'. You may find it useful to obtain your own, relevant sections of which you can read in lieu of the online versions. Two useful selections are the following: Karl Marx: selected writings - Marx, Karl, McLellan, David, 2000 Book | Background Sociological theory: a book of readings - Coser, Lewis A., Rosenberg, Bernard, c1982 Book | Background | Chapters 5, 6, 9, 10 & 12 There is also a vast secondary literature available to help you to understand these three theorists and to situate them in relation to each other. Particularly recommended is the following textbook by Morrison, which you are encouraged to buy and read at your own pace throughout the course, alongside (but not in place of) the core readings: Marx, Durkheim, Weber: formations of modern social thought - Morrison, Ken, 1995 Book | Background Morrison's book is a reliable guide to what the three writers meant. However, be aware that it contains no critical evaluation and no overall argument, unlike the following, which are also recommended as standard comparative introductions to the work of all three writers, and readily available: Main currents in sociological thought: 2: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber - Aron, Raymond, Howard, Richard, Weaver, Helen, 1970 1/25
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AN101 - Ethnography and Theory(Full Year 2018/19)
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Michaelmas Term (87 items)
The classical social theory of Marx, Durkheim and Weber continues to be important insocial anthropology and sociology. This part of the course will examine some central issuesin classical social theory in relation to concrete ethnographic examples, in order tounderstand the key ideas of the early theorists in greater detail and to see how they haveinfluenced modern, fieldwork‑based anthropology. The choice of topics and readings hasnecessarily been highly selective, but it is intended to cover a fairly wide range ofmaterials.
It is expected that you will have completed all the essential readings prior to the relevantclass, and they have been kept to a manageable size for this reason. Delving into thefurther readings will be invaluable for the essay and for the final exam, and you arestrongly encouraged to do so wherever possible.
The theoretical readings for each week comprise excerpts from primary sources. Thewritings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber have been published in numerous different editionsand translations, and selections of them have appeared in many 'readers'. You may find ituseful to obtain your own, relevant sections of which you can read in lieu of the onlineversions. Two useful selections are the following:
Karl Marx: selected writings - Marx, Karl, McLellan, David, 2000Book | Background
Sociological theory: a book of readings - Coser, Lewis A., Rosenberg, Bernard, c1982Book | Background | Chapters 5, 6, 9, 10 & 12
There is also a vast secondary literature available to help you to understand these threetheorists and to situate them in relation to each other. Particularly recommended is thefollowing textbook by Morrison, which you are encouraged to buy and read at your ownpace throughout the course, alongside (but not in place of) the core readings:
Marx, Durkheim, Weber: formations of modern social thought - Morrison, Ken, 1995Book | Background
Morrison's book is a reliable guide to what the three writers meant. However, be awarethat it contains no critical evaluation and no overall argument, unlike the following, whichare also recommended as standard comparative introductions to the work of all threewriters, and readily available:
Main currents in sociological thought: 2: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber - Aron, Raymond,Howard, Richard, Weaver, Helen, 1970
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Book | Background
Capitalism and modern social theory: an analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim andMax Weber - Giddens, Anthony, 2005
Book | Background
The sociological tradition - Nisbet, Robert A., c1993Book | Background
Most essential items on the reading list should be available through Moodle, and allreadings are available in the Library. Many are also available in the Seligman Library onthe 6th floor of the Old Building (next to the Anthropology Office). This is open atlunchtimes and offers borrowing facilities
Week 1. Introduction (2 items)
This lecture will provide an introduction to the course.
Marx, Durkheim, Weber: formations of modern social thought - Ken Morrison, 2006Book | Essential | Introduction.
Week 2. Marx on class and class consciousness (9 items)
What does Marx mean by 'class'? What are the crucial features of class in capitalistsociety? How do class conflict and class consciousness develop, and are they determinedby purely 'economic' factors?
Essential Reading (3 items)
Basic writings on politics and philosophy - Karl Marx, Freidriech Engels, 1984Book | Essential | Chapter 1: Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Manifesto of the Communist Party, pts. I & II
Japanese workers in protest - C TurnerBook | Essential | Chapter 2
Chapter 2: The Miner at Work - Norman Dennis, Fernando Henriques, Clifford Slaughter,1969
Chapter | Essential
Further Reading (5 items)
Karl Marx: a reader - J Elster, 1986Webpage | Background | Chapter VI
All Day, Every Day: Factory and Family in the Making of Women's Lives - Sallie Westwood,1984
Book | Background
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Coal is Our Life: An Analysis of a Yorkshire Mining Community - Norman Dennis, FernandoHenriques, Clifford Slaughter, 1969
Book | Background
Working for Ford - Huw Beynon, 1984Book | Background
Towards a Class-Struggle Anthropology - Anthony Marcus, Charles Menzies, 2005Article | Background
Week 3. Marx on production and ideology (11 items)
What does Marx mean by a 'mode of production'? What role does the notion of `labour'play in this concept? What for Marx is ideology and how does it relate to his analysisof political economy? Although Marx himself was basically concerned with the analysis ofcapitalist political economy, some anthropologists have attempted to draw on his conceptsin their analyses of very different modes of production.
