Week | Course content and required reading | Textbook & References | Course activities, including preparation and homework | | 1 | An Introduction to Social Anthropology | Required Readings:
Jared Diamond (2000), Taiwan’s Gift to the World, Nature 403 pp. 709-710.
Anthony Giddens (1993), Sociology (Polity), 29-58.
Adam Kuper (1999), Culture (Harvard University Press),1-23.
Peter Bellwood, et al (1995), The Austronesian History: Common Origin and Diverse Transformation, in The Austronesians (ANU Press), 1-17.
Kim Martins (2020), Polynesian Navigation & Settlement of the Pacific World History Encyclopedia https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1586/polynesian-navigation--settlement-of-the-pacific/
Additional Readings:
Adam Kuper (2015), Anthropology and Anthropologists (London: Routledge), 1-42.
George Stocking (1992), Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology, The Ethnographer’s Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology (University of Wisconsin Press), 342-361.
Clifford Geertz (1974), “From the Native’s Point of View”: On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding, Bulletin of the American Academy, 480-492.
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1952), Structure and Function in Primitive Society (MacMillan), 1-15.
Robert K. Merton (1957), Social Theory and Social Structure (Free Press), 121-161. | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 2 | Kinship
Seminar: Participant Observation | Required Readings:
Anthony Giddens (1993), Sociology (Polity), 387-424.
Claude Levi-Strauss (1969), The Elementary Structures of Kinship (Beacon Press), 478-497.
Lewis Morgan (1871), Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution), 10-16.
David Schneider (1968), American Kinship: A Cultural Account (University of Chicago Press), 1-57.
Additional Readings:
Adam Kuper (2015), Anthropology and Anthropologists (London: Routledge), 42-64
Joan Bamberger (1974), The Myth of Matriarchy: Why Men Rule in Primitive Society, in Women, Culture, and Society (Stanford University Press), 263-280.
David Schneider and K Gough (eds) (1961), Matrilineal Kinship (University of California Press), 1-29.
Mary Farmer (1970), The Family (Longman), 1-47.
Martine Segalen (1986) Historical Anthropology of the Family (CUP), 1-73.
Morgan Clark (2007) Closeness in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Debating Kinship and Biomedicine in Lebanon and the Middle East, Anthropological Quarterly 80:2, p.p. 379-402.
B.R. Myers (2011), The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—And Why It Matters (Melville House), 73-131. | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 3 | Magic
Seminar: Accounts of Fieldwork | Required Readings:
Fiona Bowie (2000), The Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell), 118-151.
Walraven Boudewijn (2009), National Pantheon, Regional Deities, Personal Spirits? Mushindo, Songsu, and the Nature of Korean Shamanism, Asian Ethnology 68 pp 55-80.
Rebecca Stein and Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Taylor & Francis), 145-170.
Additional Readings:
Clifford Geertz (1973), Interpretations of the Culture (Basic), 87-126.
Adam Kuper (2015), Anthropology and Anthropologists (London: Routledge), 64-
Fiona Bowie (2000), The Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell), 190-259.
Mark Mosko (2014), Cards on Kiriwina: Magic, Cosmology, and the ‘Divine Dividual’ in Trobriand Gambling, Oceania 84:3, pp239-255.
Rebecca Stein and Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Taylor & Francis), 1-32.
Wei-ya Lin (2013), The Relationship between Music and Taboos in the Society of the Tao (An Indigenous Ethnic Group in Taiwan, Journal of Creative Communication 8:1p.p. 45-64. | Lecture, readings, discussion, presentation | | 4 | Reflection week | Discussion, presentation | 5 | Gifts
Seminar: Ethical Ethnography | Required Readings:
Marcell Mauss, The Gift (Hau Books), 65-85.
M. Sahlins (1974) Stone Age Economics (Routledge), 149-183.
Caroline Humphrey and Stephan Hugh-Jones (Eds) (1994), Barter, Exchange and Value (CUP), 1-21.
