The class meets on Thursdays, from 5:10 to 6:50 in 406 Zankel.
[where to look for the required and recommended readings]
Varenne, Hervé "On the speech acts that are making Corona" March 28, 2020
recommended:
- Bond, George et al., eds. 1997 AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean. Boulder, CO: Westview.
- Gundaker, Grey 2008 "Hidden Education Among African Americans During Slavery." in Anthropological perspectives on education. Edited by H. Varenne and E. Gordon. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press. pp. 53-74.
- Limerick, N. 2018 "Kichwa or Quichua? Competing Alphabets, Political Histories, and Complicated Reading in Indigenous Languages." Comparative Education Review, 62(1), 103-124.
- Tawasil, Amina 2018 "Reading as Practice: the Howzevi (Seminarian) and Clair de Lune." Anthropology and Education Quarterly
- Varenne, Hervé 2019 "Introduction " to Educating in Life (Routlege)
ALL STUDENTS MUST (RE-)READ
Frost, Robert Mending Wall 1914
A - Marx, Karl "History: Fundamental Conditions" in The German ideology. New York: International Publishers. [1845] 1970
B - Saussure, Ferdinand de "Linguistic value" in Course in General Linguistics pp. 111-122. Tr. by W. Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill. [1915] 1966
recommended:
- Goody, Jack Production and reproduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975
- Marx The Communist Manifesto. New York: International Publishers. [first published in 1852]
- Meillassoux, Claude Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1981 (First published in 1975)
- Wittfogel, Karl Oriental despotism: A comparative study of total power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1957
A - Durkheim, Emile "What is a social fact?" in The rules of the sociological method Tr. by W.D. Halls. New York: The Free Press. [1895] 1968 (pp. 50 to 59)
B - Mauss, Marcel The Gift. New York: Routledge. [1923-24] 2002 (Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2, Conclusion)
recommended:
- Durkheim, E. Education and Sociology. Tr. by S. Fox.. New York: The Free Press. [1922)] 1956
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude "Social structure." in Structural anthropology. Tr. by C. Jacobson and B. Schoepf. New York: Basic Books. [first published in 1952]
A - Garfinkel, Harold Ethnomethodology's program: Working out Durkheim's aphorism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2002 (Chapters 6, and then 1, and then 4)
B - Searle, John "What is a speech act?" in Philosophy in America. Edited by M. Black. London: Allen and Unwin. pp. 221-239.
- Jakobson, Roman "Concluding statement: Linguistics and poetics." in Style in language. Edited by T. Sebeok. New York: Wiley. pp. 350-359.
recommended:
- Garfinkel, H. "Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an 'intersexed' person." in Studies in Ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1984 (Originally published 1967).
- Hilbert, R. The classical roots of ethnomethodology. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. 1992
- Sacks, Harvey Notes on police assessment of moral character." in Studies in social interaction. Edited by D. Sudnow. New York: The Free Press. 1972. pp. 280-293 AND "An analysis of the course of a joke's telling in conversation." in Explorations in the ethnography of speaking. Edited by R. Bauman & J. Sherzer. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1974. pp. 337-353
A - Latour, Bruno Bruno Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts New York: Sage Publications. 1979. (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6)
B - Latour, Bruno Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network theory. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. (Chapters "Introduction to Part I," "First Source of Uncertainty," "Third Source of Uncertainty," "Fourth Source of Uncertainty," "Introduction to Part II")
recommended:
- Garfinkel, Harold . "The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11, 2: 131-158. 1981
- Kuhn, T. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [first published in 1962]
- Kaplan, A. The conduct of inquiry: Methodology for behavioral science . Scranton, PA: Chandler Publishing Co.. 1964
A - Graeber, David and David Wengrow The dawn of everything (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, Conclusion). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
B - Boas, Franz "The intepretations of culture" (Chapter 10) in The mind of primitive man . New York: The Free Press. [1911] 1938.
AND Benedict, Ruth "Configurations
of culture in North America," American Anthropologist 34: 1-27. 1932
recommended:
- Benedict, Ruth Patterns of culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Bidney, David "The concept of cultural crisis." American Anthropologist 48, 4:534-552.
