Anthropological Theory II

COURSE CONTENT

Week

Topics

Study Materials

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 British Structuralism  I

Edmund Leach. (1955). Polyandry, Inheritance and the Definition of Marriage. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 55, 182-186.

Edmund Leach. (1966). Virgin Birth. Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 39-49.

Edmund Leach. (1974). Political Systems of Highland Burma A Study of Kachin Social Structure. London: The Athlone Press.

Edmund Leach. (1986). Tribal Ethnography: Past, Present, Future. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 11(2), 1-14.

Mary Douglas. (1968). The Social Control of Cognition: Some Factors in Joke Perception, Man, 3(3), 361-376.

Mary Douglas. (1972). Deciphering a Meal. Daedalus, 101(1), 61-81.

Mary Douglas. (1984). Purity and Danger an Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London and New York: Routledge.

Mary Douglas. (1991). The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space. Social Research, 58(1), 287-307.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 147-149.

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British Structuralism  II

Edmund Leach. (1955). Polyandry, Inheritance and the Definition of Marriage. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 55, 182-186.

Edmund Leach. (1966). Virgin Birth. Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 39-49.

Edmund Leach. (1974). Political Systems of Highland Burma A Study of Kachin Social Structure. London: The Athlone Press.

Edmund Leach. (1986). Tribal Ethnography: Past, Present, Future. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 11(2), 1-14.

Mary Douglas. (1968). The Social Control of Cognition: Some Factors in Joke Perception, Man, 3(3), 361-376.

Mary Douglas. (1972). Deciphering a Meal. Daedalus, 101(1), 61-81.

Mary Douglas. (1984). Purity and Danger an Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London and New York: Routledge.

Mary Douglas. (1991). The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space. Social Research, 58(1), 287-307.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 147-149.

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Cognitive Anthropology and New Ethnography

Charles O. Frake. (1962). Cultural Ecology and Etnography. American Anthropologist, 64(1), 53-59.

Charles O. Frake. (1964). How to Ask for a Drink in Subanun. American Anthropologist, 66(6), 127-132).

Charles O. Frake. (1985). Cognitive Maps of Time and Tide among Medieval Seafarers. Man, 20(2), 254-270.

Harold C. Conklin. (1973). Color Categorization. American Anthropologist, 75(4), 931-942.

Harold C. Conklin. (1986). Hanuoo Color Categories. Journal of Anthropological Research, 42(3), 441-446.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 172-176 (Cognitive Anthropology / Ethnoscience and the ‘New Ethnography)

Ward H. Goodenough. (1956). Componential Analysis and the Study of Meaning. Language, 32(1), 195-216.

Ward G. Goodenough. (1976). Multiculturalism as the Normal Human Experience. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 7(4), 4-7.

Ward G. Goodenough. (1965). Yankee Kinship Terminology: A Problem in Componential Analysis. American Anthropologist, 67(5), 259-287.

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New Evolutionaries: Leslie White and the Evolution of Culture-in-General

Leslie A. White. (1943). Energy and the Evolution of Culture. American Anthropologist, 45(3), 335-356.

Leslie A. White. (1945). ‘Diffusion vs. Evolution’: An Anti-Evolutionisy Fallacy. American Anthropologist, 47(3), 339-356.

Leslie A. White. (1945). History, Evolutionism, and Functionalism: Three Types of Interpretation of Culture. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 1(2), 221-248.

Leslie A. White. (1948). The Definition and Prohibition of Incest. American Anthropologist, 50(3), 416-435.

Leslie A. White. (1959). The Concept of Culture. American Anthropologist, 61(2), 227-251.

Marvin Harris. (1971). The Rise of Anthropological Theory. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 634-646.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 177-180 (Cultural Neo-evolutionism)

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 Ecological Anthropology: Julian Steward and the Criticism of Universal Evolution

Julian Steward. (1929). Diffusion and Independent Invention: A Critique of Logic. American Anthropologist, 31(3), 491-495.

Julian Steward. (1954). Theory and Application in a Social Science. Ethnohistory, 2(4), 292-302.

Julian Steward. (1956). Cultural Evolution. Scientific American, 194(5), 69-83.

Julian Steward & Demitri Shimkin. (1961). Some Mechanisms of Socio Cultural Evolution. Daedalus, 90(3), 477-497.

Julian Steward. (2006). The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology. (Eds.) Nora Haenn, Richard R. Wilk, The Environment in Anthropology a Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living. New York and London: New York University Press.

Marvin Harris. (1971). The Rise of Anthropological Theory. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 647-653

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 180-186 (Cultural Neo-evolutionism)

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The Contributions of Manchester School

Bruce Kapferer, Situations, Crisis, and the Anthropology of the Concrete: The Contribution of Max Gluckman. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 49(3), 85-122.

Marvin Harris. (1971). The Rise of Anthropological Theory. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 559-567.

Max Gluckman. (1949). The Village Headman in British Central Africa. Journal of the International African Institute, 19(2), 89-106.

Max Gluckman. (1955). The Peace in the Feud. Past & Present, 8, 1-14.

Max Gluckman. (1960). Tribalism in Modern British Central Africa. Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines, 1(1), 55-70.

Max Gluckman. (1968). Psychological, Sociological and Anthropological Explanation of Witchcraft and Gossip: A Clarification. Man, 3(1), 20-34.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 166-167 (Mac Gluckman and the ‘Manchester School’)

Richard P. Werbner. (1984). The Manchester School in South-Central Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology, 13, 157-185.

