Dr. John Hartigan
EPS 1.142
Tel. 232-9201
hartigan@mail.utexas.edu
Office Hours: M 9-11am and by appt.

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Dr. James Brow
EPS 2.202
Tel. 471-0058
jbrow@mail.utexas.edu
Office Hours: W 1:30-3:30 and by appt.

Tucker, Robert C., ed., The Marx-Engels Reader (2nd ed). New York: Norton,1978 Wolf Heydebrand, ed.,

Max Weber: Sociological Writings. New York: Continuum, 1994.

E.R. Leach, Political Systems of Highland Burma. London: Berg, 1954.

Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Williams, Raymond. 1977. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Du Bois, W.E.B. [1903] The Souls of Black Folk.

Emile Durkheim The Rules of Sociological Method, ISBN: 0-02-907940-3

Freud, Sigmund. 1961[1989].Totem and Taboo. New York: Norton.

Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, ISBN: 0-226-474-844

Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, ISBN:0-679-75255-2

Mary Weismantel, Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes, University of Chicago,

Lecture: Cultural Theory: A Retrospective and a Glimpse of Anthropology Today (JH)

Shapiro, Judith, "From Sociological Illiteracy to Sociological Imagination," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 31, 2000.

Lila Abu-Lughod, "Writing Against Culture." In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present, edited by James Fox, pp. 137-62. Santa Fe: School of American Research, 1991. [ in Brow's packet]

Brigthman, Robert, "Forget Culture: Replacement, Transcendence, Relexification," Cultural Anthropology, 10(4): 509-546.

[from A New Boasian Anthropology: Theory for the 21st Century, September 2004]

Bashkow, et al, "A New Boasian Anthropology," American Anthropologist, 106(3): 433-434.

Bashkow, Ira, "A Neo-Boasian Conception of Cultural Boundaries," American Anthropologist, 106(3): 443-458.

Rosenblatt, Daniel, "An Anthropology Made Safe for Culture: Patterns of Practice and the Politics of Difference in Ruth Benedict," American Anthropologist, Vol. 106(3): 459-472.

Handler, Richard, "Afterword: Mysteries of Culture," American Anthropologist, 106(3): 488-494.

Brennis, Don, "A Partial View of Contemporary Anthropology," American Anthropologist, Vol. 106 (3): 580-588.

Ebron, Paulla, "The Political Nature of Life," American Anthropologist, 107(2): 264-274

[from Ethnographic Emergences, American Anthropologist, March 2005]

Rajan, Kaushik, "Subjects of Speculation: Emergent Life Sciences and Market Logics in the United States and India," American Anthropologist, 107(1):19-30

Fischer, Michael, "Technoscientific Infrastructures and Emergent Forms of Life: A Commentary," American Anthropologist, 107(1): 55-61

Haraway, Donna, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," and "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective," from Simians, Cyborgs, and Nature: The Reinvention of Nature, Routledge.

Lecture: Marx (JB)

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels,The Marx-Engels Reader (2nd ed.), edited by Robert Tucker, pp. 3-6, 136-75, 203-26, 294-384, 431-42, 473-83, 586-617, 760-68. New York: Norton, 1978.

Eric Wolf, "The Mills of Inequality: A Marxian Approach. " In Gerald Berreman, ed., Social Inequality Comparative and Developmental Approaches, pp.41-57. New York; Academic Press, 1981. [packet]

Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature, part 1 chapter 2 ("Determination"), pp.83-89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Lecture: Durkheim (JH)

Durkheim, Emile. The Rules of Sociological Method, ed. Sarah Solovay and John Mueller. New York: The Free Press.

Mestrovic, Stjepan, "Postmodern Language as a Social Fact," from Durkheim and Postmodern Culture, Aldine de Gruyter, 1992.

Lehmann, Jennifer, "Introduction" to Deconstructing Durkheim: A Post-Post- Structuralist Critique, Routledge, 1993.

Andriolo, Karin, "Why Read About the Old Masters?" American Anthropologist, 104(4):1217-1227.

Lecture: Weber (JB)

Max Weber, Sociological Writings, edited by Wolf Heydebrand, chapters 11-13, 15-16, 18-19, 21-22, 27-31, pp. 28-46, 59-122, 151-73, 179-204, 228-303. New York: Continuum, 1994.

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, ch.5 ("Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism"), pp. 155-83. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1958. [packet]

Lecture: Boas and Du Bois (JH)

Boas, Franz. "Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants," "Race and Character," "Some Problems of Methodology in the Social Sciences," " The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology," "The Methods of Ethnology," "The Origins of Totemism," "The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths," in Race, Language, and Culture, University of Chicago Press, 1940; and "Anthropology," "The Outlook for the American Negro," "Changing the Racial Attitudes of White Americans," "Race Problems in America," in Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911, A Franz Boas Reader, George Stocking Jr., editor, Basic Books, 1974. [packet]

Gravlee, Clarence, et al, "Boas's Changes in Bodily Form: The Immigrant Study, Cranial Plasticity, and Boas's Physical Anthropology, American Anthropologist, 105(2): 326-332. [packet]

Sparks and Jantz, "Changing Times, Changing Faces: Franz Boas's Immigrant Study in Modern Perspective, American Anthropologist, 105(2): 333-337. [packet]

[from A New Boasian Anthropology: Theory for the 21st Century, September 2004]

Bunzl, Matti, "Boas, Foucault, and the 'Native Anthropologist': Notes Toward a Neo-Boasian Anthropology, American Anthropologist, 106(3): 435-442.

