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ANTH 206: Weeks 1-8 ANTH 206: Weeks 9-16
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Social and Cultural Theory
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*
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.
Evaluation
Quizzes 15%
Theoretical Letter 15%
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 15%
Ethnography Review Essay 15%
Final Exam 15%
Final Theoretical Essay 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*
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 Theoretical Essay 25%
Class attendance and participation is expected.
See my class attendance and participation policy.
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Anthropology 206
Social and Cultural Theory
Autumn 2015
Week IX
(October 20, 22)
TuesdayRound and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus (read Week VII)
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)
Thursday
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 96-119
Forms of Change
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
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 X
(October 27, 29)
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Part IV/Section 13: Coherence and Contingency
The Invention of Women (Oyěwùmí)
Valorizing the Present (Dhareshwar)
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
Part IV/Section 14: (Re)defining Objects of Inquiry
What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies (Helmreich)
The Near and the Elsewhere (Augé)
Relativism (Latour)
Thursday
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 120-137
The Power of Symbols
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 72-95
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 120-137
The Power of Symbols
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
Please read the Ethnography Review Assignment
(Due 11/22 at 10:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111)
Week XI
(November 2, 4)
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Part IV/Section15: Subjects, Objects, and Affect
How to Read the Future...(Zaloom)
Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning...(Keane)
Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects...(Navaro-Yashin)
Part IV/Section 16: Imagining Methodologies and Meta-things
Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics...(Gupta and Ferguson)
What is at Stake—and is not—in the Idea...(Marcus)
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination (Appadurai)
The End of Anthropology, Again...(Comaroff)
Part IV/Section17: Anthropologizing Ourselves
Participant Objectivication (Bourdieu)
Anthropology of Anthropology? Further Reflections on Reflexivity (Sangren)
World Anthropologies: Cosmopolitics for a New Global...(Ribeiro)
Cultures of Expertise and the Management...(Holmes and Marcus)
Thursday
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 138-165
Questioning Authority
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
Please read the Ethnography Review Assignment
(Due 11/22 at 10:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111)
Week XII
(November 9, 11)
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits (continued)
Union and Separation
Thresholds and Rites of Passage
Reunions of Contraries and Denial
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Tuesday/ThursdayNew 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
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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
(Due 11/22 at 10:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111)
Week XIII
(November
17, 19)
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits (continued)
Making Use of Indeterminacy
The Habitus and Homologies
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Tuesday/ThursdayNew 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
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Philippines GroupThe 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
(Due 11/22 at 10:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111)
Week XIV
(November 25)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 166-220The End of Modernism
Global Networks
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, 159-197
Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis For a Theory of Symbolic Power
Doxa, Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy
Symbolic Capital
Modes of Domination
Week XV
(December 2, 4)
TuesdayExam preparation (in-class review)
Thursday
Final Exam (in class)
Week XVI
(December 9)
Howard Becker (handout)Discussion of final projects
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