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Summary of topics and readings

Week Dates Topic Required readings Supplemental readings
1 Feb 27, Feb 28 Anthropology as a great conversation
2 Mar 5, Mar 6 Symbolic anthropology Geertz (1973a); Geertz (1973b)
3 Mar 12, Mar 13 Anthropology in the world system and world history Wolf (1982), introduction and chapter 6 Ortner (1984)
4 Mar 19, Mar 20 The structure of the conjuncture Sahlins (1981) Sahlins (1988); Sahlins (1992); Sahlins (1996)
5 Mar 26, Mar 27 Structure and history Continue reading Sahlins (1981)
6 Apr 2, Apr 3 Historical anthropology Comaroff (1987); Comaroff and Comaroff (1989) Comaroff and Comaroff (1990)
7 Apr 9, Apr 10 Globalization as turning point Appadurai (1990) Trouillot ([2003] 2016), chapters 1 and 5
B Apr 16, Apr 17 Mandatory school closure due to the public recognition of a religious festival
8 Apr 23, Apr 24 Can anthropology see over the horizon of “the field”? Malkki (1992) Gupta and Ferguson (1992); Ferguson and Gupta (2002)
9 Apr 30, May 1 Conjunctures revisited Bashkow (2004) Friedman (1994); Englund and Leach (2000)
10 May 7, May 8 Library day for work on your reading for your final essay
11 Apr 14, Apr 15 Culture and the changing conditions of subjectivity Gershon (2011) Gershon (2018)
12 Apr 21, Apr 22 Difference and being in question Kohn (2007) Kohn (2015); Bessire and Bond (2014)
13 May 28, May 29 What is anthropology for? Robbins (2013) Ortner (2016)
14 Jun 4, Jun 5 Extra make-up seminar: Where is anthropology headed in the future?

References

Appadurai, Arjun. 1990. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Theory, Culture & Society 7 (2-3): 295–310. doi:10.1177/026327690007002017.

Bashkow, Ira. 2004. “A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries.” American Anthropologist 106 (3): 443–58. doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.443.

Bessire, Lucas, and David Bond. 2014. “Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique.” American Ethnologist 41 (3): 440–56. doi:10.1111/amet.12083.

Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff. 1989. “The Colonization of Consciousness in South Africa.” Economy and Society 18 (3): 267–96. doi:10.1080/03085148900000013.

Comaroff, John L. 1987. “Of Totemism and Ethnicity: Consciousness, Practice and the Signs of Inequality.” Ethnos 52 (3-4): 301–23. doi:10.1080/00141844.1987.9981348.

Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. 1990. “Goodly Beasts, Beastly Goods: Cattle and Commodities in a South African Context.” American Ethnologist 17 (2): 195–216. https://www.jstor.org/stable/645076.

Englund, Harri, and James Leach. 2000. “Ethnography and the Meta‐Narratives of Modernity.” Current Anthropology 41 (2): 225–48. doi:10.1086/ca.2000.41.issue-2.

Ferguson, James, and Akhil Gupta. 2002. “Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality.” American Ethnologist 29 (4): 981–1002. doi:10.1525/ae.2002.29.4.981.

Friedman, Jonathan. 1994. “The Political Economy of Elegance: An African Cult of Beauty.” In Consumption and Identity, edited by Jonathan Friedman, 167–87. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.

Geertz, Clifford. 1973a. “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man.” In The Interpretation of Cultures, 33–54. New York: Basic Books. http://books.google.com?id=BZ1BmKEHti0C.

———. 1973b. “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture.” In The Interpretation of Cultures, 3–30. New York: Basic Books. http://books.google.com?id=BZ1BmKEHti0C.

Gershon, Ilana. 2011. ““Neoliberal Agency”.” Current Anthropology 52 (4): 537–55. doi:10.1086/660866.

———. 2018. “Employing the CEO of Me, Inc.: US Corporate Hiring in a Neoliberal Age.” American Ethnologist 45 (2): 173–85. doi:10.1111/amet.12630.

Gupta, Akhil, and James Ferguson. 1992. “Beyond ‘Culture’: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.” Cultural Anthropology 7 (1): 6–23. doi:10.1525/can.1992.7.1.02a00030.

Kohn, Eduardo. 2007. “How Dogs Dream: Amazonian Natures and the Politics of Transspecies Engagement.” American Ethnologist 34 (1): 3–24. doi:10.1525/ae.2007.34.1.3.

———. 2015. “Anthropology of Ontologies.” Annual Review of Anthropology 44 (1): 311–27. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127.

Malkki, Liisa. 1992. “National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity Among Scholars and Refugees.” Cultural Anthropology 7 (1): 24–44. doi:10.1525/can.1992.7.1.02a00030.

Ortner, Sherry B. 1984. “Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 26 (1): 126–66.

———. 2016. “Dark Anthropology and Its Others: Theory Since the Eighties.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6 (1): 47–73. http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau6.1.004.

Robbins, Joel. 2013. “Beyond the Suffering Subject: Toward an Anthropology of the Good.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19 (3): 447–62. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12044.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1981. Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press.

———. 1988. “Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of “the World System”.” Proceeedings of the British Academy 74: 1–51. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/74p001.pdf.

———. 1992. “The Economics of Develop-Man in the Pacific.” Res 21: 13–25.

———. 1996. “The Sadness of Sweetness: The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology.” Current Anthropology 37 (3): 395–428. doi:10.1086/204503.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. (2003) 2016. Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-137-04144-9.

Wolf, Eric R. 1982. Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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