Tues Sept 3 

• Introductions and goals of the course

Thurs. Sept 5 Self-Other, Native-Outsider: The Cultural Politics of Anthropology

Optional: Podcast: Anténor Firmin. Speaking of Race Podcast (43 min),
University of Alabama, 2021

• Firmin, Joseph-Anténor. 2000[1885]. Preface and Ch. 1 Anthropology as a Discipline (pp. liii-lix, pp. 1-14). The Equality of the Human Races: Positivist Anthropology. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. (~20 pp). bookstore, ereserve and book reserve.

• Meyers, Richard. Native Anthropology, to be a Native Scholar, or a Scholar that is Native: Reviving Ethnography in Indian Country," Anthropology Now, 2019 (10 pp). ereserve.

Learning goals reflection paragraph due, Monday Sept 9, midnight, Moodle upload

These are some important terms either the readings or discussions will raise. Keep an eye out for them as you take notes and participate in discussions.

Dichotomy
Self-other relations
Subjectivity/objectivity

Firmin

• race (vs/and ethnicity)
• natural history
• taxonomy
• anthropology (vs./and ethnography or ethnology)

(Nature vs Culture):

• animal vs Man
• low vs high
• criminal vs sage

Meyers

• dichotomy
  • Native? (vs. anthropologist?)
  • self vs other
  • subjectivity vs objectivity
  • emic vs etic perspectives
  • insider vs outsider (to communities)
• (strategic) essentialism
• ethnography
• identity politics

Click these for Biographical Information on this Week's Theorists

Antenor Firmin (1850-1911)
Wikipedia bio

"Antenor Firmin Predicted America's First Black President in 1885"
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban blog post, 2009

Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn, Introduction to Firmin's, The Equality of the Human Races, pp. xi-xlvi, University of Illinois Press, 2002.
In-depth discussion of Firmin's life and works. Available for download in ereserves.

Richard Meyers
Richard Meyers' personal profile on Academia.edu

If This Topic Intrigues You, Check Out These Other Sources!

Abu-Lhughod, Lila. 1991. "Writing Against Culture," in Richard Fox, Ed., Recapturing Anthropology. On book reserve.

Allen, Jafari Sinclaire and Ryan Cecil Jobson. 2016. The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties. Current Anthropology. Volume 57, Number 2, April [good discussion of the importance of Firmin's work].

Brightman, Robert. "Forget Culture: Replacement, Transcendence, Relexification" in Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 10, No. 4. (Nov., 1995), pp. 509-546.

Charles, Asselin. Race and Geopolitics in the Work of Antenor Firmin. Journal of Pan African Studies 7(2), 2014. [Charles translated Firmin's book The Equality of the Human Races from the French; this article is part of a special issue on Firmin; see the interview with the editor under Links].

Daniel, E. Valentine. 1996. "Crushed Glass: a Counterpoint to Culture," in Charred Lullabies, Princeton: Princeton University Pres, 1996.

Dash, J. Michael. Nineteenth-Century Haiti and the Archipelago of the Americas: Antenor Firmin's Letters from St. Thomas. Research in African Literatures. Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2004.
This essay examines the question of black internationalism in the last work written by Anténor Firmin, The Letters from St. Thomas. These letters, written in exile on the island of St. Thomas, reveal Firmin's thoughts on the question of racial difference, national identity and Haiti's hemispheric role. Because of the tendency to see nineteenth-century Haitian intellectuals as alienated and unenlightened, the complexity of Firmin's thought, generally dismissed as universalist and cosmopolitan, has been overlooked. In calling into question fetishistic and exclusivist notions of race and territory that were very popular at the time, Firmin makes the case for crosscultural negotiations and post-territorial theorizing that anticipate the ideas of later Caribbean thinkers such as Edouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon.

Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. [his notion of "double consciousness"].

Duranti, Alessandro. "Theories of Culture," in Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Fabian, Johannes. 1990. "Presence and Representation: The Other and Anthropological Writing," in Critical Inquiry (summer): 753-771.

Fleur-Lobban, Carolyn. Introduction. in Firmin, Joseph-Anténor. 2000[1885]. The Equality of the Human Races: Positivist Anthropology. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. (on ereserve)

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban. Anténor Firmin: Haitian Pioneer of Anthropology. American Anthropologist Vol. 102, No. 3 (Sep., 2000), pp. 449-466.

Geertz, Clifford (1983 [1974]) “‘From the Native's Point of View’: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding.” In Local Knowledge. New York: Basic Books. Pp. 55-70. (15 pp)

Hannerz, Ulf. 1996. "When Culture is Everywhere: Reflections on a Favorite Concept," inTransnational Connections. New York: Routledge, pp 30-43.

Magloire-Danton, George. "Antenor Firmin and Jean Price-Mars: Revolution, Memory, Humanism," Small Axe 9.2 (2005) 150-170.
The following analysis seeks to reveal, through a reading of Firmin's De l'égalité des races humaines (The Equality of the Human Races) (1885) and Price-Mars's Ainsi parla l'Oncle: essais d'ethnographie (So Spoke the Uncle: Ethnographic Essays) (1928) and several of his articles, how these thinkers viewed the Haitian Revolution and how they considered its legacy in light of Haiti's postcolonial plight. Firmin and Price-Mars are situated in Haiti's genealogy of antiracist thought, which yielded one of the earliest native anthropologies in the history of the discipline.

Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. (Revised Edition). New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. In library.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1999. "Two or Three Things that I Know about Culture," The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sep., 1999), pp. 399-421.

Sapir, Edward. The Psychology of Culture. Chapters on the term "culture", causes, patterning, development of culture.

Sapir, Edward. 1924. "Culture: Genuine and Spurious", reprinted in in Edward Sapir: Selected Writings in Language, Culture, and Personality.

Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Readings.

Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course.

• Antenor Firmin
  Student's video biography of Firmin, 2012.|
• Podcast: Anténor Firmin. Speaking of Race Podcast (43 min),
  University of Alabama, 2021
  
  
• "Haiti Then and Now": Interview with Professor of African American Studies, Gershom Williams
  [Williams edited the 2014 special issue of the journal Pan-African Studies on Firmin]

• "The Contemporary History of Africa is Pan-Africanism: an Interview with Amzat Boukari-Yabara" (TLAXCALA blog, 2015)

• "Pan-Africanism", Minkah Makalani – Rutgers University, Africana Age blog

Tues. Sept. 10

• Harrison, Faye V. 1997. Foreword (by Yolanda Moses), Preface (by Kimberly Eisen Simmons), and Anthropology as an agent of transformation: introductory comments and queries (pp. v-viii, pp. 1-11), in Faye Harrison, ed., Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation. 2nd edition. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. ereserve and book reserve (14 pg).

• Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1991. "Anthropology and the Savage Slot," in Fox, ed., Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present. Santa Fe: SAR press. (23 pp) ereserve and book reserve.

Thurs. Sept. 12

• Simpson, Audra. 2014. Ch. 1 Indigenous Interruptions: Mohawk Citizenship, Nationhood and the State, and Ch. 3 Constructing Khanawa'ke as an Out of the Way Place: Ely S. Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan and the Writing of the Iroquois Confederacy, in Mohawk interruptus: political life across the borders of settler states. Durham: Duke University Press. (~60 pp) ereserve and book reserve.

Harrison. Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation, 1991.

• neocolonial
• global apartheid
• structural or symbolic violence
• racialized other
• culture
• postmodernism
• modernism and postivist realistic model of science
• canon
• native anthropology
• dichotomy of pure vs applied scholarship

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness," 1991

• savage slot
• savage vs. utopia
• metanarrative
• historicization
• discipline
• reflexivity
• postmodernism
• thematic field
• thematic correspondence
• order
• historical subject

Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus, 2014

• [salvage anthropology]
• canon
• refusal (as political strategy)
• ethnographic refusal (as research approach)
• nested sovereignty
• culture
• objectivist history
• affectability
• indigeneity
• settler colonialism
• alterity
• nation and state
• citizenship
• recognition and misrecognition (vs. unrecognized)

Faye Harrison
Harrison's biography at the University of Illinois.

"Faye V. Harrison and Why Anthropology Still Matters" (Gina Ulysse)
Huffington Post, 2013.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Trouillot died in July 2012, this page is a collection of memorials and obituaries dedicated to him.

Bonilla, Yarimar. "Remembering the songwriter: The life and legacies of Michel-Rolph Trouillot"
Cultural Dynamics 2014 26: 163

Audra Simpson
Simpson's page at Columbia University, Dept of Anthropology

Standout Scholar: Audra Simpson
Indian Country Today 2016 interview. Simpson discusses how she found anthropology and why she encourages Native students to study it.

Anthropologists and Indians in the new South. 2001. Rachel A. Bonney, James Anthony Paredes, eds. [Collection of essays by anthropologists discussing the altered relationship btw anthros and Indians after the civil rights movement.]

Asad, Talal, ed. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. Humanities Pres, 1973.

Bashkow, Ira The meaning of whitemen : race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Basso, Keith. Wisdom sits in places : landscape and language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1996.

Clifford, James and George Marcus. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Comaroff, John. "The End of Anthropology: The Future of an (In)Discipline," American Anthropologist 112(4): 524-538, 2011.

Craven, Christa and Dána-Ain Davis. 2013. Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America. Rowman & Littlefield. [Faye Harrison has an essay in it]

Deloria, Philip. 1998. Playing Indian. Yale University Press [discussed by Simpson]

Deloria, Vine, Jr. 1969. "Anthropologists and Other Friends," Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. NY: Avon Books.