Bronislaw Malinowski (1922), Argonauts of the Western Pacific (E.P Dutton & Co.), 81-105.
Additional Readings:
Claude Levi-Strauss (1969), The Elementary Structures of Kinship (Beacon Press), 52-68.
Alfred Gell (1994), Inter-tribal Commodity Barter and Reproductive Gift-Exchange in Old Melanesia, in Caroline Humphrey and Stephan Hugh-Jones, eds. Barter, Exchange and Value (CUP), 142-169.
Nicholas Thomas (1995), Exchange Systems, Political Dynamics, and Colonial Transformations in Nineteenth Century Oceania, in The Austronesians (ANU Press), 287-309. | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 6 | Rituals
Seminar: The Fieldworker’s Identity and Position | Required Readings:
Fiona Bowie (2000), The Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell), 151-185.
Catherine Bell (1997), Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice (OUP). 19-55.
Arnold Van Gennep (1960[2019]), Rites of Passage (University of Chicago Press), 1-26; 166-189.
Additional Readings:
Adam Kuper (2015), Anthropology and Anthropologists (London: Routledge), 108-129.
J.S. La Fontaine (1985), Initiation (Penguin), 38-58.
Rebecca Stein & Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Routledge), 82-110
Margaret Mead (1930 [2001]), Coming of Age in Samoa (Harper), 61-86.
Harriet, Whitehead (1993), The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized Homosexuality in Native North America, in Eds., Henry Abelove et al, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge), 498-528.
Sam Gill (1987), Disenchantment: A Religious Abduction, in Native American Religious Action, Sam Gill and Frederick Denny (University of South Carolina Press), 59-75.
Lila Abu-Lughod (2013), Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Harvard), 27-54.
Matthew Spriggs (1995), The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania, in The Austronesians (ANU Press), 119-143.
Yuko Ogasawara (1998), Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies (UCP), 1-17 | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 7 | Nature
Seminar: Off Setting a Carbon Footprint | Required readings:
Jenny Bryant-Tokalau, Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change (Palgrave): 1-95.
Graeme Hugo (2010), Climate Change-Induced Mobility and the Existing Migration Regime in Asia and the Pacific, in Jane McAdam (ed), Climate Change and Displacement (OUP): 9-37.
Tim Ingold (2000), The Perception of the Environment (Routledge),13-26.
A Reid et al (2021), “Two-Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous Framework to Transform Fisheries Research and Management, Fish and Fisheries 22:2 p.p. 243-261.
Additional readings:
Pamela Asquith et al (eds) (1997), Japanese Images of Nature (Curzon), 1-36.
Paul D’Arcy (2006), The People of the Sea (Hawaii UP): 98-144
Eveline Durt and Arno Pascht (2017), Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses (Palgrave): 49-75.
Michael Sesit (1997), Monetary Union: A way to help small nations, Wall Street Journal
Colin Shaw (1988), Pacific: The Divided Territory, Far Eastern Economic Review p.32.
Jared Diamond (2019), Upheaval (Allen Lane): 383-423.
Arno Pascht and Eveline Durr (2017), Engaging with Environmental Transformation in Oceania, in Durr and Pascht (eds). Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses (Palgrave): 1-19.
Andrea Reid et al (2020) “Two-Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous Framework to Transform Fisheries Research and Management, Fish and Fisheries 22 p.p. 243-261.
Sarah Pink (2021), Doing Visual Anthropology (Sage), 123-151.. | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 8 | Midterm Examination | 9 | Symbols
Seminar: Reflecting Traditional Knowledge (TK) | Required Readings:
Rebecca Stein & Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Routledge), 58-82.
Clifford Geertz (1973), The Interpretation of Culture (Basic), 3-30.
Additional Readings:
Mircea Eliade (1964[1992]). Shamanism (Princeton UP), 145-181.
Joy Hendry (2016), An Introduction to Social Anthropology (Palgrave), 102-123.
