SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2(SCAN08004)

2012/2013

THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGHSCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

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INTRODUCTION

Building on Social Anthropology 1A and 1B, this half-course explores the theory and history of Social Anthropology. The course will provide an overview of the major theoretical approaches in Social Anthropology and place these within a historical framework. The course offers an introduction to some of the key theoretical perspectives that underlie current anthropology. You will become familiar with key thinkers in anthropology and read their own texts. We will also investigate the close links that exist between theory and ethnography and relate theoretical issues to specific ethnographic works.

Students must become familiar with course regulations applicable to first and second-year courses in the School of Social and Political Science as a whole. This document should be read in conjunction with the Social and Political Science Student Handbook, 2012-2013 - a guide to common information and procedures for students in first and second year courses throughout the School. This booklet contains detailed information on assessment of coursework, criteria for grading coursework, plagiarism, study skills, penalties for late essays, course evaluation, etc.

AIMS, LEARNING OUTCOMES, TRANSFERABLE SKILLS AND LEARNING RESOURCES

Aims

The key aims of the course are to build on the theoretical and ethnographic foundation of Social Anthropology 1A and 1B by providing a much more detailed exploration of anthropological theory and its historical context. The course also aims to prepare those going on in Social Anthropology for the Honours curriculum.

Learning outcomes

Students will gain a broad appreciation of different theoretical perspectives in Social Anthropology through an engagement with texts written by key thinkers in the discipline. Students will learn about intellectual histories within the discipline and will be able to identify schools of thought with anthropological authors. They will be able to identify these theories in ethnographic studies and assess them critically. Students will become familiar with key anthropological theorist and read sections of their work. By seeing ethnography in its theoretical contexts, students should learn to appreciate the complex interplay between data and theory, both in social anthropology and in the social sciences more generally.

Transferable skills

Among skills students will be expected to develop are:

• Reading and writing skills: exercising and improving their skills in reading unfamiliar and often complex material, students are expected to order their own arguments and present them in the form of written essays.

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• Oral skills: developing further skills in communicating complex material in a clear and engaging way, students are expected to participate in tutorial discussions focused on the oral presentation of sophisticated arguments and debates.

• Bibliographical skills: in presenting their written and oral work, students are expected to learn how to use the various libraries at the University and to familiarize themselves with the ways in which bibliographical information should be compiled, edited and presented.

• Word-processing skills: with easy access to computers and a variety of computing courses, students are expected to word-process their essays and to use e-mail to contact their tutors and fellow students.

• Using the Web: becoming accustomed to accessing relevant websites, particularly in the context of tutorial discussions, constitutes an important part of this course.

IAD – Learning Resources for Undergraduates

The Study Development Team at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) provides resources and workshops aimed at helping all students to enhance their learning skills and develop effective study techniques. Resources and workshops cover a range of topics, such as managing your own learning, reading, note making, essay and report writing, exam preparation and exam techniques.

The study development resources are housed on 'LearnBetter' (undergraduate), part of Learn, the University's virtual learning environment. Follow the link from the IAD Study Development web page to enrol: www.ed.ac.uk/iad/undergraduatesWorkshops are interactive: they will give you the chance to take part in activities, have discussions, exchange strategies, share ideas and ask questions. They are 90 minutes long and held on Wednesday afternoons at 1.30pm or 3.30pm. The schedule is available from the IAD Undergraduate web page (see above).Workshops are open to all undergraduates but you need to book in advance, using the MyEd booking system. Each workshop opens for booking 2 weeks before the date of the workshop itself. If you book and then cannot attend, please cancel in advance through MyEd so that another student can have your place. (To be fair to all students, anyone who persistently books on workshops and fails to attend may be barred from signing up for future events.)

Study Development Advisors are also available for an individual consultation if you have specific questions about your own approach to studying, working more effectively, strategies for improving your learning and your academic work. Please note, however, that Study Development Advisors are not subject specialists so they cannot comment on the content of your work. They also do not check or proof read students' work.

To make an appointment with a Study Development Advisor, email iad.study@ed.ac.uk (For support with English Language, you should contact the English Language Teaching Centre.)

