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19 August 2014—China's Lunar Calendar 2014 08-19
19 August 2014—Social and Cultural Theory Syllabus 2014
19 August 2013—China's Lunar Calendar 2013 08-19
19 August 2013—From the Geil Archive: Seeking Anthropology
19 August 2012—Rural Religion in China (15)
19 August 2011—Displays of Authenticity: Fresh Coffee
19 August 2012—Rural Religion in China (15)
19 August 2011—Displays of Authenticity: Fresh Coffee
Social and Cultural Theory
Anthropology 206
Autumn 2020
Monday and Wednesday 8:00-9:50
Friday "Focused Work"
Robert André LaFleur Office Hours: Email me
Morse Ingersoll 206 (what a weird era this is)
363-2005
lafleur@beloit.edu 363-2005
Required Books for All Enrolled Students
Becker, Howard, What About Mozart? What About Murder?
Bowen, Elenore Smith, Return to Laughter
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, A History of Anthropology
Mauss, Marcel. The Gift
Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology*
Wacquant, Loïc, Body and Soul: Notes of an Apprentice Boxer
Bowen, Elenore Smith, Return to Laughter
Connell, Evan. Mr. Bridge
Connell, Evan. Mrs. Bridge
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, A History of Anthropology
Mauss, Marcel. The Gift
Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology*
Wacquant, Loïc, Body and Soul: Notes of an Apprentice Boxer
All books are on library reserve.
*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.
Evaluation
Quizzes 15% Every Class Session
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Various readings for focused work (.pdf files)*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.
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Building upon ANTH 100 (Society and Culture), or related introductory study, 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% Every Class Session
Focused Work (beginning Week 5) 5% Every Class Session
Theory Letter 15% Week Two
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 20% Week Four
Exam 2 15% Week Five
Final Analysis 30% Week Seven
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Students with diverse learning styles and needs are welcome in this course.
In particular, if you have a physical, psychological, medical, or learning disability or health consideration that may impact your coursework and/or require accommodations, please feel free to approach me and/or the Learning Enrichment and Disability Services (LEADS) located on 2nd floor Pearsons (north side), 608-363-2572, learning@beloit.edu, or make an appointment through joydeleon.youcanbook.me. LEADS will work with you to determine what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. Contact that office promptly, however, since accommodations are not retroactive. Every effort will be made to give you agency over disclosure of your disability status. Confidentiality is maintained to the extent possible but at times others need to know to some information to provide you appropriate accommodations.
Anthropology 206Theory Letter 15% Week Two
Bridges to Theory Review Essay 20% Week Four
Exam 2 15% Week Five
Final Analysis 30% Week Seven
Class attendance and participation is expected.
Students with diverse learning styles and needs are welcome in this course.
In particular, if you have a physical, psychological, medical, or learning disability or health consideration that may impact your coursework and/or require accommodations, please feel free to approach me and/or the Learning Enrichment and Disability Services (LEADS) located on 2nd floor Pearsons (north side), 608-363-2572, learning@beloit.edu, or make an appointment through joydeleon.youcanbook.me. LEADS will work with you to determine what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. Contact that office promptly, however, since accommodations are not retroactive. Every effort will be made to give you agency over disclosure of your disability status. Confidentiality is maintained to the extent possible but at times others need to know to some information to provide you appropriate accommodations.
Social and Cultural Theory
Autumn 2020
Week I
(September 1-4)
(September 1-4)
Consult this excellent "Quick Guide" to Chicago-style Citation.
Introduction
Handout: "Refined Flour Theory" (LaFleur)—sent as .pdf
Round and Square
Syllabic Cycles:Introduction (a-d) Read all four posts, not just “a.”
Wednesday, September 2
Round and Square
Quotidian Quizzes It's o.k. to skim a-d, but read e-h carefully
Film: Geil of Doylestown (in-class Wednesday)
Thursday, September 3
Write a brief "reflexive" account of the first month of the pandemic (about a paragraph).
To whom will you write your "Theory Letter" (due next Sunday 9/13)? Write a paragraph to sum up your approach.
Send them to me as an email attachment (lafleur@beloit.edu) with "ANTH 206" and/or "Focused Work" in the subject header.
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
William Edgar Geil (1865-1925)
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
William Edgar Geil (1865-1925)
Focused Work (I'll explain how this will work in coming weeks)
You do not have to do this (this week) during class time; just send it by the end of the day. Beginning next week, you will do this "focused work" on your own, and then meet for 20-30 minutes with your "clan" (which I'll assign you to on Friday) from 9:30-10:00.
