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INTRODUCTION: A Contested Canon -- SECTION ONE: On Roots of Social Difference -- 1. William Apess. 1833. An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man. -- 2. Frederick Douglass. 1854. The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered. -- 3. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 1872. Bourgeois and Proletarians. -- 4. Lewis Henry Morgan. 1877. Ethnical Periods. -- 5. Lucy Parsons. 1905. Afternoon Session, June 29th, Speeches at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World. -- 6. Max Weber. 1905. Excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism -- SECTION TWO: On Methods of Fieldwork -- 1. Edward Sapir. 1912. Language and Environment 1. -- 2. Arthur Caswell Parker. 1916. The Origin of the Iroquois As Suggested by their Archaeology. -- 3. Franz Boas. 1920. Methods of Ethnology. -- 4. Margaret Mead. 1926. The Methodology of Racial Testing: Its Significance for Sociology. -- 5. Zora Neale Hurston. 1935. Excerpt from Mules and Men. -- SECTION THREE: On Hidden Logics of Culture -- 1. Bronisław Malinowski. 1922. The Essentials of the Kula. -- 2. Marcel Mauss. 1925. Excerpt from The Gift. -- 3. Ruth Benedict. 1935. The Science of Custom. -- 4. Jomo Kenyatta. 1938. Excerpt from Facing Mt. Kenya. -- 5. Claude Lévi-Strauss. 1951. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws. -- SECTION FOUR: On Power, History, and Inequality -- 1. W.E.B DuBois. 1935. The White Worker. -- 2. Fernando Ortiz. 1940. On the Social Phenomenon of “Transculturation” and Its Importance in Cuba. -- 3. Eric Wolf. 1982. The World in 1400. -- 4. Ann L. Stoler. 1989. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonial Cultures. -- 5. Paul Farmer. 2004. An Anthropology of Structural Violence. -- SECTION FIVE: On Writing Cultures -- 1. Katherine Dunham. 1946. Twenty-Seventh Day. -- 2. Clifford Geertz. 1973. Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. -- 3. Renato Rosaldo. 1989. Grief and the Headhunters Rage. -- 4. Lila Abu-Lughod. 1991. Writing Against Culture. -- 5. Rosabelle Boswell. 2017. Sensuous Stories in the Indian Ocean Islands. -- SECTION SIX: On Colonialism and Anthropological “Others” -- 1. Beatrice Medicine. 1978. Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining “Native.” -- 2. Edward W. Said. 1979. Knowing the Oriental. -- 3. Esteban Krotz. 1997. Anthropologies of the South: Their Rise, Their Silencing, Their Characteristics. -- 4. Rolph-Michel Trouillot. 2003. Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness. -- 5. Epeli Hau’ofa. 2008. Our Sea of Islands. -- SECTION SEVEN: On Anthropology and Gender -- 1. Eleanor Burke Leacock. 1972. Introduction to The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan, by Frederick Engels. -- 2. Sylvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier. 1987. Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship. -- 3. Ifi Amadiume. 1987. Excerpt from Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. -- 4. Gloria Anzaldúa. 1987. La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a new consciousness. -- 5. Philippe Bourgois. 1996. In Search of Masculinity: Violence, Respect and Sexuality among Puerto Rican Crack Dealers in East Harlem. -- SECTION EIGHT: On Queering Anthropological Knowledge Production -- 1. Michel Foucault. 1976. Excerpt from The History of Sexuality, Vol. I -- 2. Evan B. Towle and Lynn M. Morgan. 2002. Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the "Third Gender" Concept. -- 3. Susan Stryker. 2008. Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity. -- 4. Jafari Allen. 2012. One Way or Another: Erotic Subjectivity in Cuba. -- 5. Savannah Shange. 2019. Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship. -- SECTION NINE: On Social Position and Ethnographic Authority -- 1. Donna Haraway. 1988. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. -- 2. Delmos Jones. 1995. Anthropology and the Oppressed: A Reflection on "Native" Anthropology. -- 3. Dana-Ain Davis. 2003. What Did You Do Today? Notes From a Politically Engaged Anthropologist. -- 4. Heike Becker, Emile Boonzaier, and Joy Owen. 2005. Fieldwork in Shared Spaces: Positionality, Power and Ethics of Citizen Anthropologists in Southern Africa. -- 5. Bernard Perley. 2013. “Gone Anthropologist”: Epistemic Slippage, Native Anthropology, and the Dilemmas of Representation. -- SECTION TEN: On Theorizing Globalization -- 1. Arjun Appadurai. 1986. Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery. -- 2. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson. 1992. Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference. -- 3. Aihwa Ong. 2006. Mutations in Citizenship. -- 4. Faye Harrison. 2008. Global Apartheid at Home and Abroad. -- 5. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro. 2009. Non-Hegemonic Globalizations: Alter-Native Transnational Processes and Agents. -- SECTION ELEVEN: On Environment, Pluriverse, and Power -- 1. Julian Steward. 1955. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology. -- 2. Paige West. 2005. Translation, Value, and Space: Theorizing an Ethnographic and Engaged Environmental Anthropology. -- 3. Zöe Todd. 2015. Indigenizing the Anthropocene. -- 4. Arturo Escobar. 2018. Excerpt from Designs for a Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making of Worlds. -- 5. Alaka Wali. 2020. Complicity and Resistance in the Indigenous Amazon: Economía Indígena Under Siege. -- SECTION TWELVE: On State Power -- 1. Pierre Bourdieu. 1977. Symbolic Power -- 2. Begoña Aretxaga. 1998. What the Border Hides: Partition and Gender Politics of Irish Nationalism -- 3. Katherine Verdery. 2002. Seeing like a mayor. Or, how local officials obstructed Romanian land restitution -- 4. Achille Mbembé. 2003. Necropolitics. -- 5. Christen Smith. 2013. Strange Fruit: Brazil, Necropolitics, and the Transnational Resonance of Torture and Death. -- SECTION THIRTEEN: On Agency and Social Struggle -- 1. Saba Mahmood. 2005. The Subject of Freedom. -- 2. Shalini Shankar. 2008. Speaking like a Model Minority: “FOB” Styles, Gender, and Racial Meanings among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley. -- 3. Victoria Redclift. 2013. Abjects or Agents? Camps, Contests, and the Creation of “Political Space.” -- 4. Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa. 2015. #Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States. -- 5. Audra Simpson. 2016. Consent’s Revenge. -- SECTION FOURTEEN: On Critical Theory for the 21st Century -- 1. Lynn Bolles. 2001. Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology. -- 2. Leith Mullings. 2005. Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology. -- 3. Ghassan Hage. 2016. Towards an Ethics of the Theoretical Encounter. -- 4. Jeff Maskovsky. At Home in the End Times. -- 5. Kim TallBear. 2019. Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming. -- PROVOCATION: Going Native: A Satirical “End” to Anthropology Theory |