Week 3: Anthropology in the world system and world history

Thursday, March 12, 2020, Friday, March 13, 2020

Required reading: Wolf (1982), introduction and chapter 6

Supplemental reading: Ortner (1984)

References

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

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

General info: About this seminar, Summary of topics and readings, The key tasks of collaborative editing

Seminars: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | B | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14

Assignments: Weekly reflections, Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base, Debate brief, Proposal of possible topics, Annotated bibliography, Literature review essay

Discussions:

Week 1: Anthropology as a great conversation

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