Harrison, Faye. 2008. Outsider Within Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age. University of Illinois Press.
Outsider Within presents an approach to critically reconstructing the anthropology discipline to better encompass issues of gender and race. Among the nine key changes to the field that Faye V. Harrison advocates are researching in an ethically and politically responsible manner, promoting greater diversity in the discipline, rethinking theory, and committing to a genuine multicultural dialogue. In drawing from materials developed during her distinguished twenty-five-year career in Caribbean and African American studies, Harrison analyzes anthropology's limits and possibilities from an African American woman's perspective, while also challenging anthropologists to work together to transcend stark gender, racial, and national hierarchies.

Hymes, Dell. "The Use of Anthropology: Critical, Political, Personal," in Hymes, Ed., Reinventing Anthropology, New York: Random House, 1972 [1969].

Lewis, Diane. Anthropology and Colonialism. Current Anthropology, Vol. 14, No. 5 (Dec., 1973), pp. 581-602.

Lassiter, John. 2005. Collaborative Ethnography, Current Anthropology. [Nice history of partially unacknowledged collaborative work in Americanist anthropology]

Marcus, George and Michael Fischer, eds., Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Marcus, George, ed. Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas. Santa Fe: School for American Research, 1999.

Mascia-Lees. "The Postmodern Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective," Signs 15(1), 1989.

Maynard, Eileen. 1974. The Growing Negative Image of the Anthropologist Among American Indians. Human Organization. Volume 33, Number 4 / Winter 1974. Response to Indian critics like Vine Deloria, calling for new roles for anthropologists.

Rosaldo, Renato. Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Beacon Press, 1993.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage Press, 1978

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2003 Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's/ Macmillan.

White, Richard. "It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a history of the American West, Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1991. (In Reed. lib.).

Links for a Decolonized Anthropology

Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye Harrison (part 1) (Savage Minds blog, 2016)

Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye Harrison (part 2) (Savage Minds blog, 2016)

World Anthropology Network Journal (Red de Anthropologias del Mundo)
Journal of RAM-WAN, a contemporary collective of international anthropologists who recognize Anglo-Saxon (and to a similar if lesser extent continental French) anthropological theory, thought and practice as stifling and silencing other ways of knowing, doing and living anthropology. The task of this project since the mid-1990s has been to lay out foundational arguments for pluralizing and diversifying what ‘we’ understand to be disciplinary knowledge. The Network as it has expressed itself thus far has consolidated three main approaches: 1) to examine how knowledge – by which it is meant a changing set of Western principles and practices – is transmitted and received around the world; 2) to highlight, recognize and historicize the plurality of anthropologies which operate in distinction from the dominant mode of, so called, ‘metropolitan hegemonies’; and 3) to initiate new dialogues, conversations and activities between anthropologists across inter/national, regional and disciplinary boundaries in order to unravel and disempower the dominance of Western anthropological discourse (Ribeiro 2006).

The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
(Faye Harrison President 2013-2018)
The IUAES is a world organization of scientists and institutions working in the fields of anthropology and ethnology, but also of interest to archaeologists and linguists, among others. Its aim is to enhance exchange and communication among scholars of all regions of the world, in a collective effort to expand human knowledge. In this way it hopes to contribute to a better understanding of human society, and to a sustainable future based on harmony between nature and culture.

Videos: Native American commentary and comedy on White settlers:

Ely S. Parker: A Warrior in Two Worlds, companion website for the PBS documentary film

Charlie Hill on the Richard Pryor Show, 1977

1st American Indian Comedy Slam, "No Reservations Needed,", 2009 (Showtime, 2009)

Native American Comedy Compilation (interesting analysis by Daniel Liddle)

Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny (2006)
This documentary pokes fun at the ways in which Inuit people have been treated as “exotic” documentary subjects by turning the lens onto the strange behaviours of Qallunaat (the Inuit word for white people). The term refers less to skin colour than to a certain state of mind: Qallunaat greet each other with inane salutations, repress natural bodily functions, complain about being cold, and want to dominate the world. Their odd dating habits, unsuccessful attempts at Arctic exploration, overbearing bureaucrats and police, and obsession with owning property are curious indeed. A collaboration between filmmaker Mark Sandiford and Inuit writer and satirist Zebedee Nungak, Qallunaat! brings the documentary form to an unexpected place in which oppression, history, and comedy collide.

Inuit Man imitates a white government official, 2006 (clip from the documentary Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny)

Inuit Women laugh at 1940s book compiled by white missionaries, 2006 (clip from the documentary Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny)

Iroquois History

Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) 
Wikipedia

Ely S. Parker (1844-1865)"Lewis Henry Morgan's Influence on Ely Parker,"PBS. org documentary

Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) official websiteThe Haudenosaunee are a constitutional democracy that has existed since time immemorial and long before the colonial occupation of settler states such as Canada and the United States.  The Haudenosaunee are governed by an ancient constitution known as the Kaianere’kó:wa; the Great Law of Peace. Pursuant to this sovereign status, the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawà:ke sits beneath its protective umbrella and enjoys the freedoms and liberties afforded to it under the Haudenosaunee Constitution; the Kaianere’kó:wa. Likewise, the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawà:ke serves as the custodians of Haudenosaunee sovereignty and interests within the Territory of Kahnawà:ke.

Haudenosaunee Communities in the 21st Century (official website map)

Collection of 18th Century Maps of Iroquois Movements

Map of Iroquois Confederacy c. 1600

Weekend Podcast Assignment: The Invention of Race (42 min), Throughline, NPR, online, 2019

Tues. Sept. 17 Race and Evolutionism

• Lewis Henry Morgan. 1877. "Ancient Society" in High Points in Anthropology. (23 pp.) On ereserve, book reserve.

• Firmin, Joseph-Anténor. 2000[1885]. Ch. 4 Monogenism and Polygenism (p. 35-86). The Equality of the Human Races: Positivist Anthropology. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. (~50 pp). bookstore, ereserve and book reserve.

• Moses, Yolanda T. 2011. “Thinking Anthropologically About ‘Race’: Human Variation, Cultural Construction, and Dispelling Myths.” in Thinking Anthropologically: a Practical Guide for Students. Boston: Prentice Hall. (ereserve) (9 pp) ereserve

• Images: Colonialism Map and World Fairs

Thurs. Sept. 19 New Methods and the Politics of Time Reckoning

• Boas, Franz. 1896. "The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology," Race, Language and Culture, also in High Points. (15 pp). In bookstore, on ereserve, book reserve.

• Fabian, Johannes. 1983. "Time and the Emerging Other," Time and The Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. New York: Columbia University Press. (35 pp). ereserve and book reserve.

  • FOCUS on these sections: p. 1-2, p. 6 middle-p. 8, p. 11 History to Evolution to p. 18 top, MAIN FOCUS: p 21-35

• Images: Evolutionist vs. Boasian Museum Exhibits

• Image: Two Different Notions of Spatialized Time in Morgan

• Ethnocentrism
• Relativism
• Determinism
• Telos/Teleology
• Comparative Method (social evolutionism)
• Taxonomy
• Miscegenation

Morgan Ancient society 1877

• (Social) Evolution
• stages
• Ethnical periods
• materialism
• culture
• primitive
• savage
• barbarism
• civilization
• progress
• race
• property
• society
• state/political society
• History
• Aryan nations

Firmin Monogenism and Polygenism 1885

• Polygenism
• monogenism
• unitarianism
• species
• heterogenesis
• sui generis
• eugenic hybridity
• metis/metissage (mulatto)

Boas Limits of the Comparative Method 1896

• Culture
• Inductive method
• Historical method ("actual history")
• cause (vs. correlation)
• Society
• comparability
• laws
• continuity of distribution
• diffusion

Fabian: Time and the Emerging Other, 1983

• Geological Time/naturalized time/physical time
• Mundane time/typological time
• Coeval/intersubjective time
• the Other
• spatialized time
• temporal distancing
• Time of Salvation
• Philosophical history
• Sermonizing history
• topos of travel
• secularization of time
• natural history
• universals
• uniformitarianism
• evolutionism
• the comparative method
• diffusionism
• synchronic vs. diachronic
• schizogenic use of time
• denial of coevalness
• allochronism

Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881)

Antenor Firmin (1850-1911)

Edward Tylor (1832-1917)
Original obituary.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Spencer was a British philosopher and zoologist who coined the term "survival of the fittest".

Franz Boas (1858-1942)

Maps are not only vital ways to contextualize the readings and theories in geographic and geopolitical space, but we must also see them as graphic illustrations of theories of culture in time and space. They are visual texts and thus must be analyzed critically and in historical context.

• Library of Congress Maps from European Age of "Discovery"
  Library of Congress digital map collections, 1500-2002. Great collection of maps from European age of so-called "discovery", zoomable to high resolution details, includes annotated map and details from 1562 Map of America by a Spanish explorer featured on this website!

• Ryan Nock's Maps in Colonialism
  
• Wikimedia Atlas of Colonialism

• Gif map of 500 years of European colonialism

Books and Articles (**=particularly recommended)

**Baker, Lee D. 1998. From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

-----------------. "The Location of Franz Boas Within the African American Struggle" (1994),

-----------------."Unraveling the Boasian Discourse: The Racial Politics of 'Culture' in School Desegregation" (1998),

-----------------."Franz Boas Out of the Ivory Tower" (2004).