Essential Reading (4 items)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 1859 - Karl Marx, 1859Webpage | Essential | Preface
The German Ideology - Karl Marx, Freidriech Engels, 1932Webpage | Essential | Part I: Feuerbach: A. Idealism and materialism and B. The illusion
of the epoch
Toward a Marxist anthropology of religion - Maurice Godelier, 1975-1Article | Essential
Legitimization of the State in Inca Myth and Ritual - B.Bauer, 1996Article | Essential
Further Readings (6 items)
Selected writings in sociology and social philosophy - Karl Marx, T. B. Bottomore,Maximilien Rubel, 1964
Book | Background | Part 2: Pre-Capitalist Societies
Ideology and Domination: Toward a Reconstruction of Australian Aboriginal SocialFormation IDEOLOGY AND DOMINATION: TOWARD A RECONSTRUCTION OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALSOCIAL FORMATION - Bern, John, 1979
Article | Background
Compadrazgo, Baptism and the Symbolism of a Second Birth - M. Bloch and S.Guggenheim, 1981
Article | Background
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Property and the End of Affinity - Association of Social Anthropologists of theCommonwealth, 2009
Chapter | Background
Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community - Claude Meillassoux,1981
Book | Background
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya -Maurice Godelier, 1986
Book | Background
Week 4. Marx on exploitation and alienation (6 items)
How are workers exploited under capitalism, and is exploitation an 'objective' or'subjective' condition? How is work alienating to the worker, and how does this lead toalienation of the self, so that the human subject becomes an object of external forces?What does Marx mean by 'commodity fetishism'?
Essential Reading (3 items)
Karl Marx: a reader - Karl Marx, Jon Elster, 1986Book | Essential | Chapters II & IV pp.29-62; 121-162.
The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and theBaptism of Money - Michael Taussig, 1977
Article | Essential
We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us - J Nash, 1993Book | Background | Chapter 9: Community and Class Consciousness
Further Reading (2 items)
Capital: a critique of political economy; v.1 - Marx, Karl, Fowkes, Ben, Fernbach, David,1990
Book | Background | Chapter 1, part 4, ‘The fetishism of the commodity and the secretthereof’
Karl Marx: selected writings - Marx, Karl, McLellan, David, 2000Book | Background | Especially chapters. 8, 19, 29, 31-3.
Week 5. Durkheim on social solidarity (10 items)
What does Durkheim mean by 'mechanical' and 'organic solidarity', and how are theyrelated to his analysis of the division of labour? Are tribal societies characterised bymechanical solidarity, and are they made up of homogenous segments? What can we gainfrom a study of law and punishment?
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Essential Reading (2 items)
Emile Durkheim: selected writings -Emile Durkheim, Anthony Giddens, 1979
Book | Essential | Chs. 5 and 6
African Political Systems - 1940Document | Essential | Ch. Evans-Pritchard, "The Nuer of Southern Sudan" pp.272-296
Further Reading (7 items)
Emile Durkheim: selected writings - Durkheim, Emile, Giddens, Anthony, 1979, c1972Book | Background | Introduction
Durkheim's Division of Labour in Society - J. A. Barnes, 1966Article | Background
African political systems - Fortes, Meyer, Evans-Pritchard, E. E., International AfricanInstitute, 1940
Book | Background | Preface and Introduction, pp.xi-24
Some Structural Aspects of the Feud among the Camel-Herding Bedouin of Cyrenaica -Peters, E. L.
Webpage | Background
Key concepts in classical social theory - Alex Law, 2011Book | Background | ‘Anomie’ pp14-18
Segmentation: Reality or Myth? - Ernest Gellner, Henry Munson, 1995Article | Background
The Proliferation of Segments in the Lineage of the Bedouin of Cyrenaica - Emrys Peters,1960
Article | Background
Week 6: READING WEEK
Week 7. Durkheim on religion in society (9 items)
What are 'collective representations'? How does the 'sacred' symbolise society, and howis religion socially determined? What is the social function of religious ritual? Whatrelation does the 'sacred' bear to the 'state' in Durkheim's thought?
Essential Reading (3 items)
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Durkheim on religion - W Pickering, Durkheim, 1975Book | Essential | Chapter 7: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: The totemic
system in Australia. SCANNED.
