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Syllabus of Sessions and Readings

September 5 Session One

Introduction to the objectives and organization of the seminar.

September 12: Session Two

Read the Preface, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, and Introduction to Mooney 1896, Malinowski 1922, E-P 1940, Gluckman 1958, Weiner 1987, Rosaldo 1980, Plath 1980, and Abu-Lughod 1986.

George E. Marcus and Dick Cushman (1982) "Ethnographies as Texts," Annual Review of Anthropology 11: 25-69. [Reading notes]

And one of the following:

• James Clifford (1983) "On Ethnographic Authority," Representations (2): 118-146
• Robert J. Thornton (1988) "The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism," Cultural Anthropology 3(3): 285-303.
• Alan Rumsey (2004) "Ethnographic Macro-Tropes and Anthropological Theory," Anthropological Theory 4(3): 267-298.
  

September 19: Session Three

James Mooney (1896) The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. In Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1892-1893, Part Two. Pages 653-1136. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. KSL E51 U52 14:2 [NB: The edition on sale at the Yale Bookstore is the Dover Publications edition of 1973.] [Reading notes and resources]

September 26 and October 3: Sessions Four and Five

Bronislaw Malinowski (1922) Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. [Reading notes and resources; see also the Malinowski session notes from my Anthro 500b]

October 10: Session Six

Zora Neale Hurston (1935) Mules and Men. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company. [Reading notes and resources]

October 17: Session Seven

Edward E. Evans-Pritchard (1940) The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Reading notes and resources]

October 24: Session Eight

Max Gluckman (1958) Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand. Manchester: Manchester University Press for Rhodes-Livingston Institute. [Reading notes and resources]

October 31: Session Nine

Victor W. Turner (1967) Mukanda: The Rite of Circumcision. In his The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, pages 151-279. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [Reading notes and resources]

November 7: Session Ten

Annette B. Weiner (1987) The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. GN671/N5/W43/1987 [Reading notes and resources]

November 14: Session Eleven

Michelle Z. Rosaldo (1980) Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Reading notes and resources]

NOTE: There is no session on Monday, November 28.

December 5: Session Twelve

David W. Plath (1980) Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. HQ799.97 J3 P5

Lila Abu-Lughod (1986) Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press. DT72/B4/A28