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Books

Amazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.:Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. ISBN: 9780631222378.

Amazon logo Myerhoff, Barbara G. Number Our Days. 1 ed. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1980. ISBN: 9780671254308.

Amazon logo Gusterson, Hugh. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520081475.

Amazon logo Hutchinson, Sharon. Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520202849.

Reserve Readings

Bohannan, Laura. "Shakespeare in the Bush." Natural History 75 (1966): 28-33.

Amazon logo Mauss, Marcel. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000, pp. 1-31, 33-46. ISBN: 9780393320435.

Amazon logo Yan, Yunxian. The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 74-97. ISBN: 9780804726030.

Amazon logo Peters, Charles. How Washington Really Works. 3rd ed. Perseus Books, U. S., 1992, pp. 3-15, 17-33. ISBN: 9780201570854.

Amazon logo Zemon Davis, Natalie. The Gift in 16th century France. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, pp. 34-42. ISBN: 9780299168803.

Roth Pierpont, Claudia. "The Measure of America." New Yorker. March 8, 2004.

Shweder, Richard A. "What About 'Female Genital Mutilation'? And Why Understanding Culture Matters in the First Place." Daedalus 129 (Fall 2000): 209-29.

Walley, Christine J. "Searching for 'Voices': Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations." Cultural Anthropology 12, no. 3: 405-38.

Amazon logo Minow, Martha. "About Women, About Culture." In Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies. Edited by Richard Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus, 252-267. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002. ISBN: 9780871547910.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. "The Primacy of the Ethical." Current Anthropology 36, no. 3 (1995): 409-428.

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940, pp. 1-50.

SES #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction: Anthropology and Its Divisions
2Being CulturalAmazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780631222378.

Amazon logo Myerhoff, Barbara G. Number Our Days. 1st ed. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1980, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780671254308.
3Evolution and AdaptationAmazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 2. ISBN: 9780631222378.
4Film: Number Our DaysFilm

Littman. Number Our Days (1976, 28 min.)

Readings

Amazon logo Myerhoff, Barbara G. Number Our Days. 1st ed. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1980, chapter 2, and 3. ISBN: 9780671254308.
5Doing FieldworkAmazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 3. ISBN: 9780631222378.
6EthnographyAmazon logo Myerhoff, Barbara G. Number Our Days. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980, chapter 4, and 5. ISBN: 9780671254308.
7Writing and Pain
8Uniqueness and Cultural DifferenceAmazon logo Myerhoff, Barbara G. Number Our Days. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. ISBN: 9780671254308.

Amazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 4. ISBN: 9780631222378.
9Race and Biological Difference
10Giving and ReceivingMauss, Marcel. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 1-31, 33-46.

Yan, Yunxian. The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 74-97.

Amazon logo Peters, Charles. How Washington Really Works. 3rd ed. Reading, Perseus Books, U.S., 1992, pp. 3-15, 17-33. ISBN: 9780201570854.

Amazon logo Zemon Davis, Natalie. The Gift in 16th century France. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, pp. 34-42. ISBN: 9780299168803.
11Potlatch and Kula
12Morality and Cultural RelativismRoth Pierpont, Claudia. "The Measure of America." New Yorker. March 8, 2004.

Walley, Christine J. "Searching for 'Voices': Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations." Cultural Anthropology 12, no. 3: 405-38.

Shweder, Richard A. "What About 'Female Genital Mutilation'? And Why Understanding Culture Matters in the First Place." Daedalus 129 (Fall 2000): 209-29.

Amazon logo Minow, Martha. "About Women, About Culture." In Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies. Edited by Richard Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002. pp. 252-267. ISBN: 9780871547910.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. "The Primacy of the Ethical." Current Anthropology 36, no. 3 (1995): 409-428.
13Thinking Symbolically
14Anthropological Studies of ScienceAmazon logo Gusterson, Hugh. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, chapter 1-4. ISBN: 9780520081475.

Amazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780631222378.
15Anthropology and Gender
16Kinship and MarriageAmazon logo Gusterson, Hugh. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, chapter 5-8. ISBN: 9780520081475.

Amazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780631222378

17TBAAmazon logo Gusterson, Hugh. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, chapter 9 (Comments). ISBN: 9780520081475.
18Film: The NuerFilm

Gardner and Harris for The Film Study Center at Harvard University. The Nuer (1971, 73 min.)

Readings

Evans-Pritchard, E. E. The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940, pp. 7-50.

Amazon logo Hutchinson, Sharon. "Prologue," and "Orientation." In Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520202849.

Amazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 7. ISBN: 9780631222378
19The Nuer of the SudanAmazon logo Hutchinson, Sharon. Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, chapter 2-3. ISBN: 9780520202849.
20Film: Strange Practices
21Making Sense of the NuerAmazon logo Hutchinson, Sharon. Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996, chapter 4 to p. 209. ISBN: 9780520202849.

Amazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780631222378
22Making More Sense of the NuerAmazon logo Delaney, Carol. Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2004, chapter 9. ISBN: 9780631222378
23Problems with Culture
24Indigenous Organizing
25Wrap-up

 








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