ARCL1008: Introduction to Social Anthropology: Elizabeth Graham Academic Year 2011/12 Archived
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List in progress!
This 2011 reading list for ARCL1008 is being added to: please also refer back to the previous list, found here:
http://ls-tlss.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/displaylist?module=11ARCL1008
Introductory readings and online references
It is recommended that you consider buying at least one of these books.
- They will be useful in contextualising specific issues raised in the course or in chasing up concepts like 'kinship', 'culture', 'social structure', etc.
- They are available at Waterstones Book Shop and from online providers such as amazon.co.uk.
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Why humans have cultures: explaining anthropology and social diversity - 19920192192272,0192892118,9780192892119
Book Recommended
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An introduction to social anthropology: other people's worlds - c19990333744713,0333744721,9780333744710,9780333744727
Book Recommended (An accessible introduction to many issues in cultural anthropology)
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Small places, large issues: an introduction to social and cultural anthropology - 20010745317723,0745317731
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Cultural anthropology: a contemporary perspective - , c19980030475821
Book Recommended (A posthumous update of Keesing's 1981 volume, it remains the best general introduction and includes wide-ranging summaries of much of social and bio-anthropological approaches.)
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Cultural anthropology: a contemporary perspective - c19810030462967
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Cognitive variations: reflections on the unity and diversity of the human mind - 20070199214611,0199566259,9780199214617,9780199566259
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Lectures: Autumn Term
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Session 1: What kind of animals are humans? Culture, language and mind 21 items
Required reading
Read at least two readings
These lectures will introduce some of the key ways that people, from scientists to hunter-gatherers, describe the differences between people and other animals.
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Chimpanzee and human culture -
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Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science - 1991
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Why Humans Have Cultures - 1990
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The Development of Meaning: Ontogeny and Culture - 1996
Article Essential
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Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time - 2001-8
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The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man: chapter 2 -
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A few reasons why we don't share Tomasello et al.'s intuitions about sharing - , 2005-10-25
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Theories of culture revisited -
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Ekila: blood, bodies, and egalitarian societies - 2008-06
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Language acquisition and socialization - ,
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The language instinct: how the mind creates language - 20000060958332,9780060958336
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Why animals have neither history nor culture - ,
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What Makes Human Cognition Unique? From Individual to Shared to Collective Intentionality - , 2003-04
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Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition - , , , , 2005-10-25
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Session 2: People, animals and their environments 158 items
These lectures consider various ways that non-western people conceive of their environments and the animals that inhabit them.
Required reading
Read at least two readings
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Animism Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational Epistemology -
Article Essential
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Nature in culture or culture in nature - , 1996
Chapter Essential
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Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals -
Chapter Essential
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The great dance: a hunter's story - , , , , , 2000
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Session 2: People, animals and their environments
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Animism Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational Epistemology -
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Nature and society: anthropological perspectives - , 1996
Article Essential
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Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals - 2000
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The great dance: a hunter's story - , 200-?
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The giving environment: another perspective on the economic system of gatherer-hunters -
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Nature and society: anthropological perspectives - , 1996
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The dreaming: time and space -
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Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism -
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SESSION 3
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Beyond the original affluent society - 1992
Article Essential
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The Cultural Instability of Egalitarian Societies - 1989
Article Essential
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Ekila: Blood, Bodies and Egalitarian Societies - , 2008
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The original affluent society -
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Egalitarian societes revisited -
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Hunting and Gathering in Tropical Rain Forest: Is It Possible? - 1989
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Kung Women: Contrasts in Sexual Egalitarianism in the Foraging and Sedentary Contexts -
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The Conditions of egalitarian male-female relationships in foraging societies - 1981
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The headman was a woman: the gender egalitarian Batek of Malaysia - , 2008
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On the problem of egalitarianism: the Kalahari san in transition -
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Putting hunter-gatherer and farmer relations in perspective: a commentary from Central Africa - ,
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Ownership, leadership and the use of space - 1979
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The Batwa pygmies of the Great Lakes Region - 2000
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Foragers, genuine or spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in history - , 1990
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Egalitarian Societies - , ,
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Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies -
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From kleptocracy to the felonious state -
Chapter Essential
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Spacious skies and tilted axes -
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Power and property in twenty-first century foragers: a critical examination -
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The anthropology of the state in the age of globalisation -
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Preface -
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The criminalization of the state in Africa - 1999
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Africa works: disorder as political instrument - , 1999
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Introduction - ,
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Provisional notes on the postcolony - 1992
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The criminalization of the state in Africa - , 1999
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Africa works: disorder as political instrument - , 1999
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Provisional notes on the postcolony - , ,
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Comparative politics - 1968-
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Money Makes the World Go Round -
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The Batwa pygmies of the Great Lakes Region - 2000
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The Mbuti pygmies : change and adaptation - 1983
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Enlivened Memories: Recalling Absence and Loss in Mongolia -
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American anthropologist - , ,
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Reliving Childhood? The Temporality of Childhood and Narratives of Reincarnation -
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Centuries of childhood - 1962
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Zafimaniry Birth and Kinship Theory - ,
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Chronically Unstable Bodies: Reflections on Amazonian corporalities - , 2005
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Session 6: Initiation and liminality
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The rites of passage - 1977
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Initiation - 1986
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The ritual process: structure and anti-structure - 1969
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The principle of reciprocity -
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Love & the Law: Love-Marriage in Delhi -
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Polyandry, Inheritance and the Definition of Marriage - , ,
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Rethinking anthropology - 1961 (repr. 1963)
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Almost Eating the Ancestors - , ,
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Malangan: Art and Memory in a Melanesian Society - , ,
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The Dollarization of Vietnamese Ghost Money - ,
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Death and the regeneration of life - , 1982
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Death, memory and material culture - , 2001
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Death and The right hand - 1960
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