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Master Program Admission Courses Readings

Suggested reading


Monographs:
Analytical perspectives
Methodology
Social science and power
Cultural Translation and Representation; reactions on the post-modernist turn
Coping with the Methodological and theoretical challenges
Telling with films

Monographs:

K. Read: The High Valley. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1980.
Papa New Guinea

Fredrik Barth: Cosmologies in the making : A generative approach to cultural variation in inner New Guinea. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987. Papa New Guinea

M. Gullestad: Kitchen-table society : a case study of the family life and friendships of young working-class mothers in urban Norway. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1984.

Murphy and Murphy: Women in the forest. New York : Columbia University Press, 1974.
Brasil

Jean Briggs: Never in anger : portrait of an Eskimo family. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1970.
Alaska

Spradly and Mann: The Cocktail Waitress. Woman’s Work in a Man’s World. John Wiley & Sons, 1975
USA

M.F. Smith: Baba of Karo: a woman of the Muslim Hausa London : Faber and Faber, 1954.
Nigeria

Stoller and Olkes: In Sorcery’s Shadow. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Niger

Wadel, Cato: Now, Whose fault is that. Toronto : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, c1973.
Canada

Janice Boddy: Wombs and alien spirits: women, men, and the Zar cult in northern Sudan. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1989.
Sudan

P.Burnham: The Politics of Cultural Difference in
Northern Cameroon
. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 1996.
Cameroon

L. Malkki: Purety and Exile. University of Chicago Press, 1995
Tanzania

Hutchinson: Nuer Dilemmas. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1996.
Sudan

Paul Willis: Learning to Labour. How Working class kids get working class jobs. Farnborough : Saxon House, 1977.
England

Abner Cohen: Custom and politics in Urban Africa. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
Nigeria

Analytical perspectives

F. Barth: Models of social organization in "Process and Form in Social Life. Selected Essays of Fredrik Barth. Volume I." Routledge&Kegan:London. 1981.
15 pages

C. Geertz: Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example in "Interpretations of
Cultures." Basic Books: New York. 1973. 28 p

M. Jackson: Knowledge of the Body. In Paths Toward a Clearing. Indiana
University press: Blomington. 1989. 18 pages

J.C Mitchell: The Kalela Dance. Manchester University Press. 1959

Ulf Hannerz: Exploring the City. Inquiries Toward and Urban Anthropology. Colombia University Press. New York. 1980

Clifford Geertz: Cultures in "After the Fact. Two Countries. Four Decades. One Anthropologist." 1995

Zigmund Baumann: Identity in the Globalising World , in "Social Anthropology" nr 9, 2, 121-129.

Sherry Orther: Is female to male as nature to culture? in Michelle Rosaldo and Louise
Lamphere: "Woman, Culture and Society." Standford University Press.

Edwin Ardener: Belief and the Problem of Women. in Ardener (ed.): "Perceiving Women." London: Malby Press. 1975

Eriksen and Nilsen: The Power of Symbols
and Questioning Authority in "A history of Anthropology." Pluto Press: London. 2001

Kalland, Arne: Indigenous knowledge: prospects and limitations in Ellen, Parkers and Bicker (Eds.): "Indigious Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations. Critical Anthropological Perspectives." Harwood: France 2000

Paul Ricoeur: The Model of the Text: meaningful Action Considered as a Text. in Rabinow and Sullivan (Eds.): "Interpretive Social Science. A Reader." University of California Press: London . 1979

B.M. Knauft: Practices. Beyond Bourdieuian Legacies. in "Genealogies for the
Present in Culural Anthropology." Routledge: London. 1996 36.p

A. Cohen: Symbolic Construction of Community

T. Hylland-Eriksen: Small places large issues Universitetsforlaget: Oslo. 1993

Methodology

Spradly and McCurdy: The Cultural Experience 1972

Adrian Holliday: Doing and Writing Qualitative Research Sage Publications/London 2002

Agar: The Professional stranger. Second Edition.