The Nuer Conception of Spirit in Its Relation to the Social Order - E. E. Evans-Pritchard,1953
Article | Essential
The Sensorial Production of the Social - Adam Yuet Chau, 2008-12Article | Essential
Further Reading (5 items)
Death, mourning, and burial: a cross-cultural reader - Antonius C. G. M. Robben, c2004Book | Background | A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, ‘The Andaman Islanders’ pp151-5
Emile Durkheim, his life and work: a historical and critical study - Steven Lukes, 1973Book | Background | Ch. 23 "Sociology of Religion - II", pp450-484
Anthropological studies of religion: an introductory text - Morris, Brian, 1987Book | Background | Chapter 3
Nuer religion - Evans-Pritchard, E. E., c1956Book | Background
Divinity and experience: the religion of the Dinka - Lienhardt, R. G., 2003Book | Background | Especially Chapter 1
Week 8. Durkheim and Mauss on individualism (6 items)
What is individualism and where does it come from? Can it be a source of social solidarity?What is distinctive about the modern Western view of the individual, and is it the result ofa general progressive development? What is the relationship between individualism andChristianity?
Essential Reading (2 items)
A Category of the Human Mind: the Notion of Person; the Notion of Self - Marcel Mauss,1985 [1938]
Chapter | Essential | Chapter 1 (pp.1-25) in "The Category of the Person: Anthropology,Philosophy, History", Carrithers, Collins, and Lukes, eds.
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Morality and the Concept of the Person among the Gahuku-Gama - K. E. Read, 1955Article | Essential
Further Reading (3 items)
Emile Durkheim on morality and society: selected writings -Emile Durkheim, Robert N. Bellah, 1973
Book | Background | "Individualism and the Intellectuals." pp.43-57
A modified view of our origins: The Christian beginnings of modern individualism - LouisDumont, 1982-01
Article | Background
The Concept of the Person in Tallensi in: Religion, Morality and the Person: Essays onTallensi Religion - Meyer Fortes, 1987
Book | Background
Week 9. Weber on domination (7 items)
How are 'power', 'authority' and 'domination' distinguished? Does domination depend, atleast in part, on recognition of the ruler's authority by the ruled? How is legitimacyconstructed and sustained in systems of 'traditional domination'? What is the role of 'idealtypes' in sociological analysis?
Essential Reading (3 items)
Economy and Society, Volume 1 - Max Weber, 1968Document | Essential | Especially Chapter: The Types of Legitimate Domination (but
skim the rest to get a sense of how Weber presents his ideas).
Questions of anthropology - Rita Astuti, Jonathan P. Parry, Charles Stafford, 2007Book | Essential | "Why are some people powerful?"
Domination as Social Practice: 'Patrimonialism in North Lebanon: Arbitrary Power,Desecration, and the Aesthetics of Violence' - M. Gilsenan, 1986-04-01
Article | Essential
Further Reading (3 items)
Max Weber - Parkin, Frank, 1982Book | Background | Especially Chapter 3
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On bureaucracy: (1 items)
Reshaping local worlds: formal education and cultural change in rural Southeast Asia -Charles F. Keyes, E. Jane Keyes, Nancy Donnelly, c1991
Book | Background | "The proposed world of the school: Thai villagers entry into abureaucratic state system," pp87-138
On charisma: (1 items)
COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE, SOCIAL CHANGE AND CHARISMA: DURKHEIM, WEBER AND1989 - E. A. Tiryakian, 1995-09-01
Article | Background
Week 10. Weber on Religion and Capitalism (7 items)
What is the 'spirit of capitalism', what is its relation to religious belief, and how accordingto Weber did it contribute to the rise of capitalism? What is meant by 'elective affinity',and how does Weber's sociology of religion differ from Durkheim's?
Essential Reading (2 items)
The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism - Max Weber, Stephen Kalberg, 2002Book | Essential | READ at least chapters 1, 2, and 5. Take a look at the whole book if
you can.
Religious Belief and Economic Behavior in a Central Javanese Town: Some PreliminaryConsiderations - Clifford Geertz, 1956
Article | Essential
Further Reading (4 items)
Anthropological studies of religion: an introductory text - Morris, Brian, 1987Book | Background | Chapter 2
Peddlers and princes: social change and economic modernization in two Indonesian towns- Geertz, Clifford, 1963
Book | Background
Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society - C Geertz, 1979Book | Background | Chapter: Suq: The Bazaar Economy in Sefrou
Producing culture and capital: family firms in Italy - Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, c2002Book | Background
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Week 11. Weber on class, status, and ethnic groups (8 items)
How does Weber's concept of 'class' differ from that of Marx? What is 'status' and what is a'status group'? How does a status group differ from a class, and why is a status group,unlike a class, seen by Weber to be normally a 'community'? Why does Weber emphasisethe importance of subjective beliefs in ethnic group formation? How are ethnic groupsformed politically, especially in the context of modern nationalism?
