509390 - SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

For the exam, students will have to study two books: 1) McGee R. J. and R. L. Warms 2025. ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY: An introductory history. 8th edition. Rowman and Littlefield, London. In particular, students will focus on the following chapters: PART 1: Historical Foundation of Anthropological Theory • Nineteenth-Century Evolutionism (pp. 9-18) LEWIS HENRY MORGAN, Ethnical Periods (1877) (pp. 52-65) • The Foundations of Sociological Thought (pp. 83-88) ÉMILE DURKHEIM: What Is a Social Fact? (1895) (pp. 88-96) MARCEL MAUSS: Excerpts from The Gift (1925) (pp. 96-111) PART 2: Culture Theory in the Early Twenty Century • The Boasians (pp. 129-142) FRANZ BOAS, The Methods of Ethnology (1920) (pp. 142-152) MARGARET MEAD, Introduction to Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) (pp. 181-185) • Functionalism (pp. 213-218) BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI, The Essentials of the Kula (1922) (pp. 218-236) A. R. RADCLIFFE-BROWN, On Joking Relationships (1940) (pp. 236-251) PART 3: Theory at Mid-century • The Reemergence of Evolutionary Thought (pp. 251-256) • Neo-materialism (pp. 293-297) MARVIN HARRIS, The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle (1966) (pp. 297-312) • Structure, Language, and Cognition (pp. 329-335) CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, Four Winnebago Myths: A Structural Sketch (1960) (pp. 335-344) SHERRY B. ORTNER, Is Female to Male as Nature as to Culture (1974) (pp. 344-361) PART 4: Late Twentieth Century Developments • Feminist Anthropology (pp. 361-364) SALLY SLOCUM, Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology (1975) (pp. 364-374) • Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology (pp. 391-395) MARY DOUGLAS, External Boundaries (1 9 6 6) (pp. 395-405) CLIFFORD GEERTZ, Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1973) (pp. 425-447) • French Social Thought: Postmodern and Practice (1980) (pp. 447-452) PIERRE BOURDIEU, Structures, Habitus, Practices (1980) (pp. 452-469) MICHEL FOUCAULT, The Incitement to Discourse (1976) (pp. 469-483) • Postmodernism (pp. 483-488) RENATO ROSALDO, Grief and Headhunter’s Rage (1989) (pp. 488-503) MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT: Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness (1991) (pp. 503-531) • Globalization (pp. 531-535) ERIC R. WOLF: facing Power–Old Insight, New Questions (1990) (pp.535-551) PART 5: Trends in Contemporary Anthropology • Gender (pp. 575-578) LILA ABU-LUGHOD, A Tale of Two Pregnancies (1995) (pp. 578-588) TOM BOELLSTORFF: The Emergence of Political Homophobia in Indonesia Masculinity and National Belonging (2004) (pp. 588-609) • Agency and Structure (pp. 609-613) PHILIPPE BOURGOIS, From Jíbaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El Barrio (1995) (pp. 613-630) •Phenomenological Anthropology and the Anthropology of God (pp. 669-675) VEENA DAS, Engaging the Life of the Other: Love and Everyday Life (2010) (pp. 675-695) • Decolonization and Whiteness (pp. 717-725). 2) The second book must be chosen among the following list: ARJUN APPADURAI, Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1996. AYŞE ÇAĞLAR and NINA GLICK SHILLER, Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration, Duke University Press, 2018. CATI COE, The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrant and Global Inequality, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013. PETER GESCHIERE, The Modernity of Wichcraft. Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa, 1997, University of Virginia Press. JAMES FERGUSON, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2006. MICHAEL HERZFELD, Subversive Archaism. Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage, Durham, Duke University Press, 2021.