Find a "proto-anthropologist (c.1750-1920, but there are many possibilities in earlier eras, too, so earlier is fine if you have an idea). Discuss with your clan. Write a paragraph to sum up your approach.You do not have to do this (this week) during class time; just send it by the end of the day. Beginning next week, you will do this "focused work" on your own, and then meet for 20-30 minutes with your "clan" (which I'll assign you to on Friday) from 9:30-10:00.
Write a brief "reflexive" account of the first month of the pandemic (about a paragraph).
To whom will you write your "Theory Letter" (due next Sunday 9/13)? Write a paragraph to sum up your approach.
Send them to me as an email attachment (lafleur@beloit.edu) with "ANTH 206" and/or "Focused Work" in the subject header.
Friday, September 4
Bowen, Return to Laughter
Foreword by David Riesman (you must read this—all-important)
Entire book (it is a straight-through "read")
Bowen, Return to Laughter
Foreword by David Riesman (you must read this—all-important)
Entire book (it is a straight-through "read")
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(due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 13)
Week II
(September 7-11)
Wednesday, September 9
Theory Cartoons (trust me...just look them over (.pdf handout)
LaFleur, "Smoke Hole at the Center of the Universe" (.pdf handout)
It is o.k. to read through Sections I-III (page eight)...and then skip to the last two paragraphs on page thirteen).
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 97-194
Imagine that this work is that of an ethnographer who, instead of writing a traditional ethnography, chose instead to create more than a hundred “scenes” in the culture he is studying.
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
Friday, September 11
Focused Work
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Week III
(September 7-11)
Consult this excellent "Quick Guide" to Chicago-style Citation.
Monday, September 7
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, xi-xvi; 1-87
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)
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/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, 1-96
Imagine that this work is that of an ethnographer who, instead of writing a traditional ethnography, chose instead to create more than a hundred “scenes” in the culture he is studying.
Love and Marriage
Imagine that this work is that of an ethnographer who, instead of writing a traditional ethnography, chose instead to create more than a hundred “scenes” in the culture he is studying.
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
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
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
Wednesday, September 9
LaFleur, "Bricolage" (RSQ)
Theory Corner: Bricolage (read all posts)
Three posts; this concept is very important for our course (on the "refined flour" list)
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, vii-viii; 1-15 (.pdf handout)
Just get a sense of the text. It is absurdly complicated (needlessly so, as I will explain), but I want you at least to be familiar with what I will discuss in class.
Theory Corner: Bricolage (read all posts)
Three posts; this concept is very important for our course (on the "refined flour" list)
Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, vii-viii; 1-15 (.pdf handout)
Just get a sense of the text. It is absurdly complicated (needlessly so, as I will explain), but I want you at least to be familiar with what I will discuss in class.
Translator’s Foreword
The Objective Limits of Objectivism
Section I: Analyses
From the Mechanics of the Model to the Dialectic of Strategies Theory Cartoons (trust me...just look them over (.pdf handout)
LaFleur, "Smoke Hole at the Center of the Universe" (.pdf handout)
It is o.k. to read through Sections I-III (page eight)...and then skip to the last two paragraphs on page thirteen).
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 97-194
Imagine that this work is that of an ethnographer who, instead of writing a traditional ethnography, chose instead to create more than a hundred “scenes” in the culture he is studying.
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
French 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
Other brief handoutsFriday, September 11
Focused Work
Please Put Your Name on The "Focused Work" Document You Send Me!
The first "half" of Mrs. Bridge (what has been assigned so far). Think of theoretical angles that you see, and think about things that you might include as examples in your "Theory Letter" (due this Sunday). Discuss with your "clan" at 9:30 a.m. on Friday. Write a paragraph to sum up your approach (and a quick sample of your clan's).
(due by 5:00 p.m. THIS SUNDAY, September 13)
Week III
(September 14-18)
Consult this excellent "Quick Guide" to Chicago-style Citation.
LaFleur, Writing, History, and Culture (Rob's Writing Guide)
Read Part Three: look through Part One, just looking at the subject headers.
Wacquant, Body and Soul (at least get started on the book)The Street and the Ring
An Island of Order and Virtue
A Scientifically Savage Practice
The Social Logic of Sparring
A Implicit and Collective Pedagogy
Managing Bodily Capital
Fight Night at Studio 104
"You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up"
Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building
An Anxious Afternoon
Welcome to the Studio
Pitiful Preliminaries
Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth
Make Way for the Exotic Dancers
"You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin"
Wednesday, September 16
Wacquant, Body and Soul (try to finish the book; you will need to do so at some point, because it will be absolutely central to your final project)
The Street and the Ring
An Island of Order and Virtue
A Scientifically Savage Practice
The Social Logic of Sparring
A Implicit and Collective Pedagogy
Managing Bodily Capital
Fight Night at Studio 104
"You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up"
Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building
An Anxious Afternoon
Welcome to the Studio
Pitiful Preliminaries
Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth
Make Way for the Exotic Dancers
"You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin"
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)
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 194-246
Imagine that this work is that of an ethnographer who, instead of writing a traditional ethnography, chose instead to create more than a hundred “scenes” in the culture he is studying.
