====== 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:[[https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.443|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:[[https://doi.org/10.1086/ca.2000.41.issue-2|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. {{page>3601guide}}