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LECTURES

There are two one-hour lectures every week: Mondays and Thursdays 15.00 to 15.50. Please do not be late, as this considerably disrupts the class. The class is in the Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 1.

The lectures will be illustrated by PowerPoint slides or overhead transparencies. It is hoped that copies of the slides and transparencies will be available on “Learn” (Please note: This is the new system that replaces WebCT), not long after each lecture. You may print these off to use in your tutorials or for revision purposes, but copyright remains with the respective lecturers.

The course is taught by:• Prof. Alan Barnard, (a.barnard@ed.ac.uk),

Room 5.20, Chrystal Macmillan Building• Dr. Lotte Hoek, (lotte.hoek@ed.ac.uk),

Room 5.26, Chrystal Macmillan Building• Siobhan Magee (senior tutor) and two course tutors;• Two guest lecturers: Dr Neil Thin and Dr Rebecca Marsland.

Dr. Lotte Hoek will act as Course Convener for Social Anthropology 2.

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ASSESSMENT

This course will be assessed in two parts. You will be assigned a course essay which will count 40% towards your final grade. The course will be concluded with a written exam counting 60% towards your final grade.

Essay

Answer one of these two questions:

1. Comment on the history of TWO theoretical perspectives (or ‘-isms’) in social anthropology. How have they changed through time?

2. Compare TWO of these theoretical perspectives:

o Evolutionismo Diffusionismo Boasian anthropology

How do they differ? What are their similarities?

The essay is to be submitted by 12 noon on Wednesday 31 October in the essay box on the Ground Floor of the Chrystal Macmillan Building as well as submitted onto “Learn” (see below).

The essay should be submitted with a cover sheet, which asks for information including your examination number, the course you are taking and your tutor’s name. Since all coursework is anonymised, you are identified by your examination number, and not your name (so don’t put your name on page headers/footers). Cover sheets can be found beside the Reception on the Ground Floor CMB.

The essay should be between 1,500 - 2,000 words length. You must provide a word count on the cover sheet. Please note that the word count does not include the bibliography.

If you fail to submit all of your coursework without good reason, you will receive a coursework mark of zero. Your exam mark out of 60 will then count as your total mark for the course.

The essay is marked by your own tutor. The course organizer will second-read a sample of essays from each tutorial group to ensure equal marking standards across tutorial groups.

All work submitted for assessment is accepted on the clear understanding that it is the student’s own work. Every year some students are found copying passages from books or other students’ work without proper citation. This constitutes plagiarism and is considered one of the most serious offences in the academic world. It is dealt with accordingly. Do not copy work from other sources, including the internet. See the School Student Handbook for further information on the policy on plagiarism, and how to avoid plagiarism in your work.

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All students will be informed by means of a letter if their coursework contains plagiarised material, with clear cases of plagiarism being passed to the Executive Dean. Details of the appeals procedure will be included with the warning letter sent out to students suspected of plagiarism. The warning letter will be kept on file until the student’s graduation, at which point it will be destroyed.

Referencing and bibliography

References and bibliography in your essay should follow the author-date system. For example, in the body of an essay:

Single author’s quotation or idea referred to: (Smith 1989: 213) Two authors, more than one page: (Johnson & Margolin 1990: 245 - 247) Several authors: (Kennedy et al 1994: 156) Citation of another author’s work in a secondary text: (Baxter 1982 cited

in Comaroff 1988: 16)

In your bibliography follow these guidelines:

For a book by one author:Smith, J. G. 1989 The Anthropologist as Apprentice: Lessons from the Field, London: Vertigo Press.

For two authors, a chapter in a book: Johnson, M. & P. Margolin 1990 'Children at risk' In The Problems of Children on the Streets in Brazil (ed) J Butterfield. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.

For a journal articleSimpson, B. 1994 'Bringing the "unclear" family into focus: divorce and re-marriage in contemporary Britain' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29: 831-851.

Long quotations (more than 4 lines) should be indented with no quotation marks; shorter quotations should be incorporated in the main text with single quotation marks. Author’s name, etc., should appear at end of quote before the full stop.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY ELECTRONICALLY

‘Turnitin’The School is now using the ‘Turnitin’ system to check that essays submitted for first and second-year courses do not contain plagiarised material. Turnitin compares every essay against a constantly-updated database, which highlights all plagiarised work.