Very Gay Indeed
Very 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?Friday, September 18
Focused Work
Please Put Your Name on The "Focused Work" Document You Send Me!
[1] Now that you have finished Mrs. Bridge, think about what you have learned about the Bridges (yes, I know it's fiction). Now, what don't you know? Write a little bit of that down (it is one of the most important things an anthropologist or historian can do). [2] Think of theoretical angles that you see, and think about things that you might be including in your "Bridges to Theory" assignment.
[3] Examine what we have covered so far in Anthropology in Theory. What issues and essays might be helpful in analyzing the Bridges (and the Bridge books)?
Discuss with your "clan" at 9:30 a.m. on Friday. Write a paragraph to sum up your approach (and a quick sample of your clan's). Make sure that you put your name on the document (other than an email message). It is the only way I can keep track of them.
Week IV
(September 21-25)
(September 21-25)
Consult this excellent "Quick Guide" to Chicago-style Citation.
Monday, September 21
Imagine that this work is that of an ethnographer who, instead of writing a traditional ethnography, chose instead to create more than a hundred “scenes” in the culture he is studying.
Connell, Mr. Bridge (Entire book)
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
Wednesday, September 23
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 20-45
Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman
Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 163-220
Part II/Section 5: Meanings as Objects of Study
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)
Friday, September 25
Friday, September 25
Focused Work
Please Put Your Name on The "Focused Work" Document You Send Me!
Discuss the structure of "review essays" and some of your thoughts about how a "review essay" works. Write a brief paragraph, and discuss with your clan (below).
Make an outline for your Bridges paper, if you have not done so already (ideally, you should have). Discuss briefly with your clan, and then write a brief paragraph summarizing your thoughts (and a sense of your clan discussion). Then get writing (if you have not already started). Discuss with your "clan" at 9:30 a.m. on Friday. Write a paragraph to sum up your approach (and a quick sample of your clan's). Make sure that you put your name on the document (other than an email message). It is the only way I can keep track of them.
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(due by 5:00 p.m. NEXT FRIDAY 10/2)
(September 28-October 2)
Wednesday, September 30
Make sure you read the "Final Analysis" Assignment
Due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 18
See my class attendance and participation policy
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy
Week VI
(October 5-9)
Where Do You Stop?
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Make sure you read the "Final Analysis" Assignment
Due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 18
See my class attendance and participation policy
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy
Week VII
(October 12-16)
Again, even though we will discuss this in class on Wednesday, try to get something on paper, but all specific requirements are loosened (other than the final due-date, which has little "wiggle room" because grades will be due).
Friday, October 16
Focused Work THESE BECOME 5% OF YOUR GRADE (Weeks 5-7)
Work through your draft of the "final analysis" assignment in advance of Friday (there has been ample time for this work; DO NOT begin writing your essay now—this will not be possible, in any case, if you have done the assignments). Discuss your final plans with your clans, and write to me (put your name on the text that you send me).
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Make sure you read the "Final Analysis" Assignment
Consult this excellent "Quick Guide" to Chicago-style Citation.
Monday, September 28
Mauss, The Gift (55-198; the full text of Mauss's essay on the gift)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 46-67
Four Founding Fathers
Wednesday, September 30
LaFleur, Writing, History, and Culture (Rob's Writing Guide)
Carefully read pages 32-35 (the introduction to Part Two). You will find the context
Carefully read pages 32-35 (the introduction to Part Two). You will find the context
very useful when you receive your papers tomorrow.
Becker, Social Theory and Research Handouts (check your e-mail)
"The Outside Game" (The New Yorker)
"World and Field" (The Sociology of Art)
Friday, October 2
*** *** Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 46-67
Four Founding Fathers
Moore, Anthropology in Theory, 221-281
Part II/Section 7: Cognition, Psychology, and Neuoranthropology
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)
Friday, October 2
Focused Work THESE BECOME 5% OF YOUR GRADE (Weeks 5-7)
Please Put Your Name on The "Focused Work" Document You Send Me!
Make a one page (8.5x11", or, the standard sheet size in your country if you are not on campus. As I will describe in class, I want you to put down everything you would want for an in-class exam (even though this one won't be actually in-class, but I'll explain why I want you to do so). Discuss your outline strategy with your clan at 9:30 a.m. on Friday. Make sure that you put your name on the document (other than an email message). It is the only way I can keep track of them.
