Syllabus is comprised of Compendium (a compilation of texts) and online articles.
The compendium can be purchased at “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID 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
READINGLIST
Compendium
Barth, Fredrik (1978) Conclusions. In F. Barth, ed., Scale and Social Organization, pp. 253–272. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Bateson, Gregory (1972a) Double bind 1969. In Steps to an ecology of mind, pp. 271–278. New York: Chandler.
Bateson, Gregory (1972c) Ecology and flexibility in urban civilization. In Steps to an ecology of mind, pp. 494-505. New York: Chandler.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2015) Globalization and its contradictions: Anthropological research in an overheated world. In Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology, pp. 293–316. Basingstoke: Ashgate.
Goody, Jack (1998) The globalisation of Chinese food. In J. Goody, Food and Love, pp. 161–172. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mathews, Gordon (2012) Neoliberalism and globalization from below in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. In Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Carlos Alba Vega, eds.: Globalization From Below: The World's Other Economy, pp. 69-85. London: Routledge.
Maurer, Bill (2012) Finance 2.0, in J. Carrier, ed., A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, 2nd edn., pp. 183–201. London: Edward Elgar.
Mintz, Sidney (1985) Introduction, pp. xv-xxx, and Chapter 1: Food, Sociality, and Sugar, pp. 1-18, in Mintz: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Nuttall, Mark (2009) Living in a world of movement: Human resilience to environmental instability in Greenland. In Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, eds. Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall, pp. 292-310. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Orlove, Ben (2009) The past, the present and some possible futures of adaptation. In Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance, eds. W. Neil Adger, Irene Lorenzoni and Karen O'Brien, pp. 131-163. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van Daele, Wim (2013) Oscillating between Village and Globe: Articulating Food in Sri Lankan Activism. In Carole. Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, eds,. Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy, pp. 211-224. London: Bloomsbury.
Wolf, Eric (1982) The movement of commodities. In E. Wolf: Europe and the People Without History, pp. 310–353. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Yang, Yang (2012) African traders in Guangzhou: Routes, reasons, profits, dreams. In Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Carlos Alba Vega, eds.: Globalization From Below: The World's Other Economy, pp. 154-170. London: Routledge.
Online articles
Ballard, Chris and Glenn Banks (2003). Resource wars: The Anthropology of Mining. Annual Review of Anthropology 32: 287-313. jstor.org
Bateson, Gregory (1972b) The roots of ecological crisis. Steps to an ecology of mind, pp. 494-498. New York: Chandler.
Bear, Laura (2014) 3 For labour: Ajeet's accident and the ethics of technological fixes in time. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20: 71–88. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Berge, Trond (2012) The worse, the better: On safe ground in ‘the most polluted town on Earth’. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 21 (1): 81–102. berghahnjournals.com
Blommaert, Jan (2007) Sociolinguistic scales. Intercultural Pragmatics, 4 (1): 1–19. de Gruyter
Borovnik, Maria (2011) The mobilities, immobilities and moorings of work-life on cargo ships. Sites, 9 (1): 59–82.
Breman, Jan (2013) A bogus concept? New Left Review, 84: 130–138. newleftreview.org
Caldwell, Melissa (2004) Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald?s and Consumerism in Moscow. Journal of Consumer Culture, 4(1): 5–26. sagepub.com
Comaroff, John and Jean L. Comaroff (2000) Millennial capitalism: First thoughts on a second coming. Public Culture, 12 (2): 291–343. Duke university press
Crate, Susan (2011) A political ecology of ‘Water in Mind’: Attributing perceptions in the Era of Global Climate Change. Weather, Climate, and Society, 3 (3): 148-164. ametsoc.org
Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani (2006) The study of social movements: Recurring questions, (+partially) changing answer. In D. Della Porta and M. Diani, Social Movements: An Introduction, pp. 1–22. Basingstoke: Wiley. hse.ru
Emel, Jody, Matthew T. Huber and Madoshi Makene (2011). Extracting sovereignty: Capital, territory, and gold mining in Tanzania. Political Geography 30 (2): 70–79. sciencedirect.com
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2007) Stacking and continuity: On temporal regimes in popular culture. In Robert Hassan and Ronald E. Purser, eds., 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society, pp. 141–160. Stanford: Stanford University Press. hyllanderiksen.net
