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 Key Reading: One discipline, Four Ways |
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 Syllabus |
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 Victorian Armchair Anthropology |
To read: - Lewis Morgan: 1 chapter: Ethnical Periods
- James Frazer: V - The Magical Control of the
Weather
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| 2 Week: 8-12 October |
Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor (pp.39-49) |
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Emile Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method (pp.50-59) |
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Emile Durkheim, Suicide |
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Emile Durkheim, Social fact |
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| 3 Week: 15-19 October |
The German Ideology, Part I. (up to "The Real Basis of Ideology", (pp. 24-43) |
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto(pp.14-34) |
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Selections from Capital, Volume 1( chapter 4,part 2) |
- 1.1. "The two factors of the commodity"
- 1.2. "The dual character of labor embodied in commodities"
- 1.4. "The fetishism of the commodity and its secret"
- 2. "The process of exchange"
- 4. "The general formula for capital"
- 26. "The secret of primitive accumulation"
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| 4 Week: 22-26 October |
Weber, Max. "The fundamental concepts of sociology, " from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, 88-115 pp. |
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Ritzer, Macdonalization of the World. |
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| 5 Week: 29 October-2 November |
"The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism." Excerpts on rationalization. pp. 3-51 |
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Methods of Ethnology by Franz Boas |
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Kroeber Alfred, What anthropology is about? |
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Mead Margaret, Coming of age in Samoa |
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Culture and Personality, Ruth Benedict's Psychological Types |
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| 6 Week: 12-16 November |
Malinowski Bronislaw, The subject, method and scope of this inquiry (Argonauts of the Western Pacific), The essentials of Kula |
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Radcliffe Brown, The Mother's Brother in South Africa |
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Radcliffe Brown, Social Structure |
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| 7 Week: 19-23 November |
Ferdinand de Saussure |
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Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Elementary Structures of Kinship (V THE PRINCIPLE OF RECIPROCITY ) |
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| 8 Week: 26-30 November |
Ortner, Sherry, "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties." |
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Levi-strauss Structural Study of Myth |
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| 9 Week: 3-7 December |
Discipline and Punish, excerpts. "Two Lectures" "Truth and Power" |
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Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. some parts of reading of Volume 1. |
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Durkheim and Mauss, Primitive Classification |
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Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger |
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| 10 Week: 10-14 December |
Bourdieu, Pierre. "The social space and the genesis of groups" "Time Perspectives of the Kabyle" An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, some parts of reading |
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Pierre Bourdieu. 1977. “Structures, Habitus, Power.” In Outline of a Theory of Practice |
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| 11 Week: 17-21 December |
Clifford, James and George Marcus. Writing Culture |
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Marcus, George and Michael Fischer. Anthropology as Cultural Critique, excerpts. |
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Rosaldo. "Subjectivity in Social Analysis" |
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Soviet Anthropology |
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