Week 9: Conjunctures revisited
Thursday, April 30, 2020, Friday, May 1, 2020
Required reading: Friedman (1994)
Supplemental readings: Bashkow (2004), Englund and Leach (2000)
References
Bashkow, Ira. 2004. “A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries.” American Anthropologist 106 (3): 443–58. doi:10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.443.
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.
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.
ANTH 3601: Contemporary theory and anthropology
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:
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