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Anthropology 206
Autumn 2015
TTh 8:00-9:50 a.m.
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Tuesday
2:00-3:30
363-2005 Thursday
2:00-3:30
lafleur@beloit.edu …or by
appointment Required Books for All Enrolled Students
Bowen, Elenore Smith, Return to Laughter
Bourdieu, Practical Reason
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, A History of Anthroplogy
Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology*
The New York Review of Books (NYRB)
*We will be using the new second edition of this book. Do not buy the first edition; there are too many changes, and it will not "save" you time or money.
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.
All books are on library reserve.
Evaluation
Quizzes 15%
Theoretical Letter 15%
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 15%
Ethnography Review Essay 15%
Final Exam 15%
Final Analysis 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Bourdieu, Practical Reason
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, A History of Anthroplogy
Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology*
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LaFleur, Robert. Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogspot.com) The New York Review of Books (NYRB)
*We will be using the new second edition of this book. Do not buy the first edition; there are too many changes, and it will not "save" you time or money.
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.
All books are on library reserve.
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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 15%
Theoretical Letter 15%
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 15%
Ethnography Review Essay 15%
Final Exam 15%
Final Analysis 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Anthropology 206
Social and Cultural Theory
Autumn 2015
Week I
(August
25, 27)
Tuesday Course overview
Thursday
Film: Geil of Doylestown (in-class Thursday)
From the Geil Archive (read all nine posts)
Introduction
1-Southern Mountain Museum
2-Sacred Mountain Map
3-Hat and Cattle
4-Seeking Anthropology
5-Curly Fives
6-How to Write the Book
7-Mortarboard Man
8-Orator
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, vii-x; 1-19
Proto-Anthropology
Round and Square
Syllabic Cycles:Introduction (a-d) Read all four posts, not just “a.”
New York Review of Books
Read the cover, the "front matter," and the first essay.
Week II
(September 1, 3)
Tuesday
Round and Square
Round and Square
Quotidian Quizzes:Introduction (a-h) Read all eight
posts, not just “a.” This will
take some time; do it anyway. They get more important (and will be on the quiz)
as they proceed; read the last four carefully.
take some time; do it anyway. They get more important (and will be on the quiz)
as they proceed; read the last four carefully.
New York Review of Books
Bowen, Return to Laughter
Foreword by David Riesman
Chapters 1-22 (whole book)
Foreword by David Riesman
Chapters 1-22 (whole book)
Thursday
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, xi-xvi; 1-52General Introduction
Anthropology and Epistemology
Part I/Section I: Culture and Behavior
The Aims of Anthropological Research (Boas)
The Concept of Culture in Science (Kroeber)
Problems and Methods of Approach (Bateson)
The Individual and the Pattern of Culture (Benedict)
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 1-40
Love and Marriage
Children
Preliminary Training
Marmalade
Christmas Basket
Displaced Dummy
Alice Jones
Who Can Find the Caspian Sea?
Of Ladies and Women
Table Manners
Alice Jones Again
Agreeable Conversation
Guest Towels
Late for Dinner
Holiday News
A Matter of Taste
Good-by Alice
Never Speak to Strange Men
Grace Barron
What’s Up, Señora Bridge?
Week III
(September 9, 11)
TuesdayRound and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Bourdieu, Practical Reason, 1-145 (whole book)Preface
Acknowledgments
Social Spaces and Symbolic Space
(The "Soviet" Variant and Political Capital)
The New Capital
(Social Space and the Field of Power)
Rethinking the State: The Genesis and Structure...
(The Family Spirit)
Is a Disinterested Act Possible?
The Economy of Symbolic Goods
(Remarks on the Economy of the Church)
The Scholastic Point of View
A Paradoxical Foundation of Ethics
Thursday
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 53-128
Part I/Section2: Structure and System
Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts (Durkheim)
On Social Structure (Radcliffe-Brown)
Introduction to Political Systems of Highland Burma (Leach)
Social Structure (Lévi-Strauss)
Part I/Section3: Function and Environment
The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis (Malinowski)
The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology (Steward)
Energy and the Evolution of Culture (White)
Ecology, Cultural and Noncultural (Rappaport)
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 41-80
The Leacocks
Victim of Circumstances
Rock Fight
Advanced Training
Another World
Tower
Sentimental Moment
Soft Gift
Nothing Spectacular
The Search for Love
Treachery
No Scenes in Church
Powerful Vocabulary
Tobacco Road
One Summer Morning
Growing Pains
Maid from Madras
Week IV
(September
15, 17)
TuesdayRound and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 129-190Part I/Section 4: Methods and Objects
Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology (Beattie)
Anthropological Data and Social Reality (Holy and Stuchlik)
Objectification Objectified (Bourdieu)
Part II/Section 5: Meanings as Objects of Study
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture (Geertz)
Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology (Asad)
Subjectivity and Cultural Critique (Ortner)
Thursday
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 20-45
Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, vii-viii; 1-15
Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, vii-viii; 1-15
Translator’s Foreword
The Objective Limits of Objectivism
Section I: Analyses
From the Mechanics of the Model to the
Dialectic of Strategies
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 81-121 Revolt of the Masses
Minister’s Book
Lady Poet
Voting
Oaths and Pledges
Another Victim of Circumstances
Leda
The Clock
Countess Mariska
Tea Leaves
Liberal
The Private World of Wilhelm and Susan
Sir William and Sir Thomas
The Low-pressure Salesman
Second Lesson in Spanish
Servant’s Entrance
Rumpy
The Chrysler and the Comb
No Evangelism
Chaperon
Week V
(September
22, 24)
TuesdayRound and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 191-282Part I/Section 6: Language and Method
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology (Lévi-Strauss)
Ordinary Language and Human Action (Crick)
Language, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science (Bloch)
Part I/Section 7: Cognition, Psychology, and Neuoranthropology
Towards an Integration of Ethnography, History and the...(Whitehouse)
Linguistic and Cultural Variables in the Psychology of Numeracy (Stafford)
Subjectivity (Luhrman)
Why the Behavioural Sciences Need the Concept...(Whitehead)
Part I/Section 8: Bodies of Knowledges
Knowledge of the Body (Jackson)
The End of the Body? (Martin)
Hybridity: Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary (Sharp)
Thursday
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 46-67
Four Founding Fathers
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 22-38
The Objective Limits of Objectivism (continued)
Section I: Analyses
The Fallacies of the Rule
Section II: Case Study—Parallel-Cousin Marriage
The State of the Question
The Functions of Kinship: Official Kin and Practical Kin
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 121-160
Good Night
Suitor
Ingrid
Parking
News of the Leacocks
The Hat
First Babies
Who’s Calling?
Mademoiselle from Kansas City
Ruth Goes to New York
Tornado at the Club
Non Capisco
England
French Restaurant
Winged Victory
Strangers in Paradise
Intellectual Café
Grammar Is Culture—Handouts
LaFleur, Rob’s Style Sheet
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Because of the Beloit College Internet Outage
(and lack of access to Google Docs for many students...
Theory Letter Due on
Because of the Beloit College Internet Outage
(and lack of access to Google Docs for many students...
Theory Letter Due on
Week VI
(September 29, October 1)
TuesdayRound and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 283-376Part III/Section 9: Coherence and Contingency
Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber)
Introduction to Europe and the People Without History (Wolf)
Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution (Comaroff and Comaroff)
Epochal Structures I: Reconstructing Historical Materialism (Donham)
Structures and the Habitus (Bourdieu)
Part III/Section 10: 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)
Thursday
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 68-95
Expansion and Institutionalism
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 38-52
The Objective Limits of Objectivism (continued)
Section II: Case Study—Parallel-Cousin Marriage (continued)
Officializing Strategies
Collective Beliefs and White Lies
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 161-204
Sidewalk Artist
Telegram
Beautiful Luggage
Mirror, Mirror
Psst!
Peculiar Roman
Change of Itinerary
Inside Europe
Progress, Madness, Defeat
Robbery at the Heywood Duncans’
No Questions
Follow Me Home
Jules, Niki, et al
The Rich and the Poor
Paquita de las Torres
Extra-sensory Perception
Frayed Cuffs
Sex Education
Words of Wisdom
Very Gay Indeed
Local Talent
Exchange of Letter
Frozen Fruit
Week VII
(October 6, 8)
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
Week VIII—Autumn Break
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