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Anthropology 206
Autumn 2013
TTh 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Tuesday
12:00-1:30*
363-2005 Thursday
12:00-1:30
lafleur@beloit.edu …or by
appointment
*Office hours have reverted to the regular 12:00-1:30 time after autumn break.
Required Books for All Enrolled Students
Bowen, Elinore Smith, Return to Laughter
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Kipnis, Andrew. Producing Guanxi
Moberg, Mark. Engaging Anthropological Theory
Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology
LaFleur, Robert. Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogspot.com)
The New York Review of Books (NYRB)
Required Ethnographies (Choose one SET from the list below)
Rosaldo, Renato. Ilongot Headhunting: A History AND
Rosaldo, Michelle. Knowledge and Passion
OR
Schiefflin, Edward. The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers AND
Feld, Steven. Sound and Sentiment (Feld’s book is out of print; order it used or read it on reserve).
All books are on library reserve.
Evaluation
Quizzes 10%
Theoretical Letter 15%
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 20%
Ethnography Review Essay 20%
In-Class Final 10%
Theoretical Essay 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected. More than two absences will significantly affect your grade. Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Bowen, Elinore Smith, Return to Laughter
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Kipnis, Andrew. Producing Guanxi
Moberg, Mark. Engaging Anthropological Theory
Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology
LaFleur, Robert. Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogspot.com)
The New York Review of Books (NYRB)
Required Ethnographies (Choose one SET from the list below)
Rosaldo, Renato. Ilongot Headhunting: A History AND
Rosaldo, Michelle. Knowledge and Passion
OR
Schiefflin, Edward. The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers AND
Feld, Steven. Sound and Sentiment (Feld’s book is out of print; order it used or read it on reserve).
All books are on library reserve.
*** ***
Building upon ANTH 100 (Society
and Culture), this course helps students develop increased sophistication in
the way that they frame and think about social and cultural (not to mention
historical) phenomena. Our approach to the
subject will be both historical and “pragmatic.” It is necessary to understand the development
of various intellectual strains within anthropology. A good foundation in them
gives solidity to analytical constructions (this is precisely the reason that
philosophers spend a good number of pages in every work “framing” their subject
matters in terms of the history of philosophy).
It is far from being a trifling exercise. We will also take a “pragmatic” approach, by
asking ourselves which perspectives work best for our purposes, and our
interests. Learning to balance these
seemingly contradictory (but actually beautifully entwined) approaches is one
of the keys to excellent theoretical work in and beyond the field of
anthropology.Evaluation
Quizzes 10%
Theoretical Letter 15%
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 20%
Ethnography Review Essay 20%
In-Class Final 10%
Theoretical Essay 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected. More than two absences will significantly affect your grade. Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Click here for the other half of this two-part syllabus post:
Anthropology 206
Social and Cultural Theory
Love Family Portrait In the Counting House
Two Women Dinner at Home The Tip
No Oil Lester Trouble in the Road Ahead
Senator Horton Bailey Forgive Us Our Debts Prohibition
Life Begins at... Thumper The Dream
Struggling Upward… Thayer’s Drugstore The Pony
Bleak Day Cadillac Locusts
You Don’t Love Me Call Me Avrum EK
Kansas City Power... Paper Hat Purple Crayon
Stiff Lower Lip Barbarians Boxtops
The Gardener’s Child Summer in Georgia Underground
Discretion New Clothes Yuh, Yuh, Yuh
The Pistol Halloween Daiquiri for Harriet
Harriet and Carolyn Onward Christian Soldiers Home from the Office
Handful of Change Season’s Greetings The Squirrel
Happy Days Cousin Lulu’s Estate Nevacal
Fleur-de-lis The Family Tree New Neighbors
LS The Regatta… Semi-pro
Golden Gloves Crosby Beefcake
The Fight In the Garden Do You Remember…?
Happy Birthday How Much? The Dawn Patrol
Ground Glass Liberal Arts High School Album
Moment Musicale Coppélia Hair Shirt
So Soon? Juliet Tijuana
Mariuana The Primrose Path Harriet’s System
Witch Doctor Happy Easter Bawdy Story
Wild Party Wastebaskets The Laborers
Bleh! Stockings 4 A.M.
