Syllabus/achievement requirements Spring 2016

The syllabus is comprised of articles in Readers and online articles.

Compendia can be purchased at the “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card must be presented on purchasing compendia. If “Kopiutsalget” has sold out of a compendium please contact the department as early as possible in the semester in order that more may be obtained.

Many of the online articles require that you use a computer within the university network. If outside the university network, open your web browser and go to https://vpn.uio.no

Curriculum Articles in Readers / Compendia

Anderson, Benedict: "Introduction", pp 11-16 in Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, ed. Benedict Anderson. London: Verso, 1983.

Cohen, D.W. og E.S. Atieno Odhiambo: "Silences of the Living, Orations of the Dead: The Struggle in Kenya for S.M. Otieno's Body, 20 December 1986 to 23 May 1987", pp 180-198 in Between History and Histories. The Making of Silences and Commemorations, eds. Sider and Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Gow, P.: "River People: Shamanism and History in Western Amazonia", pp 90-113 in Shamanism, History and the State, eds. Thomas and Humphrey. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson: "Introduction", pp.1-45 in Anthropological Locations. Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. California Press, 1997.

Carsten, J.: "Introduction", pp 1-36 in Cultures of Relatedness. New approaches to the study of kinship, ed. J. Carsten. Cambridge University Press, 2000.   

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland: "Norwegian anthropologists study minorities at home: Political and academic agendas.", pp 36-53 in Toward Engaged Anthropology, eds. Sam Beck and Carl Maida.Oxford: Berghahn, 2013.

Faubion, James: "The ethics of fieldwork as the ethics of connectivity, or the good anthropologist (isn’t what she used to be)", pp.145-63 in Fieldwork is not what it used to be: anthropology’s culture of method in transition, eds. James Faubion and George E. Marcus. Cornell UP, 2009.

Krohn-Hansen, Christian: "Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State in the Southwestern Dominican Republic.", pp. 96-122 in State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives, eds. C. Krohn-Hansen and K. G. Nustad. London: Pluto Press, 2005.

Basu, Paul and Sharon Macdonald, Sharon: "Introduction: Experiments in Exhibition, Ethnography, Art and Science", pp 1-24 in Exhibition Experiments, eds. Madonald and Basu. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

Schneider, Arnd: "Art and Anthropology”, pp. 56 -71 in ASA Handbook of Social Anthropology, ed. Richard Fardon et al. London: Sage, 2012.

Scott, James: "Cities, People, and Language.", pp 53-83 and 369-376 in Seeing Like a State, ed. J. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Curriculum Online articles, lecturer Wenzel Geissler

Caduff, Carlo (1999): "Ethnographies of Science: Conversation with the Authors and Commentary.", Cultural Anthropology, 14, no. 1. culant.org

Ceuppens, B.and P. Geschiere (2005): "Autochthony: Local or Global? New Modes in the Struggle over Citizenship and Belonging in Africa and Europe.", Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 34, pp 385-407. jstor.org

Collier, S. J (2006).: "Global Assemblages", Theory Culture Society, Vol. 23 ( 2-3): 399-401. sagepub.com

Comaroff, J. (1989): "Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa", American Ethnologist, Vol 6, (4): 661-685 (25 pages). onlinelibraray.wiley.com

De Laet, M. and A. Mol (2000): "The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a fluid technology", Social Studies of Science, 30 (2): 225-253. jstor.org

Gluckman, M. (1940): "Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand", Bantu Studies, Vol 14 pp 1-30. pdf

Harrison, S. (1999): "Cultural Boundaries", Anthropology Today, 15 (5): 10-13. jstor.org

Hayden, C.(2007): "Taking as Giving: Bioscience, Exchange, and the Politics of Benefit-sharing", Social Studies of Science, 37(5): 729-758. jstor.org

de Jong, F. (2008): "Recycling Recognition: The Monument as Objet Trouvé of the Postcolony", Journal of Material Culture 13(2) :195-214 . sagepub.com

Marcus, G. E. (2010): "Contemporary Fieldwork Aesthetics in Art and Anthropology: Experiments in Collaboration and Intervention." Visual Anthropology, 23(4): 263-277. tandfonline.com

Martin, E.(1992): "The End of the Body?", American Ethnologist, 19(1): 121-140 (20 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Mauss, M. 1973 [1934]: "Techniques of the Body", Economy and Society, 2 (1): 70-88 (19 sider). monoscop.org

Sharp, L. A. (2000) "The Commodification of the Body and its Parts.", Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29: 287-328 (Volume publication date October 2000). annualreviews.org

Dawdy, S. L. (2010) "Clockpunk Anthropology and the Ruins of Modernity", Current Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 6 (December 2010), pp. 761-786. jstor.org

Redfield, P. (2012): "Bioexpectations: Life technologies as Humanitarian goods", Public Culture, 24:1, pp 157-184. publicculture.dukejournals.org

Turner, T. (1995): "Social Body and Embodied Subject: Bodiliness, Subjectivity, and Sociality among the Kayapo", Cultural Anthropology, 10(2): 143-170 (27 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Navaro-Yashin, Y. (2009): “Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge,” Malinowski Memorial Lecture, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI), 15 (1): 1-18. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Curriculum Online articles, lecturer Keir Martin

Barth, F. (1989): "The analysis of culture in complex societies", Ethnos, 54, pp 120-142. Download from FRONTER

Hannerz, U. (1987): "The world in creolization.", Africa, 57 (4): 546–559. jstor.org

Vertovec, S. (2007): "Super-diversity and its implications", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30, pp 1024-1054. tandfonline.com

Besteman, C. (2013): "Three reflections on public anthropology.", Anthropology Today, 29(6): 3–6. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Low, S.and S. Engle Merry: "Engaged anthropology: Diversity and dilemmas.", Current anthropology, 52 (supp 2): 203–226. jstor.org

Lazar, S. (2013): "Citizenship, political agency and technologies of the self in Argentinean trade.", Critique of Anthropology, pp 110-28. sagepub.com

Boltanski, L. and E. Chiapello (2005): "The New Spirit of Capitalism.", Int J Polit Cult Soc, 18 pp 161–188. Springer Link.com

Wacquant, L. (2012). "Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism." Social Anthropology 20(1): 66-79. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Tsing, A. L. (2003). "Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers." Economic and Political Weekly 38(48): 5100-5106. jstor.org

Teman, E. (2009):  "Embodying Surrogate Motherhood: Pregnancy as a Dyadic Body-project", Body & Society, 15(47): 47-69 (22 pages). sagepub.com

Peletz, M. G. (1995): "Kinship Studies in Late Twentieth-Century Anthropology.", Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24, pp. 343-372. annualreviews.org

Beatty, A. (2014) "Anthropology and emotion." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol 20 (3) :545-563, September 2014. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Stewart, K. (2012): "Precarity's Forms.", Cultural Anthropology 27 (3) : 518-525. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Ramos-Zayas, A. Y. (2011): "Affect, in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment (ed F. E. Mascia-Lees), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.  onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Hunt, N.R. (2008): "An Acoustic Register, Tenacious Images, and Congolese Scenes of Rape and Repetition.", Cultural Anthropology 23(2): 220-253. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Further recommended Reading Sosant 2000: download pdf-file

 

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