Ethnography Review Assignment (Autumn 2018)

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2 November 2014—China's Lunar Calendar: 2014 11-02
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2 November 2012—Rural Religion in China (33)
2 November 2011—Seinfeld Ethnography: Jerry's Haircut

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NOTE:
This is the penultimate writing assignment in my social and cultural theory course. All term, students have been reading theoretical essays in various anthologies and working diligently to make them make sense. The whole purpose of the course is to learn to use theoretical insights in our own work, and that means that we must position the readings in their historical context, learn what has changed, what theoretical trails have run cold, and, sometimes, find the ones that we need to travel down...again. Toward that end, I assign two sets of ethnographies for students upon which students can test their growing skills. They may choose either Renato Rosaldo's Ilongot Headhunting and Michelle Rosaldo's Knowledge and Passion—both the product of extensive, partnered fieldwork in the Philippines. The other choice is Edward Schieffelin's The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers and Steven Feld's Sound and Sentiment—the products of another kind of teamwork among the Kaluli of New Guinea. The readings take two weeks, and they culminate in this assignment.
 

Social and Cultural Theory

Anthropology 206

“Penultimate” Assignment

Ethnography, Theory, and a Sense of Place 

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The Basics 

Read your two ethnographies from weeks eleven and twelve on the syllabus. Write an essay of at least 3,000 words (about ten pages) commenting upon some of the many themes found in these ethnographies (noting the assignment title above) and showing their connections to the materials we have studied up to this point in the course.

Preparation  

Although this assignment is deliberately open-ended (allowing you to use any number of interpretive strategies), do not forget its role as the penultimate (next to last) assignment in our course. Your work should engage, on some level, the full range of our materials from the first twelve weeks of the course (your class notes, reading notes, abstracts, and even quizzes will be useful as you proceed). If you take the assignment seriously, it will give you a solid foundation—and significant momentum—for the last weeks of the course.

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Review Essay  

A good way to approach the assignment is to write a “review essay.” This is precisely why I have assigned the New York Review of Books throughout the term. As you have surely noted by now, a good review essay has a two-pronged approach. It is, on the one hand, a “review” of the books (not unlike an “embedded book report” in a larger and much more sophisticated essay). Imagine that your ten-page essay, then, contains an “embedded set of reviews totaling about four pages—maybe five. In the “rest” of the essay you should show how the themes in the ethnographies can be seen in the wider perspective of social and cultural theory. In other words, how might the essays and lectures we have read in Anthropology In Theory and A History of Anthropology connect to the specific issues in the ethnographies you have read?

Additional Notes 

This assignment asks you to engage your two ethnographies and to review all of the work you have done thus far in the course. It does not require you to do “research,” and substantial outside work will almost certainly be counter-productive. For example, spending two or three pages on the political history of the Philippines will be far less productive than spending those pages examining the arguments made by Renato and Michelle Rosaldo (or Edward Scheiffelin and Steven Feld). Background information is occasionally useful (and you may have some from previous reading or coursework), but do not make the mistake of providing so much “background” that you don’t deal fully with the assignment itself. Plot out some of the themes and take notes to make sure you have dealt with the full range of possibilities in the materials. Your skills in spotting themes in the Moore, Bourdieu, Becker, and Eriksen books will pay off a great deal in this assignment, as will the general contextual and theoretical knowledge you have gained in our discussion.

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Reminders 

—This assignment is meant to “tie together” much of the work you have done this semester.  Just as you must do on weekly quizzes, be sure to use the full range of your “sources” in your interpretations—classroom analyses, Moore, and Eriksen (for context). As you know, the theoretical essays in Moore and the arguments in Bourdieu’s and Becker's books lie at the heart of the class, and I would like to see connections to them in your essays. 

—Don’t forget that I will be evaluating this assignment with the assumption that you are trying to explain these matters to “intelligent non-specialists.” That means that I do not want you to “skip” those portions that you know I know. I want you to explain them. I want you to be the expert who is explaining these matters to someone who does not know much about cultural anthropology, but is certainly able to follow a complex argument. Imagine, for example, that you are writing for your FYI professor…and I will be looking over her shoulder.

