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Book lists reflect current or most-recent adoptions. In some cases,
book lists offer suggested readings beyond the required texts. Some
recommended books are available only through the used book market in individual
copies. Students seeking to obtain individual copies for on-line directed
studies may want to consult addall.com for
inexpensive and reliable sources.
ANT3141, Origins of Civilization
Christopher Scarre and Brian Fagan, Ancient Civilizations (Prentice Hall, 2002). This is the only text I am currently using for this course.
Useful supplemental resources can be found in some of the following works:
John Bodley, Cultural
Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global System (Mayfield).
This book provides the best anthropological
treatment of the origins of civilization for undergraduate students. It
includes thorough and authoritative accounts of the six primary states, as well
as the kinds of formative cultures that preceded them. There are few
other general works that provide as much information, though there are diverse
contemporary "ethnic" theories about the
origins of Western Civilization. We will handle these alternative views
through in-class reviews.
Jacques Berlinerblau,
Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the
Responsibilities of American Intellectuals (
Richard L. Burger, Chavin : And the Origins of the Andean Civilization (Thames & Hudson)
Annie Caubet and Patrick Pouyssegur, The Ancient Near East: The Origins of Civilization (Terrail)
Cheikh Anta Diop, [Meema Yaa-Lengi Ngemi, Trans.] Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Lawrence Hill)
Richard Rudgley, Lost Civilization of the Stone Age (Touchstone Books)
B. G. Sidharth, The Celestial Key to the Vedas: Discovering the Origins of the World's Oldest Civilization (Inner Traditions)
Julian Steward, Theory of Culture Change
(
The texts for review in this class touch on
recent materials covering the late neolithic through
the bronze age; origins of and development of Old World writing systems;
primary state organization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China;
Afro-centrist interpretations of Western Civilization, and the critique of the
debate Afro-centrist ideas have generated; Asian cases for the earliest
civilizations; and related topics in the study of classical cultures,
especially early Semitic and Indo-European cultures.
ANT3241, Anthropology of Religion (Summer 2003)
Scott Leonard & Michael McClure Myth and Knowing: An Introduction to World Mythology (McGraw Hill, 2004)
ANT3312, North American Indians (Summer 2003)
Required Texts:
Keith Basso Wisdom Sits in Places (University of New Mexico Press, 1996) Based upon Basso’s work with the Apache people, this collection of essays provides insights into how Native Americans experience the land in which they live (paperback).
Raymond Demallie and Alfonso Ortiz, eds., North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994). A series of essays on social organization of Native American cultures—this book offers a nice cross-section of North American peoples, as well as strong analysis of traditional social systems (paperback). [currently being reprinted, should be available during the term; if not, we will arrange for alternative readings]
(Summer 2001)
Other Recommended
Alice Lee Marriott The Ten
Grandmothers (
Based upon oral histories of the Kiowa collected
in the early 20th century, Marriott's fictionalized treatment of Kiowa history
from the 1840s through the 1940s draws the reader into the premises of Kiowa
life. This book is a superb introduction to basic Plains Indian lifeways and to the processes of contact and rapid cultural
change. I've never found a student who wasn't hooked by this book.
Selected Books for Individual Reviews (Each student must prepare a review essay based upon one of these books):
Keith H. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape & Language Among the Western Apache (
Alfred Louis Kroeber, Handbook of
the Indians of
Lewis Henry Morgan League of the Iroquois (Citadel Press, c. $18.00)
Francis Parkman The
Will Roscoe The Zuni Man-Woman (Paperback Reprint edition, 1992, University of New Mexico Press, $17.95)
Abraham Rosman
and Paula Rubel, Feasting With Mine Enemy: Rank and
Exchange Among
Edward Holland Spicer Cycles of Conquest : The Impact of
Julian H. Steward Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
Bulletin, No 20) (
I use a variety of written and film sources
for this course, but the list varies widely from term to term because of
availability. We almost always read Murusaki's
Tale of Gengi and Sei
Shonogon's
Pillow Book. We also read stories from Lafcadio
Hearn's folklore collection Kaidan.
I sometimes also use Len Walsh's Read
Japanese Today (Charles Tuttle Co.)
For Fall 2004, the following books are required alongside several on-line sources.
John Bodley, Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and
the Global System (Mayfield).
This book provides the best anthropological
treatment of the origins of civilization for undergraduate students. It
includes thorough and authoritative accounts of the six primary states, as well
as the kinds of formative cultures that preceded them. There are few
other general works that provide as much information, though there are diverse
contemporary "ethnic" theories about the origins of Western
Civilization. We will handle these alternative views through in-class
reviews.
K. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape & Language Among the Western Apache (
Basso's deep knowledge of Apache story-telling
and its contexts presents a more detailed example of some of the kinds of
culture-nature connections developed in David Abram's book. In class, I use the
work in association with my own analyses of Hebrew folklore, myth, and place,
to develop parallels in the spatial aspects of story-telling in preliterate and
literate societies.
