HU Credits: 6

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: sociology & soc. anthropology

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dr Yehuda Goodman

Coordinator Email: ygoodman@huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Mon 2-3 appnt by mail

Teaching Staff:
Prof Gad Yair
Dr. Yehuda Goodman
Ms. Rachel Von Kauffma
Ms. Netta Kahana
Mr. DAN KOTLIAR

Course/Module description:
In the second half of the "Social Theory" course we'll examine central trends in classical Anthropology as formed until the 1970s (functionalist, structuralist and interpretive anthropologies), to be followed by analysis of critical Anthropology. Critical anthropology developed in connection with the "crisis of representation" in the social sciences in which anthropologists have pointed the problematics of representing the field through literature means and in light of the power relations between anthropologists and the human subjects and they groups they explore. We'll present a few theoretical directions that have been stemming out of this criticism. Questions to be examined are: With whom did these anthropologists correspond? How did they criticize the anthropologists who preceded them? What new directions of thought and inquiry are allowed in light of these new questions and what is left out and to be further explored in the future?

Course/Module aims:
Learning central theories in classical and critical anthropology while paying attention to their historical and theoretical contexts. Using these theories to analyze social processes and developing a critical thinking of theoretical questions in anthropology.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
-- Identify core principles in conceptualizations in classical and critical anthropology.
-- Follow closely the development and change of theoretical thought in anthropology.
-- Categorize the various approaches within classical and critical anthropology.
-- Interpret chapters and articles on these topics.
-- Generalize from specific research ethnographic projects to broader approaches
-- Criticize the various approaches in classical and critical anthropology in order to allow for further theoretical development

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lecture, conversation and critical discussion on various reading in anthropology of madness, mental disorder, diagnosis and treatment and relating to the various approaches expressed in them. We'll have shared reading in class of the various ethnographies and discuss presentations by students.

Course/Module Content:
A. Introduction: What is current theoretical question in Anthropology
-- What is "classical" anthropology and what is "anthropological thinking"?
-- What is "critical anthropology?
B. Classical anthropological theories
-- Social Functionalism and its critics
-- Society, Economics and Interaction
-- Analysing society and Culture according to Structuralism
-- Interpretive Anthropology
C. Post Structuralist Anthropology
-- After "Culture"? Subjectivity, body, and action
D. Anthropology of Globalization
-- Political Economics and Globalization
-- Globalization, Cultural identity and multi site fieldwork
E. Post Colonial anthropology
-- Post colonialism, ethnicity, class and racialization
F. Feminist Anthropology
-- Feminism in critical anthropology
G. Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine
-- Medical Anthropology

Required Reading:
A. Introduction: What is current theoretical question in Anthropology
-- What is "classical" anthropology and what is "anthropological thinking"?
-- What is "critical anthropology?
Hertzfed, Michael. 2001. Orientations: Anthropology as a practice of theory. In: Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society. Pp. 1-20. Oxford: Blackwell.
B. Classical anthropological theories
-- Social Functionalism and its critics

Douglas, Mary. 1966. External Boundaries. In: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Pp, 115-129. London: Routledge.
-- Society, Economics and Interaction
Mauss, Marcel. 2000 [1925]. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, transl. by W.D. Hall. Foreword by Mary Douglas. New York: Norton. .1990).
Analyzing society and culture according to Structuralism --
Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1991 [1962]. Totemism. Translated by Rodney Needham. Pp. 15–71. London: Merlin.
– Interpretive Anthropology
Geertz, Clifford. 2000 [1983]. "From the Native's Point of View": On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding. In: Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. Pp. 55–72.
C. Post Structuralist Anthropology
-- After "Culture"? Subjectivity, body, and action
Gupta, A. and Ferguson, J. (eds.). 1997. Beyond “Culture”: Space, identity, and the politics of difference. In: Culture, power, place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Pp. 33-51. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. GN 33 C87 1174978
D. Anthropology of Globalization
-- Political Economics and Globalization
Wolf, Eric R. 2010 (1982). Introduction. In: Europe and the People without History. Pp. 3–23. Berkeley: University of California Press.
-- Globalization, Cultural identity and multi site fieldwork
George E. Marcus. 1995. Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24(1): 95–117.
Also published as: Chapter Three: Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography. In: Ethnography through Thick and Thin. Pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
E. Post Colonial anthropology
-- Post colonialism, ethnicity, class and racialization
Fanon, Frantz. 2004 (1963). Excerpts from The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. Forward by Homi K. Bhabha. Pp. 52-144. New York: Grove.
F. Feminist Anthropology
-- Feminism in critical anthropology
Abu Lughod, Lila. 2008 (1993). Introduction; Chapter One: Patrilineality. In: Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Pp. 1-44, 45-86. Berkeley: University of California Press
G. Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine
-- Medical Anthropology
James, Erica. 2004. The Political Economy of “Trauma” in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 28: 127–149.

