Resources:

A note on resources

• two ethnographies better than three
• Use articles as a way to introduce main themes in ethnographies

 

Ethnographies

Horace Miner – Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (can use this piece to ask about):

• citation practices
• Ethnographic authority
• How to incorporate the affective/feeling of anthropology

 

Gender/Sexuality

Judith Lorber – “Night to his Day”: The Social Construction of Gender- Night to his day

Ann Foster Sterling – How to Build a Man (someone tried this but said it didn’t work so well – students did get the sarcasm – something to think about if you consider assigning it)

Anne Allison – Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club 

Farha Ghannam – Live and Die Like a Man

Holly Wardlow – Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society

 

Orientalism (“The Other”)

Edward Said – Orientalism (Introduction, password-protected)

Stuart Hall – The West and the Rest (password-protected)

(with more theoretical/channeling pieces like this, you could break them into groups, each have one section in class)

 

Development

John Bodley – “The Price of Progress”

 

Race/Racism

Jemima Pierre – Predicament of Blackness

 

Migration

Jason De Leon – The Land of Open Graves

 

Films

Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (works better early in the class, students need to come to library to view the linked resource)

Cannibal Tours

Babakiueria