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
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
Handouts
Links
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