The syllabus is comprised of articles in Readers and online articles.
Compendia can be purchased at the “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card 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.
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Curriculum Articles in Readers / Compendia
Anderson, Benedict: "Introduction", pp 11-16 in Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, ed. Benedict Anderson. London: Verso, 1983.
Ben-Yehoyada, Naor 2017. The Mediterranean Incarnate: Region formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II, University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-35.
Carsten, J.: "Introduction", pp 1-36 in Cultures of Relatedness. New approaches to the study of kinship, ed. J. Carsten. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Durrenberger, E. Paul and Gilsi Palsson, 2015. "Introduction: The banality of Financial Evil", pp. xiii-xxx in Gambling Debt: Iceland’s rise and fall in the global economy, Colorado University Press, pp. xiii-xxx.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland: "Norwegian anthropologists study minorities at home: Political and academic agendas.", pp 36-53 in Toward Engaged Anthropology, eds. Sam Beck and Carl Maida.Oxford: Berghahn, 2013.
Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson: "Introduction", pp.1-45 in Anthropological Locations. Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. California Press, 1997.
Krohn-Hansen, Christian: "Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State in the Southwestern Dominican Republic", pp. 96-122 in State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives, eds. C. Krohn-Hansen and K. G. Nustad. London: Pluto Press, 2005.
Murray Li, Tania. 2014. "Introduction", in Land's End: Capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier. Duke University Press, pp. 1-30.
Schneider, Arnd: "Art and Anthropology”, pp. 56 -71 in ASA Handbook of Social Anthropology, ed. Richard Fardon et al. London: Sage, 2012.
Scott, James: "Cities, People, and Language.", pp 53-83 and 369-376 in Seeing Like a State, ed. J. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Curriculum Online articles, lecturer Theodoros Rakopoulos
Brown, Hannah and Adam Reed, Thomas Yarrow. 2017. “Introduction: towards an ethnography of meeting”. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), 10-26. jRAI
Collier, S. J (2006).: "Global Assemblages", Theory Culture Society, Vol. 23 ( 2-3): 399-401. sagepub.com
Comaroff, J. (1989): "Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience: Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa", American Ethnologist, Vol 6, (4): 661-685 (25 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
De Laet, M. and A. Mol (2000): "The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a fluid technology", Social Studies of Science, 30 (2): 225-253. jstor.org
Gluckman, M. (1940): "Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand", Bantu Studies, Vol 14 pp 1-30.
Guyer, Jane I. 2007. “Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical and punctuated time”, American Ethnologist 34(3): 409-421. jstor.org
Harrison, S. (1999): "Cultural Boundaries", Anthropology Today, 15 (5): 10-13. jstor.org
Marcus, G. E. (2010): "Contemporary Fieldwork Aesthetics in Art and Anthropology: Experiments in Collaboration and Intervention." Visual Anthropology, 23(4): 263-277. tandfonline.com
Martin, E.(1992): "The End of the Body?", American Ethnologist, 19(1): 121-140 (20 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Mauss, M. 1973 [1934]: "Techniques of the Body", Economy and Society, 2 (1): 70-88 (19 sider). Taylor&Francis
Muehlebach, Andrea (2017): The Body of Solidarity: On Memory and Materiality in Post-Industrial Italy. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2017; 59 (1):96–126.
Navaro-Yashin, Y. (2009): “Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge,” Malinowski Memorial Lecture, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI), 15 (1): 1-18. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Turner, T. (1995): "Social Body and Embodied Subject: Bodiliness, Subjectivity, and Sociality among the Kayapo", Cultural Anthropology, 10(2): 143-170 (27 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Curriculum Online articles, lecturer Keir Martin
Barth, F. (1989): "The analysis of culture in complex societies", Ethnos, 54, pp 120-142. book chapter
Cross, Jamie. 2010. Neoliberalism as unexceptional: Economic zones and the everyday precariousness of working life in South India. Critique of Anthropology 30 (4):355-373. sagepub.com
Hannerz, U. (1987): "The world in creolization.", Africa, 57 (4): 546–559. jstor.org
Vertovec, S. (2007): "Super-diversity and its implications", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30, pp 1024-1054. tandfonline.com
Low, S.and S. Engle Merry: "Engaged anthropology: Diversity and dilemmas.", Current anthropology, 52 (supp 2): 203–226. jstor.org
Lazar, S. (2013): "Citizenship, political agency and technologies of the self in Argentinean trade.", Critique of Anthropology, pp 110-28. sagepub.com
Martin, K. and Flynn, A. (2015), Anthropological theory and engagement: A zero-sum game? (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate). Anthropology Today, 31: 12–14. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Wacquant, L. (2012). "Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism." Social Anthropology 20(1): 66-79. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Tsing, A. L. (2003). "Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers." Economic and Political Weekly 38(48): 5100-5106. jstor.org
Teman, E. (2009): "Embodying Surrogate Motherhood: Pregnancy as a Dyadic Body-project", Body & Society, 15(47): 47-69 (22 pages). sagepub.com
Peletz, M. G. (1995): "Kinship Studies in Late Twentieth-Century Anthropology.", Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24, pp. 343-372. annualreviews.org
Beatty, A. (2014) "Anthropology and emotion." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol 20 (3) :545-563, September 2014. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Ramos-Zayas, A. Y. (2011): "Affect, in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment (ed F. E. Mascia-Lees), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Hunt, N.R. (2008): "An Acoustic Register, Tenacious Images, and Congolese Scenes of Rape and Repetition.", Cultural Anthropology 23(2): 220-253. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Further recommended Reading Sosant 2000: download pdf-file