-----------------."Franz Boas and his 'Conspiracy' to Destroy the White Race" (2010)

Robert Leonard Carneiro. Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History. Westview Press. 2003. 322pp

**----------------. 2010. Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture. Duke University Press.

Paul A. Erickson; Liam Donat Murphy. A History of Anthropological Theory. Broadview Press. 2003. 283pp. 2nd Edition.

Jack Goody. The Expansive Moment: The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970. Cambridge University Press. 1995. 235pp.

Alfred Cort Haddon; with Alison Hingston Quiggin. History of Anthropology. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1910. 206pp.

Marvin Harris. The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture. Routledge. 1968. 816pp.

Hoffman Reynolds Hays. From Ape to Angel: An Informal History of Social Anthropology. Knopf. 1958. 440pp.

Ifekwunigwe, J. O., Wagner, J. K., Yu, J.-H., Harrell, T. M., Bamshad, M. J. and Royal, C. D. (2017), A Qualitative Analysis of How Anthropologists Interpret the Race Construct. American Anthropologist, 119: 422–434. doi:10.1111/aman.12890

**Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban. Anténor Firmin: Haitian Pioneer of Anthropology. American Anthropologist Vol. 102, No. 3 (Sep., 2000), pp. 449-466.

**Fleur-Lobban, Carolyn. Introduction. in Firmin, Joseph-Anténor. 2000[1885]. The Equality of the Human Races: Positivist Anthropology. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. (on ereserve)

**Jacknis, Ira. "Franz Boas and Exhibits: On the Limitations of the Museum Method of Anthropology," in George Stocking, ed, Ojects and Others, 1988. On article reserve.

Adam Kuper. Culture: The Anthropologists' Account. Harvard University Press. 1999. 299pp.

Adam Kuper. Among the Anthropologists: History and Context in Anthropology. Athlone Press. 1999. 214pp.

Lassiter, John. 2005. Collaborative Ethnography, Current Anthropology. [Nice history of partially unacknowledged collaborative work in Americanist anthropology. History of US anthro-Amer Indian collab., Morgan says his monograph fruit of collab labor with named Seneca man]

Ted C. Lewellen. The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002. 282pp.

MacDougal, Doug. "The Visual in Anthropology," in Marcus Banks and Howard Murphy, eds., Rethinking Visual Anthropology, New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997.

David Mills. Difficult Folk? A Political History of Social Anthropology. Berghahn Books. 2008. 232pp.

**Mitchell, Timothy, "The Exhibitionary Order", Nicholas Dirks, ed. Colonialism and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Jerry D. Moore. Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. Rowman Altamira. 2004. 379pp. Revised edition.

Nigel Rapport. British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain. Berg Publishers. 2002. 340pp.

Frank Spencer. A History of American Physical Anthropology, 1930-1980. Academic Press. 1982. 495pp.

**Stocking, George, ed. Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture.

**George W. Stocking, Jr. (editor). Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology. University of Chicago Press. 1982. 380pp.

**George W. Stocking. After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1995. 570pp.

**Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1991. "Anthropology and the Savage Slot," Fox, ed., Recapturing Anthropology. 1 copy on book reserve.

James Urry (editor). Before Social Anthropology: Essays on the History of British Anthropology. Harwood Academic Publishers. 1993. 174pp.

Early Review of Tylor's Primitve Culture.
Alfred Wallace reviewed Tylor's book in 1872. Full-text on-line.

Films

Race: the Power of an Illusion (PBS, 2003), Race: the Power of an Illusion (PBS, 2003), Episode 3: The House We Live In (56 min)Content Notes: a few graphic photos of lynchings

Popular representations of Anthropological methods

• Avatar (2009): Protagonist Jake gets inculcated into both anthropological methods and Navi culture (clip one).

Strangers Abroad Series. All on reserve in Film and Video Library. All about 50 mins. Great old footage of these guys at work, interviews with locals who remember them, information on ethnography of the communities they worked in.

• William Rivers: Everything is Relative
• Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer: Fieldwork
• Franz Boas: The Shackles of Tradition
• Bronislaw Malinowski: Off The Verandah

History

Antenor Firmin attended the first Pan-African Congress in 1900 in London

• The History of Pan-Africanism
  
• History of the Pan-African Congresses (G. Padmore, ed. 1947)
• Abraham, The Congress in Perspective, 1947, on the 5th PAC
• The Pan-African Congresses, 1900-1945, BlackPast.org
• W.E.B Dubois, "To the Nations of the World," address at first PAC in 1900, BlackPast.org
• The First Pan-African Congress, Friends of African Union

Franz Boas and W.E.B Dubois

• Boas' Commencement Address at Atlanta University, May 31, 1906
  Du Bois considered Boas' commencement speech at the 1906 Atlanta University graduation
  to be an important moment for him. In Black Folk Then and Now (1939) Du Bois set up the
  background for his "awakening" as a result of Boas' speech.

• Fordham's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Imperialism

• Fordham's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: 19C Britian

• Fordham's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Indust. Rev. II

• Fordham's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: 19C US Culture

• Fordham's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: American Civil War

Early Anthropology and the Politics of Representation and Display

• Human Zoos (19th century)
  Wikipedia

• Boas and Film
  Full-text of Jay Ruby's essay on Boas' use of cameras and film in ethnography

• The World Fairs
  California State University Library, Donald Larson collection on World fairs

• The 1893 Chicago World Fair
  Interactive guide to 1893 Chicago exhibition

Tues, Sept. 24 Whither Anthropology? Race, Culture and History

• Boas, Franz. 1932. "The Aims of Anthropological Research," in Race, Language and Culture, 1948 (1932). (16pp.) In bookstore, on book reserve, ereserve

• Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2003. “Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises (with footnotes).” In Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 97-116. ereserve, bookstore.

First Paper handout

In-class theory synopsis peer review 1 (writing on Boas 1932 OR Trouillot 2003)

Thurs, Sept. 26 Unconscious Patterns? Language, Culture and Recognition

• Boas, Franz. 1889. On Alternating Sounds. American Anthropologist A2(1): 47-54. (6 pp). ereserve.

• Sapir, Edward. 1927. "The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society," in Edward Sapir: Selected Writings in Language, Culture, and Personality, in bookstore (a few copies), on book reserve, ereserve (15 pp.)

• Sapir, Edward. 1938. "Why Cultural Anthropology Needs the Pyschiatrist" (8 pp), in Edward Sapir: Selected Writings in Language, Culture, and Personality, in bookstore (a few copies), on book reserve, ereserve

Theory Synopsis 1 on Boas OR Trouillot (both 250 word and 100 word versions)
due Friday Sept 27, midnight, Moodle upload

• miscegenation
• reductionism
• determinism
• reify
• Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• agency

Boas, Aims of Anthro. Research, 1932

• Race
• genotype vs. phenotype
• interdependence (of cultural phenomena)
• culture
• History
• Science (vs. "pseudo-science")
• society
• morphology
• bodily form vs. function
• genetic relation
• heredity
• parallel independent development
• environment
• individual experience
• diffusion (of culture traits)
• determinism
• integration of culture
• laws

Trouillot, Adieu Culture, 2003

• culture
• race and racism
• race-culture antimony
• conceptual kernel
• words vs. concepts
• pattern
• essentialism
• reify/reification
• determinism
• state-centrism
• liberal space of enlightenment
• responsible reflexivity

Sapir, Unconscious Patterning, 1927

• unconscious
• culture pattern
• function vs. form
• society
• social
• individual
• tradition
• social/cultural behavior
• arbitrary modes of interpretation
• intuition
• functional needs
• aesthetic
• relativity
• healthy unconsciousness

Sapir, Why Anthro. Needs Pyschiatrist, 1938

• individual
• ideal objectivity
• new tradition
• conditional necessity
• flexible fields of cultural patterning
• cultural
• pyschiatric/personalistic
• personality
• culture

Franz Boas (1858-1942) New Yorker article, 2004.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Trouillot died in July 2012, this page is a collection of memorials and obituaries dedicated to him.

"Remembering the songwriter: The life and legacies of Michel-Rolph Trouillot
by Yarimar Bonilla, Cultural Dynamics, 2014.

Edward Sapir (1884-1939) Darnell and Irvine bio.

The Indians in the United States
From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923. Shows location of Crow territory. On-line at University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, Historical Maps of the Americas.

Rare Historical Maps of Westward Expansion in United States
Rare map collection online at University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Map Library. Has old maps depicting Indian territories.

Books and Articles

• Boas on the cover of Time Magazine, 1936.

• Boas, Franz. 1931. "Race and Progess," in Race, Language and Culture, 1948 (1931) (14 pp.).

• Claudia Roth Pierpont, Annals of Culture, “The Measure of America,” The New Yorker, March 8, 2004, p. 48. [Excellent in-depth article on the impact of Boas' work on race during the 1930s.]

• Cole, Sally. 1995. "Women's Stories and Boasian Texts: The Ojibwa Ethnography of Ruth Landes and Maggie Wilson," Anthropologica 37: 3-25. On article reserve

• D'Amico-Samuels, Deborah. Undoing Fieldwork: Personal, Political, Methodological Implications. in Faye Harrison, ed., Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation. 2nd edition. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.

• **Deloria, Vine, Jr. 1969. "Anthropologists and Other Friends," Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. NY: Avon Books. [This critique of 20th century anthropology by a prominent Lakota Indian intellectual greatly changed the practice of anthropology among Indian groups in the U.S.]