- Boas, Franz "The occurrence of similar inventions in areas widely apart." Science 9, 224:486-487. 1887
- "The occurrence of similar inventions in areas widely apart." Science 9, 224:486-487. 1887.
- Hrdy, Sarah Mother nature: Maternal instincts and how they shape the human species. New York: Balentine Books. 1999
- Mead, Margaret Coming of age in Samoa. New York: Morrow. 1928
A - Weber, Max The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: George Allen and Unwin. [1905]1962 (Chapters 1, 2, 3)
B - Weber, Max "The Methodological Foundations of Sociology." (c 1897)
recommended:
- Parsons, T. and E. Shils Toward a general theory of action. New York: Harper and Row. 1951
- Bourdieu, P. Outline of a theory of practice. Tr. by R. Nice.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1972 (First published in 1972)
- Parsons, T. and E. Shils Toward a general theory of action. New York: Harper and Row. 1951
- Weber, Max "'Objectivity' in social science and social policy." in The Methodology of the Social Sciences, pp. 49-112 . New York: The Free Press, [1904] 1949. (pp. 1 to 66 in the online version)
A - Geertz, Clifford The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books. 1973. (Chapters 1, 2, 4)
B - Geertz, Clifford (in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books. 1973). "Person, time and conduct in Bali," pp. 360-411 [1966]; "Deep play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight." , 412-453 [1972]
recommended:
- Foucault, Michel Discipline and punish. Tr. by A. Sheridan. New York: Penguin Books. [1975] 1978
- Geertz, Clifford "'From the native's point of view': On the nature of anthropological understanding." in Meaning in anthropology. Edited by K. Basso and H. Selby. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 221-237. 1976
- Ortner, Sherry "Theory in anthropology since the Sixties." Comparative Study in Society and History 26, 1:126-166. 1984
A - Lévi-Strauss, Claude Totemism. Tr. by R. Needham Boston: Beacon Press. [1962] 1963
B - Lévi-Strauss, Claude Wild thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2021. [first published in 1962] (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9)
recommended:
- Boon, James From symbolism to structuralism: Lévi-Strauss in a literary tradition. New York: Harper & Row. 1972
- Boon, James Verging on extra-Vagance: Anthropology, history, religion, literature, arts ... showbiz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999.
- de Certeau. Michel The practice of everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1984 [1980].
A - Holland, Dorothy et al. Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. (Chapters 1-3, 8, 13)
B - Gregory, Steven "Placing the Politics of Black Class Formation" (pp. 137-169). in History in Person. Edited by D. Holland and J. Lave. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. 2001
recommended:
- Sapir, Edward Culture, language and personality: Selected essays. Berkeley: University of California Press. (First published in 1949) 1966
- Wallace, Anthony Revitalizations and mazeways: Essays on culture change, Volume 1. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2003
A - Schneider, David "Social dynamics of physical disability in Army basic training." in Personality in nature, society and culture. Edited by C. Kluckhohn and H. Murray. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 386-397. (First published in 1947) 1953. AND Glaser, Barney and Anselm Strauss "Temporal aspects of dying as a non-scheduled status passage." American Journal of Sociology 71:48-59. 1965
B - Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. (pp. 29-58) AND "Estranged Labor Learning" Outlines 1:19-48. 2002.
recommended:
- Benedict, Ruth "Continuities and discontinuities in cultural conditioning." in Personality in nature, society, and culture. Edited by Kluckhohn, C. and H. Murray. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 522-531. 1953 (First published in 1938)
- Garfinkel, Harold "Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies." American Journal of Sociology 61:420-424. 1956.
A - Scott, James The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2009 (Chapters 1, 5, 7)
B - Lansing, J. Stephen Perfect order: Recognizing complexity in Bali. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2006 (Chapters 1, 2, 3 (4 if you have the time))
recommended:
- Abu-Lughod, Lila Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. Princeton University Press. 1998
- Adely, Fida Gendered paradoxes: Educating Jordanian women in nation, faith, and progress. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2012
- McDermott, Ray et al. "Plans, takes, and mis-takes." Critical Social Studies 1:4-21. 2008
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