Instructions for submitting your essay

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You must submit one paper copy of your essay in the essay box (Ground Floor CMB) by 12 noon on Wednesday 31 October. In addition, you must also submit an electronic version via “Learn” by the same deadline. The instructions for doing so are as follows:

1. Log in to “Learn” via MyEd and click on Social Anthropology 2.

2. Go to the ‘Click here to submit your essay’ link to submit your essay to the Turnitin assignment inbox.

3. To begin the submission process click on the ‘submit’ icon which is found in the submit column.

4. Your name should be automatically filled in on the form. Type in “Essay” in the submission title as the form cannot be sent unless all the fields are complete.

5. Next, click on the ‘Browse’ button to open your computer’s file browser and use it to browse to the document you wish to submit. Make sure the drop down box at the top of the form still says ‘submit a paper by: file upload’. Before clicking on the ‘submit’ button, make sure that all the fields in the form are complete (if you leave one blank you will receive an error message and the file upload box will be cleared). Click the ‘submit’ button when you are happy you are submitting the correct file.

6. At this point, a plain text version of the essay will be displayed to you (it won’t show any formatting, images, etc.). Review this to ensure you are submitting the correct document (the document itself will be sent to the system in its original format). If you are happy, click on the ‘Submit Paper’ button to submit your assignment. If you have made a mistake you can click on the ‘cancel, go back’ link, which will take you back to the submission form.

7. You’ve now submitted an assignment! A receipt from the system is displayed.

8. Click on the ‘go to portfolio’ link to return to the assignment inbox.

9. On returning to the assignment inbox, you can view your submission to make sure everything is as it should be.

10. Clicking on the title you gave your assignment opens a viewer that displays your submission and also contains the paper ID which can be used by the administrators of the system to identify your work if there is a problem.

11. Clicking on the document icon in the contents column allows you to see your work in its original submitted format.

You can also follow this link for more detailed instructions:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.22364!fileManager/submitturnitinplwebct.pdf

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Please note that late submissions are unlikely to be accepted by the Turnitin system and you should contact the Secretary, May Rutherford, may.rutherford@ed.ac.uk if you are unable to submit your electronic copy.

The Final Exam Paper

The Examination consists of one paper and takes place at the end of the semester. Exam questions will cover the entire course.

The Final Exam Paper will provide 60% of your Degree Examination mark. In your tutorials, towards the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to prepare for the exam by reviewing course materials, considering revision strategies, practicing exam questions, and so on. Details of the exam will be provided at a later date.

Your final grade will be decided between your tutor, the course organizer, and the Board of examiners. In the course of the tutorials you will have the opportunity to discuss criteria and processes of assessment.

Note: Registration for degree examinations is handled automatically by the University’s student record system. You are, however, responsible for checking that the details against your own name are correct. You should do this via the Edinburgh Student Portal around the third or fourth week of semester 1 and advise your Director of Studies if there are any discrepancies.

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LECTURE TIMETABLE

  Monday Thursday

Week 1 Registration (AB & LH) Overview (AB)

Week 2 Overview (LH) Eighteenth-century Anthropological Ideas (AB)

Week 3 Evolutionism (AB) Diffusionism and Culture Area Approaches (AB)

Week 4 Boasian Anthropology (AB) Functionalism (AB)

Week 5 Structuralism I (LH) Structuralism II (AB)

Week 6 Symbolic Approaches (LH) Geertz’s Interpretive Approach (LH)

Week 7 Interaction & Transaction (LH) Marx & Anthropology (LH)

Week 8 Writing Culture (LH) Feminist & Queer Anthropology (LH)

Week 9 The New Evolutionism (AB) Theory and Ethnography I (NT)

Week 10 Theory and Ethnography II (RM) Embodiment & Authenticity (LH)

Week 11 Revision Class (AB & LH)  

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PROGRAMME of LECTURES

Week 1.1 – 17 September Registration (Alan Barnard and Lotte Hoek)

Week 1.2 – 20 SeptemberOverview (Alan Barnard)This first of two introductory lectures will present an overview of theory and history in anthropology. It looks ahead to the lectures from week 2 to part of week 7.