• Drake, St. Clair. on Du Bois.

• **Du Bois, W.E.B. The Philadelphia Negro, 1899
  The Souls of Black Folk 1904,
  "Races." The Crisis, v.2,n.4 (August 1911): pp.157-158.

• Handler, Richard. "Vigorous Male and Aspiring Female: Poetry, Personality, and Cuture in Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict," Stocking, ed., Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
  
  
• **Harrison, Faye. The Du Boisian legacy in Anthropology. [good introduction to the history of African American and Pan-African Anthropology].

• hooks, bell. "Saving Black Folk Culture: Zora Neale Hurston as Anthropologist and Writer," Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics.

• Jordan, Glen. On ethnography in an intertextual situation. in Faye Harrison, ed., Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation. 2nd edition. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. [mentions EP the Nuer]

• Lassiter, John. 2005. Collaborative Ethnography, Current Anthropology. [Nice history of partially unacknowledged collaborative work in Americanist anthropology. History of US anthro-Amer Indian collab., Morgan says his monograph fruit of collab labor with named Seneca man]
  
  
• **Race, Racism and Protesting Anthropology
  Collection of articles from anthropologists 1970s to present day on the importance of anthropological approaches to critiquing and protesting racisms.
• **Stocking, George. "Franz Boas and the Culture Concept in Historical Perspective," Race, Culture and Evolution, New York: The Free Press, 1968.

History and Culture

• Do you Have a Racial Bias?
  A short vid on pyschologists' test for "implicit attitudes" toward whites and blacks, with reflections by the multiracial participants.
  
  
• The 1619 Project (New York Times Magazine), 2019
  "The 1619 Project is The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. The project, which was initially launched in August of 2019, offered a revealing new origin story for the United States, one that helped explain not only the persistence of anti-Black racism and inequality in American life today, but also the roots of so much of what makes the country unique."
• Josef Mengele's Racist Experiments at Auschwitz
  This essay from the Holocaust Encyclopedia online describes the atrocities committed by Josef Mengele, a trained anthropologist and medical doctor on inmates at the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in order to discern the hereditary bases of race.

• The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters

Theorists' Sites

• Sapir biography and bibliography
  Oxford Bibliographies

• Sapir Bibliography
  Sapience: Brock University site on the selected works of Sapir.

• Boas in Time Magazine, 1936

Methods

• AAA Statement on Race and Culture (1998)
  Human variation exists on a spectrum that can’t be easily divided into races; we are more alike than we are different. "Race" is not a scientific, biological fact, but as expert Yolanda Moses says, "this doesn't mean race isn't real. Politically and culturally, race is a very real fact."

• The Race Project
  The American Anthropological Association's traveling exhibit on race and racial politics

• Race: The Power of an Illusion
  Companion website for PBS' 2003 documentary on race.

• Malinowski, Bronislaw 1922. "Introduction: Subject, Method, and Scope of This Enquiry" in his Argonauts of the Western Pacific. (25 pp). In bookstore, on ereserve, book reserve.

• Hurston, Zora Neale. 2009[1938]. Ch's 1-3, (pp. 3-37), Part 1, Jamaica, Tell My Horse. New York: Harper Collins. bookstore, ereserve and book reserve.

• McClaurin, Irma. 2015. Zora Neale Hurston, The Making of an Anthropologist (1 page),

  • Zora Neale Hurston’s Gifts to Anthropology- Pt 1 (1 page),

  • Zora Neale Hurston’s Gifts to Anthropology- Pt 2 (1 page). Savage Minds blog (online) .

Thurs. Oct 3

• Hurston, Zora Neale. 2009[1938]. Chs. 4-5 (pp. 39-62), Part 1, Jamaica, Tell My Horse. New York: Harper Collins. bookstore, ereserve and book reserve.

• Harrison, Faye. 1991. Ethnography as Politics (p. 89-110), in Faye Harrison, ed., Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation. 2nd edition. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. (16 pp). ereserve.

Paper 1 due (Monday Oct 7, midnight, Moodle upload)

Malinowski, 1922

• The Ethnographer's magic
• participant observation
• Method of Statistical Documentation by Concrete Evidence
• "skeleton": social organization
• "flesh and blood": imponderabilia of daily life
• "spirit": native statements

Hurston, 1938

• native anthropology
• pocomania (Pukkumina)
• African obeah ("sorcerers")
• balm yard
• mulatto
• imitation
• "black" and "white" as racial labels
• anansi stories
• Maroons
• duppies ("ghosts")
• Whooping Boy
• Three-Legged-Horse
• the Rolling-Calf
• Babylon
• Rastafarian (1930s on religious movement)
• Jah
• Koo-min-ah (Kumina) (ritual tradition brought from Congo region W. Africa)

Harrison, 1991

• native/indigenous anthropology
• dialogue/dialogic ethnography
• double/multiple consciousness (Du Bois)
• relationship of organic cohesion (Gramsci)
• symbolic construction (of the ghetto)
• participatory data-gathering

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) Wikipedia

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) (official website)

Zora Neale Hurston (Biography.com)

Hurston's Life
Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive

Faye Harrison
Harrison's biography at the University of Illinois.

"Faye V. Harrison and Why Anthropology Still Matters" (Gina Ulysse)
Huffington Post, 2013.

Maps

Papua New Guinea and Trobriand Islands

Central America and the Caribbean

Jamaica

Books and Articles

• Carpio and Sollors, "The Newly Complicated Zora Neale Hurston," Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 2011. [On 3 previously unpublished stories by Hurston]

• Cole, Sally. 1995. "Women's Stories and Boasian Texts: The Ojibwa Ethnography of Ruth Landes and Maggie Wilson," Anthropologica 37: 3-25.
  
  
• D'Amico-Samuels, Deborah. Undoing Fieldwork: Personal, Political, Methodological Implications. in Faye Harrison, ed., Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation. 2nd edition. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.

• Drake, St. Clair. on Du Bois.

• DuBois, W.E.B. The Philadelphia Negro, 1899
  The Souls of Black Folk 1904,
  "Races." The Crisis, v.2,n.4 (August 1911): pp.157-158.

• Emery, Amy Fass. The Zombie In/As the Text: Zora Neale Hurston's "Tell My Horse"  African American Review. Vol. 39, No. 3 (Fall, 2005), pp. 327-336

• Handler, Richard. "Vigorous Male and Aspiring Female: Poetry, Personality, and Cuture in Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict," Stocking, ed., Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

• Harrison, Faye. The Du Boisian legacy in Anthropology. [good introduction to the history of African American and Pan-African Anthropology].

• hooks, bell. "Saving Black Folk Culture: Zora Neale Hurston as Anthropologist and Writer," Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics.

• Jordan, Glen. On ethnography in an intertextual situation. in Faye Harrison, ed., Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation. 2nd edition. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. [mentions EP the Nuer]

• Lassiter, John. 2005. Collaborative Ethnography, Current Anthropology. [Nice history of partially unacknowledged collaborative work in Americanist anthropology. History of US anthro-Amer Indian collab., Morgan says his monograph fruit of collab labor with named Seneca man]
  
  
• Pierpont, Claudia. "Zora Neale Hurston: American Contrarian," The New Yorker. Feb. 1997.
  
  
• Pierpont, Claudia Roth. Annals of Culture, “The Measure of America,” The New Yorker, March 8, 2004, p. 48. [Excellent in-depth article on the impact of Boas' work on race during the 1930s.]

• Rosaldo, Renato. From the Door of his Tent: The Fieldworker and the Inquisitor, in Clifford and Marcus, Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography.

• Stocking, George. "Franz Boas and the Culture Concept in Historical Perspective," Race, Culture and Evolution, New York: The Free Press, 1968.
  
  
• Visweswaran, Kamala. 1994[1988]. "Defining Feminist Ethnography," (p. 17-39) in Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Strangers Abroad Series. All in Film and Video Library. All about 50 mins. Great old footage of these guys at work, interviews with locals who remember them, information on ethnography of the communities they worked in.

• Franz Boas: The Shackles of Tradition
• Margaret Mead: Coming of Age

Zora Neale Hurston's Florida Audio Recordings (1930s)
Florida Memory

Zora Neale Hurston's use of Black dialects in her writing
From the companion website to the PBS linguistics documentary, "Do You Speak American?"

Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive

The Harlem Renaissance
Part of the companion website for the PBS film "the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"

The Harlem Renaissance
Illustrated article by Cary Wintz, 2015

Jamaica

The Maroons of Jamaica
UK's Bristol City Archives

The Maroons
Miami Library essay on slave resistance

Tues, Oct. 8

• Du Bois, W.E.B. 2000[1905]. "Sociology Hesitant." Boundary 2 27(3):37–44. ereserve.

• Durkheim, Emile.  1912. Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Fields translation (Do not use the Swain or Cosman translations). Use Translator's intro as reference; FOCUS: pp. 1-18 (Intro.), pp. 33-44 (FOCUS: 33-39), pp. 99-126 (FOCUS: 99-103, 111-122) .  In bookstore and on book reserve, ereserve. (55 pp).