Essential Reading (3 items)
Economy and society; an outline of interpretative sociology: Vol 2 - Max Weber, 1968Book | Essential | Volume 2, Ch.9, pt.6, ‘Class, status, party”. Political Communities
Economy and Society Volume 1 - Max Weber, 1978Book | Essential | Part 2, Chapter 5: Ethnic groups
Sri Lanka: history and the roots of conflict - Spencer, Jonathan, 1990Book | Essential | Chapter by E. Nissa & R.L Stirrat: The Generation of Communal
Identities. pp: 19 -44
Further Readings (4 items)
Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities - E Balibar, I Wallerstein, 1991Book | Background | Social Conflict in Post-Independence Black Africa: The Concepts of
Race and Status-Group Reconsidered.
Max Weber - Parkin, Frank, 1982Book | Background | Esp. chapter 4.
Leveling crowds: ethno-nationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia -Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, c1997
Book | Background | Part 1
Ethnicity without Groups - Rogers Brubaker, 2002Document | Background
Lent Term (153 items)
Professor Matthew Engelke
Office: OLD 6.12
Office Hours: Please check LSE for You
Phone: x6494
E-mail: [email protected]
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This course provides a general overview of anthropology through a close consideration oftheory and ethnography for the century after 1870. A majority of the readings come fromAmerican cultural anthropology and British social anthropology, but some attention isdevoted to French structuralism, as well. In the lectures, students are introduced toseveral (although not all) of the theoretical trends stemming from the work of Marx,Durkheim, and Weber that shaped disciplinary inquiry between the 1870s and 1970s. Inclass discussions, students will be asked to situate these trends in relation both to therelevant ethnography and the readings covered during Michaelmas term.
The theory and ethnography discussed in this half of the course are supplemented by anumber of readings in the history of anthropology. Students are strongly encouraged toread this work as they try to map out the intellectual relationships among the main figuresunder consideration. The historical readings provide a sense of the institutional contexts inwhich anthropologists work. They also highlight the extent to which anthropologistsworked across the "national schools" with which they are often associated.
A note on finding ethnography: The ethnography lists below are far from exhaustive. Ifstudents have difficulty obtaining any of the ethnographies for a given week, pleaseconsult the instructor for other suggestions.
It is also worthwhile looking through articles in any number of journals-oftentimes,anthropologists will make clear their theoretical debts in the opening sections of theiressays. We will go over tips for finding relevant ethnographic work in the opening weeks ofterm, but some of the main journals to keep in mind include: American Anthropologist; TheJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (published as Man for several decades);Current Anthropology; American Ethnologist; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnos; Critique ofAnthropology; Anthropology Today. There are also regional journals (Africa; Oceania;Contributions to Indian Sociology) and interdisciplinary journals (Comparative Studies inSociety and History; Signs; Critical Inquiry; Daedalus; History of Religions) that oftenpublish anthropology. [NB: this list of journals is not exhaustive, either!]
Lent Term assessed essays
All students taking this course are required to write assessment essays. Titles will be madeavailable via Moodle, or distributed during lectures. Assessment essays count for 30% ofyour overall mark for this course. If you do not submit your assessment essays you willreceive a mark of 0 (Incomplete) for the whole course on your transcript. This will meanthat you will not be able to proceed to graduation in your third year. In addition, you maybe prevented from sitting the exam for the course in the Summer Term.
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Late assessment essays will not be marked. If an extension of an assessment essaydeadline is required, application must be made in writing via your academic adviser to DrMichael Scott, the Chair of Examiners, before the deadline. Permission may not be givenunless there are extenuating circumstances.
NO EXTENSIONS WILL BE GIVEN FOR REQUESTS RECEIVED AFTER THE ESSAY DEADLINEWHICH IS 12.00 PM ON 23 APRIL 2018 (THE FIRST MONDAY OF SUMMER TERM). Essaysmust be submitted electronically via Moodle. Please see the Undergraduate Handbook formore information on assessment essays.
Formative Coursework
Anthropology undergraduates will have the opportunity to submit formative coursework onthis course via their academic advisors. Undergraduates from other departments maysubmit a formative coursework essay directly to the lecturer; please see Prof. Engelkeabout this at the start of term.
LT Week 1: Savagery and Civilization: The Roots of Anthropology (9items)
This lecture considers the emergence of anthropology as a distinct social scientificapproach in the late nineteenth century. Particular attention is given to theories of socialevolutionism and the relationship between anthropology and the natural sciences. We alsoreflect on connections between anthropology and colonialism, and use the start of theterm to pose the question: how should we read the anthropological cannon?
Essential Readings (2 items)
Primitive culture: researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion,language, art and custom - Edward B. Tylor, 2016
Book | Essential | Chapter 1
Matthew Arnold, E. B. Tylor, and the Uses of Invention - George W. Stocking, Jr., 1963-08Article | Essential
Further Readings (6 items)
Race, culture and evolution: essays in the history of anthropology - George W. Stocking,1982
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Book | Background
The savage within: the social history of British anthropology, 1885-1945 - Henrika Kuklick,1992
Book | Background
Victorian anthropology - George W. Stocking, 1987Book | Background
Magic and modernity: interfaces of revelation and concealment - Birgit Meyer, Peter Pels,2003
Book | Background
The invention of primitive society: transformations of an illusion - Adam Kuper, 1988Book | Background
Introduction: A Joyful History of Anthropology - Jane Guyer, Bhrigupati Singh, 2016Article | Background
LT Week 2: The Nature of Culture (18 items)
Franz Boas is often called the father of American cultural anthropology. This lectureconsiders his work alongside that of Ruth Benedict, one of his most well-known students.Boas, Benedict and others mounted a sustained critique of social evolutionism. In its place,they argued for a "science of custom" in which the culture concept plays a central role.