Harry Wolcott: Ethnography a way of seeing. Altamira Press. New Delhi. 1999

Social science and power

Ifi Aamadiume: Re-inventing Africa. Matriarchy, religion and culture

Fredrik Barth: Objectives and Modalities in South-North University Cooperation, in "Forum For Development Studies." Norwegian Institute for International Affairs: Oslo. (1992)

Peter Ekeh: Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A theoretical Statement. inP. Lewis (Ed): "Africa. Dilemmas of Development and Change."

S. Hall: When was “the post-colonial”? Thinking at the limit.

E. Said: Orientalism Penguin Books. New York. 1978

@ Robert Kaplan:
The coming of anarchy

Marcus and Clifford: Introduction. in "Writing Culture"

Cultural Translation and Representation; reactions on the post-modernist turn

T. Brantenberg: Paradise Lost. Anthropological and indigenous knowledge 33s

J. Fabian: Keep Listening: Ethnography and Reading 17 s

Henrietta Moore: Master Narratives: Anthropology and Writing. in "A Passion for Difference. Essays in Anthropology and Gender." Polity Press. 1995 22 pages

M. Jackson: Introduction in "The politics of storytelling : violence, transgression, and Intersubjectivity" 2002

C. Geertz: Being Here: Whose Life Is It Anyway? in "Work and Lives. The Anthropologist as Author". Polity Press. London. 1988.

John Van Maanen: Tales of the Field. On Writing Ethnography. University of Chicago
Press: London. 1988.

Coping with the Methodological and theoretical challenges

Murphy and Banks: Introduction: Rethinking visual anthropology in M. Banks and H. Murphy (Eds.): "Rethinking Visual Anthropology." Yale University Press. 1997

Paul Stoller: The taste of Ethnographic Things in "The taste of Ethnographic
Things. The Senses in Anthropology". University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. 1989. 22 pages.

Jay Ruby: Researching with a Camera: The Anthropologist as Picture Taker in "Picturing Culture" (2000)

@ Jay Ruby:
Exposing yourself: Reflexivity, anthropology, and film

Elizabeth Edwards: Beyond the boundary: a consideration of the expressive in photography and anthropology in Banks and Morphy (Eds.): "Rethinking Visual Anthropology." Yale University Press. 1997

Bateson, G and Mead, M: On the Use of the Camera in Anthropology in "The Coevolution Quarterly." 3 pages

G. Marcus: Imaging the Whole: Ethnographys Contemporary effort to situate itself in "Ethnography through Thick & Thin." Princeton University Press. Princeton. 1998. 22 s.

David MacDougall: The visual in Anthropology in M. Banks and H. Morphy (Eds.): Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Yale University Press 1997. 17 pages.

L. Devareaux: Experience, Representation , and Film. in "Fields of Vision. Essays in
Film Studies, Visual Anthropology and Photography." University of California Press. London (1995)

Dai Vaughan: The space between shots and Competing with Reality in "For Documentary"

Grimshaw, Anna: The eye in the door: anthropology, film and the exploration of
interior space.
in M. Banks and H. Morphy (Eds.): "Rethinking Visual Anthropology." . Yale University Press. 1997

Bateson, G and Mead, M: Balinese characters. A Photographic Analysis. New York Academy of Sciences.
D. MacDougall: Complicities of Style in "Transcultural Cinema" Princeton Press: London 1998

Elizabeth Edwards: Beyond the boundary: a consideration of the expressive in photography
and anthropology.
in M. Banks and H. Morphy (Eds.): "Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Yale University Press 1997

Telling with films

Anne Grimshaw: Eyeing the Field: New Horizons for Visual Anthropology Journal of Media Practice, vol. 3 n. 1 2002 Intellect LdT U.K.

Geyla Frank: Myths of Creation: Construction of Self in an Autobiographical Account of Birth and Infancy in Marianne Gullestad (ed.): "Imagined
Childhoods", Scandinavian University Press, O


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