Thurs, Oct. 10

• Durkheim, Emile.  1912. Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Fields translation (Do not use the Swain translation). Use Translator's intro as reference; pp. 207-241, pp. 440-448. In bookstore and on book reserve, ereserve. (41 pp)

• meaning/signification
• semiotics/semiology
• sign
• signifier and signified

DuBois, Sociology Hesitant

• Sociology
• Society (vs. individual) (vs. as an abstraction)
• biological analogy
• the paradox: law AND chance (free individuals AND collective force)
• chance (the incalculable)

Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life

• society (vs. individual, vs. culture)
• religion (vs. magic) (vs. science)
• totemism
• moral
• sacred vs. profane
• collective effervescence
• science
• real (vs. ideal, illusion)
• material (vs. immaterial)
• symbol
• cause
• force
• concepts/categories
• collective representations
• genus/kind
• rites (vs. beliefs)
• cult

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Robert Williams' website featuring links to much of Du Bois' archive

W.E.B Du Bois
Wikipedia

W.E.B DuBois
Biography.com short video on his life

W.E.B Du Bois
Blackpast.org's history

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Excerpt from Robert Alun Jones. Emile Durkheim: An Introduction to Four Major Works. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1986. Pp. 12-23.

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Marxist.org's biography of Durkheim (scroll down to it), with links to other theorists.

DuBois, W.E.B. The Philadelphia Negro, 1899
The Souls of Black Folk 1904,
"Races." The Crisis, v.2,n.4 (August 1911): pp.157-158.

**Gooding-Williams, Robert, Section 3.2. "W.E.B. Du Bois", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). (online)

Harrison, Faye. The Du Boisian legacy in Anthropology. [good introduction to the history of African American and Pan-African Anthropology].

Itzigsohn, J., & Brown, K. (2015). SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Phenomenology of Racialized Subjectivity. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 12(2), 231-248.

Judy, Ronald. Introduction to Special Issue on Du Bois' "Sociology Hesitant," Boundary 2 27(3).

Zuckerman, Phil. The Social Theory of W.E.B DuBois. Sage Press.

History

DuBois and the Rise of Pan-Africanism

• The History of Pan-Africanism
  
• History of the Pan-African Congresses (G. Padmore, ed. 1947)
• Abraham, The Congress in Perspective, 1947, on the 5th PAC
• The Pan-African Congresses, 1900-1945, BlackPast.org
• W.E.B DuBois, "To the Nations of the World," address at first PAC in 1900, BlackPast.org
• The First Pan-African Congress, Friends of African Union

 Dubois and Sociology

• Sociology Hesitant: Thinking with W. E. B. DuBois (Boundary 2, Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2000
• Green and Wortham. 2015. "Sociology Hesitant: The Continuing Neglect of W.E.B. Du Bois".  Sociological Spectrum, 35:6, 518-533
  
• Bell. 2016. "Sociology’s Truth?: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Origins of Sociology," LA Review of Books.
  
• "Sociology Hesitant," 2016. The Sooty Empiric blog post.
  
• Moten, Fred. 2016. "Blackness and Poetics" (talk at the University of Chicago in which he draws on DuBois' 'Sociology Hesitant' article).
• Understanding W.E.B DuBois' concept of Double Consciousness
  Kristin Does Theory Blog

Durkheim and Sociology

• The Durkheim Pages
  Robert Alun Jones' The Durkheim Pages, Univ. of Illinois; includes glossary, full bibliography, many full text articles, reviews of recent Durkheimian work, summaries of main works

• Essay on Durkheim and Sociology of Religion
  Full-text excerpt from Lewis Coser on Durkheim and the sociology of religion

General Links on Related Histories

• The Industrial Revolution
  Fordham Univ's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution, and Industrial Rv. II; links to full text lit. from the time, links to literary responses

• Nineteenth Century France
  Fordham Univ's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: 19c France; links to full text lit. from the time, links to literary responses

• History of Australian Aborigines
  World History Archives, with links to history and contemporary situation of aborigines, their fight for land and rights in Australia.

Tues, Oct. 15

• A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, 1935. "On the Concept of Function in Social Science," American Anthropologist , New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. - Sep., 1935), pp. 394-402. ereserve

• Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1940. The Nuer. Chap I, "Introductory" pp 1-15 (15 pp.) In bookstore, on book reserve, ereserve

Paper 2 Handout

Thurs, Oct. 17

• Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1940. The Nuer. Chap. III, "Time and Space" Focus: pp. 94-110, Skim: pp. 111-131, Focus: pp 132-138. (~20 pp.) In bookstore, on book reserve, ereserve
  
• Asad, Talal. 1991. “Afterword: From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony.” In George Stocking, ed., Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge , pp.314-324. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. (10 pp). ereserve.
  
  
• Images: Nuer Clans and Structural Time/Distance

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955)
Wikipedia

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955)
Anthrobase

E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973)
Wikipedia

E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973)
Anthrobase

Library of Congress Maps from European Age of Discovery
Library of Congress digital map collections, 1500-2002. Great collection of maps from European age of discovery, zoomable to high resolution details, includes annotated map and details from 1562 Map of America by a Spanish explorer featured on this website!

Maps in Colonialism
Ryan Nock at Emory's nice brief illustrated site on Maps in Colonialism.

Colonial Africa Early 20th Century
Excellent color-coded interactive map showing complex colonial holdiings in Africa during the time E-P did his fieldwork.

Critical Essay on Mapping Africa
Ralph Austen's excellent essay giving historical context for the complexities of mapping Africa. Good companion to the two previous maps listed here.

Books and Articles

• Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1970 [1940]. "The Nuer of the Southern Sudan," African Political Systems, ed. Myer Fortes and E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Oxford: Oxford UP. (24 pp.).

• Stocking, George. ""Radcliffe-Brown and British Social Anthropology," in Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology, Madison: University of WI Press, 1984.

• Feuchtwang, Stephan. "The Colonial Formation of British Social Anthropology," in Talal Asad, ed., Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, see me.

• Johnson, Douglas. "Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer, and the Sudan Political Service," African Affairs. see me. [author was then aasst. director for Archives in Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information]

• James, Wendy, "The Anthropologist as Reluctant Imperialist," in Talal Asad, ed., Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, see me.

• Ghaffar M Ahmed, Abdel. "Some Remarks from the Third World on Anthropology and Colonialism: the Sudan," in Talal Asad, ed., Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, see me.

• Hart, Keith. "The place of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits (CAETS) in the history of British social anthropology", 1998 lecture. Good background for antecedents of R-B, Malinowski and E-P. Full-text online.

• Rosaldo, Renato. From the Door of his Tent: The Fieldworker and the Inquisitor, in Clifford and Marcus, Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography.

Films

The Nuer. 1971 film depicting Nuer life. On reserve in Film and Video Library.

Strangers Abroad Series. All on reserve in Film and Video Library. All about 50 mins. Great old footage of these guys at work, interviews with locals who remember them, information on ethnography of the communities they worked in.

• Sir Edward Evans-Prtichard: Strange Beliefs
  Great old footage and narration from his description of fieldwork, very light on his involvement with colonial overlords.

History

• Georgetown University's Resources on African History
• Blackpast.org's Resources on African History

• Sudan Online
  University of Pennsylvania's African Studies Center

• Darfur Information Center
  Background and links on the conflict given by Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center.

Method

• On-line Kinship Analysis
  Michael Fisher's anthro kinship site; Great introduction to importance of kinship in anthropology, basic terms and new kinship software

• On-line Interactive Kinship Tutorial
  Check out this libretext tutorial. This is a very accessible introduction to main kin terms, marriage systems, and ethnographic examples.

Tues., Oct 29

• Stasch, Rupert. 2006. Structuralism in Anthropology. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, vol. 12, pp. 167-170. Oxford: Elsevier. (4 pages). ereserve.

• de Saussure, Ferdinand (1915; 1959). pp. 7-20, pp 65-78. Course in General Linguistics, Wade Baskin, trans. New York: McGraw-Hill. (26 pp). book reserve, ereserve.

• Levi-Strauss, Claude 1966. FOCUS: p. 1-22, pp. 30-33: "The Science of the Concrete," in The Savage Mind. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, (pp. 1-33) ereserve.
  
  
• Images: Levi-Strauss, Signs and Structuralist Method

Thurs., Oct 31

• Sahlins, Marshall. 1976. "La Pensee Bourgeoise: Western Society as Culture," in Culture in Practice: Selected Essays. New York: Zone Books, 2000. (32 pp.). On ereserve.

• Image: Sahlins meat diagram

Theory Synopsis 2 on Sahlins (both 250 word and 100 word versions)
Optional: for feedback, due Friday Nov 1, midnight, Moodle upload

• meaning/signification
• semiotics/semiology
• structural linguistics: langue vs. parole (Saussure)
• the sign (Saussure)
• distinctive features: phonemes (Jakobson)
  

  Claude Levi-Strauss, Science of the Concrete, 1962

  • Nature vs. Culture
  • structure (vs. R-B on social structure, or Sapir on pattern)
  • Signs: Signifier (marker/emblem/image) and Signified (referent/concept)
  • homology (perceived similarity in position, value, structure or function) vs. analogy (perceived similarity btw two disparate things)
    
  • Science of the Concrete / Mythical Thought
  • Magic (vs. Science)
  • bricolage/ bricoleur (vs. engineer/scientist)
  • practical use vs. theoretical interest
  • event vs. structure / contingent vs. necessary
  • taxonomy
  • the Neolithic Paradox
  • sensible quality vs. (abstract) property
  • Art:primitive, professional, applied
  • metonym vs. metaphor
  • games vs. rites

  Marshall Sahlins, La Pensee Bourgeoise

  • nature vs/and culture
  • material vs. symbolic dichotomy
  • cultural structure/cultural reason
  • cultural code of concrete properties (vs. sheer utility)
  • symbolic praxis
  • exchange value vs./and use value
  • commodity-form (fetishism)
  • modern totemism
  • consumption as communication
  • capitalist production as cultural process
  • vestemes (cf. phonemes, mythemes) as elementary constitute units (ECU)

Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-)

Claude Levi -Strauss (1908-)
Marxist.org's biography of Levi-Strauss, with links to other theorists.