Essential Readings (2 items)
THE METHODS OF ETHNOLOGY - Franz Boas, 1920-10-12Article | Essential
Patterns of culture - Ruth Benedict, [1934] 2005Book | Essential | Read chapter 1, which is accessible here through the 'Online
Resource' link . If you can, read chapter 2 from one of the copies held in the library'scourse collection.
Background (11 items)
The Franz Boas reader: the shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911 - Franz Boas,George W. Stocking, 1989, c1974
Book | Background
Modernist anthropology: from fieldwork to text - Marc Manganaro, c1990Book | Background | Read Ruth Benedict and the Modernist Sensibility by Richard
Handler
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Race, culture and evolution: essays in the history of anthropology - George W. Stocking,1982
Book | Background | Read 'Franz Boas and the Culture Concept'
Boasian Anthropology and the Critique of American Culture - Richard Handler, 1990-06Article | Background
From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954 - Faye V.Harrison, 2000-12
Article | Background
Totems and teachers: key figures in the history of anthropology - Sydel Silverman, 2004Book | Background | Read 'Franz Boas' by Alexander Lesser.
Totems and teachers: key figures in the history of anthropology - Sydel Silverman, 2004Book | Background | Read 'Ruth Benedict' by Sidney Mintz
Volksgeist as method and ethic: essays on Boasian ethnography and the Germananthropological tradition - George W. Stocking, 1996
Book | Background
Race and the Culture of Anthropology - Kamala Visweswaran, 1998-03Article | Background
And along came Boas: continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology - RegnaDarnell, 2000
Book | Background
"Man-with variations": interviews with Franz Boas and colleagues, 1937 - Joseph Mitchell,2016
Book | Background
Ethnography (4 items)
The Crow Indians - Robert Harry Lowie, 1955Book | Background
Mules and men - Zora Neale Hurston, 2008Book | Background
Patterns of culture - Ruth Benedict, 2005Book | Background
Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation -Margaret Mead, 1928
Book | Background
LT Week 3: Law, Order, and “the Ethnographer’s Magic” (17 items)
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What Boas did in the United States, Bronislaw Malinowski did in the United Kingdom. Heinstitutionalized the discipline, training the first major cohort of professionalanthropologists. He critiqued evolutionism. And he developed a theoreticalparadigm-functionalism-that set the theoretical agenda for a generation.
Essential Readings (2 items)
The Functional Theory - Bronislaw Malinowski, 2002 [1944]Chapter | Essential
The Ethnographer’s Magic - George W. Stocking, 1983Chapter | Essential
Further Readings (8 items)
Women of value, men of renown: new perspectives in Trobriand exchange - Annette B.Weiner, 1976
Book | Background
A scientific theory of culture and other essays - Bronislaw Malinowski, c1944Book | Background | Skim title essay (pp. 1-144) and 'Functional Theory' (pp. 145-176).
Totems and teachers: key figures in the history of anthropology - Sydel Silverman, 2004Book | Background | Read 'Bronislaw Malinowski'
Argonauts of the Western Pacific: an account of Native Enterprise and adventure in theArchipelagos of Melanesian New Guinea - Bronislaw Malinowski, 2014
Book | Background | Read 'Introduction'.
Culture and practical reason - Marshall Sahlins, 1976Book | Background | “Malinowski and ‘Neofunctionalism,’” pp. 73-91
Man and culture: an evaluation of the work of Bronislaw Malinowski - 2006Book | Background
After Tylor: British social anthropology, 1888-1951 - George W. Stocking, 1995Book | Background | Read chapter 6
Functionalism historicized: essays on British social anthropology - George W. Stocking,1984
Book | Background | “Radcliffe-Brown and British Social Anthropology.” pp. 131-191
Ethnography (6 items)
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific: an account of Native Enterprise and adventure in theArchipelagos of Melanesian New Guinea - Bronislaw Malinowski, 2014
Book | Background
Coral gardens and their magic: Vol.2: The language of magic and garden - BronislawMalinowski, 1935
Book | Background
We, the Tikopia: a sociological study of kinship in primitive Polynesia - Raymond Firth,2004
Book | Background
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Eva Gillies, 1976Book | Background
Married life in an African tribe - Isaac Schapera, 1971Book | Background
Contextualizing Authenticity: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands. - MichelleMacCarthy, 2012
Thesis | Background
LT Week 4: After Malinowski (15 items)
With varying debts to Durkheim, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and E.E. Evans-Pritchard each builtupon and pushed against Malinowski's version of social anthropology. This lectureconsiders their work within the broader context of what is often called"structural-functionalism."
