Week 1, Sept. 5
Week 2, Sept. 12
Week 3, Sept. 19
Week 4, Sept. 26
Week 5, Oct. 3
Week 6, Oct. 10
Week 7, Oct. 17
Week 8, Oct. 24
Week 9, Oct. 31
Week 10, Nov. 7
Week 11, Nov. 14
Week 12, Nov. 21
Week 13, Nov. 28
PART ONE: POWER AND POLITICS FROM STATELESS SOCIETIES TO
GLOBAL CAPITALISM
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Overview of course objectives, requirements and proceduresWhat is Political Anthropology, and why study it? [please
commence readings for the following week]
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Facing Politics and Power in Anthropology
Lecture Outline
Readings:
1. Ch. 9 [Vincent reader]
– Marc Swartz, Victor Turner, Arthur Tuden, “Political Anthropology,”
102-109.
2. Ch. 19 [Vincent reader]
– Eric Wolf, “Facing Power—Old Insights, New Questions,” 222-233.
3. Gledhill, Ch. 1,
“Locating the political: a political anthropology for today,” 1-22.
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Political Systems and Roles in "Stateless Societies"
Lecture Outline
Readings:
1. Gledhill, Ch. 2, “The
origins and limits of coercive power: the anthropology of stateless
societies,” 23-44.
2. Ch. 1 [Vincent reader] – E.E. Evans-Pritchard, “Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940),” 34-38.
Tuesday, September 18,
2007
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Politics in Agrarian Societies and the Rise of the State
Lecture Outline
Readings:
1. Gledhill, Ch. 3, “From
hierarchy to surveillance: the politics of agrarian civilizations and the
rise of the western national state,” 45-66.
2. Ch. 5 [Vincent reader]
– Talal Asad, “Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration
of Swat Political Organization,” 65-81.
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Colonial
Rule
Lecture Outline
Readings:
1. Gledhill, Ch. 4, “ The
political anthropology of colonialism: a study of domination and
resistance,” 67-91.
2.
Ch. 17 [Vincent reader] – Jean and John Comaroff, “Of
Revelation and Revolution,” 203-212.
3.
Ch. 14 [Vincent reader] – Ann Stoler, “ Perceptions
of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra,” 153-171.
Research Paper Prospectus due in
class
PART TWO: TRANSNATIONAL POWER AND POLITICS
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Colonialism and World Capitalism
Lecture Outline
Readings:
1. Gledhill, Ch. 5,
“Post-colonial states: legacies of history and pressures of modernity,”
92-126.
2. Ch. 20 [Vincent reader]
– June Nash, “Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System,” 234-254.
3. Ch. 12 [Vincent reader]
– Talal Asad, “From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology
of Western Hegemony,” 133-142
Take-Home Essay exam due in class
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From Colonialism to "Globalization"
Lecture Outline
Readings
1. Ch. 21 [Vincent reader]
– Benedict Anderson, “The New World Disorder,” 262-270.
2. Ch. 23 [Vincent reader] – Jonathan
Friedman, “Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification
as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony,” 285-300.
3. Online:
Immanuel Wallerstein, 1997, “The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems
Analysis.” (opens new window)
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Transnational Power
Discussion of readings for previous and current weeks
Readings:
1. Ch. 27 [Vincent reader] – Aihwa Ong,
“Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans,” 338-355.
2. Ch. 28 [Vincent reader] – Nina Glick
Schiller and Georges Fouron, “Long-distance Nationalism Defined,” 356-365.
3. Ch. 22 [Vincent reader] – Arjun Appadurai,
“Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination,” 271-284.
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Global Processes and Resistances
Discussion of readings assigned for this week
Readings:
1 . Gledhill, Ch. 7,
“Political process and ‘global disorder’: perspectives on contemporary
conflict and violence,” 153-183.
Readings:
1. Gledhill, Ch. 6, “From macro-structure to
micro-process: anthropological analysis of political practice,” 127-152.
2. Ch. 2. [Vincent reader] – Sharon Elaine Hutchinson,
Nuer Ethnicity Militarized,” 39-52.
3. Ch. 3. [Vincent reader] – Max Gluckman, “‘The
Bridge’ : Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand,”
53-58.
4. Ch. 4. [Vincent reader] – Ronald Frankenberg, “‘The
Bridge’ Revisited,” 59-64.
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ETHNIC POLITICS:
PRIMORDIALISM, INSTRUMENTALISM, and BOURDIEU’S PRACTICE THEORY
(given
the lag of one week, see the lecture outline for this topic under the next
week's heading)
Lecture Outline: continued from previous week
+Discussion of readings from last week
Readings:
1. Gledhill, Ch. 8,
“Society against the modern state?: the politics of social movements,”
184-213.
2. Ch. 7. [Vincent reader]
– F. G. Bailey, “Stratagems and Spoils,” 90-95.
3. Ch. 8. [Vincent reader] – Victor Turner,
“Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas,” 96-101.
Research Paper due in class
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Anthropological Commitment
Lecture Outline
Discussion of readings from last week
Readings:
1. Ch. 10. [Vincent
reader] – Kathleen Gough, “New Proposals for Anthropologists,” 110-119.
2. Gledhill, Ch. 9,
“Anthropology and politics: commitment, responsibility and the academy,”
214-242.
Questions for Final Exam distributed
in class
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Review of Key Concepts and Questions in
Political Anthropology & Conclusion to the Course
Discussion of readings from last weekReview of Concepts
FINAL EXAM:
Monday, Dec. 5, 2007:
H-509, 9:00am to 12:00pm