Additional Reading Material:
A. Introduction: What is current theoretical question in Anthropology
-- What is "classical" anthropology and what is "anthropological thinking"?
-- What is "critical anthropology?
Clifford, James. 1986. Introduction: Partial Truths. In James Clifford and George E. Marcus (Eds.), Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Pp. 1–26. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fabian, Johannes 1996 Prelude: With so much critique and reflection around, who needs theory? Ethnographic objectivity: From rigor to vigor. Pp. 1–7; 11–32; 207–213. In: Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press.
Knauft, Bruce M. 1996. Stories, histories, and theories: Agendas in Cultural Anthropology. In: Geneologies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology. Pp. 9–39; 293–296. New York: Routledge.
Marucs, George E. and Michael M.J. Fischer. 1986. Chapter 1: A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences. In: Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Pp. 7–16. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
B. Classical anthropological theories
-- Social Functionalism and its critics
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1976 [1937]. Introduction; Witchcraft in an Organic and Hereditary Phenomenon; The notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events. In: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. Abridged edition. Introduction by Eva Gillies. Pp. vii–xxxiii, 1–17, 18–32. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, Clarendon.
Evans-Pritchards, E.E. 1940. The Nuer of the Southern Sudan. In M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritcharrd (eds.). African Political Systems. Pp. 272-296. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald. 1958. Part II, Chapter IV: Social Structure. In: Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (ed.). Method in Social Anthropology: Selected Essays. Pp. 165–177. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Rappoport, Roy A. 1967. Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People, Ethnology, 6(1): 17-30.
Turner, Victor. 1967. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual. In: The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Pp. 19–47. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
-- Society, Economics and Interaction
Malinowski, Bronislaw. 2013 [1922]. The Essentials of the Kula. In: Argonauts of the Western Pacific, an Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. Pp. 50–80. Long Grove, IL: Waveland.
-- Analysing society and Culture according to Structuralism
Leach, Edmund. 1973. Structuralism in Social Anthropology. In: David Lobey (ed.). Structuralism: An Introduction. Pp. 37–56. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1963. Structural Anthropology. Pp. 202- 212. New York: Basic Books.
Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1992 [1984]. Stracturalism and Ecology. In The View from Afar. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss. Pp. 101-120. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
-- Interpretive Anthropology
Crapanzano, Vincent 1986. Hermes’ Dillema: In Hermes’ Dilema and the Hamlet Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation. Pp. 43-69. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Geertz, Clifford. 1977 [1973].Thick Description: Toward Interpretive Theory of Culture; Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. In: The Interpretation of Cultures. Pp. 3–30, 412-453. New York: Basic Books.
Good, Byron and Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good. 2005. On the "Subject" of Culture: Subjectivity and Cultural Phenomenology in the Work of Clifford Geertz. In: Richard A. Shweder and Byron Good (eds.). Geertz by his Colleagues. Pp. 98–107. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Mead, Margaret 2001 [1935]. Introduction. In: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. Pp. xxxi-xl. New York: Perennial.
C. Post Structuralist Anthropology
-- After "Culture"? Subjectivity, body, and action
Abu-Lughod, Lila 1999. The Interpretation of Culture after Television. In: The fate of “Culture": Geertz and Beyond. Pp. 110–135. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Antze, P. & Lambek, M. Eds. 1996. Introduction: Forecasting Memory. In: Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. Pp. xi-xxxviii. New York: Routledge. BF 378 S65 T46 1162823
Ortner, Sherry. 1984. Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26(1): 126-166.
Ortner, Sherry. 2006. Introduction: Updating Practice Theory. In: Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power and the Acting Subject. Pp. 1–18. Durham: Duke University Press.
Rosaldo, Renato 1989. Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage. In Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Pp. 1-21. Boston: Beacon Press.