Barnard, A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1, pp. 1-14.

Week 2.1 – 24 September Overview (Lotte Hoek) This first introductory lecture will present an overview of theory in anthropology as it has been discussed in two different accounts of theory in anthropology.

Ortner, S. 1984. Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26(1): 126-166.

Week 2.2 – 27 SeptemberEighteenth-century Anthropological Ideas (Alan Barnard)Some date the beginnings of anthropology to the 18 th century. Certainly anthropological ideas were floating around then. This lecture will look at some of these ideas in light of later developments.

Ferguson, A. 1966 [1767]. An Essay on the History of Civil Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Part II, Section I: ‘Of rude nations prior to the establishment of property’, pp 81-96. [Electronic Resource].

Barnard, A. 1995. Orang Outang and the definition of Man: The legacy of Lord Monboddo’. In Arturo Alvarez Roldan & Han Vermeulen (eds.), Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology. London: Routledge. pp. 95-112. [Electronic Resource].

Barnard, A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2, pp. 15-26.

Week 3.1 – 1 OctoberEvolutionism (Alan Barnard)Classic evolutionism was the dominant paradigm of 19th-century anthropology and survived well into the 20th. This lecture will examine its presuppositions and its legacy, using the example of Lubbock’s review of Morgan’s Systems of Consangunity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871).

Lubbock, Sir John. 1872. On the development of relationships. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1: 1-29. [JSTOR]

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Barnard, A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3, pp. 27-46.

Week 3.2 – 4 OctoberDiffusionism and Culture Area Approaches (Alan Barnard)In different forms, diffusionism once dominated both German-Austrian and British anthropology. The idea of the ‘culture area’, central to American anthropology, stemmed from it.

Herskovits, M.J. 1926. The cattle complex in East Africa. American Anthropologist 28(1): 230-72. [JSTOR]

Barnard, A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4, pp. 47-60.

Week 4.1 – 8 OctoberBoasian Anthropology (Alan Barnard)Franz Boas, founder of the mainstream American tradition, was one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century. This lecture considers his work and that of some his followers, in particular, Ruth Benedict and the ‘culture and personality’ approach.

Benedict, R. 1932. Configurations of culture in North America. American Anthropologist 34(1): 1-27. [JSTOR]

Whorf, B.L. 1956 [1936]. A linguistic consideration of thinking in primitive communities. In B.L. Whorf, Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp 65-86. [Also available via Google Books]

Barnard, A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 7, pp. 99-119.

Week 4.2 – 11 OctoberFunctionalism (Alan Barnard) This lecture looks at the work of the twin founders of the modern British tradition, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown.

Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1935. On the concept of function in social science. American Anthropologist 37(3): 394-402. [JSTOR] (Also in Structure and Function in Primitive Society.)

Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1940. On social structure. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 70(1): 1-12. [JSTOR] (Also in Structure and Function in Primitive Society.)

Barnard, A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 5, pp. 61-79; and Chapter 10 (part), pp. 158-62.

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Week 5.1 – 15 OctoberStructuralism I (Lotte Hoek)This lecture looks at the discussion of Structuralism and focuses on the structuralist principles underlying Lévi-Strauss’ influential theory of myth. We will discuss one of Lévi-Strauss’ most famous analyses: The Story of Asdiwal.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1967 [1960]. The Story of Asdiwal. In Edmund Leach (ed.). The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism. London: Tavistock. Pp. 1-47

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1966 [1962]. The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 1 ‘The Science of the Concrete.

Week 5.2 – 18 OctoberStructuralism II (Alan Barnard)Structuralism is the approach that holds that meaning exists not in things but only in relations between things. We look at some of the work of Saussure (as a preliminary to some of Lévi-Strauss’s ideas) and Lévi-Strauss and Lévi-Strauss himself.

Lévi-Strauss, C. 1963 [1945 and 1956]. Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 2 (‘Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology’).

