ANTH 425 POWER AND CHANGE

Dr. Susan Vincent

Fall 2011 course website

Course Outline (includes essay assignment questions)

 

Course Assignments and Resources   

       Anthropology Program Essay Style Resources, including Essay Style Guide  

   

Topic Outlines

    Political anthropology overview: Gledhill

      Theory: structural functionalism - Gluckman

                    Foucault - Abélès

                    Marxism - Wolf

                    Gramsci - Kurtz

                    Practice with theories

        Classic anth: cultural ecology

                            cultural materialist, "culturalist" and sociobiological theories of war: Ferguson

        Identity politics: Micro and macro politics of race, class, gender

                   "Muslim women's rights" - Abu-Lughod

                    class and gender in Ontario hunting challenge: Dunk

                    colonization, sexuality, gender, race, class: Stoler

                    class, capitalism and state socialism: Burawoy and Krotov

                    resistance as diagnostic of power: Abu-Lughod

                    nation building projects and state oppression: Anderson

                    state processes of power and change: state power: Sider

                    fear and terror 1: Klinenberg

                    fear and terror 2: Green

                    is terrorism overdone? Mahmood

                    should anthropologists participate in the war on terror? Gonzalez and others

                    making a military: Lutz

                    revolution: Nash

              

 

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