Course Schedule

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Readings:

Perspectives, Chapter 1 – Introduction to Anthropology.

Readings:

Perspectives, Chapter 2 – The Culture Concept.

Bohannan, L., 1966. Shakespeare in the Bush. Language: Readings in language and culture, pp.27-36.

Miner, H., 1956. Body ritual among the Nacirema. American anthropologist, 58(3), pp.503-507

Readings: 

Perspectives, Chapter 3 – Doing Fieldwork: Methods in Cultural Anthropology

Ibañez Martin, R. (2015) “The Politics of Walking: Rural Women Encounters with Space and Memoir”, The Unfamiliar, 5(1-2).

Linda Nordlink, 2000, Who Gets to Study Whom?

Mathews, Andrew S. 2018. “Landscapes and Throughscapes in Italian Forest Worlds: Thinking Dramatically about the Anthropocene.” Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 3: 386–414. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca33.3.05.

Readings:

Jamelle Bouie – 2018. The Enlightenment’s Dark Side.

Watch: Edward Said on Orientalism

Aimé Césaire, Discours sur le colonialisme (2000 [1955]), pp. 31-46.

Perspectives, Chapter 9 – Race and Ethnicity

Brodkin – How Did Jews Become White Folks

Leith Mullings – Interrogating Racism: Towards and Anti-Racist Anthropology

Perspectives – Chapter 10 – Gender and Sexuality

Watch: Genderbread Person

Watch: Gender: The Space Between

Watch: Judith Butler on Gender

Watch: Feminist in Cellblock Y

Lee – The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari

Diamond – Domestication and the Evolution of Disease

Watch: Did We Domesticate Plants, or Did They Domesticate Us?

David Graeber – Chapter 1: On the Experience of Moral Confusion. In Debt: The First 5000 years.

Watch: David Graeber on Debt: The First 5000 Years

Davis and Todd – On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene

Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Climate: Past, Present, Future (PDF Available on the site)

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Trailer (In class film screening)

Watch: Transhumanism by Philosophy Tube

Perspectives. Chapter 12: Globalization

Anna Tsing – Earth Stalked by Men

Anna Tsing – Frictions. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization

Miriam Ticktin – Invasive Others: Toward a Contaminated World

Watch: PhiloshopTube’s Why We Can’t Build Better Cities

Yarimar Bonilla. “The Coloniality of Disaster: Race, Empire, and the Temporal Logics of Emergency in Puerto Rico, USA.” 

Interview with Zozan Pehlivan on Jadaliyya. “Wildfires in Mount Cudi and the Ecological, Ideological, Political, and Historical Dimensions of Forest Fires: Turkey’s Destruction of the Kurdish Environment

Watch: Samsara (2011)

Luis Manuel Garcia. 2015. At home, I’m a tourist: Musical migration and affective citizenship in Berlin. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 2(1-2), pp.121-134.

Roland, L.K., 2013. T/Racing belonging through Cuban tourism. Cultural Anthropology, 28(3), pp.396-419.

Jason de Leon., 2015. Chapter 1. Prevention Through Deterrence and Chapter 7. The Crossing. In The Land of Open Graves.

Andersson, Ruben – Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality

Mbembe, Achilles. 2017. “Scrap the borders that divide Africans.”