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Import FS
SOA-3001: Theoretical perspectives Work Load
20 credits (ECTS) | Objectives
The course will introduce the students to the most central recent theories in social anthropology, and some main trends in the history of the discipline. The aim is to give the students and overview of current debates and thematic focuses in the disipline. The overview should facilitate the learning of relevant theoretical perspectives that can be used for the work with the mater''s thesis. The course will explore how the relationship between analytical argumentation and empirical grounding varies according to the use of different theoretical perspectives in the discipline. | Contents
The course will help the students to relate to some of the discipline''s main debates, and to develop a reflexive and critical approach to anthropological reasoning. Further the course will train the students in formulating own hypothesises and approaches to the problem, and assist them with methodological operationalisations. | Form of teaching
Two lectures each week is and one seminar. As part of the teaching a brief home assignment may be given that will be evaluated during the seminar. | Compulsory teaching
Essay | Assessment
Home assignment.
A term paper essay of 6 pages (2000 words). After an obligatory oral evaluation by the course teacher, the term paper is evaluated as approved/not approved.
One essay the length of approximately 10 pages (3500 words) in an assigned topic to be written in 14 days. Evaluated by course teacher and external examiner.
| Examination semester
Autumn | Type of course
Theoretical subject. | Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level. | Contact person/lecturer
Mayvi Johansen | Recommended previous qualifications
SOA-2001 Knowledge production and methods in Social Anthropology, SOA-2002 Identity, structure and process | Recommended reading/syllabus
See homepage. | Language of instruction
Norwegian | Homepage
http://uit.no/antropologi/2111/15
| Timetables
http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?department=ALLE&module=SOA-3001-1 |
Teaching autumn 2005
Orienteringsmøte for alle nye og gamle masterstudenter: onsdag 17. august kl. 12:15 - 15:00.
Sted: Personalrommet på plan 4 øst, hus 5, Teorifagbygget
Emneansvarlig: Førsteamanuensis Hogne Øian | | Forelesninger | Første forelesning: torsdag 18. august kl. 13:15 - 15:00, rom 5.404 (plan 4, hus 5 i Teorifagbygget). Deretter vil undervisningen foregå tirsdager og torsdager kl. 13:15 - 15:00
Undervisningen er obligatorisk.
Foreleser F.aman. Hogne Øian
| | Semesteroppgave | Obligatorisk semesteroppgave. NB datene er endret! Ny utleveringsdato er 16. september. Ny innleverings dato 23. september.
Obligatorisk muntlig tilbakemelding med faglærer vil finne sted i uke 40. | | Eksamen | Hjemmeeksamen. Utlevering 1. november kl. 10:00. Innlevering 15. november kl 14:00. Utlevering og innlevering foregår i ekspedisjonen for IPS/ISA, plan 6, hus 5 i Teorifagbygget. |
Utfyllende informasjon
Oversikt over obligatorisk veiledning på semesteroppgave i uke 42Oversikt veiledning
Syllabus
MONOGRAFIER/ BØKER
Obligatorisk:
Barth, Fredrik (1983): Sohar. Culture and Society in an Omani Town. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. 254 s.
Barth, Fredrik (1989) Cosmologies in the making. A generative approach to cultural variation in inner New Guinea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 99 s.
Bloch, Maurice (1986): From blessing to violence. History and ideology in the circumcision rit-ual of the Merina of Madagascar. Cambridge: Cambridge studies in social anthropology no. 61. 200 s.
Jenkins, Richard (1996). Social Identity. London: Routledge. 198 s.
Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko (2002) Producing culture and capital. Family Firms in Italy. Prince-ton: Princeton University Press. 248 s.
ARTIKLER
Artiklene finnes i kompendier som fås kjøpt i Akademisk kvarter.
(Enkelte titler er ført opp flere ganger for å indikere at de er relevante under flere emner. Ny oppføring i parentes).
1. MODERNITET, GLOBALISERING, LOKALISERING
Appadurai, Arjun (1991) "Global ethnoscapes: Notes and queries for a transnational anthropol-ogy", i Fox, Richard (ed.), Recapturing Anthropology. Working in the Present. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, s. 191-210. 20 s.
Argyrou, Vassos (2003) “’Reflexive modernization’ and other mythical realities”. Anthropological theory 3 (1): 27-41.
Foster, Robert J (2002) “Bargains with modernity in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere”. Anthropological Theory 2(2):233-51. 19 s.
Friedman, Jonathan (1994) “Global System, Globalization and the Parameters of Modernity” I J.Friedman: Cultural Identity & Global Process. London: SAGE Publications, s. 195-233. 39 s.
Miller, Daniel (1990) “Fashion and Ontology in Trinidad”. Culture & History 7:49-77. 29 s.
Turner, Terence (1994) “Anthropology and Multiculturalism: What is Anthropology that Multi-culturalists Should be Mindful of It” I David Theo Goldberg (red): Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, s. 406-425. 20 s.
Wilford, Andrew (2002) “”Weapons of the Meek”: Ecstatic Ritualism and Strategic Ecumenism Among Tamil Hindus in Malaysia”. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 9:247-280. 34 s.
2. MENING, ERFARING, REPRESENTASJON
Barth, Fredrik (2000): "Boundaries and connections." I Cohen, A. P. (ed.): Signifying Identities. Anthropological perspectives on boundaries and contested values. London: Routledge, s. 17-36. 19 s.
Bentley, Carter (1987): “Ethnicity and Practice.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 29 (1):24-55. 32 s.
Borneman, John (1992) “State, Territory, and Identity Formation in the Postwar Berlins, 1945-89” Cultural Anthropology 7 (1): 45-62. 23 s.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1977) “Structures and the habitus”. I P. Bourdieu: Outline of a Theory of Practice: Cambridge University Press, s. 72-95. 22 s.
