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Saturday, October 7, 2023

Social and Cultural Theory Syllabus 2023b

 On this date on Round and Square's History 

19 August 2015—China's Lunar Calendar 2015 08-19 
19 Auguat 2015—Social and Cultural Theory Syllabus 2015
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 

Social and Cultural Theory
Anthropology 206
Autumn 2023
TTh 8:00-9:45

Robert André LaFleur                                                  Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 206                                                      Tuesday: 11:45-13:15
363-2005                                                                        Thursday: 11:45-13:15
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 Anthropology
Gordon, Robert. Fifty Key Anthropologists (plus web additions)
Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology*
Wacquant, Loïc, Body and Soul: Notes of an Apprentice Boxer 
***  ***
LaFleur, Robert. Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogspot.com) 
Becker, Howard. Various Handouts.
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) 
I will describe the situation with these books in class.

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                                                                      10%        Every Class Session
Week One Letter                                                         5%.       Week One
Theory Letter                                                             10%        Week Five
Exam 1                                                                       10%        Week Seven
Bridges to Theory Review Essay                               15%        Week Ten
Exam 2                                                                       10%        Week Fifteen
Presentations                                                             10%        Week Sixteen
Final Analysis                                                             20%        Week Sixteen
Class attendance and participation is expected.  
See my class attendance and participation policy.

Anthropology 206
Social and Cultural Theory 
Autumn 2023

Week I
(August 29-31)
Please Read the Attendance Policy and the Late-Assignment Policy
(these will be on the quizzes this week and next)
Tuesday, August 29
Course overview 
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). All authors with website links are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look.           
          David Riesman (1909-2002) 
          Laura Bohannan (1922-2002) 
Bowen, Return to Laughter (just begin the book)
          Foreword by David Riesman (you must read this—all-important)
          Entire book (it is a straight-through "read") 
***  ***

Now, even though the final assignment is due at the very 
end of the term, your job THIS WEEK is to choose a topic
and write a brief (1,000-word; three-page) version of it.
(hard copy due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 3 in MI 206) 

Thursday, August 31
Please Read the Attendance Policy and the Late-Assignment Policy
(these will be on the quizzes this week)
Round and Square 
          Syllabic Cycles:Introduction (a-d)  Read all four posts, not just “a.” 
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 
Bowen, Return to Laughter (we will finish discussion of the book today)
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish). 
         *Lewis Henry Morgan(1818-1881)
         *Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917)
          William Edgar Geil (1865-1925)
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, vii-x; 1-19
          Proto-Anthropology 

Now, even though the final assignment is due at the very 
end of the term, your job THIS WEEK is to choose a topic
and write a brief (1,000-word; three-page) version of it.
(due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 3

Week II
(September 5-7)  
Please Read the Attendance Policy and the Late-Assignment Policy
Tuesday, September 5
Round and Square Quotidian Quizzes:Introduction (a-h) (It's fine to skim a-d, but read e-g very carefully (your work in this class depends upon it).
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish). 
           *Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) 
Bourdieu, Practical Reason 
            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
Because it is early in the term, books have not always been delivered. If you do not have the book, you can get it at Library Reserve or SEND ME AN EMAIL MESSAGE, and I'll see if I can help.

Thursday, September 7
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish). 
          *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
***  ***
Read the ATTENDANCE POLICY for this course.

"Theory Letter" Assignment Letters Due  
by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 1
(hard copies in my office—MI 206) 
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.

Week III  
(September 12-14) 
Tuesday, September 13
Wacquant, Body and Soul 
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"

Thursday, September 15
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish).
           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

Week IV  
(September 19-21)   
Tuesday, September 19
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense
of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish).
          *Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)
          *Julian Steward (1902-1972)           
          *Leslie White (1900-1975)
          Roy Rappaport (1926-1997) 
          J.H.M. Beattie (1915-1990)—this is the best we can do for free 
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)

Thursday, September 21
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense
of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish). 
          *Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) Review 
          Karl Marx (1818-1883) 
          Adolf Bastian (1826-1905) 
          *Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) Review 
          Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) 
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 20-45
          Victorians, Germans and a Frenchman 
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 97-151 
           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