—Follow standard Chicago Manual of Style citation form, and use the style sheet as you proceed. 

            http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

—There should be a short bibliography of sources (class books and any outside materials that you happen to have consulted) at the end of your document. 

—Be sure that you fill out a “paper checklist” and attach it to your essay.

—Good luck.  There is more than enough material to write any number of essays. Choose several good points, scenes, or themes. Then write one.

Due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 18 in my office (hard copy)—MI 206

Use the word count feature of your software and put the word total 
at the bottom of the essay, e.g. “3,262 words.”

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ANTH 206: Social and Cultural Theory Syllabus, Autumn 2018 (a)

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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 
Click here for the other half of this two-part syllabus post:

 ANTH 206: Weeks 1-8                   ANTH 206: Weeks 9-16

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Social and Cultural Theory

Anthropology 206

Autumn 2018

Tuesday and Thursday

12:00-2:00 p.m.

Robert André LaFleur                                                     Office Hours:

Morse Ingersoll 206                                                         Tuesday      4:00-5:30
363-2005                                                                           Thursday    4:00-5:30           

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*
Wacquant, Loïc, Body and Soul: Notes of an Apprentice Boxer 

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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 Five
Exam 1                                                                       10%        Week Seven
Bridges to Theory Review Essay                               15%        Week Nine
Ethnography Review Essay                                       15%        Week Twelve
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.

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.

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 206
Social and Cultural Theory 
Autumn 2018

Week I
(August 28, 30)

See my class attendance and participation policy.

Tuesday, August 28 
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 
          Foreword by David Riesman (you must read this—all-important)
          Entire book (it is a straight-through "read") 

Thursday, August 30 
Film: Geil of Doylestown (in-class Thursday) 
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 
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 
Round and Square 
          Syllabic Cycles:Introduction (a-d)  Read all four posts, not just “a.” 

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Make sure you read the "Theory Letter" Assignment 

(due by 5:00 p.m. on September 30) 

See my class attendance and participation policy

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy

  

Week II
(September 4, 6)  
See my class attendance and participation policy. 

Tuesday, September 4 

Round and Square Click for separate Round and SquareSyllabus 

New York Review of Books Click for separate New York Review ofBooks Syllabus  

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

 Thursday, September 6 

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

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Make sure you read the "Theory Letter" Assignment 

(due by 5:00 p.m. on September 30) 

See my class attendance and participation policy

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy

Week III  

(September 11, 13) 

See my class attendance and participation policy.
Tuesday, September 11 
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus  
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 13 
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

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Make sure you read the "Theory Letter" Assignment 

(due by 5:00 p.m. on September 30) 

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.

Week IV  
(September 18, 20)   

See my class attendance and participation policy. 

Tuesday, September 18 

Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus

New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus   

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 

            Ladislav Holý (1933-1997) and Milan Stuchlik (d.1980) 

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 20 

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

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Make sure you read the "Theory Letter" Assignment 

(due by 5:00 p.m. on September 30) 

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy. 

Week V  

(September 25, 27) 

See my class attendance and participation policy.  

Tuesday, September 25 

Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus 

New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus  

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 27 

Becker, Social Theory and Research Handouts (check your e-mail)

          "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

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"Theory Letter" Assignment Letters Due  
by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 30 
(hard copies in my office—MI 206) 
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy. 

Week VI  
(October 2, 4)  

See my class attendance and participation policy. 

Tuesday, October 2 

Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus

New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus  

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 4 

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?

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Read the "Bridges to Theory" Assignment
Due Sunday 10/28 by 5:00 p.m. in myoffice—MI 206)  
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.

Week VII
(October 9, 11) 

See my class attendance and participation policy. 

Tuesday, October 9 

Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabu 

New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus  

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 () 

Becker, Social Theory and Research Handouts (check your e-mail)
Review if you have already studied this, but be ready for class discussion

          "The Outside Game" (The New Yorker)

          "World and Field" (The Sociology of Art)

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 11 

Exam I (in-class) 

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Read the "Bridges to Theory" Assignment
Due Sunday 10/28 by 5:00 p.m. in myoffice—MI 206)  
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy. 

Week VIII—Autumn Break       

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Click here for the other half of this two-part syllabus post:

ANTH 206: Weeks 1-8                   ANTH 206: Weeks 9-16