Mauss, Marcel (2004) “Kroppsteknikkene.” I Mauss, M.: Kropp og person: To essays. Oslo: Cappelen: 65-97. 33 s.
(Miller, Daniel (1990) “Fashion and Ontology in Trinidad”. Culture & History 7:49-77. 29 s.)
Neumann, Iver B. (2004): ”Inneldning: Mauss i fransk tradisjon.” .” I Mauss, M.: Kropp og person: To essays. Oslo: Cappelen.: 7-57. 50 s.
Peacock, J. L. and Holland, D.C (1993) "The Narrated Self: Life Stories in Process", Ethos 21(4):367-383. 17 s.
Strauss, Claudia (1992): “Models and Motives.” I D’Andrade, R. And C. Strauss (eds.): Human Motives a and Cultural Models. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 20 s.
Turner, Victor (1974): “Social Dramas and Ritual Metaphors.” I Turner, V.: Dramas, Fields and Metaphors. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 35 s.
3. SAMHANDLING, KOMMUNIKASJON
(Barth, Fredrik (2000): "Boundaries and connections." I Cohen, A. P. (ed.): Signifying Identities. Anthropological perspectives on boundaries and contested values. London: Routledge. Pp. 17-36. 19 s.)
Bentley, Carter (1987): “Ethnicity and Practice.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 29 (1):24-55. 32 s.
Chapman, Malcolm (1982): ""Semantics" and the "Celt"." I Parkin, D. (ed.), Semantic Anthro-pology. ASA Monograph 22. London: Academic Press, s. 123-143. 20 s.
Gumperz, John G. and Jenny Cook-Gumperz (1982): "Introduction: Language and the commu-nication of social identity." I Gumperz, J. (ed.), Language and Social Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 21 s.
Harrison, Simon (1999): “Identity as a scarce resource.” Social Anthropology, vol. 7 (3): 239-251. 12 s.
Kapferer, Bruce (1986): "Performance and the Structuring of Meaning and Experience." I Turner, V. And E. Bruner (eds.), The Anthropology of Experience. Urbana, Ill.; University of Illinois Press, s. 188-203. 16 s.
Khalaf, Sulayman N. 1990. ”Settlement of violence in Bedouin Society”. Ethnology 29 (3):225-242. 18 s.
(Neumann, Iver B. (2004): ”Inneldning: Mauss i fransk tradisjon.”. I Mauss, M.: Kropp og person: To essays. Oslo: Cappelen.: 7-57. 50 s.)
Smart, Alan (1993) “Gifts, bribes, and guanxi; a reconsideration of Bourdieu's social capital”. Cultural Anthropology 8, no. 3: 388-408. 31 s.
4. MAKT OG HIERARKI
Bailey, F.G. (1969): Stratagems and spoils: A social anthropology of politics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Chapters 1, 2 and 3. 58 s.
Bamberger, Joan (1974): “The myth of matriarchy: Why men rule in primitive society.” In Rosaldo, M. and L. Lamphere (eds.), Women, culture and society. Stanford: Stanford Univer-sity Press. Pp. 263-280. 17 s.
Barth, Fredrik (1960): “The system of social stratification in Swat, North Pakistan”, I Leach, E. R. (ed.), Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan. Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press. Pp. 113-146. 33 s.
Bloch, Maurice (1989): “From cognition to ideology.” In Ritual, history and power: Selected pa-pers in anthropology. London: The Athlone Press. 30 s.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1996): “Om symbolsk makt.” I Symbolsk makt. Oslo: Pax forlag AS. 10 s.
Dumont, Louis (1967): ”Caste: A phenomenon of social structure or an aspect of Indian culture.” In A. d. Reuck and J. Knight (eds.), Caste and Race: Comparative approaches. London: J. and A. Churchill. 10 s.
Dumont, Louis (1980): “Postface: Toward a theory of hierarchy.” In Homo Hierarchicus: The caste system and its implications. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 6 s.
Fortes, Meyer and E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1970): “Introduction.” In African Political Systems. London: London University Press. 22. s.
Gledhill, John (2000): “The political anthropology of colonialism: A study of domination and resistance.” In Power and its disguises. Anthropological perspectives on politics. London: Pluto Press. 24 s.
Gutmann, Matthew C. (1993a): ”Rituals of resistance. A critique of the theory of everyday forms of resistance.” Latin American Perspectives. 20 (2): 74-92. 18 s.
Gutmann, Matthew C: (1993b): ”Rejoinder to ’Rituals of resistance’. Latin American Perspec-tives. 20 (2): 95-96. 2 s.
Kaplan, Martha (1995): “Panopticon in Poona: An essay on Foucault and colonialism.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 10 (1): 85-98. 13 s.
Lee, Richard B. (1990): “Primitive communism and the origin of social inequality.” In Upham, S. (ed). The evolution of political systems. Sociopolitics in small-scale sedentary societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 225-246. 21 s.
Lukes, Steven (1977): “Power and structure.” In Essays in social theory. London: MacMillan. Pp. 3-30. 27 s.
Melhuus, Marit (1996): “Power, value and the ambiguous meaning of gender.” In Melhuus, M. and K.A. Stølen (eds.), Machos, mistresses, madonnas: Contesting the power of Latin Ameri-can gender imagery. London: Verso. Pp. 230-259. 28 s.
Schackt, Jon (1990): “Hierarchical society: The Yukuna story”, Ethnos, vol. 55 (3-4): 200-213. 13 s.
Scott, James C. (1993): “Reply to ‘Rituals of resistance. A critique of the theory of everyday forms of resistance’.” Latin American Perspectives. 20 (2): 93-94. 2 s.
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