Tuesday, September 26
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish). 
         *Marcel Mauss (1874-1950)
         *Clifford Geertz (1926-2006)
          Talal Asad (1932-) 
          *Sherry Ortner (1941-) 
          Malcom Crick (1948-2006) 
          Maurice Bloch (1939-) 
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 46-67 
            Four Founding Fathers 
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)

Thursday, September 28
Becker, Social Theory and Research Handouts (sent as .pdf files on September 26)
          "The Outside Game" (The New Yorker)
          "World and Field" (The Sociology of Art)
Connell, Mrs. Bridge, 151-194 
            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

Week VI  
(October 3-5)  
Tuesday, October 3
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish). 
          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)

Thursday, October 5
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish). 
          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, vii-viii; 1-15 (handout; in-class)
          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, 194-246 
            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?

Week VII
(October 10-12) 
Tuesday, October 10
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists 
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish). 
          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 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

Thursday, October 12
Exam I (in class)

Week VIII—Autumn Break       

[a] Confrontation RF

Week IX 
Tuesday October 24
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

Thursday, October 26
Finish Mr. Bridge (class discussion of the book)

Week X
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish).
          Michael Lambek ()
          Henrietta Moore (1957-)
          Robert J. Thornton ()
          Lila Abu-Lughod ()
          *Marilyn Strathern () 
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 120-137
           The Power of Symbols
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)

Thursday, November 2
Come to class ready to discuss the Bridge assignment.
Week XI
(November 7-9)
Tuesday, November 8 and Thursday, November 10
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 138-165
           Questioning Authority
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish).
            Edward Schieffelin
            *Renato Rosaldo 
***  ***
Philippines Group (on-reserve if you do not have it already)
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
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New Guinea Group (not for this semester, but I'm leaving it to show another significant ethnography well worth your time...eventually)
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 

Read for Thursday....and see below! IMPORTANT (and a curveball in our plans)!
NO CLASS SESSION TODAY
BELOIT AND BEYOND CONFERENCE: PLEASE ATTEND THE SESSIONS!
We'll talk about all of this as the class sessions proceed.

Week XII
Tuesday, November 15 and Thursday, November 17
Eriksen, A History of Anthropology, 166-191
          The End of Modernity?
Gordon, Fifty Key Anthropologists
You are responsible for any author with a biography in the Fifty Key Anthropologists book (and they will be on quizzes and tests). These authors have an asterisk next to their names, below. All other authors (those with website links) are provided below only so that you can get a quick sense of who they are/were; just click the link for a quick look if you wish).
            Steven Feld
            Michelle Rosaldo 
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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
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New Guinea Group (not for this semester, but I'm leaving it to show another significant ethnography that is well worth your time...eventually
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                                                            
Week XIII 
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
Instead of class, do the rewriting exercise (follow all of the directions)!
Have a great Thanksgiving holiday.

Week XIV 

Tuesday, November 28
No Class Today; work on the assignments (and quizzes). Look for an email message (Monday evening) with the quizzes and Zoom link for Thursday.
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
Becker, What About Mozart? (get started, and finish by Thursday)
This book is very important for your final assignment.
            First Look
            What's Happening Elsewhere
            Reasoning From Analogy
            Black Boxes
            Complicating and Combining Black Boxes
            Imagining Cases
            Where Do You Stop?
            IOU's, Promissory Notes, and Killer Questions
            Last Words
Thursday, November 30
Zoom Meeting (check your email). We'll start at 8:20, after the quiz (as always).
Becker, What About Mozart? (Finish the book, and think at every step about your 
"Final Analysis" project
                                                                        ***  ***

Week XV 
Tuesday, December 5
Here are two essays written about China's sacred mountains, and using a range of theoretical perspectives. They were sent to you as .pdf files over the weekend.
LaFleur, "Religiosity Spent"
LaFleur, "Divine Entrepreneurs"

Thursday, December 7
Exam II
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