D. Anthropology of Globalization
-- Political Economics and Globalization
Bourgois, Phillippe 1995. From Jibaro to Crack Dealer: Confronting the Restructuring of Capitalism in El-Barrio. In R. J. McGee and R. L. Warms Eds.. 2000. Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. pp. 315-329. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield
D’Andrade Roy. 1995. Moral Models in Anthropology, Current Anthropology 36 (3): 399-408.
Wallerstein, Immanuel 1976. Chapter 7: Theoretical Reprise. In; The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. Pp. 346-357. New York: Academic Press.. (HC 45 W35, 000118791).
-- Globalization, Cultural identity and multi site fieldwork
Appadurai, Arjun. 1990. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.
YG Note: This article appeared in 2 versions: Short Version: Theory, Culture and Society, 7: 295–310; Long Version: Public Culture 2(2): 1-24.
Gupta, A. and Ferguson, J. (eds.) 1997. “The field” as site, method, and location in Anthropology. In: Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Pp. 1-46. Berkeley: University of California Press. GN 346 A56 1174978
Featherstone, Mike. 1995. Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity. In: Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity. Pp. 102-125. London: Sage.
Ong, Aihwa and Collier, Stephen. 2005. Introduction: Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems. In: Ong, Aihwa and Collier, Stephen (eds). Global Assemblage: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Pp. 3–21. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
E. Post Colonial anthropology
-- Post colonialism, ethnicity, class and racialization
Fanon, Frantz. 2008 (1952). Chapter Five: The Lived Experience of the Black Man. In: Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Richard Philcox. Pp. 89–119. New York: Grove.
Fanon, Frantz. 2004 (1963). Excerpts from The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox. Forward by Homi K. Bhabha. Pp. 52-144. New York: Grove.
Gupta, Akhill and Sharma, Aradhana. 2006. Globalization and Post Colonial States. Current Anthropology 47 (2): 277–307.
Said, Eduard. 2003 (1978). Knowing the Oriental. In: Orientalism. Pp. 31–48. London: Penguin.
Stoller Ann 1989. Making Empire Respectable: the Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in 20th century Colonial Cultures, American Ethnologist 16(4): 634-660.
F. Feminist Anthropology
-- Feminism in critical anthropology
Bartsky, Sandra Lee. 1990. Feminism and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression. New York: Routledge.
Friedan Betty. 2001 (1963). The Problem that Has No Name. In: The Feminine Mystique. Pp. 57–78. New York: Norton.
Geller, Pamela and Miranda Stockett. 2006. Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Kanaaneh, Rhoda. 2002. Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Mahmood, Saba. 2012 (2005). Prefaces and Chapter one: The Subject of Freedom. In: Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Pp. IX-XXIV, 1–39. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ortner, Sheri B. 1996. Chapter 1: Making Gender: Toward a Feminist, Minority, Post Colonial, Subaltern, etc., Theory of Practices. Chapter 2: (1974) Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?; Chapter 7 (1996). So Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? In: Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Pp. 1–20. 21–42, 173–180. Boston: Beacon Press.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1993. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Pp. 340–399. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Slocum, Sally. 1975. Woman the Gatherer: Male bias in Anthropology. In: Rayna R. Reiter (ed.) Toward Anthropology of Women. Pp. 36-50. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Tsing, Anna. 1993. Opening . In: In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the Way Place. Pp. 3-38. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
G. Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine
-- Medical Anthropology
Cohen. Lawrence. 1999. Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation. Daedalus, 128(4): 135-165.
Csordas, Thomas. J. 1988. Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2: 121–142.
Davis, Elizabeth Anne. 2010. The Antisocial Profile: Deception and Intimacy in Greek Psychiatry. Cultural Anthropology, 25(1): 130–164.
Dumit, Joseph. 1998. A Digital Image of the Category of the Person. In: Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, Donna Haraway and Deborah Heath (eds.) Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies. Pp. 83–102. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
Fassin, Didier, 2007. Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life, Public Culture 19(3): 499–520.
Garcia, Angela. 2008. The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject, Cultural Anthropology, 23(4): 718–746.
Giordano, Cristiana. 2008. Practices of translation and the making of migrant subjectivities in contemporary Italy. American Ethnologist, 35(4): 588–606.
Good, Byron J. 1994.. Medical Anthropology and the Problem of Belief. In: Medicine, Rationality and Experience. Pp. 1-24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kleinman, A. 1988. What is a psychiatric diagnosis. In: Rethinking psychiatry: From cultural category to personal experience. Pp. 5-17. New York: Free Press. RC 455.4 E8K57 (1077089).
Lester, J. Rebecca. 2007. Critical Therapeutics: Cultural Politics and Clinical Reality in Two Eating Disorder Treatment Centers. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 21(4): 369–387.
Lock, Margaret and Scheper-Hughes, Nancy 1996 A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent. In: Carolyn Sargent and Thomas Johnson (eds.), Handbook of Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method, Revised Edition. Pp. 41–70. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Petryna, Adriana. 2004. Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations. Osiris, 2nd Series, 19: 250-265.

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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