Ferguson, James (2005). Seeing like an oil company: space, security, and global capital in neoliberal Africa. American Anthropologist 107 (3): 377–382. jstor.org
Ferguson, James (2006) Decomposing modernity: History and hierarchy after development. In J. Ferguson, Global Shadows, pp. 176–193. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Gregson, Nicky, M. Crang, F. Ahamed, N. Akhter and R. Ferdous (2010) Following things of rubbish value: End-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer. eroforum, 41: 846-854. whiterose.uk
Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson (1997) Beyond ‘culture?: Space, identity, and the politics of difference. Cultural Anthropology, 7 (1): 6–23. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Hannerz, Ulf (2000) Flows, boundaries and hybrids: Keywords in transnational anthropology. Working paper no. WPTC-2K-02. Oxford: University of Oxford. Transnational Communities Programme. transcomm.ox.ac.uk
Hart, Keith (2006) Bureaucratic form and the informal economy. In B. Guha-Khasnobis, R. Kanbur and E. Ostrom (eds.), Unlocking Human Potential: Concepts and Policies for Linking the Informl and Formal Sectors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harvey, David (2004) The ‘new’ imperialism: Accumulation by dispossession. Socialist Register, 63–87. socialistregister.com
Hilgers, Mathieu (2012) The historicity of the neoliberal state. Social Anthropology, vol. 20 (1): 80-94. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Hornborg, Alf (2013) The fossil interlude: Euro-American power and the return of the physiocrats. In S. Strauss, S. Rupp & T. Love (eds.), Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies, pp. 41-59. Left Coast Press. academia.edu
Kopytoff, Igor (1986) The cultural biography of things: Commoditization as process. In A. Appadurai (ed.), The Social Life of things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, pp. 64–91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Leichenko, Robin M., Karen O'Brien and William D. Solecki (2010) Climate change and the global financial crisis: A case of double exposure. Annals of the Assoiciation of American Geographers, 100 (4): 963–972. Taylor & Francis online
Li, Fabiana (2013) Relating divergent worlds: Mines, aquifers and sacred mountains in Peru. Anthropologica, 55: 399–411. ProQuest
Luning, Sabine (2014). The future of artisanal miners from a large-scale perspective: From valued pathfinders to disposable illegals? Futures 62 (A): 67–74. sciencedirect.com
Marcus, George (1995) Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24: 95–117. annualreviews.org
Narotzky, Susana (2012) Europe in crisis: Grassroots economics and the anthropological turn. Etnográfica, 16 (3): 627–638. etnografica.revues
Pleyers, Geoffrey (2010) Alter-Globalization. In Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani, eds. (2010) The Human Economy, pp. 63–74. Cambridge: Polity.
Price, Richard (2001) The miracle of creolization: A retrospective. New Westi Indian Guide, 75 (1/2): 35–64. brillonline.com
Richter, Melvin and Michaela W. Richter (2006) Introduction: Translation of Reinhard Koselleck's ‘Krise’ in Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe. Journal of the History of Ideas, 67 (2): 343–356. jstor.org
Standing, Guy (2011) The Precariat? in Standing: The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class, pp. 1–25. London: Bloomsbury.
Steffen, Will, Paul J. Crutzen og John R. McNeill (2007) The Anthropocene: Are Human Beings Now Overwhelming the Forces of Nature?, AMBIO, 36(8):614–21. jstor.org
Stensrud, Astrid B. (2014) Climate change, water practices and relational worlds in the Andes. Ethnos, 1–24. Taylor & Francis online
Tainter, Joseph (2014) Collapse and sustainability: Rome, the Maya, and the Modern World. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 24: 201–214. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Tsing, Anna (2000) The global situation. Cultural Anthropology, 15 (3): 327–356. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Vertovec, Steven (2007) Super-diversity and its implications. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30 (6): 1024–1054. Taylor & Francis online
Vigh, Henrik (2008) Crisis and chronicity: Anthropological perspectives on conflict and decline. Ethnos, 73 (1): 5–24. Taylor & Francis online
Wacquant, Lo?c (2012) Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism. Social Anthropology, vol. 20 (1): 66–79. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
White, Leslie (1943) Energy and the evolution of culture. American Anthropologist, 45 (3): 335–356. jstor.org
Wimmer, Andreas and Nina Glick Schiller (2002) Methodological nationalism and beyond: Nation-state building, migration and the social Sciences. Global Networks, vol. 2 (4): 301–334. Wiley online Library
Zaloom, Caitlin (2003) Ambiguous numbers: Trading technologies and interpretation in financial markets. American Ethnologist, 30 (2): 258-272. jstor.org