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ANTH 206: Weeks 1-8 ANTH 206: Weeks 9-16
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Anthropology 206
MW 8:00-9:50 a.m.
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Monday
12:05-1:35
363-2005 Wednesday
12:05-1:35
lafleur@beloit.edu …or by
appointment Required Books for All Enrolled Students
Becker, Howard, What About Mozart? What About Murder?
Bowen, Elenore Smith, Return to Laughter
Bourdieu, Practical Reason
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (handouts)
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, A History of Anthroplogy
Gordon, Robert. Fifty Key Anthropologists (plus web additions)
Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology*
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (handouts)
LaFleur, Longevity Mountain (handouts)
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 10% Every Class Session
Theoretical Letter 10% Week Four
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 10% Week Seven
Midterm Exam 15% Week Nine
Ethnography Review Essay 15% Week Thirteen
Final Exam 15% Week Sixteen
Final Analysis 25% Finals Week
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Bowen, Elenore Smith, Return to Laughter
Bourdieu, Practical Reason
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (handouts)
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, A History of Anthroplogy
Gordon, Robert. Fifty Key Anthropologists (plus web additions)
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) Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (handouts)
LaFleur, Longevity Mountain (handouts)
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 10% Every Class Session
Theoretical Letter 10% Week Four
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 10% Week Seven
Midterm Exam 15% Week Nine
Ethnography Review Essay 15% Week Thirteen
Final Exam 15% Week Sixteen
Final Analysis 25% Finals Week
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Anthropology 206
Social and Cultural Theory
Autumn 2016
Week I
(August
22, 24)
Monday, August 22Course overview
Wednesday, August 24
Film: Geil of Doylestown (in-class Wednesday)
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
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
William Edgar Geil (1865-1925)
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.”
Week II
(August 29, 31)
Monday, August 29
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
New York Review of Books Click for separate New York Review of Books Syllabus
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
David Riesman (1909-2002)
Laura Bohannan (1922-2002)
Bowen, Return to Laughter
Foreword by David Riesman (you must read this—all-important)
Entire book (it is a straight-through "read")
Wednesday, August 31
Gordon, Fifty Key AnthropologistsYou are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
David Riesman (1909-2002)
Laura Bohannan (1922-2002)
Bowen, Return to Laughter
Foreword by David Riesman (you must read this—all-important)
Entire book (it is a straight-through "read")
Wednesday, August 31
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
Franz Boas (1858-1942))
Alfred Kroeber (1876-1950)
Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, xi-xvi; 1-52
General 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, 1-54
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?
The Leacocks
Victim of Circumstances
Rock Fight
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Week III
(September 5, 7)
Monday, September 5Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
New York Review of Books Click for separate New York Review of Books Syllabus
Gordon, Fifty Key AnthropologistsYou are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
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
Wednesday, September 7
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955)
Sir Edmund Leach (1910-1989)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 53-87
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)
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 55-96
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
Revolt of the Masses
Minister’s Book
Lady Poet
Voting
Oaths and Pledges
Another Victim of Circumstances
Leda
The Clock
Countess Mariska
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Week IV
(September
12, 14)
Monday, September 12Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
New York Review of Books Click for separate New York Review of Books Syllabus
Gordon, Fifty Key AnthropologistsYou are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were) Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)
Julian Steward (1902-1972)
Leslie White (1900-1975)
Roy Rappaport (1926-1997)
J.H.M. Beattie (1915-1990)
Ladislav Holý (1933-1997) and Milan Stuchlik
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 89-161
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)
Part I/Section 4: Methods and Objects
Understanding and Explanation in Social Anthropology (Beattie)
Anthropological Data and Social Reality (Holy and Stuchlik)
Objectification Objectified (Bourdieu)
Wednesday, September 14
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Adolf Bastian (1826-1905)
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917)
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 20-45
Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 97-151You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Adolf Bastian (1826-1905)
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917)
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 20-45
Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman
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
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
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"Theory Letter" Assignment
Letters are Due (as .pdf files—attach to an e-mail to lafleur@beloit.edu)
by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 18.
Week V
(September 19, 21)
Monday, September 19Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
New York Review of Books Click for separate New York Review of Books Syllabus
Gordon, Fifty Key AnthropologistsYou are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
Clifford Geertz (1926-2006)
Talal Asad (1932-)
Sherry Ortner (1941-)
Malcom Crick (-2006)
Maurice Bloch (1939-)
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 163-220
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)
Part II/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)
Wednesday, September 21
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were) Marcel Mauss (1874-1950)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 46-67
Four Founding Fathers
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, vii-viii; 1-15 (handout)
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, 151-194French Restaurant
Winged Victory
Strangers in Paradise
Intellectual Café
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
Week VI
(September 26, 28)
Monday, September 26 and Wednesday, September 28
(Read the Bridge novels and watch the film in class.
All other work is now due for Wednesday)
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
New York Review of Books Click for separate New York Review of Books Syllabus
Film: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (in class on Monday and Wednesday, with discussion)
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 78-95 (handout)
Structures, Habitus, and Practices
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
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*I do realize that it will be a little odd leaving "the rest" of Mrs. Bridge until Week 7. At this point, though, I don't want to tinker with the syllabus further, for fear that we'll just end up in a mess. It MIGHT be a good idea to finish Mrs. Bridge (technically, now, next week) and get as far as you can with Mr. Bridge. Your decision
Week VII
(October 3, 5)
Monday, October 3Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
New York Review of Books Click for separate New York Review of Books Syllabus
Gordon, Fifty Key AnthropologistsYou are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were).
Harvey Whitehouse (1964-)
Charles Stafford (1956-)
T.M. Luhrman (1959-)
Charles Whitehead ()
Michael Jackson (1940)
Emily Martin (1944)
Lesley Sharp ()
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 221-281
Part II/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 II/Section 8: Bodies of Knowledges
Knowledge of the Body (Jackson)
The End of the Body? (Martin)
Hybridity: Hybrid Bodies of The Scientific Imaginary (Sharp)
Wednesday, October 5
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).All authors with website links are provided just so that you can get a quick sense of who the are/were)
Robert Redfield (1897-1958)
Sir Raymond Firth (1901-2002)
E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 68-95
Expansion and Institutionalism
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 171-183 (handout)
Symbolic Capital
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 194-246Very Gay Indeed
Local Talent
Exchange of Letter
Frozen Fruit
Reflections on Montaigne
Gloves
Marching with Dr. Foster
Quo Vadis, Madame?
Joseph Conrad
Psychotherapy
Pineapple Bread
Carolyn’s Engagement
Present from Douglas
Carolyn Marries
Alice
Winter
Tuna Salad
Old Acquaintance
Home Again
Mr. Bridge Adjourns
Letter from a Buddhist
All’s Well
Remembrance of Things Past
Hello?
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Read the Bridges to Theory Essay Assignment
Due by 10:00 p.m. on Friday, October 7
Due by 10:00 p.m. on Friday, October 7
Send as a .pdf file to lafleur@beloit.edu
Week VIII—Autumn Break
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