Ryan Schram's Anthrocyclopaedia

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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 | Identity, belonging, citizenship | Malkki (1992); Middleton (2013) | Gupta and Ferguson (1992); Ferguson and Gupta (2002) |\\
| 9 | Apr 30, May 1 | Conjunctures revisited | Friedman (1994) | Bashkow (2004); Englund and Leach (2000) |\\
| 10 | May 7, May 8 | Difference and being in question | Kohn (2007) | Kohn (2015); Bessire and Bond (2014) |\\
| 11 | May 14, May 15 | Cosmopolitics and ethnopolitics | de la Cadena (2010); Blaser (2013) | |\\
| 12 | May 21, May 22 | Liberalism and its others | Mazzarella (2010); Yeh (2012) | |\\
| 13 | May 28, May 29 | Culture and the changing conditions of subjectivity | Gershon (2011) | Gershon (2018) |\\
| 14 | Jun 4, Jun 5 | Extra 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:[[https://doi.org/10.1177/026327690007002017|10.1177/026327690007002017]].


Bashkow, Ira. 2004. “A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries.” //American Anthropologist// 106 (3): 443–58. doi:[[https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.443|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12083|10.1111/amet.12083]].


Blaser, Mario. 2013. “Ontological Conflicts and the Stories of Peoples in Spite of Europe: Toward a Conversation on Political Ontology.” Current Anthropology 54 (5): 547–68. https://doi.org/10.1086/672270.


Cadena, Marisol de la. 2010. “Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual Reflections beyond ‘Politics.’” Cultural Anthropology 25 (2): 334–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01061.x.


Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff. 1989. “The Colonization of Consciousness in South Africa.” //Economy and Society// 18 (3): 267–96. doi:[[https://doi.org/10.1080/03085148900000013|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1987.9981348|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1086/ca.2000.41.issue-2|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2002.29.4.981|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1086/660866|10.1086/660866]].

———. 2018. “Employing the CEO of Me, Inc.: US Corporate Hiring in a Neoliberal Age.” //American Ethnologist// 45 (2): 173–85. doi:[[https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12630|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1992.7.1.02a00030|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.1.3|10.1525/ae.2007.34.1.3]].

———. 2015. “Anthropology of Ontologies.” //Annual Review of Anthropology// 44 (1): 311–27. doi:[[https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014127|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1992.7.1.02a00030|10.1525/can.1992.7.1.02a00030]].


Mazzarella, William. 2010. “The Myth of the Multitude, or, Who’s Afraid of the Crowd?” Critical Inquiry 36 (4): 697–727. https://doi.org/10.1086/655209.


Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “Anxious Belongings: Anxiety and the Politics of Belonging in Subnationalist Darjeeling.” American Anthropologist 115 (4): 608–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12051.

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:[[https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12044|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1086/204503|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.


Yeh, Rihan. 2012. “Two Publics in a Mexican Border City.” //Cultural Anthropology// 27 (4): 713–34.



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