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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Social and Cultural Theory Syllabus 2016 B (Weeks 9-16)

On this date on Round and Square's History 
20 August 2015—China's Lunar Calendar 2015 08-20
20 August 2015—Social and Cultural Theory Syllabus 2015 (b)
20 August 2014—China's Lunar Calendar 2014 08-20
20 August 2014—Social and Cultural Theory Syllabus 2014 (b)
20 August 2013—China's Lunar Calendar 2013 08-20
20 August 2013—From the Geil Archive: Curly Fives
20 August 2012—The New Yorker and the World: Introduction
20 August 2011—Displays of Authenticity: Real Coffee

Click here for the other half of this two-part syllabus post:
ANTH 206: Weeks 1-8                   ANTH 206: Weeks 9-16
[a] Confrontation RF
Social and Cultural Theory
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*
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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.  
See my class attendance and participation policy.
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
 
Anthropology 206
Social and Cultural Theory 
Autumn 2016
Week IX
(October 17-21) 
Monday
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). You might wish to do a quick check for biographical information with those anthropologists who are not covered in Fifty Key Anthropologists.          Max Weber (1864-1920)
          Eric Wolf (1923-1999)
          Jean (1946) and John Comaroff (1945-)
          Donald Donham ()
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 283-341
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)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 96-119
            Forms of Change

Wednesday
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) 
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 120-137
            The Power of Symbols
Becker, What About Mozart?, 1-60
            First Look
            What's Happening Elsewhere
            Reasoning From Analogy

Week X 
(October 24-28)
Monday
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square 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). You might wish to do a quick check for biographical information with those anthropologists who are not covered in Fifty Key Anthropologists.
          Michael Lambek ()
          Henrietta Moore (1957-)
          Robert J. Thornton ()
          Lila Abu-Lughod ()
          Marilyn Strathern () 
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 343-410
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)
Part III/Section 11: Perspectives and Their Logics
            The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism (Thornton)
            Writing Against Culture (Abu-Lughod)
            Cutting the Network (Strathern)
Midterm Examination (in-class on Monday)

Wednesday
Advising Day (no class)
***  ***
(Due Sunday 11/20 at 10:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111)
 Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy

Week XI 
(October 31-November 4)
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). You might wish to do a quick check for biographical information with those anthropologists who are not covered in Fifty Key Anthropologists.       

            Nancy Scheper-Hughe
            Roy D'Andrad
            Melford Spiro
            Didier Fassin
            Oyèrónké Oyewùmí
            Vivek Dhareshwawr
            Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 411-474
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)
Part IV/Section 13: Coherence and Contingency 
            The Invention of Women (Oyěwùmí)
            Valorizing the Present (Dhareshwar)
            Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism (de Castro)

Wednesday
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). You might wish to do a quick check for biographical information with those anthropologists who are not covered in Fifty Key Anthropologists.
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 138-165
            Questioning Authority
Becker, What About Mozart?, 61-121
            Black Boxes
            Complicating and Combining Black Boxes
***  ***
(Due Sunday 11/20 at 10:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111)
 Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy
                                    
Week XII
(November 7-11)
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). You might wish to do a quick check for biographical information with those anthropologists who are not covered in Fifty Key Anthropologists.
            Edward Schieffelin
            Renato Rosaldo 
***  ***
Monday/Wednesday
           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                                                       
***  ***
(Due Sunday 11/20 at 10:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111)
 Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy

Week XIII 
(November 14-18) 
Monday
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). You might wish to do a quick check for biographical information with those anthropologists who are not covered in Fifty Key Anthropologists.
            Steven Feld
            Michelle Rosaldo 
***  ***
Monday/Wednesday
           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
***  ***
(Due Sunday 11/20 at 10:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111)
 Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy

Week XIV 
(November 21)
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square 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). You might wish to do a quick check for biographical information with those anthropologists who are not covered in Fifty Key Anthropologists.

            Stefan Helmereich
            Marc Augé
            Bruno Latour
            Caitlin Zaloom
            Webb Keane
            Yael Navaro-Yashin
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 475-519
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)
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)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 166-191
            The End of Modernism
Becker, What About Mozart?, 122-143
            Imagining Cases 

Wednesday
Rewriting Assignment (click the link).
Do this assignment in place of class for Wednesday.
Due Friday 12/13 at 5:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111
 Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy

Week XV 
(November 28-December 2)
Monday
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). You might wish to do a quick check for biographical information with those anthropologists who are not covered in Fifty Key Anthropologists.
             Akhil Gupta
            James Ferguson
            George E. Marcus
            Arjun Appadurai
            Steven Sangren 
            Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
            Douglas R. Holmes  

Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 521-575
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)

Wednesday
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests).
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 192-220
            Global Networks    
Due Friday 12/13 at 5:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111

Week XVI
(December 5-7) 
Monday
Becker, What About Mozart?, 144-188
            Where Do You Stop?
            IOU's, Promissory Notes, and Killer Questions
            Last Words       
Two handouts about Howard Becker's approach to research (.pdf files)
           "The Sociologist at the Strip Club" (The New Yorker, January 2015) 
          "A Dialogue on the Words 'World' and 'Field'" (Sociology of Art) 
We will discuss the final examination in class, too.

 Wednesday
Final Exam (in-class)
Due Friday 12/13 at 5:00 p.m. in my office—MI 111
[b] Candy Culture RF
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ANTH 206: Weeks 1-8                   ANTH 206: Weeks 9-16
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