Essential Readings (2 items)
Social Anthropology: Past and Present - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, 1950Article | Essential
On Social Structure - A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, 1940Article | Essential
Further Reading (6 items)
The Problem of Belief: Evans-Pritchard and Victor Turner on 'The Inner Life' - Engelke,Matthew
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Article | Background
African political systems - 2015Book | Background
Functionalism historicized: essays on British social anthropology - George W. Stocking,1984
Book | Background | See also “Dr Durkheim and Mr Brown: Comparative Sociology atCambridge in 1910
: The Translation of Culture: Essays to E. E. Evans-Pritchard . T. O. Beidelman. - David G.Epstein, 1973-04
Article | Background
After Tylor: British social anthropology, 1888-1951 - George W. Stocking, 1995Book | Background | Read chapter 7
Anthropology and anthropologists: the modern British school - Adam Kuper, 1996Book | Background | Read chapter 3
Ethnography (6 items)
Nuer religion - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, c1956Book | Background
The Nuer: a description of the modes of livelihood and political institutions of a Niloticpeople - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, 1969
Book | Background
Naven: a survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture of the culture of a NewGuinea tribe drawn from three points of view - Gregory Bateson, 1980
Book | Background
Social anthropology of North American tribes - Fred Eggan, 1967],[1955Book | Background
The Andaman Islanders - A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, 1964Book | Background
Divinity and experience: the religion of the Dinka - R. G. Lienhardt, MyiLibrary, 1987Book | Background
LT Week 5: 7 January 1938 (16 items)
When Max Gluckman wrote about the ceremonial opening of the Malungwana Drift Bridgein Zululand, he mentioned the date of the proceedings-7 January 1938. This was no
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accident; along with Edmund Leach, Gluckman addressed the question of time in hisethnographic writing. This lecture focuses on the concept of time through the themes ofchange and conflict in their work.
Essential Reading (2 items)
The Utility of the Equilibrium Model in the Study of Social Change - Max Gluckman, 1968Article | Background
Political systems of Highland Burma: a study of Kachin social structure - Edmund RonaldLeach, 2004
Book | Essential | Read the Introduction
Further Reading (8 items)
An analysis of the sociological theories of Bronislaw Malinowski - Max Gluckman, 1949Book | Essential | RLI Paper 16
'Petulant Inconsistency'?: The Intellectual Achievement of Edmund Leach - Chris Fuller,Jonathan Parry, 1989-06
Article | Background
Edmund Leach: an anthropological life - Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, 2002Book | Background
Significant others: interpersonal and professional commitments in anthropology - RichardHandler, c2004
Book | Background
An Interview with Edmund Leach - Adam Kuper, 1986-08Article | Background | Read chapter 6
Passages in the Life of a White Anthropologist: Max Gluckman in Northern Rhodesia -Richard Brown, 1979-10
Article | Background
Africanizing anthropology: fieldwork, networks, and the making of cultural knowledge incentral Africa - Lyn Schumaker, 2001
Book | Background
The Manchester School in South-Central Africa - Werbner, Richard P.Article | Background
Ethnography (5 items)
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Analysis of a social situation in modern Zululand - Herman Max Gluckman,Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1958
Book | Background
Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt -James Ferguson, c1999
Book | Background
The trumpet shall sound: a study of 'Cargo' cults in Melanesia - Peter Worsley, 1968Book | Background
Schism and continuity in an African society: a study of Ndembu village life - Victor W.Turner, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, c1996
Book | Background
Moving by the spirit: Pentecostal social life on the Zambian Copperbelt - Naomi Haynes,2017
Book | Background | Library needs to buy this book
LT Week 6: Reading Week (1 items)
No classes nor lecture.
LT Week 7: Structuralism (11 items)
By the '60s and '70s, the anthropological study of politics and social structure had clearlystruck something of a wall; in the US, culture theory seems to have run out of steam, atthe same time as in the UK, the collapse of empire had finally laid bare the absurdity ofthe focus on equilibrium models of society: that is, of trying to exclude questions of broadhistorical change from the purview of anthropology. But what would a properlyanthropological theory of human agency, and of broad historical change, actually be like?No one was quite sure. From the '60s through to the '90s, anthropology gradually shiftedits focus from trying to understand how societies or cultures hold together in the"ethnographic present"-an imaginary time of perfect stability which most admitted hadnever actually existed-to societies and cultures as themselves processes in time, how thekind of cultural understandings or symbolic codes so striking to outside observers come toseem natural to actors over the course of their ways of acting in the world, whether it be amatter of how Berbers move back and forth between men's and women's spaces in theirtraditional houses, to ambitious Kachin political leaders trying to patch together the meansto declare themselves kings.
