Anthropology 531b

Spring Semester 2001

Syllabus of Readings and Session Schedule

January 8: session one

instructor-led discussion of ethnography

January 15: session two

Carla Freeman, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000

January 22: session three

Karen Tranberg Hansen, Salaula: The World of Second-Hand Clothing and Zambia. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000

January 29: session four

Cheryl Mattingly, Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998

February 5: session five

Daphne Berdahl, Where the World Ends: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999

February 12: session six

Donald Tuzin, The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997

February 19: session seven

Sharon Hutchinson, Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996

February 26: session eight

Purnima Mankekar, 1999 Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India. Durham and London: Duke University Press

March 19: session nine

Peter Whiteley, Rethinking Hopi Ethnography. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998

March 26: no class

April 2: session ten

Charles Piot, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999

April 9: session eleven

Akhil Gupta, Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998

April 16: session twelve

final considerations