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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: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.

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: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.

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: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.

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

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