First Year Colloquium in Applied Anthropology

Fall 2009

Thursday 4:00-6:00
Room: 273A Grace Dodge Hall

Professors:
George Bond
Lambros Comitas
Charles Harrington                                                       
Herve Varenne

September 4

• Introduction

September 10              

• Durkheim, E., The Rules of Sociological Method.  New York:  The Free Press (Simon & Schuster Publishers),  1982
  • Alternatively:
  • related readings
    • Garfinkel [Chapter One of Ethnomethodology's program (2002)]
    • Mauss, M. The Gift. W.W. Norton and Company: New York, 1967.

September 17

• Durkheim, E., The Division of Labor in Society, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984 Read: Preface and Book I (pp. 1-233)
• Alternatively:
  • Durkheim, E Suicide, New York: The Free Press. 1966 (pb.) Read: Preface (pp. 35-41), Introduction (pp. 41-57),  Book I: Chapters 1 & 2  (pp. 57-104) and Book III: Chapters 1 & 2  (pp. 295-360). Full text in French
   
• related readings
  • Mauss, M. The Gift. W.W. Norton and Company: New York, 1967.

September 24

• Weber, M., The Methodology of the Social Sciences.  New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster Publishers),  1949. "Objectivity" in Social Science and Social Policy pp. 49-112
• Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: George Allen and Unwin. 1962 pp.ix-95

October 1

• Marx, K., The Communist Manifesto.  New York: International Publishers.
• Marx, K., The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.  New York: International Publishers
  • Alternatively:
    • Marx, K. The German Ideology. New York: International Publishers.

October 8

• Lévi-Strauss, C., “Social Structure” in Structural Anthropology.  New York: Basic Books, 1963.  Pp. 277-324
• Geertz, Clifford.  The Interpretation of Culture.  New York: Basic Books. 1973. (Chapters 1, 13 and 15)
• alternatively:
  • Lévi-Strauss, C. Totemism. New York: Beacon Press, 1963 [1962].
  • Lévi-Strauss, C. The Savage Mind. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966 [1962].
• related readings:
  • Dumont, L. Homo Hierarchicus. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1970 (pp. 1 - 142; 239 - 260).

October 15

• Homans, George C. The Nature of Social Science. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc.
• Smith, M.G. The Study of Social Structure,  New York: RISM, 1998 (Chapters 1-3)

October 22

• Latour, Bruno and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory life (pp. 11-150 and 235-261).
• Lave, Jean and Wenger, Etienne.  Situated Learning.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.  (Chapter 1, pp. 29-43)
  • related readings:
    • Bourdieu, P. Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge University Press, 1977.
    • Garfinkel, H. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Blackwell Publishers, 1967. Read in the following order: Chapters 2, 1, 5, 6, and 8.

October 29

• Wallace, Anthony Revitalizations and Mazeways: Essay in Culture Change. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2003 (Chapters. 1-7 and 11-12 )
• related readings:

November 5

• Georges, Eugenia.  The Making of a Transnational Community:Migration, Development, and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic. Columbia University Press, 1990 (out of print)

November 12

• Ferguson, James.  Expectation of Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999     

November 19 - November 23 -- Faculty Presentations: Discussion of their articles and work in progress

• Lambros Comitas
• Charles Harrington

November 26-November 29 -- Thanksgiving

December 2-6 -- AAA Meetings in Philadelphia

December 10 -- Faculty Presentations: Discussion of their article and work

• Hervé Varenne
• George Bond

December 17   General Review and Discussion of Spring Semester

Expectations and Introductory Supplemental Reading

             Expectations: Students should be aware that the faculty reserves the right to make changes in the course including the readings and the general format.  Students will be evaluated in terms of their over all performance including the writing and presentation of class papers and their participation and contribution to class discussions.
Supplementary Readings: This short list of supplemental readings is not required. It is intended to provide only a few sources that give information about anthropology and its setting

Giddens, Anthony,  New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretive Sociologies. New York: Basic Books. 1976

Giddens, Anthony, Capitalism and modern social theory; an analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Harris, Marvin, The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of the Theories of Culture. New York: Crowell, 1968.

Harris, Marvin, Cultural Anthropology. New York: Harper Row, 1982.

Held, David,  Introduction to Critical Theory: Horheimer to Habermas. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1980

Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1961
Mair, Lucy Philip, Introduction to social anthropology. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1965.

Nadel, Siegfried Frederick, Foundations of social anthropology.  Glencoe, Ill., Free Press, 1951

Nagel, Ernest  Structure of science; problems in the logic of scientific explanation.  New York, Harcourt, Brace & World,1961

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October 15, 2009