Claude Levi -Strauss (1908-)
Johns Hopkins Online guide to Literary Theory overview of Levi-Strauss, with links to other theorists.

Marshall Sahlins (1930-)
Wikipedia Biography

Marshall Sahlins Faculty Page, Univ of Chicago

The Indians in the United States
Levi-Strauss relied on ethnograpy collected from American Indians in the early 20th century. From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923. On-line at University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, Historical Maps of the Americas.

Rare Historical Maps of Westward Expansion in United States
Rare map collection online at University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Map Library. Has old maps depicting Indian territories.

Contemporary Kwakiutl Geography
Has maps and online audio of current chief's greetings in Kwak’wala language. Levi-Strauss relied in part on Boas' ethnography conducted in this region.

Books and Articles

• Geertz, Clifford. "The Cerebral Savage: On the Work of Claude Levi-Strauss," in The Interpretation of Cultures.
• Foucault, Michel. 1970 "Preface, (pp. xv-xiv)" "Classifying", The Order of Things
• Murphy, Liam. 2015. "Structuralism," Oxford Bibliographies. (online)

Films

Strangers Abroad Series. All on reserve in Film and Video Library. All about 50 mins. Great old footage of these guys at work, interviews with locals who remember them, information on ethnography of the communities they worked in.

• Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer: Fieldwork
  Great old footage and narration from his description of fieldwork. Interviews with contemporary aborigines. Durkheim relied on Spencer and Gillen's fieldwork to formulate his theories of primitive religion and society.

History and Culture

• 19 Century Religion
  Fordham Univ's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: 19C Religion;
  links to full text lit. from the time, links to literary responses

Theorists' Sites

• Levi-Strauss' Structural Anthropology
  Full-text online of chapter of Levi-Strauss' influential 1958 book Structural Anthropology

• Ferdinand de Saussure
  Levi-Strauss' structuralist anthropology was strongly influenced by this French linguist's structural approach to language.Online overview in Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory

Methods

• Anthropology of Religion Overview
  Doug Padgett's site on the Anthropology of Religion; brief essay giving nice overvie

• Anthro of Religion site
  AAA Anthro. of Religion's links site. Good collection of on-line resources on ritual and religion globally.

Tues, Nov 5 (Election Day!)

• Douglas, Mary. 1966. Introduction (pp. 1-6) and Ch. 6 Powers and Dangers (pp. 94-113) in Purity and Danger. book and ereserve.
  
  
• Turner, Victor. 1967. "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in rites de passage," from The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (44 pp). ereserve, in bookstore and on book reserve.
  
  
• Images: Mary Douglas Powers and Dangers diagrams

Thurs, Nov. 7

• Geertz, Clifford. 1973. "Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight" in The Interpretation of Cultures. In bookstore, on ereserve, book reserve.

• Rosaldo, Renato. 1993. Ch. 4 Putting Culture in Motion, in Culture and Truth. Beacon Press. (17 pp). book and ereserve.

Douglas, Powers and Dangers, 1966

• Dirt as disorder
• Pollution ideas: expressive and instrumental
• Form vs. Formless// Social structure vs. non-structure
• danger and transitional states
• marginality
• conscious/articulate vs. unconscious/inarticulate powers
• social structure as situational, performative (Goffman)
• different types of social inarticulatness: legitimate intruders vs unstructured parts of society
• triad of powers: formal, formless, inherent in structure (pollution)
• witchcraft vs sorcery vs pollution
• failure-based vs success-based powers

Turner, Betwixt and Between, 1967

• society: structure of positions
• margin: interstructural position
• states vs transition
• rites of passage: 3 phases: separation, liminal, reaggregation
• ritual vs. ceremony
• symbolism and structural invisibility
• liminality: the unstructured
• sacra and ritual communication: exhibitions, actions, instructions
• multivocality of symbols
• symbols as nonlogical/nonrational

Geertz, Deep Play, 1972

• symbol (example of rooster/cock/sabung)
• deep play
• (cultural) text
• focused gathering
• depth
• expressive form
• social semantics

Mary Douglas (1921-2007)
Oxford Bibliographies

Mary Douglas Obituary (2007)
The Guardian

Victor Turner (1920-1983)
Beth Barrie's overview of Turner's life and times.

Clifford Geertz (1923-2006)
Oxford Bibliographies

Clifford Geertz
Institute for Advanced Studies

Renato Rosaldo (b. 1941-)

Maps in Colonialism
Ryan Nock at Emory's nice brief illustrated site on Maps in Colonialism

Colonial Africa Early 20th Century
Excellent color-coded interactive map showing complex colonial holdiings in Africa during the time E-P did his fieldwork.

Critical Essay on Mapping Africa
Ralph Austen's excellent essay giving historical context for the complexities of mapping Africa. Good companion to the two previous maps listed here.

Maps of Indonesia
Use pull-down menu to link to zoomable map of island of Bali.

Books and Articles

• Appadurai, Arjun. Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1986 [response to Ortner 1984; asks what difference place makes in Anthro theory].

• Asad, Talal. "Anthropological Conceptions of Religion: Reflections on Geertz," Man 18, 1983.
  
• Ashley, KM. Victor Turner and the construction of cultural criticism: between literature and anthropology, 1990.
  
  
• Boon, James. Other tribes, other scribes: symbolic anthropology in the comparative study of cultures, histories, religions and texts. 1982

• Bynum, Caroline. "Women's Stories, Women's Symbols: A Critique of Victor Turner's Theory of Liminality," Moore and Reynolds, eds., Anthropology and the Study of Religion, Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1984.
  
  
• Crapanzano, Vincent. Hermes Dilemma. Clifford and Marcus, Writing Culture, 1986. [sustained critique of Balinese cockfight article]
  
  
• Hendel, Ronald. Mary Douglas and Anthropological Modernism.
  
• Lurhmann, Tanya. The Paradox of Donald Trump's Appeal. Sapiens. 2016 [uses Mary Douglas' theories to understand Trumpianism].
  
  
• Ortner, Sherry. Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties. Comparative studies in society and history, 1984
  
  
• Ortner, Sherry. Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. [Chapter on Geertz and interpretive anthro]

• Roseberry, William. Balinese Cockfights and the Seduction of Anthropology. Social Research,Vol. 49, No. 4 (WINTER 1982), pp. 1013-1028
  
  
• Strong. "Great Diagrams in Anthropology: Mary Douglas Edition," Savage Minds Blog. [a fan of Mary Douglas enthuses on her analytic methods].
  
  
• Turner, Victor. 1967. "Symbols in Ndembu Ritual," from The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (30 pp). On Ereserve, book reserve (7 copies).

Films

• The Cockfight. short (13 min) 1996 film on the Balinese cockfight. On order for Reed library.

• Cockfighting in the Philippines, Vice Documentary on billion-dollar industry there.
  
  
• Cockfighting in the Canary Island, Vice Daily episode.

Theory and Methods

• Interpretive Anthropology
  Oxford Bibliographies

• Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropologies
  Scott Hudson et al's essay in Univ of Alabama Anthro Theory Database

• Anthropology of Religion
  Oxford Bibliographies

• Anthropology of Religion Overview
  Doug Padgett's site on the Anthropology of Religion; brief essay giving nice overview

Weekend Film Assignment: Trobriand Cricket, 53 min, (Stream via Moodle)

Tues, Nov 12

• Mauss, Marcel. 1925. The Gift. Introduction p. 1-9 (all), Chapter 1 Focus: p. 10-18 (Sections I-III), Chapter 2 Focus: p. 24-39, p. 49-59 and Conclusion, p. 83-108 (all) (~70 pp.). In bookstore, ereserve.

• Weiner, Annette. 1988. Introduction and Ch. 1 The Trobrianders Past and Present (p. 1-31),  The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea. Harcourt Brace. book and ereserve.

Thurs, Nov 14 In-class Paper Workshop

• To get full credit for the paper, post a question about your paper for the class to the Moodle discussion forum for today by midnight Wed Nov 9. We will discuss your questions in class and go over citation methods for a strong and credible argument.

Agency: the capacity to act socially and bring about social effects (applies to individual persons, collectivities, animals, things, deities, ancestors, etc.)

Marcel Mauss, The Gift, 1925

• Gift: 3 Obligations: give, receive, reciprocate
• Value
• Total social phenomena/facts
• Method of exact comparison
• system of total services
• total services of an agonistic type
• individual interest
• potlatch
• Sacrifice
• Alms
• Polynesia:
  mana
  tonga vs. oloa
  property-as-talisman
  hau
• Melanesia:
  kula vs. gimwali
  vaygu'a
  mwali
  soulava
  wasi
  sagali
• American Northwest:
  potlatch
  credit
  honour/prestige
  counter-service
  copper

Malinowski, Argonauts, 1922

• "primitive economic man"
• kula community
  • vaygu'a
  • soulava
  • mwali
• value
• Method of Statistical Documentation by Concrete Evidence
• functionalism
• possession
• institution
• magic
• chief
• totemic clan
• matrilineal
• sorcery

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) Wikipedia

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) Wikipedia

Bronislaw Malinowski London School of Economics' memorial blog

Annette Weiner (1933-1997) Fred Meyers' obituary

Library of Congress Maps from European Age of Discovery
Library of Congress digital map collections, 1500-2002. Great collection of maps from European age of discovery, zoomable to high resolution details, includes annotated map and details from 1562 Map of America by a Spanish explorer featured on this website!