Essential Reading (1 items)
Myth and meaning - Claude
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Levi-Strauss, 1978
Book | Essential | Read the entire book, which is 54 pages]
Further Reading (5 items)
Ten Questions Put to Claude Levi-Strauss - Marc Auge, 1990-02Article | Background
ClaudeLevi-Strauss - Edmund Ronald Leach, 1989, c1974
Book | Background | Read 'The Human Animal and His Symbols'
The interpretation of cultures: selected essays - Clifford Geertz, 1973Book | Background | Read 'The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss'
ClaudeLevi-Strauss: the formative years - Christopher Johnson, 2003
Book | Background
History of structuralism: Volume 1: The rising sign, 1945-1966 -Francois Dosse, Deborah Glassman, 1997
Book | Background | Read pgs. 10-32
Ethnography (4 items)
Remotely global: village modernity in West Africa - Charles Piot, 1999Book | Background
An Amazonian myth and its history - Peter Gow, 2001Book | Background
Genesis as myth, and other essays - Edmund Leach, 1969Book | Background
Structural anthropology - ClaudeLevi-Strauss, c1963
Book | Background
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LT Week 8: Symbol and Ritual (16 items)
Mary Douglas and Victor Turner are often called "symbolic anthropologists." Like all labels,this doesn't provide much specificity, and it certainly doesn't account for their differences.Turner was shaped by early infusions of Marx through his teacher Max Gluckman; Douglashas always acknowledged her intellectual debts (and those of anthropology more broadly)to Judeo-Christian thought.
Essential Reading (2 items)
The forest of symbols: aspects of Ndembu ritual - Victor W. Turner, ca.2002Book | Essential | Read chapter 1
Purity and danger: an analysis of concept of pollution and taboo - Mary Douglas, 2002Book | Essential | Reader chapters 1 & 2
Further Reading (7 items)
The ritual process: structure and anti-structure - Victor W. Turner, 1997Book | Background | Read chapters 3-5
Victor W. Turner (1920-1983 - Barbara Babcock, John MacAloonArticle | Background | Available in Seligman Library only
Natural symbols: explorations in cosmology - Mary Douglas, 2003Book | Background
Why marry her: society and symbolic structures - Luc de Heusch, Oct.1981Book | Background | Read 'Social Structure and Praxis among the Lele of Kasai'.
Mary Douglas: an intellectual biography - Richard Fardon, MyiLibrary, 1999Book | Background
Victor Turner and the construction of cultural criticism: between literature andanthropology - Kathleen M. Ashley, c1990
Book | Background | Read 'Victor Turner’s definition, theory and sense of ritual'
Significant others: interpersonal and professional commitments in anthropology - RichardHandler, c2004
Book | Background | Read "'The Endless Conversation”: Fieldwork, Writing, and theMarriage of Victor and Edith Turner'
Ethnography (6 items)
Chihamba, the white spirit: a ritual drama of the Ndembu - Victor W. Turner, 1962Book | Background
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The drums of affliction: a study of religious processes among the Ndembu of Zambia -Victor W. Turner, International African Institute, 1981
Book | Background
The Lele of the Kasai - Mary Douglas, 1963Book | Background
Cheats at work: an anthropology of workplace crime - Gerald Mars, 1994Book | Background
Rubbish theory: the creation and destruction of value - M. Thompson, 1979Book | Background
The spirit and the drum: a memoir of Africa - Edith L. B. Turner, c1987Book | Background
LT Week 9: Webs of Meaning (22 items)
Anthropologists have always been concerned with meaning, but it was Geertz's push, inthe 1950s, that brought the concept to the fore, where it has remained (through severalsieges, and not without modification) ever since. One aspect of this turn has also involveda focus on language and meaning, especially the figurative and rhetorical aspects ofspeech.
Essential Reading (2 items)
The interpretation of cultures: selected essays - Clifford Geertz, 1973Book | Essential | Read 'Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture'.
