SOC
281
SOCIAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
Fall 2018
Instructor: Ayfer Bartu Candan
Class Time: Tue 15:00-16:00; Wed. 14:00-16:00
Office Hrs: Thu. 11:00-13:00
Course
Description
This course aims to introduce the central issues and
concepts in social/cultural anthropology. While discussing the current debates
in the field, the students will be exposed to a variety of ways of life and
different ways of understanding this diversity. The major goal of the course is
to provide students the tools to think critically about the contemporary social
and cultural issues.
Course Requirements
and Grading
Course requirements include attendance and class
participation, one midterm, two exercises, and a final exam. Students are
expected to attend the class regularly. The lectures are complementary to the
assigned readings. Since the lectures may contain information that is not
covered in the readings, class attendance is crucial in following the course
material.
Students are expected to attend the class on time and having read the
material for that week. Exams will be constituted of essay questions. The final
exam will be cumulative. No make-up exams will be given unless an unambiguous
medical report is presented. The final grade for the course will be distributed
as follows:
Midterm Exam: 30%
Exercise I: 15%
Exercise II: 15%
Final Exam: 40%
FILM SCREENINGS: In
order to save class time for lectures and discussions, film screenings will be
through vimeo. The films will be put on vimeo during the dates indicated on the
syllabus. For copyright purposes, the films will be available on vimeo on those
days ONLY!. You will be given a password to have access to them. Please make
sure that you follow the dates of the films through the syllabus.
Note: Please make
sure that you are familiar with the University Academic Regulations and the
Regulations for Student Disciplinary Matters. Please make sure that your cellular phones are off when you come to
class!!!
Course
Outline
Sept. 25-26 Introduction: Anthropology as a Field of
Study
Malinowski, B. (1961) (Orig. 1922) “Introduction: The
Subject, Method, and
Scope of
this Inquiry” From Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Waveland Press,
Inc.
(Film Screening: A World On
Display (Eric Breitbart, 1994, 53 min.)
Oct. 2-3
Doing Anthropology: Fieldwork and Theories
Scheper-Hughes, N. (1992) Death Without Weeping: The
Violence of Everyday
Life in
Brazil. The University of California Press. Pp. 1-30 (Introduction:
Tropical
Sadness)
Farmer, P. (2005) “On Suffering and Structural Violence:
Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era” In Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the
Poor. University of California Press.
Oct. 9-10 Patterns of Production, Distribution, and
Consumption: Economic Systems I
Lee, R. B. (orig. 1994) (2000) “The Hunters: Scarce
Resources in the Kalahari” In J. Spradley and D. W. McCurdy (eds.) Conformity
and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Tenth Edition. Allyn and
Bacon.
Lappe, F.
M. and J. Collins (1977) “Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?” From Food
First:
Beyond the
Myth of Scarcity. Pp. 99-111 Institute for Food and Development.
Scheper-Hughes,
N. (1992) Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday
Life in
Brazil. The University of California Press. Pp. 31-64 (O Nordeste:
Sweetness and
Death)
Film
Screening Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) TBC
Oct. 16-17 Patterns
of Production, Distribution, and Consumption: Economic Systems II
Malinowski, B. (orig. 1922) “The Essentials of Kula” In R.
J. McGee and R. L. Warms (ed.) Anthropological Theory: An Introductory
History. Mayfield Publishing Company.
Fuentes, A. and B. Ehrenreich (orig. 1983) (2000) “Women in
the Global Factory” In J. Spradley and D. W. McCurdy (eds.) Conformity and
Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Tenth Edition. Allyn and
Bacon.
Bourgois, P. (orig. 1995) (2000) “Workaday World-Crack
Economy” In J. Spradley and D. W. McCurdy (eds.) Conformity and Conflict:
Readings in Cultural Anthropology. Tenth Edition. Allyn and Bacon.
Film Screening: Benim
Çocuğum/My Child (Can Candan, 2013, 82 min.)
Oct. 23-24 Family, Kinship and Gender I
Peacock, N. (1991) “Rethinking the Sexual Division of Labor:
Reproduction and Women’s Work Among the Efe” In M. di Leonardo (ed.) Gender
at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era.
University of California Press.
Scheper-Hughes, N. (1992) Death Without Weeping: The
Violence of Everyday
Life in Brazil. The University of California Press.
Pp. 340-399 ((M)Other Love: Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking)
Oct. 30-31 Family, Kinship and Gender II
Das, V. (1995) “National Honor and Practical Kinship:
Unwanted Women and Children” In F. D. Ginsburg and R. Rapp (eds.) Conceiving the New World Order: The Global
Politics of Reproduction. University of California Press.
EXERCISE I (LIFE HISTORY) DUE THIS WEEK
Nov. 6-7 REVIEW and MIDTERM
Film Screening: Iki Dil Bir Bavul/On the Way to School
(Orhan Eskiköy, Özgür Doğan, 2008, 81 min.)
Nov. 13-14 Language and Culture
Ochs, E. and B. B. Schieffelin (2001) “Language Acquisition and
Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications” In A.
Duranti (ed.) Linguistic Anthropology: A
Reader. Blackwell Publishers.
Gal, S. (1991) “Between Speech and Silence: The Problematics
of Research on Language and Gender” In M. di Leonardo (ed.) Gender at the
Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. University of California Press.
Nov. 20 No Class due to Official Engagement
Nov. 21 Religion I
Selections from B. Malinowski Magic, Science and Religion
Nov. 27-28 Religion
II
Readings TBA
Dec. 4-5 Power and Politics
Stoler, A. (1991) Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power:
Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia. In M. Di Leonardo (ed.) Gender
at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era.
University of California Press.
Ferguson, J.
“Governing Extraction: New Spatilizations of Order and Disorder in Neoliberal
Africa” In Global Shadows: Africa
in the Neoliberal World Order. Duke University Press.
Fuller, M. (1992) “Building Power: Italian Architecture and
Urbanism in Libya and Ethiopia” In N. AlSayyad (ed.) Forms of Dominance: On
the Architecture of Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise. Avebury.
Film Screening: Duvarlar/Mauern/Walls (Can Candan, 2000,
83 min.)
Dec. 11-12 Anthropology of Cities I
Bozdoğan, S. (2001) “Architecture of Revolution” From Modernism
and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic.
University of Washington Press.
Kolluoğlu-Kırlı,
B. (2002) The Play of Memory, Counter-Memory: Building Izmir on Smyrna’s
Ashes. New Perspectives on Turkey,
26: 1-28.
Dec. 18-19 Anthropology of Cities II
Tugal, C. (2009)
The Urban Dynamism of Islamic Hegemony: Absorbing Squatter Creativity in
Istanbul Comparative Studies of South
Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 29 (3): 423-437.
Bartu-Candan, A.
and Biray Kolluoğlu (2008) Emerging Spaces of Neoliberalism: A Gated Town and a
Public Housing Project in Istanbul. New
Perspectives on Turkey, no. 39: 5-46.
Kuyucu, T. (2014). Law, property and ambiguity: the uses and
abuses of legal ambiguity in remaking Istanbul's informal settlements. International
Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(2), 609-627.
EXERCISE II (NEWS ANALYSIS) DUE THIS WEEK
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