Maps in Colonialism
Ryan Nock at Emory's nice brief illustrated site on Maps in Colonialism

The British Empire and The Pacific Region
Stephen Luscombe's informative website

Sovereignty and Political Control in the Pacific Area 1914 map

Redrawing Spheres of Influence in the Pacific 1922 map

Trobriand Kula Map
Early map showing flow of goods through the islands

Papua New Guinea
Contemporary location of Trobriand Islands, home of Malinowski's major fieldwork.

Books and Articles

• George Stocking 1983. "The Ethnographer's Magic," in his The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays On article and book reserve.

• Weiner, Annette. 1979. "Trobriand Kinship from Another View: the Reproductive Power of Women and Men," in Man 14(2): 328-48. On article reserve and On-line on JSTOR.

• Annette B. Weiner. "Review of 'Trobriand Cricket,'" American Anthropologist 79(2):506-507 [1977]. [Lauds Leach's film but notes that it took place in the context of a local sociopolitical reform movement, and the game was staged for Leach's cameras].

• Weiner, Annette. 1978. "Epistemology and Ethnographic Reality: A Trobriand Island Case Study", American Anthropologist, Vol. 80, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 752-757. [includes critique and sociopolitical context for th making of Jerry Leach's film, "Trobriand Cricket'].

• Malinowski, Bronislaw. A diary in the strict sense of the term. On book reserve.

• Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1922. Chapter VI Tribal Economics in the Trobriands, pp 146-194, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, (48 pp.)

Films

Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
Award-winning 1979 documentary.

Strangers Abroad Series. All on reserve in Film and Video Library. All about 50 mins. Great old footage of these guys at work, interviews with locals who remember them, information on ethnography of the communities they worked in.

• Bronislaw Malinowski: Off The Verandah
  Great old footage of the Kula as well as footage of contemporary practices in the Trobriands.

History

• The Industrial Revolution
  Fordham Univ's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution, and Industrial Rv. II; links to full text lit. from the time, links to literary responses

• Nineteenth Century France
  Fordham Univ's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: 19c France; links to full text lit. from the time, links to literary responses

• Papua New Guinea History
  PNG history at WWW Virtual Library. Links to all aspects.

Theorists' Sites

• La Revue du Mauss

Material Culture and Ritual

• The History of the Potlatch Collection
  U'Mista Cultural Center, British Colombia website on potlatch artifacts returned to the tribe after a 1922 raid (potlatch was banned in Canada in the 19th century); U'Mista's mandate is to ensure the survival of all aspects of the cultural heritage of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw. 
• U'Mista Cultural Center virtual tour of living Potlatch tradition

• Trobriand Exchange Objects
  Art-Pacific.com's online exhibit with great photos of objects and explanatory notes, links to other aspects of Kula, Malinowski

Weekend film assignment: Cannibal Tours, 1988 (67 min) (Stream via Moodle)

Tues, Nov. 19

• Marx, Karl. 1849. "Wage Labour and Capital," in Robert Tucker, Ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978. (14 pp.) On book reserve, ereserve

• Wolf, Eric. 1982. "Introduction (FOCUS: pp. 1-9, pp. 13-23)" and "the Movement of Commodities" (FOCUS: pp. 310-318, pp 321-323 Meat, pp 325-329 Rubber, pp 333-336 Sugar, pp. 346-353 Gold), in Europe and the People Without History, Berkeley: University of California Press. (60 pp). book reserve, ereserve.  

• Images: Situating Fieldwork in Global Political Economy

Thurs, Nov. 21

• Tsing, Anna. 2005. Preface, pp. ix-xiii, and Introduction pp. 1-18. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (25 pg)  book reserve, ereserve
  
  
• Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2013. Ch. 1 Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory, (pp. 20-43), Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books. (20 pg) ereserve.

Books and Articles

• Bashkow, Ira. 2004. “A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries,” American Anthropologist 106 (3): 443-458.

• "Excuse Me, Everything Is Not All Right": On Ethnography, Film, and Representation: An Interview with Filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke [director of the film Cannibal Tours (1988).] Cultural Anthropology, 1989.

• Marx, Karl. 1849. "Commodities" in Robert Tucker, Ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978. (14 pp.) On book reserve.

• Marx, Karl. 1849. "Wage Labour and Capital," in Robert Tucker, Ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978. (14 pp.) On book reserve, ereserve

• McCannel, Dean. "Cannibal Tours," Society for Visual Anthropology Review.
• O'Rourke, Dennis, 1999. "On the Making of 'Cannibal Tours'" (unpublished manuscript)

• Foucault, Michel. 1970 "Exchanging", The Order of Things. On book reserve (10 copies)

• Said, Edward. Orientalism. 1978.

• Hymes, Dell. "The Use of Anthropology: Critical, Political, Personal," in Hymes, Ed., Reinventing Anthropology, New York: Random House, 1972 [1969]. On article reserve.

• Lewis, Diane. Anthropology and Colonialism. Current Anthropology, Vol. 14, No. 5 (Dec., 1973), pp. 581-602.

• Rubin, Gayle. "Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex," Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women, New York: Monthly Review, 1975. in my office

• Giddens, Anthony. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991.

• Ortiz, Fernando. 1947. Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. Knopf/Duke Univ Press, (with original Intro by Malinowski and new intro by Coronil)

• Pels, Peter. "The Anthropology of Colonialism", Annual Review of Anthropology, 26, 1997. Full-text online. Click on "articles" link, scroll down to 1997.

• Slocum, Karla. Caribbean free villages: Toward an anthropology of blackness, place, and freedom, American Ethnologist, August 2017. [homage to Sidney Mintz]
  In the 1950s, Sidney Mintz carried out a short study of Caribbean settlements known as free villages. These communities were designed by Baptists as postemancipation social and economic living spaces for formerly enslaved Afro-descendant peoples. Mintz was ultimately interested in establishing a village typology, describing how the church shaped villagers’ social and moral lives and gauging the communities’ capacity as a site of Afro-Caribbean peasant resistance to plantations. This work influenced later studies of creolization, land, and the peasantry in free villages, as well as inquiries into the contemporary political-economic and historical context of Afro-Caribbean villages generally. Mintz's analysis can also be helpful for thinking through questions about social processes of rural place-making and investments in freedom among people of African descent.
  
  
• Tsing, Anna. 2005. Preface, pp. ix-xiii, and Introduction pp. 1-18. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (25 pg) book reserve and ereserve.

For a particularly vitriolic debate among Marxist anthropologists, including Eric Wolf, see:

• Wolf, Eric. 1982. Introduction and "the Movement of Commodities" in Europe and the People Without History, Berkeley: University of California Press. (60 pp). On book reserve, ereserve

• Taussig, Michael. 1989. History as Commodity in some Recent American (Anthropological) Literature," Critique of Anthropology. pp 7-27. On article reserve

• Mintz, Sidney W. and Eric R Wolf. 1989. "Reply to Michael Taussig," Critique of Anthropology, pp. 28-31. On article reserve.

History and Culture

• The Industrial Revolution
  Fordham Univ's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution, and Industrial Rv. II; links to full text lit. from the time, links to literary responses

• Nineteenth Century Germany
  Fordham Univ's Internet Modern History Sourcebook: 19c Germany; links to full text lit. from the time, links to literary responses

• Globalization and Western Hegemony
  Fordham Univ's Internet Global History Sourcebook. Has links on western hegemony late 19th early 20th, global economy.

• Global Inequality
  Inequality.org has been tracking inequality-related news and views for nearly two decades. A project of the Institute for Policy Studies since 2011, our site aims to provide information and insights for readers ranging from educators and journalists to activists and policy makers.

Theorists' Sites

• Global Social Theory
  Gurminder K Bhambra's website on non-western social theory. She is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies across the Departments of Geography and International Relations in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. Her description: This site is intended as a free resource for students, teachers, academics, and others interested in social theory and wishing to understand it in global perspective. It emerges from a long-standing concern with the parochiality of standard perspectives on social theory and seeks to provide an introduction to a variety of theorists and theories from around the world. The particular impetus for the setting up of the site was the recent campaign organised by students in the UK asking ‘Why is my curriculum white?‘ This site is one attempt to build resources that will hopefully complement and broaden our shared conversations in this area.

• Marxism.org
  Comprehensive site listing links to Marxist literature and marxists on-line

• The Marx Files
  Comprehensive site with links to massive resources on Marx and Engels. Includes chronologically arranged photos, letters, collected works.

• Online Guide to Marx's Capitalist Manifesto

• Reading Marx's Capital with David HarveyAccompanies his online course.

Weekend Film: Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs, dir., 1989, 55 min, **Content Notes: footage of riots and police violence, dramatized street assault, Stream via Moodle

Tues Nov. 26

• Ortner, Sherry. 1972. "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?" and "So, Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?" in Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996 (28 pp.). Bookstore and on book reserve, ereserve

• Visweswaran, Kamala. 1994[1988]. "Defining Feminist Ethnography," (p. 17-39) in Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. book and ereserve. (22 pp).

