Anthropology 132b |
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Representing Ethnography |
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Spring, 2008 |
Mr. Jacobson |
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M, W, Th 11-12 |
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Office: Brown 205, Office Hours: Th 12-1 and by appointment |
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Phone: x62228, Email: jacobson@brandeis.edu |
Drawing on classic and contemporary examples of ethnographic writing and ethnographic film, this course examines the representation of anthropological knowledge. The goal of the course is to enable students to comprehend and evaluate ethnographic arguments.
Course requirements include (1) preparation for and participation in class discussions and (2) a term paper. Click here for further details. Your final grade will be based on these requirements, each counting for one half of the final grade.
Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in
Fredrik Barth, Political Leadership among Swat Pathans, 1959
Anne Allison, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a
Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the
Ellen Schattschneider, Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain, 2003
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Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in
Derek Freeman, "There's Tricks i' th' World," Visual Anthropology Review, 1991, 7:1:103-128.*
Stephen E. Toulmin, The Uses of Argument, 2003 (updated edition) [1958], pp. 11-15, 87-134.*
J. Tim O’Meara, “Anthropology as Empirical Science,” American Anthropologist, 1989, 91:2:354-369. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28198906%292%3A91%3A2%3C354%3AAAES%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
Michael Carrithers, “Is Anthropology Art or Science?,” Current Anthropology, 1990, 31:3: 263-282. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28199006%2931%3A3%3C263%3AIAAOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
George E. Marcus, "Rhetoric and the Ethnographic Genre in Anthropological Research, " Current Anthropology, 1980, 21:4:507-510.
G. Marcus and D. Cushman, “Ethnographies as Texts.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 1982, 11:25-69. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0084-6570%281982%292%3A11%3C25%3AEAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
James Clifford, “On Ethnographic Authority,” Representations, 1983, 1:2:118-146. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0734-6018%28198321%290%3A2%3C118%3AOEA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
Steven P. Sangren, "Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: "Postmodernism" and the Social Reproduction of Texts," Current Anthropology, 1988, 29:405-424. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28198806%2929%3A3%3C405%3ARATAOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
Jonathan Spencer, “Anthropology as a Kind of Writing,” Man, 1989, 24:145-164. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28198903%292%3A24%3A1%3C145%3AAAAKOW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
Johnn Van Maanen, "An End to Innocence: The Ethnography of Ethnography," in Representation in Ethnography (Ed., John Van Maanen), 1995, pp. 1-35.*
Jonathan Spencer, “Ethnography After Postmodernism,” in Handbook of Ethnography (Eds., Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, John Lofland and Lyn Lofland), 2001, pp. 443-452.*
R. Rosaldo, “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage: On the Cultural Force of Emotions,” in Text, Play, and Story (Ed., M. Bruner), 1984, pp. 178-195.*
C. Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author, 1988,
P. A. Roth, “Ethnography Without Tears,” Current Anthropology, 1989, 30:5:555-569.http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28198912%2930%3A5%3C555%3AEWT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
Graham Watson, "Make Me Reflexive--But Not Yet: Strategies for Managing Essential Reflexivity in Ethnographic Discourse," Journal of Anthropological Research, 1987, 43:1:29-41. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0091-7710%28198721%2943%3A1%3C29%3AMMRBNY%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
Graham Watson, "Definitive Geertz," Ethnos, 1989, 54:I-II:23-30.*
Malcolm Parks, “Where Does Scholarship Begin?” American Communication Journal, 1998, 1:2. http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol1/Iss2/special/parks.htm
Kirsten Hastrup, “Anthropological Visions: Some Notes on Visual and Textual Authority,” in Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton (Eds.), Film As Ethnography, 1992, pp.8-25.*
Peter Loizos, “Admissible Evidence? Film in Anthropology,” in Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton (Eds.), Film As Ethnography, 1992, pp. 50-65.*
Mike Ball and Greg Smith, “Technologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film,” in Handbook of Ethnography (Eds., Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, John Lofland and Lyn Lofland), 2001, pp. 302-319.*
Fredrik Barth, Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans, 1959.
Talal Asad, "Market Model, Class Structure, and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization," Man (N.S.), 1972, 7:1:75-94. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28197203%292%3A7%3A1%3C74%3AMMCSAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
Michael Meeker, “The Twilight of a South Asian Heroic Age: A Rereading of Barth's Study of Swat,” Man (N.S.).1980, 15:4:682-701. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28198012%292%3A15%3A4%3C682%3ATTOASA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
Fredrik Barth, "Swat Pathans Reconsidered," in Features of Person and Society in Swat: Collected Essays on Pathans: Selected Essays of Fredrik Barth, V.II, 1981, Pp.121-181.*
Robert Paine, "The Stamp of Swat: A Brief Ethnography of Some of the Writings of Fredrik Barth," Man (N.S.), 1982, 17:328-39.http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28198206%292%3A17%3A2%3C328%3ATSOSAB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
Clifford Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight,” Daedalus, 1972, 101:1-37.*
Paul Shankman, “The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz,” Current Anthropology, 1984, 25:3:261-279. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28198406%2925%3A3%3C261%3ATTATTO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
William Roseberry, “Balinese Cockfights and the Seduction of Anthropology,” Social Research, 1982, 49:1013-28.*
Vincent Crapanzano, “Hermes’ Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description,” in Writing Culture (Eds., James Clifford and George E. Marcus), 1986, pp. 51-76.*
Mark Hobart, “As They Like It: Overinterpretation and Hyporeality in
Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the
Anne Allison, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a
Ellen Schattschneider, Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain, 2003
1. Preparation for and participation in class discussions. The assigned monographs are available in the Bookstore; the reading assignments marked with an asterisk (*) are available on LATTE. You should have read the assigned materials by the beginning of the class for which they have been assigned and you should be prepared to present your views of the materials. Participation implies attendance: you are expected to be present for class meetings; unexcused absences will result in a reduction in your final grade.
2.Term Paper. The term paper should analyze and evaluate an ethnographic representation, a debate about, and/or a contested interpretation of a particular people, culture, or society, and should include evidence drawn from the relevant ethnographic corpus. The paper is to be approximately 12-15 pages, typed and double-spaced, not including bibliographic materials. The paper is due on or before the last class meeting of the semester, Wednesday, April 30th.
3. Final Grade. Your final grade will be based on your preparation for and participation in class discussions (50%) and on the term paper (50%).