Orta, Andrew, The Promise of Particularism and the Theology of Culture: Limits and Lessons of 'Neo-Boasianism," American Anthropologist, 106(3): 473-487.

Du Bois, W.E.B. [1940). Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of the Race Concept, Chapters 5-7, and 9, Transaction Publishers. [packet]

Du Bois, W.E.B. [1903] The Souls of Black Folk.

Lecture: Structure and Function (JB)

Bronislaw Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, "Introduction: The Subject, Method and Scope of this Enquiry," pp. 1-25, and ch. 3 ("The Essentials of the Kula"), pp. 81-104. New York: E.P.Dutton, 1961 (1922). [packet]

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Structure and Function in Primitive Society, "Introduction," pp. 1-14, and ch. 1 ("The Mother's Brother in South Africa"), pp.15-31, ch.9 ("On the Concept of Function in Social Science"), pp. 178-187, and ch. 10 ("On Social Structure"), pp. 188-204. New York: The Free Press, 1965 (1952). [packet]

E.E. Evans-Pritchard, "Social Anthropology: Past and Present." Reprinted in Paul Bohannan & Mark Glazer, eds. High Points in Anthropology (2nd ed.), pp. 410-21. New York: McGraw Hill, 1988. [packet]

E.E. Evans-Pritchard, "A Problem of Nuer Religious Thought." Sociologus 4 (1): 23-41, 1954. Reprinted in John Middleton, ed., Myth and Cosmos, pp. 127-48. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. [packet]

E.R. Leach, Political Systems of Highland Burma, "Introduction" and chs.1-4, pp. 1-100. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964 (1954).

J. Van Velsen, "The Extended-Case Method and Situational Analysis." In A.L. Epstein, ed., The Craft of Social Anthropology, pp. 129-49. London: Tavistock, 1967. [packet]

Claude Levi-Strauss, "Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology." Ch. 2 of his Structural Anthropology, Vol 1, pp. 31-54 (pp. 29-53 in the paperback edition). New York: Basic Books, 1963. [packet]

Lecture: Structuralism (JH)

Claude Lévi-Strauss. [1969] Elementary Structures of Kinship (selections TBA) [packet]

Rubin, Gayle, "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the "Political Economy" of Sex, in Toward an Anthropology of Women, edited by Rayna Reiter, Monthly Review Press, 1975. [packet]

Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Lecture: The Interpretive Turn (JH)

Ricoeur, Paul. 1979. The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text (73-101); Psychoanalysis and the Movement of Contemporary Culture (301-331). In Interpretive Social Science: A Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow and William Sullivan. Berkeley: University of California Press. [packet]

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture (3-32); The Impact of Culture on the Concept of Man (33-55); Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (412-454), In The Interpretation of Culture. New York: Basis Books.

Turner, Victor. 1967. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (19-47). In The Forest of Symbols. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [packet]

Jameson, Fredric, On Interpretation (17-102), The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, Cornell, Ithaca. [packet]

Clifford, James, On Ethnographic Authority, The Predicament of Culture, 20th Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art, 1988. [packet]

Freud, Sigmund. 1961.Totem and Taboo. New York: Norton.

Lecture: Political Economy (JB)

Sherry Ortner, "The Seventies: Marx," part of "Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26 (1): 138-44, 1984. [packet]

William Roseberry, "Political Economy." Annual Review of Anthropology 17 (1988), pp. 161-85. [packet]

Neil Smelser, "Towards a Theory of Modernization." In Wilbert Moore & Bert Hoselitz, eds., The Impact of Industry. Paris: International Social Science Council, 1963. Reprinted in George Dalton, ed., Tribal and Peasant Economies , pp. 29-48. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. [packet]

Karl Polanyi, excerpt from "The Economy as Instituted Process." In Polanyi et al. eds., Trade and Market in the Early Empires, pp. 243-56. Chicago: Regnery, 1971 (1957). [packet]

E. R. Leach, Political Systems of Highland Burma, ch. 5, pp. 101-95 (skim pp. 108-36, 172-94). Boston: Beacon Press, 1964 (1954).

Eric Wolf, "Closed Corporate Peasant Communities in Mesoamerica and Central Java." The Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 13:1-18, 1957. And "The Vicissitudes of the Closed Corporate Peasant Community." American Ethnologist 13:325-29, 1986. Both reprinted in Eric Wolf, Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World, pp. 147-65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. [packet]

Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History, ch.1 ("Introduction"), pp. 3-23, and ch. 12 ("The New Laborers"), pp. 354-83. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. [packet]

Eric Wolf, "Incorporation and Identity in the Making of the Modern World." Suomen Antropologi 3: 82-92, 1984. Reprinted in Wolf, Pathways of Power, pp.353-69. [packet]

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, excerpt from "Introduction: Tropical Sadness," pp. 1-21, and ch. 1 ("O Nordeste: Sweetness and Death"), pp. 31-64. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. [packet]

Lecture: Structure and Agency (JB)

Sherry Ortner, "Into the Eighties: Practice" and "Conclusions and Prospects," parts of "Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26 (1): 144-65, 1984. [packet]

E.R. Leach, Political Systems of Highland Burma, chs. 6-10, pp. 197-292 (skim ch. 8). Boston: Beacon Press, 1964 (1954).

Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, "Section 1: Analyses," part of ch. 1 ("The Objective Limits of Objectivism"), pp. 1-30, ch.2 ("Structures and the Habitus"), pp. 72-95, ch. 3 ("Generative Schemes and Practical Logic: Invention Within Limits"), pp. 96-158, and ch. 4 ("Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power"), pp. 159-97. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Renato Rosaldo, Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, ch. 4 ("Putting Culture into Motion"), pp.91-108. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. [packet]

Anthony Giddens, Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory, ch. 3 ("Action, Structure, Power"), pp. 28-39. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. [packet]

Lecture: Foucault (JH)

Foucault, Michel. 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Vintage, 1977.

Lecture: Culture and Hegemony (JB)

Antonio Gramsci, "Culture," "Hegemony," "Ideology, Popular Beliefs and Common Sense," "The Intellectuals," and "the State." In Tony Bennett et al., eds., Culture, Ideology and Social Process, pp. 191-218. London: The Open University Press, 1981. [packet]

Stuart Hall, "Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity." Journal of Communication Inquiry 10 (2): 5-27, 1986. [packet]

E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, "Preface," pp. 9-15. Harmonsworth: Penguin Books, 1968 (1963). [packet] E.P. Thompson, "Patrician Society, Plebeian Culture." Journal of Social History, Summer 1974, pp. 382-405. [packet]

Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature, "Introduction," pp.1-7, Part One ("Basic Concepts"), chs. 1, 2 & 4 (pp.11-44, 55-71), and Part Two ("Cultural Theory"), chs. 1-10, pp. 75-141. Oxford: OUP, 1977.

James Brow, "Notes on Community, Hegemony, and the Uses of the Past." Anthropological Quarterly 63 (1): 1-6, 1990. [packet]

James Brow, "The Incorporation of a Marginal Community Within the Sinhalese Nation." Anthropological Quarterly 63 (1): 7-17, 1990. [packet]

Paul Willis, "Class and Institutional Form of Counter-School Culture." In Tony Bennett et al., eds., Culture, Ideology and Social Process, pp. 81-109. London: The Open University Press, 1981. [packet]

Paul Gilroy, ""'Race', Class and Agency." Ch 1 of his There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, pp. 15-42 & 251-66. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. [packet]

Lecture: Feminist Theory and Critical Approaches to Race (JH)

Mary Weismantel, Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes, University of Chicago, Chicago.

Harrison, Faye, "Expanding the Discourse on Race," American Anthropologist, 100(3): 609-631

Hill, Jane, "Language, Race, and White Public Space," American Anthropologist, 100(3): 680-689

Hartigan, John, "Culture Against Race: Reworking the Basis for Racial Analysis, South Atlantic Quarterly, 104:3 (543-560).

Lecture: Globalization, Culture and Identities (JB)

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (revised edition), ch. 1 ("Introduction"), pp.1-7, ch. 2 ("Cultural Roots"), pp. 9-36, and ch.3 ("The Origins of National Consciousness"), pp. 37-46. London: Verso, 1991 (1983). [packet]

Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy." Public Culture 2 (2): 1-24, 1990. [packet]

Lila Abu-Lughod, "Writing Against Culture." In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present, edited by James Fox, pp. 137-62. Santa Fe: School of American Research, 1991. [packet]

Akhil Gupta & James Ferguson, "Beyond 'Culture': Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference." Cultural Anthropology 7 (1): 6-23, 1992. [packet]

Aihwa Ong, "The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity. Annual Review of Anthropology 20: 279-309, 1991. [packet]

Stuart Hall, "The Question of Cultural Identity." In Stuart Hall et al. eds., Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, pp. 595-634. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996. [packet]

Stuart Hall, "Introduction: Who Needs 'Identity'?" In Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay, eds., Questions of Cultural Identity, pp. 1-17. London: Sage Publications, 1996. [packet]

Nikolas Rose, "Identity, Genealogy, History." In Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay, eds., Questions of Cultural Identity, pp. 128-150. [packet]

Edmund T, Gordon & Mark Anderson, "Conceptualizing the African Diaspora." Advances in Education in Diverse Communities 1: 229-39, 2000. [packet]

Kamran Asdar Ali, "Faulty Deployments: Persuading Women and Constructing Choice in Egypt." Comparative Studies in Society and Politics: 44 (2): 370-94, 2002. [packet]

Charles Hale, "Does Multiculturalism Menace? Governance, Cultural Rights and the Politics of Identity in Guatemala." Journal of Latin American Studies 34: 485-524, 2002. [packet]