• Gerstner, David. "Tongues Untied (1989)." Cineaste, Vol. XXXII, No. 4, 2007. (online). (1 pp.)
  
  
• Diagrams: Ortner's structuralist argument

Thanksgiving Break Nov 28-Dec 1

hegemony
agency
power
practice theory

Sherry Ortner, Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? 1972

• universals vs. particulars
• Culture vs Nature
• gender
• woman/female
• man/male
• cultural logic
• egalitarian
• male dominance
• subordination
• biological determinism
• ritual
• transcendence
• domestic vs. public
• family
• motherhood
• feminine personality
• women's intermediacy
• margin
• symbolic ambiguity
• feedback system

Sherry Ortner, So, Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? 1996

• culture as disjunctive
• culturally unmarked vs. culturally marked
• gender
• woman
• man
• nature vs. culture
• essentialism
• structure
• poststructuralism
• mutual metaphorization

General

• Association for Feminist Anthropology
  Learn about the goals and history of this section of the American Anthropological Association.

• Association for Queer Anthropology (formerly SOLGA)
  Learn about the goals and history of this section of the American Anthropological Association.

• Feminist Anthropology
  Lisa Anderson-Levy's essay on history and goals of feminist anthropology. Oxford Bibliographies.

• Queer Anthropology: An Introduction
  Martin Manalansan IV's 2016 essay in the open access journal Cultural Anthropology.

• Exhibits on Sexism and Racism in Advertising
  Makley Image Archive exhibits of damaging stereotypes of women and minorities in U.S. mainstream print media. Links to further reading on critical media theory, activism, and more.

History

• LGBT History Online
  Fordham Univ's People with a History An Online Guide to
  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History; Links to all aspects.

• Women's History Online
  Fordham Univ's Women's Internet History Sourcebook.

Tues Dec 3

• Charlotte Coté. Introduction, Chapter One and Chapter Two (pp 1-68). Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions. UWash Press, 2010. bookstore, book reserve, ereserve.

Thurs Dec 5

• Charlotte Coté. Chapter Four and Chapter Five (pp 115-165), and Chapter Six: Focus pp. 166-171, pp. 182-88, pp. 191 bottom-192. Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions. UWash Press, 2010. bookstore, book reserve, ereserve.

Tues. Dec. 10 Final Paper Workshop and peer review

For full credit for your paper, post one question to Moodle about your paper (scroll down to Weeks 13-14 Discussion Forum) by Sunday Dec 8, midnight.

Come prepared to discuss your paper. Bring to class some written notes, a rough outline, draft paragraphs to share with a partner. Prepare some questions you would like to pose to your partner and to the class: eg., questions about theory, definitions of key terms, which theorists to use, how best to organize the paper, best practices for citation or theory synopses, how to develop an argument, etc.

Optional Readings: Global Futures of Anthropology? These could be very helpful in developing your final argument!

• Allen, Jafari Sinclaire and Ryan Cecil Jobson. 2016. The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties. Current Anthropology. Volume 57, Number 2, April. ereserve.

• Tallbear, Kim. Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming. Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019): Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies (15 pp) ereserve.

• Lassiter, LukeEric. 2005. From "Reading over the Shoulders of Natives" to "Reading alongside Natives," Literally: Toward a Collaborative and Reciprocal Ethnography" and "Defining a Collaborative Ethnography" (p. 1-24). The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography. book and ereserve

   

  Paper 3 and 1-2 paragraph course reflection
  due (Wednesday Dec. 18, midnight, Moodle upload)

Rethink "culture"

• Native writing as resistance
• Cultural systems (cf. Mauss: systems of total services)
• Culture is not static, cultural continuity

Tsawalk (Chief Umeek's Native alternative to "culture"?)

Stratified rank-and-prestige system (human and nonhuman relations)

• lineage chiefs and queens/haquum
• village longhouse dwelling
• Guardian Spirit Complex
• role of whales (iihtuup, 'big mystery) and whaling
• secret shrines for hunt preparation
• ritual cleansing/ oo-simch
• Imitative Power
• Human-whale agreement

Potlatch (cf. Mauss, Boas)

• Mana
• role of whale oil

Charlotte Coté (at University of Washington)

Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht First Nation Biography): the second Nuu-chah-nulth women to attain a Ph.D., and the first to teach as a University Professor

UO Today Interview with Charlotte Cote, on her second book, A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Oregon Humanities Center, 2022

Charlotte Coté talk, "A River Runs Through Us," Oregon Humanities Center, October 2022

Native Land Digital
Native Land Digital is a Canadian not-for-profit organization, incorporated in December 2018. Native Land Digital is Indigenous-led, with an Indigenous Executive Director and Board of Directors who oversee and direct the organization. Numerous non-Indigenous people also contribute as members of our Advisory Council. The Board of Directors govern finances, set priorities, and appoint staff members as required.

Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide. We strive to go beyond old ways of talking about Indigenous people and to develop a platform where Indigenous communities can represent themselves and their histories on their own terms. In doing so, Native Land Digital creates spaces where non-Indigenous people can be invited and challenged to learn more about the lands they inhabit, the history of those lands, and how to actively be part of a better future going forward together.

Canadian Government Indigenous Peoples and Lands website

Canadian Government First Nation Profiles Interactive Map

British Columbia Assembly of First Nations Interactive Map (click on Vancouver Island)

• Tseshalt Nation Territory map(Tseshalt First Nation website)
• Tseshalt Nation Territory maps (Native Land Digital)
• Nuu-chah-nulth Territory map (Native Land Digital)

Indigenous Futurisms

Cultural Anthropology, Special Issue on Indigenous Media Futures, Volume 33, Issue 2

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Dillon, Grace, ed. Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. University of Arizona Press, 2012.

Dillon, Grace and Pedro Neves Marques. Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms. e-flux Journal, 2021.

Lempert, William. Decolonizing Encounters of the Third Kind: Alternative Futuring in Native Science Fiction Film, Visual Anthropology Review 30, 2014.

Anthro Futures: Books and Articles

• American Anthropologist journal special issue: Call for Complaint II: New Grammars for Worlding Anthropology. Fall 2022.
• Bashkow, Ira. 2004. “A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries,” American Anthropologist 106 (3): 443-458.

• Craven, Christa and Dána-Ain Davis. 2013. Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America. Rowman & Littlefield. [Faye Harrison has an essay in it]
  
  
• Danowski, Deborah and Eduardo Vivieros de Castro. Is There Any World to Come? e-flux Journal, July 2015.

• di Leonardo, Micaela. "Introduction: Gender, Culture, and Political Economy: Feminist Anthropology in Historical Perspective," in di Leonardo, ed. Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Berkeley: University of CA press, 1991. Office.

• di Leonardo, Micaela. 1998. "America's Anthropologies, Anthropology's America," in Exotics At Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

• Fabian, Johannes. 1990. "Presence and Representation: The Other and Anthropological Writing," in Critical Inquiry (summer): 753-771. (office).

• Fabian, Johannes. 1983. "Time and the Emerging Other," Time and The Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. New York: Columbia University Press. Office

• Fassin, Didier. The Endurance of Critique. Anthropological Theory 2017, Vol. 17(1) 4–29. [responding to Latour]

• Gordan, Edmund. 1991. Anthropology and Liberation. in Faye Harrison, ed., Decolonizing anthropology: moving further toward an anthropology for liberation. 2nd edition. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.

• Lacy, Sarah and Ashton Rome. 2017. (Re)Politicizing The Anthropologist In The Age Of Neoliberalism And #Blacklivesmatter. Transforming Anthropology 25 (2).
• Lewis, Diane.1973 Current Anthro, calls for a 'perspectivism' approach

• MacClancy, Jeremy, ed. Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines.Chicago Univ. Press, 2002.

• Ortner, Sherry. 1995. “Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal” (37/1: 173-193)
  
  
• Ortner, Sherry and Andrew Shryock. "More Thoughts on Resistance and Refusal: a Conversation with Sherry Ortner" CSSH 2017 (Ortner discusses her influential 1995 article "Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal")

• Price, David. Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists. Duke Univ. Press, 2004.

• Rosa and Bonilla. 2017. "Deprovincializing Trump, decolonizing diversity, and unsettling anthropology". American Ethnologist.
• Sanford, Victoria, Asale Angel-Ajani, Phillippe Bourgois. Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism. Rutgers Univ Press, 2006.
  
  
• Smith, Gavin A. Confronting the present: towards a politically engaged anthropology. Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
  
  
• Tsing, Anna. 2005. "Introduction," and "Coda," in Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp.1-18, 269-272.

Makah Whaling Rights Court Case 2020s

• 2019 court case (King5 News) coverage of the 1990s hunt, being watched and commented on by media outlets as it happened
• 2021 Legal victory (King5 News)
• A Look Back at the 1999 Makah Whale Hunt (King5 News, Youtube), 2019
• NOAA Fisheries summary of Makah whaling rights case

Engaged Anthropology

• Transforming Anthropology
  Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists. Transforming Anthropology interrogates the contemporary and historical construction of social inequities based on race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality and other invidious distinctions.

• Zero Anthropology Blog: The Yanomami Controversy

• The Race Project
  The American Anthropological Association's traveling exhibit on race

• Public Anthropology Journal Archive Project
  An excellent website offering a searchable database of 3 major anthropology journals, as well as links on possibilities for activist anthropology, annotated photos and more.