Dewey, John Democracy and education. New York: The Free Press. 1966 [1916]. (Chapters One& Two [on line])
Varenne, Hervé "America and I" in America as a foreign culture. Ed. by P. DeVita and J. Armstrong, 29-38. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. 1992
2/3 -- Classical discussions in anthropology and sociology
Lévi-Strauss, Claude "Nature and culture," Chapter 1 of The elementary structures of kinship. Tr. by J. Bell and J. von Sturmer. Boston: Beacon Press. 1969 [1947].
Duranti, Alessandro Linguistic Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. (Chapter 2)
recommended:
2/10 -- Popular (high) culture: new developments in an old controversy
Fiske, John Understanding popular culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman. 1989. (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6)
recommended:
2/17 -- Intuitions and difficulties in the concept of 'A' culture
Benedict, Ruth "Configurations of culture in North America," American Anthropologist 34: 1-27. 1932
recommended:
2/24 -- Language: pattern and change
Saussure, Ferdinand de Course in General Linguistics. Tr. by W. Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1966 [1915]. Introduction (Chapters 1-3), Part I (Chap. 1-2), Part II (Chap. 4), Part III (Chap. 1-2).
recommended:
3/3 -- The act, others, and the identified self
Mead, G.H. Mind, self and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1934. (Chapters 3, 7, [8, 9,] 10, 11, 22)
Bateson, Gregory "Why do Frenchmen" in Steps to an ecology of mind. New York: Balantine Books, 1972 [1951]
recommended:
3/10-- Speaking: possibilities elaborated in the use of language
Jakobson, Roman "Concluding statement: Linguistics and poetics." in Style in language. Edited by T. Sebeok, 350-377. New York: Wiley. (particularly the first 10 pages)
Duranti, Alessandro Linguistic Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. (Chapter 7)
recommended:
3/24 -- Speaking together as a matter of collective patterning
Duranti, Alessandro Linguistic Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. (Chapter 8)
recommended:
Latour, Bruno Reassembling the social. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (Particularly chapters 2, 4, 5, 7)
student project presented by
recommended:
4/7 -- Internal complexities: what difference gender?
Lamphere, Louise et al. Situated Lives. New York: Routledge. 1997
(read minimally the introduction and chapters by Rapp, Ginsburg, Comaroff, as well as
one chapter at least in each of the sections of the book)
student project presented by Ugochukwu Onyewuchi
recommended:
McDermott, R. and Varenne,H. "Culture as disability" Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26: 324-348. 1995. (expanded version published on line by Serendip)
student project presented by Nadine Qashu Lim
recommended:
Foucault, Michel "The order of discourse" in Untying the text: A post-structuralist reader. Edited by R. Young, 51-78. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1971 [1981]
Bakhtin, Mikhail "Discourse in the novel" in The dialogic imagination. Tr. by C. Emerson and M. Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1981 (259-65, 270-77, 288-94)
student project presented by Jane Dicker
recommended:
4/28 -- Local transformation: Culture in process?
Miller, Daniel "Appropriating the state on the council estate," Man, 23: 353-372, 1988
Myerhoff, Barbara "Life not death in Venice," in The anthropology of experience. Edited by V. Turner and E. Bruner, 261-285. University of Illinois Press, 1986
student project presented by Linda Kourkoulis
recommended:
5/5 -- Popular possibilities and their paradoxes
Drummond, Lee American dreamtime. Lanham, MD: Littlefield. Chapters 5 and 7
Ducille, Ann "Dyes and dolls." Differences 6: 46-68. 1994
student project presented by Elizabeth Reddington
recommended:
5/12 -- Education as cultural production
• Varenne, Hervé "Difficult collective deliberations: anthropological notes towards a theory of education." Teachers College Record (2007)
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