Barnard, A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 8, pp. 120-38.

Week 6.1 – 22 OctoberSymbolic Approaches (Lotte Hoek)This lecture focuses on Symbolic Anthropology as expressed in the work of two prominent British anthropologists: Douglas and Turner. They combine Lévi-Strauss’ analysis of symbols with the traditions of British structural-functionalism.

Douglas, Mary. 2002 [1966]. Purity and Danger. London and New York: Routledge. Introduction, pp. 1-7 & External Boundaries, pp.141-159. [WebCT]

Turner, Victor. 1970. [1967]. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual. In The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. 19-47. [WebCT]

Week 6.2 – 25 OctoberGeertz’s Interpretive Approach (Lotte Hoek)Clifford Geertz’ interpretative approach in anthropology has been extremely influential since the 1960s. We’ll discuss how he shifts from an emphasis on structure to an emphasis in meaning. These two key pieces of writing illustrate his theoretical and methodological principles.

Geertz, C. 1973 ‘Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture’ and ‘Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight’ both in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books. [WebCT]

Week 7.1 – 29 OctoberInteraction & Transaction (Lotte Hoek)

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Against the continuing emphasis on symbols and meanings, the 1970s and 1980s saw a flourishing of ethnographies that placed the acting subject centre stage. This lecture investigates actor centred approaches in practice theory, symbolic interactionism and transactionalism.

Goffman, Erving. 1967. On Face Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction. In Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. New York: Pantheon. Pp. 5-45. [WebCT]

Bourdieu, Pierre. 2004. The Peasant and his Body. Ethnography 5:579-599. [JSTOR]

Boissevain, Jeremy. 1966. Patronage in Sicily. Man. 1(1):18-33. [JSTOR]

Barnard, A. 2000 History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 6.

Week 7.2 – 1 NovemberMarx & Anthropology (Lotte Hoek)This lecture discusses the continuing influence of Marx on anthropology. Marxist anthropologists have criticised symbolic and interpretative approaches as well. Instead, they focus on conflict, on historical conditions of inequality and on the possibilities for resistance and social upheaval.

Gluckman, M. 1958. Analysis of a Social Situation in modern Zululand (Rhodes-Livingstone Papers). Manchester: Manchester University Press. Chapter 1 [WebCT]

Nugent, David. 1982. Closed Systems and Contradiction: The Kachin In and Out of History. Man (n.s.) 17:508-527. (See also subsequent discussion in Man: Edmund Leach, 18:191-199, and David Nugent, 18:199-206.). [JSTOR]

Scott, James. 1986. Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Journal of Peasant Studies 13(2):5-34. [JSTOR]

Week 8.1 – 5 NovemberWriting Culture (Lotte Hoek)Since the 1980s, postmodern anthropologists have questioned established anthropological methodologies. Their critiques focus on the writing styles and means of representation employed by anthropologists and attempt to find new ways of representing ethnographic experiences.

Clifford, James. 1986. Introduction: Partial Truths. In James Clifford and George Marcus (eds.). Writing Culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter 1. Taussig, Michael. 1993. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 1-18 & 59-65.

Barnard, A. 2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 10.

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Week 8.2 – 8 NovemberFeminist & Queer Anthropology (Lotte Hoek)A specific set of critiques of anthropology has emanated from feminist and queer anthropologists since the 1970s. This lecture traces current concerns with sexuality and transgender identity in anthropology to the foundational critique of structuralist anthropology expressed by feminist anthropologists in the course of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Ortner S. 1974. Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? In Rosaldo, M. & L. Lamphere (eds) Woman Culture and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [WebCT]

David Valentine. 2007. The Making of a Field: Anthropology and Transgender Studies. In David Valentine Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. Durham and London: Duke University Press. [WebCT]

Graeme Reid. 2005. ‘A man is a man completely and a wife is a wife completely’: Gender classification and performance amongst ‘ladies’ and ‘gents’ in Ermelo, Mpumalanga.’ In Graeme Reid and Liz Walker (eds.). Men Behaving Differently: South African Men Since 1994. Cape Town: Double Storey Books. [WebCT]

Barnard, A. 2000 History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 9.

