Required readings are found in the reader in the order they are assigned. Recommended readings are marked with an asterisk (*). These and the required readings are also available on eReserve.

*Bohannan, Paul. 1959. “The Impact of Money on an African Subsistence Economy.” The Journal of Economic History 19 (04): 491–503. doi:10.1017/S0022050700085946.

Brenner, Suzanne. 1996. “Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and ‘the Veil.’” American Ethnologist 23 (4): 673–97. doi:10.1525/ae.1996.23.4.02a00010.

Christen, Kimberly. 2006. “Tracking Properness: Repackaging Culture in a Remote Australian Town.” Cultural Anthropology 21 (3): 416–46. doi:10.1525/can.2006.21.3.416.

Cohen, Shellee. 1995. “‘Like a Mother to Them’: Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York.” In Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, edited by Faye D.

Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, 78–102. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Dunn, Elizabeth C. 2004. “Niche Marketing and the Production of Flexible Bodies.” In Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor, 58–93. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Inda, Jonathan Xavier, and Renato Rosaldo. 2002. “Introduction: A World in Motion.” In The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, 1–34. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.

Kopytoff, Igor. 1986. “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process.” In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, edited by Arjun Appadurai, 64–91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Larkin, Brian. 1997. “Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 67 (3): 406–40. doi:10.2307/1161182.

*Marx, Karl. 1972. “Selections from Capital, Vol. 1.” In The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert C. Tucker, 309–43. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Masquelier, Adeline. 2009. “Lessons from Rubí: Love, Poverty, and the Educational Value of Televised Dramas in Niger.” In Love in Africa, 204–28. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mauss, Marcel. 1990. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies [abridged]. Translated by W. D. Halls. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Ong, Aihwa. 1999. “The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship and Capital Circuits.” In Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, 110–36. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

Piot, Charles. 1999. “Exchange: Hierarchies of Value in an Economy of Desire.” In Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa, 52–75. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Scheper‐Hughes, Nancy. 2000. “The Global Traffic in Human Organs.” Current Anthropology 41 (2): 191–224. doi:10.1086/ca.2000.41.issue-2.

Schultz, Emily, and Robert H. Lavenda. 2005. “A Global World.” In Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition, edited by Robert H. Lavenda and Emily Schultz, 6th ed., 359–66. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Silverman, Eric K. 2013. “After Cannibal Tours: Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-Touristic Sepik River Society.” The Contemporary Pacific 25 (2): 221–57. doi:10.1353/cp.2013.0031.

*Tsing, Anna. 2013. “Sorting out Commodities: How Capitalist Value Is Made through Gifts.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (1): 21–43. doi:10.14318/hau3.1.003.

Xiang, Biao. 2005. “Gender, Dowry and the Migration System of Indian Information Technology Professionals.” Indian Journal of Gender Studies 12 (2&3): 357–80.

———. 2007. “Introduction.” In Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry, 1–12. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Yan, Yunxiang. 1996. “The Culture of Guanxi in a North China Village.” The China Journal, no. 35 (January): 1–25. doi:10.2307/2950274.

These textbooks are on 2-hour loan. They are useful references for basic concepts and surveys of many of the main concepts we will discuss in class.

Cheater, Angela P. 2003. Social Anthropology: An Alternative Introduction. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

Erickson, Paul A., and Liam D. Murphy. 2008. A History of Anthropological Theory. University of Toronto Press.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2001. Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. 2nd ed. London: Pluto Press.

Just, Peter. 2000. Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.