The following books are also useful for this course and are therefore recommended, though all are periodically in- and out-of-print.
G. Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (U. Chicago Press,
paperback, c. $18)
This collection of essays by Gregory Bateson, when it is
in print, is simply essential reading for any student of culture. The
book offers metalogues and critical essays covering
topics as far-ranging as general system theory and animal communication to
psychoanalysis and culture description.
D. Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (Vintage, paperback, c. $14)
David Abram's book is a superb introduction to
the relationships between culture and nature in traditional societies, as well
as a strong introduction to phenomenology. Following ideas developed by
Husserl and Merleau-Ponty (as well as a strong line
of other philosophers), Abram presents an intriguing analysis of contrasts
between pre-literate and literate social constructions of nature. This well-written
book offers the groundwork for a critique of more traditional anthropological
conceptions of "ecology" of Kroeber, Steward, White, Rappaport, Harris, and more recent deep ecologists and ecofeminists.
R. Parkin, Kinship: An Introduction to the Basic concepts (RECOMMENDED: Blackwell, paperback, c. $30)
Though not required (see, however, ANT3403),
this work provides basic concepts for understanding the social organizations of
preindustrial cultures, including our own cultural
tradition. Because so much of ethnographic content relies upon kinship
constructs, the book should be useful throughout the course. Anthropology
majors should have this book.
No texts are formally assigned for Fall 2005--students will work with on-line and library resources.
(list from Fall 2000)
J. Rickford, ed. African-American Vernacular English
(Blackwell, paperback, c. $27)
This collection of reading by prominent linguists
working in the area of African-American language presents a technically
difficult but very rich series of examples of how powerful linguistic studies
of culture have become. The essays cover topics ranging from basic
phonology and grammar to rhetorical praxis, rap styles, and dialectology.
Student in 1999 found the work sufficiently accessible to take them deep into
linguistic science while teaching useful content about the vernacular English
dialects covered.
K. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape & Language Among the Western Apache (
Basso's deep knowledge of Apache story-telling
and its contexts presents a more detailed example of some of the kinds of
culture-nature connections developed in David Abram's book. In class, I use the
work in association with my own analyses of Hebrew folklore, myth, and place,
to develop parallels in the spatial aspects of story-telling in preliterate and
literate societies.
NOTE: Some students may want more technical linguistic sources for this course. Several are available today, though most are expensive. I will either place some materials on reserve or find a short introduction to linguistic concepts that is under $15 to $20. Watch here for more information on this front.
ANT3990, Culture and
Tradition of
Conrad Arensberg, Irish countryman (Waveland Press)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics (U.C. Berkeley, 20th anniversary edition)
Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization (Anchor)
Tim Severin, The Brendan Voyage (Modern Library)
Laurence Flanagan, Ancient
T.G.E. Powell, Celts (New Edition)
ANT4034, History of Anthropology (History of Anthropological Theory)
For Fall 2005 the following book is my standard reference text. We are working from a longer library resource list, so this text is not required.
David Kaplan and Robert Manners Culture Theory (Waveland Press, c. $15.00)
This long-established introduction to the theoretical
orientations of anthropology provides a foundation for my lectures on
traditional and recent developments in anthropological thought. Beginning
with some basic issues of epistemology and interpretation theory in social
science, the book's framework offers a lecture structure moving from
historical, functional, and ecological responses to 19th century evolutionary
thought, and the ultimate development of post-modern ideas in anthropological
contexts.
ANT4651 -- Aesthetics and Critical Theory
REQUIRED:
Anthony Easthope
and Kate McGowan, eds., A Critical and
Cultural Theory Reader (
RECOMMENDED:
Guerrilla Girls, Bedside Companion to History of Western Art
There are no texts to buy for this course.
See the course link off the main page.
Third Year, Spring 2002 list -- many of these books should also be helpful in my Culture, Gender, and Aggression course during the Spring 2003 term).
Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher, & Martha Roth (Eds) Transforming a Rape Culture (Milkweed Editions, c. $19.00). With many hard-hitting and authoritative essays, this reader is the ground upon which the applied anthropology class builds its rape-awareness activities over the term. We used the book last Spring with very powerful results. Indeed, some of the early essays caused so much debate that we had a large part of the class continuing the discussion over coffee after class, and several individuals outside the class group reading the articles and joining in the commentary. If you are going to read one book on rape, this is the one.
Martha J. LANGELAN (Catharine A. MacKINNON,
Preface), Back Off: How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment and Harassers
Jennifer BAUMGARDNER, Amy RICHARDS, Manifesta : Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Myriam MIEDZIAN, Boys
Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity
and Violence, Anchor
Books for Review.
The works on the list include cultural analyses and criticism relating to
gender socialization, patterns of gender violence, values, biological and
cultural interpretations of behavior, self-defense, religious and institutional
gender biases, and language. During the term, we assign reviewers for
several of these books as our discussions develop.: