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Anthropology 206
Autumn 2014
TTh 8:00-9:50 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 Required Books for All Enrolled Students
Bowen, Elenore Smith, Return to Laughter
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
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)
*We will be using the new second edition of this book; if you are using the first edition, you must check library reserve to get the essays that are missing—you are responsible for them, no matter which edition you use.
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 20%
Ethnography Review Essay 25%
Final Exam 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
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)
*We will be using the new second edition of this book; if you are using the first edition, you must check library reserve to get the essays that are missing—you are responsible for them, no matter which edition you use.
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.
*** ***
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 20%
Ethnography Review Essay 25%
Final Exam 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Anthropology 206
Social and Cultural Theory
Week I
(August
26, 28)
Tuesday Film: Geil of Doylestown (in-class Tuesday)
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
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.
Thursday
Bowen, Return to Laughter
Foreword by David Riesman
Chapters 1-22 (whole book)
Week II
(September 2, 4)
Round and Square
Quotidian Quizzes:Introduction (a-h) Read all eight
posts, not just “a.”
This will take some time; do it anyway.
New York Review of Books
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice,
vii-viii; 1-15
Translator’s ForewordThe Objective Limits of Objectivism
Section I: Analyses
From the Mechanics of the Model to the Dialectic of Strategies
From the “Rules” of Honour to the Sense of Honour
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, xi-xii; 1-67
Acknowledgments
Of Politics and Paradigms
Claims and Critiques...
The Prehistory of Anthropology
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
Where biographies are not included among Gordon's Fifty, I have linked to Wikipedia sites (if I have judged them "competent").
Boas, Franz
Kroeber, Alfred
Bateson, Gregory (Wikipedia)
Benedict, Ruth
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)
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)
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, 16-22
The Objective Limits of Objectivism (continued)
Section I: Analyses
Fallacies of the Rule
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, 68-105
Marx
Durkheim and Weber
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
Where biographies are not included among Gordon's Fifty, I have linked to Wikipedia sites (if I have judged them "competent").
Emile Durkheim
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
Sir Edmund Leach
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Bronislaw Malinowski
Julian Steward
Leslie White
Roy Rappaport
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
16, 18)
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, 22-30
The Objective Limits of Objectivism (continued)
Section I: Analyses
The Fallacies of the Rule
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, 106-154
Spencer, Darwin, and an Evolutionary Parable For Our Time
Boas and the Demise of Cultural Evolution
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
Where biographies are not included among Gordon's Fifty, I have linked to Wikipedia sites (if I have judged them "competent").
Pierre Bourdieu
Clifford Geertz
Sherry Ortner
Talal Asad
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 129-190
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)
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)
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
23, 25)
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, 30-38
The Objective Limits of Objectivism (continued)
Section II: Case Study—Parallel-Cousin Marriage
The State of the Question
The Functions of Kinship: Official Kin and Practical Kin
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, 155-200
Culture and Psychology
Structure and Function
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
Today begins "general information" reading from Gordon's book; these will be on the quizzes and final.
Fredrick Bailey
Georges Balandier
Fredrik Barth
Dame Mary Douglas
Alan Dundes
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 191-282
Part 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)
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
Pinker, The Language Instinct (selections)
Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say? (selections)
Wallace, Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the War over Usage, 39-58
Week VI
(September 30, October 2)
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, 38-52
The Objective Limits of Objectivism (continued)
Section II: Case Study—Parallel-Cousin Marriage (continued)
Officializing Strategies
Collective Beliefs and White Lies
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, 201-265
Decolonization and Anti-Structure
Ecological and Neo-Evolutionary Approaches
Contemporary Materialist and Ecological Approaches
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
These passages include "general information" reading from Gordon's book; these will be on the quizzes and final.
Erik Wolf
Jean and John Comaroff
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Sir Raymond Firth
Meyer Fortes
Max Gluckman
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 283-376
Part 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)
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 Letters
Frozen Fruit
Week VII
(October 7, 9)
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, 52-71
The Objective Limits of Objectivism (continued)
Section II: Case Study—Parallel-Cousin Marriage (continued)
The Ordinary and the Extra-Ordinary
Matrimonial Strategies and Social Reproduction
Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory, 266-292
Symbols, Structures, and “Webs of Significance”
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
These passages include "general information" reading from Gordon's book; these will be on the quizzes and final.
Sir Jack Goody
Ulf Hannerz
Marvin Harris
Melville Jean Herskovits
Zora Neale Thurston
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 377-444
Part III/Section 11: Perspectives and Their Logics
The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism (Thornton)
Writing Against Culture (Abu-Lughod)
Cutting the Network (Strathern)
Part III/Section 12: Objectivity, Morality, and Truth
The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant...(Scheper-Hughes)
Moral Models in Anthropology (D'Andrade)
Postmodernist Anthropology, Subjectivity, and Science...(Spiro)
Beyond Good and Evil? Questioning the...(Fassin)
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 205-246
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?
Week VIII—Autumn Break
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