I have nothing to hide: The language of Ilongot oratory - Michelle Rosaldo, 1973-10Article | Essential
Further Reading (10 items)
An Interview with Clifford Geertz - Richard Handler, 1991-12Article | Background
The new cultural history - Lynn Avery Hunt, Aletta Biersack, 1989Book | Background
Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography - School of American Research(Santa Fe, N.M.), 2010
Book | Background
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The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [andComments and Reply] - Paul Shankman, Attila Ágh, Erika Bourguignon, Douglas E.Brintnall, John R. Cole, Linda Connor, Regna Darnell, Arie De Ruijter, Denis Dutton,Johannes Fabian, Claire R. Farrer, A. D. Fisher, L. E. A. Howe, Miles Richardson, RobinRidington, Stan Wilk, 1984-06
Article | Background
Anthropology as cultural critique: an experimental moment in the human sciences -George E. Marcus, Michael M. J. Fischer, 1999
Book | Background | Read chapter 2
On Anthropology as Interpretive Quest - Valerio Valeri, Roger Keesing, 1987-06Article | Background
The fate of "culture": Geertz and beyond - Sherry B. Ortner, 1999Book | Background
On Key Symbols - Ortner, Sherry B.Article | Background
Clifford Geertz: culture, custom, and ethics - Fred Inglis, 2000Book | Background
The Interpretive Turn: Emergence of an Approach - Sullivan, William, Spring 1979Article | Background
Ethnography (9 items)
To weave and sing: art, symbol, and narrative in the South American rain forest - David M.Guss, c1989
Book | Background
American kinship: a cultural account - David Murray Schneider, 1980Book | Background
Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society - Lila Abu-Lughod, 1999Book | Background
Sound and sentiment: birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression - Steven Feld,American Folklore Society, c1990
Book | Background
The Sherpas through their rituals - Sherry B. Ortner, 1978Book | Background
Negara: the theatre state in nineteenth-century Bali - Clifford Geertz, American Council ofLearned Societies, c1980
Book | Background
Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight - Clifford Geertz, 2005-09Article | Background
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Knowledge and passion: Ilongot notions of self and social life - Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo,1980
Book | Background
Portraits of 'The Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the westernApache - Keith H. Basso, 1979
Book | Background
LT Week 10: Culture, Practice, and History (12 items)
Marshall Sahlins has made significant theoretical contributions through his readings ofMarx and Mauss, as well as through his development of a structuralism attentive tohistory. Along with figures like the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Sahlins is credited withputting practice center stage. Here, the turn to practice is also considered in a classicessay by Sherry Ortner.
Essential Reading (2 items)
Islands of history - Marshall Sahlins, 1987Book | Essential | Read chapter 5
Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties - Sherry B. Ortner, 1984-1Article | Essential
Further Reading (5 items)
Waiting for Foucault, still - Marshall Sahlins, Marshall David Sahlins, c2002Book | Background
Anthropology as cultural critique: an experimental moment in the human sciences -George E. Marcus, Michael M. J. Fischer, 1999
Book | Background
Critique of anthropologyJournal | Background | Friedman, Jonathan. 1988. ;No History is an Island: A Review
Essay'. Critique of Anthropology 8(1): 7-39. [Read also Sahlins’ reply to Friedman in thesame issue] GN1
Culture and practical reason - Marshall Sahlins, 1976Book | Background | Read chapter 2
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Other messages, other missions; or, Sahlins among the Melanesians - Mark S. Mosko,1992-12
Article | Background
Ethnography (4 items)
The sacred remains: myth, history, and polity in Belau - Richard J. Parmentier, 1987Book | Background
Historical metaphors and mythical realities: structure in the early history of the SandwichIslands Kingdom - Marshall Sahlins, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, 1981
Book | Background
Clio in Oceania: toward a historical anthropology - Aletta Biersack, c1991Book | Background
Becoming sinners: Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society - JoelRobbins, 2004
Book | Background
LT Week 11: Power and Political Economy (14 items)
In the 1970s Marx began to receive much more explicit attention on both sides of theAtlantic. In the United States his work was used by anthropologists interested in politicaleconomy to theorize class, gender, and power within the context of colonial historicalnetworks. This lecture focuses primarily on perspectives in political economy; comparisonsare also drawn to Marxism in the United Kingdom and France.
Essential Reading (2 items)
Introduction - Eric R. Wolf, 1982Chapter | Essential |
The Traffic in Women: Notes on the “Political Economy” of Sex - Rubin Gayle, 1975Chapter | Essential
Ethnography (6 items)
Europe and the people without history - Eric R. Wolf, c1982Book | Background
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Marxist analyses and social anthropology - Association of Social Anthropologists of theCommonwealth, 2009
Book | Background
The devil and commodity fetishism in South America - Michael T. Taussig, ebrary, Inc,c2010
Book | Background
We eat the mines and the mines eat us: dependency and exploitation in Bolivian tin mines- June C. Nash, c1993
Book | Background
Sweetness and power: the place of sugar in modern history - Sidney W. Mintz, 1985Book | Background
The political economy of West African agriculture - Keith Hart, 1982Book | Background
Further Reading (5 items)
Anthropologies and histories: essays in culture, history, and political economy - WilliamRoseberry, 1989
Book | Background | Read esp. “Marxism and Culture”
Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern world - Eric R. Wolf, SydelSilverman, 2001
Book | Background | Read esp. chapter 1 and the essays in parts I & IV
Marxism, Structuralism and Vulgar Materialism - Jonathan Friedman, 1974-09Article | Background
Anthropology & the colonial encounter - Talal Asad, 1995], ©1973Book | Background | Read esp. Asad’s main chapter and the essays by Stephan
Feuchtwang and Wendy James
Marxism and anthropology: the history of a relationship - Maurice Bloch, 2004Book | Background
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