AN 604, Integrating Anthropology: Objectifying the Human. Instructor, Bilinda Straight. Fall 2004. Western Michigan University.

 

Coursepack Contents

 

Rabinow, Paul. 1994 [1986] “Representations are Social Facts. Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology” In Rabinow, Essays on the Anthropology of Reason.

 

Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. 1990. “Multiple Orderings of Reality: The Debate Initiated by Levy-Bruhl” Pp. 84-110 In Tambiah, Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. 1990. “Modern Science and Its Extensions” Pp. 140-154 In Tambiah, Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

Radin, Paul. 1937. Pp. 268-288 (Chapter 13) in Primitive Religion: Its Nature and Origin. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc.

 

Groebner, Valentin. 2004. “Complexio/Complexion: Categorizing Individual Natures, 1250-1600.” Pp. 361-383 In Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal (eds.) The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

 

Proctor, Robert N. 2004. “Three Roots of Human Recency: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz.” Pp. 466-490 In Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal (eds.) The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

 

Orser, Charles E. Jr. 2004. “The Prehistory of Race and Archaeological Interpretation, Part I.” Pp. 39-74 (Ch. 2) In Orser’s Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. (CP)

 

Gosden, Chris. 2001. “Postcolonial Archaeology: Issues of Culture, Identity, and Knowledge.” Pp. 241-261 In Ian Hodder (ed.) Archaeological Theory Today. Malden, MA: Polity in association with Blackwell.

 

Tilley, Christopher. 1993. Introduction. Pp. 1-27 In Christopher Tilley (ed.) Interpretative Archaeology.

 

Lock, Margaret. 1993 “Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge.” Annual Review of Anthropology 22:133-155.

 

Yates, Tim. “Frameworks for an Archaeology of the Body.” Pp. 31-72 In Chrisopher Tilley (ed.) Interpretative Archaeology. Berg.

 

Morris, Christine and Alan Peatfield. 2002. “Feeling Through the Body.” Pp. 105-120 In Yannis Hamilakis, Mark Pluciennik and Sarah Tarlow (eds.) Thinking Through the Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality. New York, NY: Kluwer Plenum.

 

Pluciennik, Mark. 2002. “Art, Artefact, Metaphor.” Pp. 217-232 In Yannis Hamilakis, Mark Pluciennik and Sarah Tarlow (eds.) Thinking Through the Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality. New York, NY: Kluwer Plenum.

 

Fowler, Chris. 2002. “Body Parts: Personhood and Materiality in the Earlier Manx Neolithic.” Pp. 47-69 In Yannis Hamilakis, Mark Pluciennik and Sarah Tarlow (eds.) Thinking Through the Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality. New York, NY: Kluwer Plenum.

 

Brown, Michael F. 2004. “Heritage as Property.” Pp. 49-68 In Katherine Verdery and Caroline Humphrey (eds.) Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy. New York, NY: Berg.

 

Douglas, Mary and Baron Isherwood. 1979. “The Uses of Goods” Pp. 56-70 In Douglas and Isherwood The World of Goods.

 

Marx, Karl. 1977 [1837-1844] “On James Mill,” Pp. 114-123 In McLellan, ed. Karl Marx: Selected Writings. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

 

Mauss, Marcel. 1990 [1906] “The Extension of This System: Liberality, Honour, Money.” Pp. 19-46 and 100-102 In W.D. Halls (transl.) The Gift. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.

 

Kopytoff, Igor. 1986. “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process.” Pp. 64-91 In Arjun Appadurai (ed.) Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

Cohen, Lizabeth A. 1986. “Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working-Class Homes, 1885-1915.” Pp. 261-276 In Dell Upton and John Blach (eds.) Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

 

Schattschneider, Ellen. 2001. “‘Buy Me a Bride’: Death and Exchange in Northern Japanese Bride-Doll Marriage.” American Ethnologist 28(4): 854-880.

 

Holtzman, Jon. 2003. “In a Cup of Tea: Commodities and History Among Samburu Pastoralists in Northern Kenya.” American Ethnologist 30(1): 136-155.

 

Dumet, Joseph. 1997. “A Digital Image of the Category of the Person.” Pp. 83-102 In Downey and Dumit (eds.) Cyborgs and Citadels.

 

Parry, Bronwyn. 2004. “Bodily Transactions: Regulating a New Space of Flows in ‘Bio-Information’.” Pp. 29-48 In Katherine Verdery and Caroline Humphrey (eds.) Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy. New York, NY: Berg.