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Fall 2005 MWF 2:00 p.m. in Louderman 458 Robert L. Canfield, Professor,
1) Reading. Below is a schedule of lectures and readings to guide you in course preparation. You should stay on schedule and come prepared for class discussions. (Changes in the reading schedule may be announced in class; please stay alert for such changes).As the details in the assigned readings are important, you should come to class with the assigned readings in hand so that you can follow the lectures and participate in the discussion.Much of the time we will work directly from the assigned readings. The textbooks are the following: Available at the Book Store: McGee and Warms [eds], Anthropological Theory, 3rd edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill ISBN 0072840463 [referred to as MW on the reading schedule] Available through erez: A set of additional readings [selections from this set are marked * on the schedule below]. 2) Attendance: You will be expected to attend every class period and to be prepared to discuss the material assigned for that day. Class attendance will definitely help in writing assignments and examinations. There is virtually no chance of doing well without consistent exposure to what happens in class. A record of attendance will be kept. To facilitate that, you will be asked to sit in the same place every class period. If you expect to miss class, please notify me first, or as soon afterward as possible. If you miss more than 3 classes [unless excused] you should not expect to earn an A or A-; if you miss more classes than that please see me about the terms of continuing in the course. 3) Class participation. You will be expected to participate in discussions of the required material. There will be a number of lectures, but the success of the course will depend heavily on your participation. In class sessions I plan to ask questions about the assigned readings in order to elicit comments from you. Your responses are important to me because they will help me track what you are actually getting out of the assigned readings. 4) Examinations and papers. There will be two in-class
exams, and a short paper at the end of the course. They will all
be weighted more or less equally; there will be no comprehensive examination.
The readings and my lectures will focus on one unit or topic at a time,
and when I have finished two units I will ask you to write a exam on those
units. The lectures and class discussions should help you grasp the
assigned readings and prepare you to write the necessary exercise.
The dates of evaluative exercises [exams or papers] are indicated on the
schedule below.
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| First assignment: Preprofessional history. [click here] |
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| Unit I Foundations
Preprofession-al period Marx: "Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook" Morgan: "Ethnical Periods." Tylor: “Science of Culture” Durkheim: "Social Facts"; "Totemism and Class" |
Unit II American cultural determinism
*Stocking: "Franz Boas and the Concept of Culture," *Freeman: "The Launching of CulturalDeterminism" *Freeman: "Boas Proposes an Intractable Problem" Benedict: "Psycholo-gical Types." Mead: “Margaret Mead and Samoa” *Redfield: Folk Culture of Yucatan |
Unit III British social anthropology
Malinowski: Kula Ring *Stocking [Radcliffe-Brown]: “Anarchy Brown” Radcliffe-Brown: “Mother’s Brother in South Africa” Evans-Pritchard: “The Nuer” *Leach:"Introduction," Political Systems of Highland Burma. *Barth: “Segmentary Opposition and the Theory of Games” *Barth: “Ethnic Groups &Boundaries” |
Unit IV Materialist reactions
White: "Energy and the Evolution of Culture" Steward: “Patrilineal band” *Steward:“Multilineal Evolution” *Service, selections from Primitive Social Organization. *Harris: "Theoretical Principles ofCultural Materialism" *Wolf: "Aspects of group relations in a complex society." *Wolf: Europe and the People without History” |
Unit V Anti-materialism and its reactions
Levi-Strauss: “On Language” *Crick:”Structural-ism of Levi-Strauss” Geertz: “Deep play” Geertz: “Thick description” Turner: “Symbols ..” *Sahlins: Culture + Practical Reason |
Unit VI Modern issues
*Raymond Williams, “Selections from Marxism and Literature” *Bourdieu:[selection] Outline of a Theory of Practice *Harvey: [selection] The Condition of Post-Modernity *Clifford: Writing Culture Crapanzano: Hermes’ dilemma D'Andrade: “Moral models …” *Fox: [selections] Gandhian Utopia *Barth: [selection] Balinese Worlds *Gregor and Gross. 2005. “Culture of Accusation” |
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AN3700 Course Reading Schedule, fall 2005.
Come to class prepared to discuss the following on these dates.
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