Week 9.1 – 12 NovemberThe New Evolutionism (Alan Barnard)Here we consider a renewed, though minority, interest in evolutionism in social anthropology, which today is often coupled with ideas from archaeology and linguistics, sometimes with feminist and Marxist theory added.

Knight, C., C. Power and I. Watts (1995). The human symbolic revolution: a Darwinian account. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5(1): 75-114. Available online: http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/pub_knight_power_watts_big.pdf

Barnard, Alan (2011). Social Anthropology and Human Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Read a selection of your choice.)

Barnard, Alan (2012). Genesis of Symbolic Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Read a selection of your choice.)

Week 9.2 – 15 NovemberTheory and Ethnography I: Visual aids in ethnographic research and writing (Neil Thin)

This class will explore the use of visual aids (diagrams, sketches, maps, photos, videos, models) that anthropologists have used as complements to their textual representation of culture. As a sub-theme, I will also allude to the growing sub-discipline of visual anthropology which studies visual communication as well as the use of visual media in research methods.

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Bouquet, Mary (1996) ‘Family trees and their affinities: the visual imperative of the genealogical diagram.’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2,1:43-66

Sherwin, Richard K., Neal Feigenson & Christina Spiesel (2007) ‘What is visual knowledge, and what is it good for? Potential ethnographic lessons from the field of legal practice.’ Visual Anthropology 143-178

Further reading suggestions:Browse in the online journals Visual Anthropology Review and Visual Anthropology.Hendrickson, Carol (2008) ‘Visual field notes: drawing insights in the Yucatan.’ Visual Anthropology Review 24,2:117–132Pink, Sarah [ed] (2004) Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography. London: RoutledgePink, Sarah 2006 The future of visual anthropology: engaging the senses. London: Routledge

Suggested tutorial exercise:Visit anthropologist John Curran’s Flickr site ‘Great Diagrams in Anthropology , Linguistics, and Social Theory’ http://www.flickr.com/groups/great_diagrams_in_anthropological_theory/pool/tags/anthropology/. Browse through as many of these anthropological visual aids as you like, noting down thoughts on what you can learn from them about how images provide a complementary learning channel that may add to or enhance the use of words in communicating anthropological knowledge.Take any ONE reading from this Social Anthropology 2 course list, and try drawing a diagram or image that might have made the article more effective or memorable.

Week 10.1 – 19 NovemberTheory and Ethnography II: Anthropologists at Work (Rebecca Marsland)Trained in British functionalist anthropology by Malinowski, Godfrey and Monica Wilson carried out four years of fieldwork in colonial Tanganyika (now Tanzania). In this lecture we consider their fieldnotes, informants, intellectual influences, and the political and economic conditions in the field and ask how these oriented them towards other ways of analysing their data – namely symbolist and Marxist anthropology.

Brown, R. 1973. Anthropology and colonial rule: Godfrey Wilson and the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute. In Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter (ed.) T. Asad. New York: Humanity Books.

Marsland, R. 2013. Pondo Pins and Nyakyusa Hammers: Monica and Godfrey in Bunyakyusa. In Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters (eds) A. Bank & L.J. Bank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wilson, M. 1959. Communal Rituals of the Nyakyusa. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter IX. Kasitile the Priest.

Week 10.2 – 22 NovemberEmbodiment & Authenticity (Lotte Hoek)

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This lecture asks where anthropology may go after the waves of critique and deconstruction in anthropology and grapples with the fact that even when anthropologists have theoretically conceded that the meanings we make are only partial, that order is illusory and reality an effect of power, these are nonetheless powerfully and viscerally experienced as real and natural by many of us.

Mattijs van de Port. Registers of Incontestability The Quest for Authenticity in Academia and Beyond. Etnofoor 17 (1/2): 1–24. 2005

Csordas, Thomas J. 1990 Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology. Ethos 18(1): 5-47. [JSTOR]

Week 11.1 – 26 NovemberRevision Class (AB & LH)During this lecture we will answer your questions in relation to exam preparation. You will be able to ask us any questions of clarification about any of the course material. We will give some pointers in relation to strategies for answering exam questions.

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