***EXAM ON MONDAY 10/5***
(I WILL EXPLAIN IN DETAIL DURING CLASS SESSIONS)
Make sure you read the "Final Analysis" Assignment
Due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 18
See my class attendance and participation policy
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy
Week VI
(October 5-9)
Consult this excellent "Quick Guide" to Chicago-style Citation.
Monday, Monday October 5
LaFleur, "Styling Culture: Chicago-Style Footnotes and Endnotes"
Citation of single-author books and single-author articles will be on the exam.
http://robert-lafleur.blogspot.com/2011/09/styling-culture-5achicago-style.html
(Cut and paste; or search "Chicago Citation" on Round and Square.
LaFleur, Writing, History, and Culture (Rob's Writing Guide)
Review Part Two—especially those items marked on your letters.
Becker, What About Mozart? (get started and at least through the first two chapters,
will be on the exam).
Where Do You Stop?
What's Happening Elsewhere
Reasoning From Analogy
Black Boxes
Complicating and Combining Black Boxes
Imagining CasesBlack Boxes
Complicating and Combining Black Boxes
Where Do You Stop?
IOU's, Promissory Notes, and Killer Questions
Last Words
Last Words
EXAM IN-CLASS
(I WILL EXPLAIN IN DETAIL DURING CLASS SESSIONS)
Wednesday, October 7
Paul Cohen, Preface and Prologue (.pdf)
(This brief reading will be very important leading into your final assignment; you need to read both the preface and the prologue; both are very important).
Becker, What About Mozart? (finish the book to the best of your ability; it is directly
useful for your final assignment next week).
What's Happening Elsewhere
Reasoning From Analogy
Black Boxes
Complicating and Combining Black Boxes
Imagining CasesWhere Do You Stop?
IOU's, Promissory Notes, and Killer Questions
Last Words
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 67-119
Expansion and Institutionalisation
Forms of Change
Friday, October 9
Focused Work THESE BECOME 5% OF YOUR GRADE (Weeks 5-7)
Make an outline for your "Final Analysis" paper, if you have not done so already. Discuss briefly with your clan, and then write a brief paragraph summarizing your thoughts (and a sense of your clan discussion). You have another week, but this paper is longer (and the culmination of the entire course). Getting started is a good idea.
Friday, October 9
Focused Work THESE BECOME 5% OF YOUR GRADE (Weeks 5-7)
Make an outline for your "Final Analysis" paper, if you have not done so already. Discuss briefly with your clan, and then write a brief paragraph summarizing your thoughts (and a sense of your clan discussion). You have another week, but this paper is longer (and the culmination of the entire course). Getting started is a good idea.
Make sure you read the "Final Analysis" Assignment
Due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 18
See my class attendance and participation policy
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy
Week VII
(October 12-16)
Consult this excellent "Quick Guide" to Chicago-style Citation.
Monday, October 12
All of these brief readings are directly relevant to your "final analysis" assignment.
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" (.pdf file)
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (.pdf file)
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (.pdf file)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 120-137
Forms of Change
LaFleur, Writing, History, and Culture (Rob's Writing Guide)
Reread Part One; Review Part Two
Reread Part One; Review Part Two
RECOMMENDED:
Draft 1 of your "final analysis" assignment
due at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 13.
This is now "recommended" (because of this awful module that we are all trying to manage). If possible, just try to get a few thoughts on paper in any form, just to get started. If this were a regular semester, it would work better, and I just chalk it up to another failure of the modular arrangement.
My recommendation would be to give your analysis a little bit of thought, and write down a few ideas, possibly in the "spoke outline" form on page 12 of the writing guide. Other ways are possible, too. Only if you're ready (but most people aren't, and I don't blame them) is to put together an actual draft...the way that might well have been possible in a real semester. In other words, Tuesday's "assignment" is a recommended "something" on paper...just to get your started.
Wednesday, October 14
Possible brief readings aimed to help with your analyses (although I'm leaning against it, given the centrality of your projects). We will mostly talk about those projects (and "theory") in-class on Wednesday.
RECOMMENDED:
Draft 2 of your "final analysis" assignment
due at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 15.
Focused Work THESE BECOME 5% OF YOUR GRADE (Weeks 5-7)
Work through your draft of the "final analysis" assignment in advance of Friday (there has been ample time for this work; DO NOT begin writing your essay now—this will not be possible, in any case, if you have done the assignments). Discuss your final plans with your clans, and write to me (put your name on the text that you send me).
Make sure you read the "Final Analysis" Assignment
Due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 18
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