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Midterm Exam

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Cultural Materialism and Marvin Harris

Charles Wagley, Marvin Harris. (1955). A Typology of Latin American Subcultures. American Anthropologist, 57(3), 428-451.

Kenneth E. Lloyd. (1985). Behavioral Anthropology: A Review of Marvin Harris’ Cultural Materialism. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 43, 279-287.

Marvin Harris. (1964). Patterns of Race in the Americas. New York: Walker and Company.

Marvin Harris. (1976). History and Significance of the Emic / Etic Distinction. Annual Review of Anthropology, 5, 329-350.

Marvin Harris. (1979). Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture. New York: Random House.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 184-187 (Cultural Materialism).

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Anthropological Political Economy I

Sidney W. Mintz. (1953). The Folk-Urban Continuum and the Rural Proletarian Community. American Journal of Sociology, 59(2), 136-143.

Eric R. Wolf & Sidney Mintz. (1957). Haciendas and Plantations in Middle America and the Antilles. Social and Economic Studies, 6(3), 380-412.

Eric R. Wolf. (1966). Kinship, Friendship, and Patron-Client Relations in Complex Societies. (Ed.) Michael Banton, The Social Anthropology of Complex Societies (1-22), London and New York: Routledge.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 219-228 (Political Economy).

Sidney W. Mintz & Christine M. Du Bois. (2002). The Anthropology of Food and Eating. Annual Review of Anthropology, 31, 99-119.

Sidney W. Mintz & Eric Wold. (1950). An Analysis of Ritual Co-Parenthhod (Compadrazgo). Southwestern Journal fo Anthropology, 6(4), 341-368.

Sidney W. Mintz. (1971). Men, Women, and Trade. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 13(3), 247-269.

Sidney W. Mintz. (1977). The So-Called World System: Local Initiative and Local Response. Dialectical Anthropology, 2(4), 253-270.

Sidney W. Mintz. (1978). Was the Plantation Slave a Proletarian?. Review (Fernand Braudel Center), 2(1), 81-98.

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Anthropological Political Economy II

Michael T. Taussig. (1980). Reification and the Consciousness of the Patient. Social Science Med. 14B, 3-13.

Michael Taussig. (1984). Culture of Terror – Space of Death. Roger Casement’s Putuyamo Report and the Explanation of Torture. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26(3), 467-497. ,

Michael Taussig. (1984). History as Sorcery. Representations, 7, 87-109.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 219-228 (Political Economy).

William Roseberry. (1976). Rent, Differentiation, and the Development of Capitalism among Peasants. American Anthropologist, 78, 45-58.

William Roseberry. (1982). Balinese Cockfights and the Seduction of Anthropology. Social Research, 49(4), 1013-1028.

William Roseberry. (1986). The Ideology of Domestic Production. Labour, Capital and Society, 19(1), 70-93.

William Roseberry. (1992). Multiculturalism and the Challenge of Anthropology. Social Research, 59(4), 841-858.

William Roseberry. (1996). The Rise of Yuppie Coffes and the Reimagination of Class in the United States. American Anthropologist, 98(4), 762-775.

William Roseberry. (1997). Marx and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 26, 25-46.

Winnie Lem. (2007). William Roseberry, Class and Inequality in the Anthropology of Migration. Critique of Anthropology, 27(4), 377-394.

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Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology

Clifford Geertz. (1973). Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture. (Ed.) Clifford Geertz, The Interpretations of Culture: Selected Essays (3-32), New York: Basic Books. 

Clifford Geertz. (1973). Ideology as a Cultural System. (Ed.) Clifford Geertz, The Interpretations of Culture: Selected Essays (193-234), New York: Basic Books.

Clifford Geertz. (1980). Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought. The American Scholar, 49(2), 165-179.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 194-205 (Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology).

Victor W. Turner. (1973). Symbols in African Ritual. Science, 179 (4078), 1100-1105.

Victor Turner. (1975). Symbolic Studies. Annual Review of Anthropology, 4(1975), 145-161.

Victor Turner. (1977). Process, System, and Symbol: A New Anthropological Synthesis. Daedalus, 106(3), 61-80.

Victor Turner. (1980). Social Dramas and Stories about Them. Critical Inquiry, 7(1), 141-168.

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Feminist Anthropology

Dorothy E. Smith. (1992). Sociology from Women’s Perspective: A Reaffirmation. Sociological Theory

 10(1), 88-98.

Ellen Levin (Ed.). (2006). Feminist Anthropology a Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Marilyn Strathern. (1990). The Gender of the Gift. California: University of California Press.

Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, Louise Lamphere. (1974). Woman, Culture, and Society. California: Stanford University Press.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 209-216 (Anthropology and Gender).

Rayna R. Reiter. (1975). Introduction. (Ed.) Rayna R. Reiter, Toward an Anthropology of Woman (11-19). New York: Monthly Review Press.

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Tranactionalism and Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth. (1956). Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan. American Anthropologist, 58(6), 1079-1089.

Fredrik Barth. (1961). Nomads of South Persia the Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

Fredrik Barth. (1967). On the Study of Social Change. American Anthropologist, 69, 661-669.

Fredrik Barth. (1969). Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. (2017). A History of Anthropological Theory. Ontaria: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 206-208 (Transactionalism).

Fredrik Barth. Boundaries and Connection. (Ed.) Anthony P. Cohen, Signifying Identities Anthropological Perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Values (17-36). London and New York: Routledge.

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General Evaluation

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Final