Rossi, I. 1973. The Unconscious in the Anthropology of Levi-Strauss, American Anthropologist 75 (1): 20-48. | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 10 | Belonging
Seminar: Can an Anthropologist also be an Activist? | Required Readings:
Joy Hendry (2016), An Introduction to Social Anthropology (Palgrave), 192-212.
Setha Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga (2003), the Anthropology of Space and Place (Blackwell), 129-185; 245-351.
Additional Readings:
Angela Cheater (1999) Power in the Postmodern Era, in Angela Cheater, The Anthropology of Power (Routledge), 1-13.
Toon van Meijl (1993) Maori Meeting-Houses in and Over Time, in James Fox Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspective on Domestic Designs for Living (ANU), 201-223.
Franz Boas (1928), Anthropology and Modern Life (Dover Publications), 18-81.
Lila Abu-Lughod (2013), Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Harvard), 1-27.
Mircea Eliade (1957), The Sacred and the Profane (Harvest), 20-68.
Anthony Giddens (1993), Sociology (Polity), 251-283. | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 11 | Dying
Seminar: Communicating Ethnography | Required Readings:
Sue Black (2018), All That Remains (Penguin), 1-13; 95-117.
Rebecca Stein & Philip Stein (2017), The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Routledge), 172-205.
Michael Pettid and Charlotte Horlyck (2014) Char Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea (University of Hawaii Press), 1-18.
Additional Readings:
Leberecht Funk (2014), Entanglements between Tao People and Anito on Lanyu Island, Taiwan, in Yasmine Musharbash and Geir Henning Presterudstuen, Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond (New York: Palgrave): 143-161.
Marc L. Moskowitz (2001), The Haunted Fetus (University of Hawaii Press), 42-77.
Roger Janelli et al (1982), Ancestor Worship and Korean Society (Stanford University Press), 58-86.
Mircea Eliade (1964[1992]). Shamanism (Princeton UP), 181-215.
Michael J. Pettid (2014), Ghostly Encounters: Perceptions of Death and Afterlife in Koryǒ and Early Chosǒn, in Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid, Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea (University of Hawaii Press), 171-190.
Michael J. Pettid (2014), Shamanic Rites for the Dead in Chosǒn Korea, in Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J.
Daniel Drezner (2015), Theories of International Politics and Zombies (Princeton University Press), 1-11. | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 12 | Reflection week. | Reflection week. | Discussion, presentation | | 13 | Futures
Seminar: The Future for Ethnographic Research (All Students) | Required Readings:
Jean Baudrillard (1994), Simulacra and Simulation (University of Michigan Press), 1-43.
Eleanor Hancock (2020), Should Society Accept Sex Robots? Paladyn 11. 428-442.
Bahk Enu-ji (2022), Local Municipalities use AI Robots to Improve Care for Elderly, The Korea Times, https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/02/281_323917.html?fa&fbclid=IwAR3DRJcg-_SkwqKSig0P66OjlTc6LYZfDNI8-HV1X3qJWRoZ-Q24CJfNPI8
Additional Readings:
Tom Boellstorff (2015), Coming of Age in Second Life (Princeton), 3-32; 237-251.
Stephen Dyson (2015), Otherworldly Politics (John Hopkins University Press), 115-132.
Sarah Pink & Juan Francisco Salazar (2017), Anthropologies and Futures: Setting the Agenda, in Juan Francisco Salazar et al, Anthropologies and Futures (Bloomsbury), 3-23.
Christian Madsbjerg (2017), Sensemaking (Abacus), 63-93.
Tessa Leach (2020), Machine Sensation: Anthropomorphism and ‘Natural’ Interaction with Nonhumans (Open Humanities Press), 9-67; and 186-225.
Shoshana Zuboff (2019), The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Profile): 3-27. | Lecture, readings, discussion, | | 14 | Presentations | 15 | 16 | 17 | Wrap Up | 18 | Wrap Up |
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