Sweet Shit Silver California Sunshine
Watering the Flowers Mrs. Paul A. Cornish In the Aztec Room
Houyhnhum 7:42 A.M. The Jeweler’s Son
Jussi Bjoerling The Lecture on El Greco Equality
Jews Bernice Jade Pig
New Writing... Billy Jack Andrews, Pro Peggy
Venus of Mission Hills Letter Art of India
Publishers’ Graveyard Good Luck Foul Weather
On the Morning Train Petra Good Night, Good Night!
J’ai Faim Moulin Rouge Les Sabots de Millet
Cannes Darkness at Noon Another One
The Etruscans Mi Piace la Banana From Rome
Intimations Wedding Present Football
Square Peg The Dancing Master Hot Number
Socrates Eagle Scout Locking Up
A Pal of Morrie Crime and Punishment Autumn
Black Pledge Gil Davis Guess Who?
Legal Secretary In the Vault Winter
The Volunteer Death Ray Joy to the World
Week IX
(October 22, 24)
Connell, Mr. Bridge (Entire book)Love Family Portrait In the Counting House
Two Women Dinner at Home The Tip
No Oil Lester Trouble in the Road Ahead
Senator Horton Bailey Forgive Us Our Debts Prohibition
Life Begins at... Thumper The Dream
Struggling Upward… Thayer’s Drugstore The Pony
Bleak Day Cadillac Locusts
You Don’t Love Me Call Me Avrum EK
Kansas City Power... Paper Hat Purple Crayon
Stiff Lower Lip Barbarians Boxtops
The Gardener’s Child Summer in Georgia Underground
Discretion New Clothes Yuh, Yuh, Yuh
The Pistol Halloween Daiquiri for Harriet
Harriet and Carolyn Onward Christian Soldiers Home from the Office
Handful of Change Season’s Greetings The Squirrel
Happy Days Cousin Lulu’s Estate Nevacal
Fleur-de-lis The Family Tree New Neighbors
LS The Regatta… Semi-pro
Golden Gloves Crosby Beefcake
The Fight In the Garden Do You Remember…?
Happy Birthday How Much? The Dawn Patrol
Ground Glass Liberal Arts High School Album
Moment Musicale Coppélia Hair Shirt
So Soon? Juliet Tijuana
Mariuana The Primrose Path Harriet’s System
Witch Doctor Happy Easter Bawdy Story
Wild Party Wastebaskets The Laborers
Bleh! Stockings 4 A.M.
Sweet Shit Silver California Sunshine
Watering the Flowers Mrs. Paul A. Cornish In the Aztec Room
Houyhnhum 7:42 A.M. The Jeweler’s Son
Jussi Bjoerling The Lecture on El Greco Equality
Jews Bernice Jade Pig
New Writing... Billy Jack Andrews, Pro Peggy
Venus of Mission Hills Letter Art of India
Publishers’ Graveyard Good Luck Foul Weather
On the Morning Train Petra Good Night, Good Night!
J’ai Faim Moulin Rouge Les Sabots de Millet
Cannes Darkness at Noon Another One
The Etruscans Mi Piace la Banana From Rome
Intimations Wedding Present Football
Square Peg The Dancing Master Hot Number
Socrates Eagle Scout Locking Up
A Pal of Morrie Crime and Punishment Autumn
Black Pledge Gil Davis Guess Who?
Legal Secretary In the Vault Winter
The Volunteer Death Ray Joy to the World
Bridges to Theory Essay Due in my office (MI 111)
on Sunday, October 27 at 10:00 p.m.
Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy
Week X
(October 29, 31)
on Sunday, October 27 at 10:00 p.m.
Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy
Week X
(October 29, 31)
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 72-95
Structures and the Habitus
A False Dilemma: Mechanism and Finalism
Structures, Habitus and Practices
The Dialectic of Objectification and Embodiment
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, 293-314
Postmodern Political Economy and Sensibilities
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 357-422
Part III/Section 11: Coherence and Contingency
Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber)
Introduction to Europe and the People with History (Wolf)
Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution (Comaroff and Comaroff)
Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism (Donham)
Structures and the Habitus (Bourdieu)
Two Lectures (Foucault)
Week XI
(November 5, 7)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 96-124
Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits
The Calendar and the Synoptic Illusion
Economy of Logic
The Body as Geometer: Cosmogonic Practice
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, 315-334
The Contemporary Anthropological Moment
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 423-493
Part III/Section 12 Universalisms and Domain Terms
Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body… (Lambek)
So Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? (Ortner)
Global Anxieties: Concept-metaphors and Pre-Theoretical...(Moore)
Part III/Section 13: Perspectives and their Logics
The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism (Thornton)
Writing Against Culture (Abu-Lughod)
Cutting the Network (Strathern)
Part III/Section 11: Coherence and Contingency
Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber)
Introduction to Europe and the People with History (Wolf)
Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution (Comaroff and Comaroff)
Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism (Donham)
Structures and the Habitus (Bourdieu)
Two Lectures (Foucault)
Week XI
(November 5, 7)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 96-124
Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits
The Calendar and the Synoptic Illusion
Economy of Logic
The Body as Geometer: Cosmogonic Practice
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, 315-334
The Contemporary Anthropological Moment
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 423-493
Part III/Section 12 Universalisms and Domain Terms
Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body… (Lambek)
So Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? (Ortner)
Global Anxieties: Concept-metaphors and Pre-Theoretical...(Moore)
Part III/Section 13: Perspectives and their Logics
The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism (Thornton)
Writing Against Culture (Abu-Lughod)
Cutting the Network (Strathern)
(Due 11/24 at 10:00 p.m. as an e-mail .pdf attachment)
Week XII
(November 12, 14)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 124-139
Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits (continued)
Union and Separation
Thresholds and Rites of Passage
Reunions of Contraries and Denial
New Guinea Group
Schiefflin, The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers
Kaluli Pronunciation
Ceremonies and Reciprocity
In the Shadow of the Mountain
I’m Sorry, Brother, I Don’t Eat That
Organizing Actions: Those at the House and Those Who Came
The Unseen World and the Opposition Scenario
Assertion and Appeal
Anger, Reciprocity, and the Rhythms of Experience
The Perception of a Human Condition
Ceremonial Occasions and Preparations
The Gisaro
Gisaro and the Opposition Scenario
Philippines Group
Rosaldo, Ilongot Headhunting
Introduction
The Past Made Present
Perspectives on Ilongot History
Stories of the Butag-Rumyad Feud, 1923-1956
The Celebration of the Covenant, 1969
Social Structure Set in Motion
The Source of Collective Memories, 1941-1945
The Politics of Headhunting,1945-1954
The Politics of Marriage, 1955-1960
The Deconstruction of Collective Identity
Rumyad in Historical Perspective, 1883-1905
The Feud in Historical Perspective, 1890-1928
Afterword
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 140-158
Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits (continued)
Making Use of Indeterminacy
The Habitus and Homologies
New Guinea Group
Feld, Sound and Sentiment
Introduction
The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird
To You They are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest
Weeping That Moves Women to Song
The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment
The Ilongots
Knowledge, passion, and the heart
Knowledge, identity, and order in an egalitarian world
Horticulture, hunting, and the ‘height’ of men’s hearts
Headhunting: a tale of “fathers,’ ‘brothers,’ and ‘sons’
Negotiating anger: oratory and the knowledge of adults
Conclusion: Self and social life
Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis For a Theory of Symbolic Power
Doxa, Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy
Symbolic Capital
Rewrites (theory letter rewriting)
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 183-197
Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis For a Theory of Symbolic Power (continued)
Modes of Domination
Kipnis, Producing Guanxi (whole book by Thursday)
Introduction
Part I: Practices of Guanxi Production
Introduction
1 Everyday Guanxi Production
Types of Guanxi
Embodying Guanxi
Visiting, Exchanging Favors, Helping Out
Kinship Terms and Names
2 Guest/Host Etiquette and Banquets
Guest/Host Etiquette
3 Gift-Giving
Gifts
Gift-giving Occasions
Talking about Gifts and Guanxi
Case Studies
Discussion
4 “Kowtowing”
Ketou in Fengjia
Ketou as Guanxi-Producing Ritual
5 Weddings, Funerals, and Gender
Weddings
Female-Centered Guanxi
Ambiguous Transfer
Difficult Ending
Funerals
6 Feeling, Speech, and Nonrepresentational Ethics
Nonrepresentational Speech Ethics
Part II—Guanzi Versions
Guanxi in Fengjia, 1948-1990
Guanxi Version Throughout China
Guanxi and Peasant Subculture
Epilogue
Click here for the other half of this two-part syllabus post:
(November 12, 14)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 124-139
Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits (continued)
Union and Separation
Thresholds and Rites of Passage
Reunions of Contraries and Denial
New Guinea Group
Schiefflin, The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers
Kaluli Pronunciation
Ceremonies and Reciprocity
In the Shadow of the Mountain
I’m Sorry, Brother, I Don’t Eat That
Organizing Actions: Those at the House and Those Who Came
The Unseen World and the Opposition Scenario
Assertion and Appeal
Anger, Reciprocity, and the Rhythms of Experience
The Perception of a Human Condition
Ceremonial Occasions and Preparations
The Gisaro
Gisaro and the Opposition Scenario
Philippines Group
Rosaldo, Ilongot Headhunting
Introduction
The Past Made Present
Perspectives on Ilongot History
Stories of the Butag-Rumyad Feud, 1923-1956
The Celebration of the Covenant, 1969
Social Structure Set in Motion
The Source of Collective Memories, 1941-1945
The Politics of Headhunting,1945-1954
The Politics of Marriage, 1955-1960
The Deconstruction of Collective Identity
Rumyad in Historical Perspective, 1883-1905
The Feud in Historical Perspective, 1890-1928
Afterword
Please read the Ethnography Review Assignment
(Due 11/24 at 10:00 p.m. as an e-mail .pdf attachment)
Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy
(Due 11/24 at 10:00 p.m. as an e-mail .pdf attachment)
Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy
Week XIII
(November
19, 21)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 140-158
Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits (continued)
Making Use of Indeterminacy
The Habitus and Homologies
New Guinea Group
Feld, Sound and Sentiment
Introduction
The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird
To You They are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest
Weeping That Moves Women to Song
The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment
Song That Moves Men to Tears
In the Form of a Bird: Kaluli Aesthetics
Philippines Group
Rosaldo, Knowledge and Passion The Ilongots
Knowledge, passion, and the heart
Knowledge, identity, and order in an egalitarian world
Horticulture, hunting, and the ‘height’ of men’s hearts
Headhunting: a tale of “fathers,’ ‘brothers,’ and ‘sons’
Negotiating anger: oratory and the knowledge of adults
Conclusion: Self and social life
Week XIV
(November 26)
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 159-183 Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis For a Theory of Symbolic Power
Doxa, Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy
Symbolic Capital
Rewrites (theory letter rewriting)
Week XV
(December
3, 5)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 183-197
Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis For a Theory of Symbolic Power (continued)
Modes of Domination
Kipnis, Producing Guanxi (whole book by Thursday)
Introduction
Part I: Practices of Guanxi Production
Introduction
1 Everyday Guanxi Production
Types of Guanxi
Embodying Guanxi
Visiting, Exchanging Favors, Helping Out
Kinship Terms and Names
2 Guest/Host Etiquette and Banquets
Guest/Host Etiquette
3 Gift-Giving
Gifts
Gift-giving Occasions
Talking about Gifts and Guanxi
Case Studies
Discussion
4 “Kowtowing”
Ketou in Fengjia
Ketou as Guanxi-Producing Ritual
5 Weddings, Funerals, and Gender
Weddings
Female-Centered Guanxi
Ambiguous Transfer
Difficult Ending
Funerals
6 Feeling, Speech, and Nonrepresentational Ethics
Nonrepresentational Speech Ethics
Part II—Guanzi Versions
Guanxi in Fengjia, 1948-1990
Guanxi Version Throughout China
Guanxi and Peasant Subculture
Epilogue
No Exceptions—This is the last "moment" of the term,
and I have only forty-eight hours to grade the assignments.
You must e-mail this to me (lafleur@beloit.edu) as an attachment!
Week XVI
(December
10)
In-class final exam
All Late Work Due by Wednesday, December 11 by 10:00 p.m.
You must e-mail these to me (lafleur@beloit.edu) as attachments!
No Exceptions—This is the last "moment" of the term,
and I have only forty-eight hours to grade the assignments.
You must e-mail this to me (lafleur@beloit.edu) as an attachment!
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