Readings

These links will be updated regularly. Please notify the instructor immediately if you encounter difficulty in accessing these documents via the Scribd hyperlinks. If you do have trouble with the links, the readings are also available online through McKillop Library Course E-Reserves for this course (SOA130). You can also find films on the course e-reserves page. The password is "SOA130." 


September 13: What is Culture?


September 15: Methods in Cultural Anthropology: Ethnography

September 20: Human Evolution

Kottak, Conrad Phillip. 2011. Textbook. Chapter 8 and Chapter 10. 
Zimmer, Carl. 2003. "Great Mysteries of Human Evolution."

September 22: The Beginnings of Agriculture: An Archaeological Perspective

Pringle, Heather. 1998. “New Women of the Ice Age.”
Goodman and Armelagos. 1985. "Death and Disease at Dr. Dickson's Mounds”

September 27: Contemporary Problems of Subsistence
**In-Class Group Presentation #1**

Patel, Raj. 2008. "Introduction" and "A Rural Autopsy" and "Glycine Rex." In Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power, and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System.

September 29: The Value of Trash: Garbology and Material Culture 
**MIDTERM PROJECT ASSIGNED**(Due: Monday October 10 no later than 10pm)

Rathje, W.L. 1996. "The Archaeology of Us”

Reno, Joshua. 2009. "Your Trash Is Someone's Treasure: The Politics of Value at a Michigan Landfill.” Journal of Material Culture, 14(1): 29-46.


Suggested Reading:
Millar, Kathleen. 2008. "Making Trash into Treasure: Struggles for Autonomy on a Brazilian Garbage Dump.” Anthropology of Work Review,  29(2): 25-34

October 4: The Value of Trash, Part II: Ethnography
Douglas, Mary. 1966. "Secular Defilement." In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Pp. 36-50


Strasser, Susan. 1999. "Toward a History of Trashmaking." In Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. New York: Metropolitan Books. Pp. 3-16 


Huysman, Marijk. 1994. "Waste Picking as a Survival Strategy for Women in Indian Cities." Environment and Urbanization, 6 (2): 155-174.

October 6: Language and Culture


Duranti, Alessandro. 1997. “Linguistic Diversity.” 51-83

October 10: MIDTERM PROJECTS DUE VIA EMAIL NO LATER THAN 10PM

October 11: Performance and Performativity: When Saying Something Does (or Doesn’t Do) Something

Austin, J.L. 1962. “Lecture 1.” How to Do Things with Words. 1-25

Kulick, Don. 2003. “No.” Language and Communication, 1: 139-151.

October 13: Gender Performance and Performativity: The Case of Drag

"You're born naked and the rest is drag."
-RuPaul, American drag queen

**Watch film in class: "Paris Is Burning"


Sullivan, Nikki. 2003. "Performance, Performativity, Parody, and Politics." In  A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. New York: New York University Press. 

Highly recommended:
Sullivan, Nikki. 2003. "Queer: A Question of Being or a Question of Doing?" In  A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. New York: New York University Press.

October 18: Material Culture and Performativity
**In-Class Group Presentation #2**


Miller, Daniel. 2010. “Why Clothing is Not Superficial.” In Stuff.Cambridge: Polity Press. 12-41.

October 20: The Sacred and the Secular: A Head Scarf Case Study on Religion and the State
**In-Class Group Presentation #3**

Bowen, John R. 2007. “Introduction,” “Scarves and Schools,” and “Sexism.” In Why the French Don’t Like Head Scarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

October 25: Race

Diamond, Jared. 1994. “Race Without Color.” Discover.

American Anthropological Association Statement on “Race.” 1998



October 27: Sex and Sexuality
**In-Class Group Presentation #4** 

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 1993."The Five Sexes." The Sciences (March/April): 20-24.
 
*Watch this short video on intersex and sex reassignment with the above article

Kulick, Don. 1997. "The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes." American Anthropologist, 99(3): 574-585.

**If interested in seeing video footage of this, you can watch this (not great) documentary about Brazilian travesti on youtube: 
Part I of V here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O47rYEeumCc&feature=related

Additional reading (optional):
Katz, Jonathan Ned. 1990. "The Invention of Heterosexuality." Socialist Review 20(1): 7-33.
**(see also: summary on pbs.org)

Towle, Evan B. and Lynn M. Morgan. 2002. “Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the ‘Third Gender’ Concept.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 8: 469-497.

November 1: Language Ideologies: Language and Race
Hill, Jane. 1998. “Language, Race, and White Public Space.” American Anthropologist, 100(3): 680-689.


Mary Bucholtz. 2001. “The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 11(1): 84-100.


OPTIONAL:
Urciuoli, Bonnie. 1991. "The Political Topography of Spanish and English: The View from a New York Puerto Rican Neighborhood." American Ethnologist, 18(2): 295-310.


November 3: Language Ideologies: Language and Gender/Sexuality
** In-Class Group Presentation #5**
 


Kiesling, Scott. 2004. "Dude." American Speech, 79 (3): 281-305.

OPTIONAL: 
Kulick, Don. 1999. "Transgender and Language: A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for the Future." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 5 (4): 605-622.

November 8: Ritual and Performance: Showing Ourselves to Ourselves
Election Day: VOTE!

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." Interpretation of Culture. New York: Basic Books: 412–455. (43pp)

November 10: The Problems of Representing “Others,” Part I
**NOTE PAGE NUMBERS - reading half today, half for 11/15***

Hall, Stuart. 1997. “The Spectacle of the ‘Other.’”  In Representation: CulturalRepresentations and Signifying Practices. Ed. Hall. London: Sage Publications. pages 225-256.
November 15: The Problems of Representing “Others,” Part II
** In-Class Group Presentation #6**

Hall, Stuart. 1997. “The Spectacle of the ‘Other.’”  In Representation: CulturalRepresentations and Signifying Practices. Ed. Hall. London: Sage Publications. pages 257-277.

November 17: Medical Anthropology: Biological Reflections of Social Systems


** In-Class Group Presentation #7**

Farmer, Paul. 1999. "Introduction." In Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

November 22-December 8: Reading Righteous Dopefiend, full book (available through bookstore, amazon.com, and on reserve at McKillop Library)

November 29: Righteous Dope Fiend (2,3,4)

December 1: Righteous Dope Fiend (5,6)

December 2: FINAL EXAM ASSIGNED (Take-Home) 
DUE THURSDAY 12/15 no later than midnight

WEEK 14: ETHNOGRAPHY AT HOME, PART III

December 6: Righteous Dope Fiend (7, 8,9)


December 8: Righteous Dope Fiend (Conclusion), Exam Review 

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