This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in Social Anthropology, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. This course has a reading week in Week 6 of MT.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT.
Clastres, Pierre. 1987. Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology. Overing, Joanna. & Alan Passes (eds). 2000. The Anthropology of Love and Anger: The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia. Walker, Harry. 2012. Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power and Intimacy in Amazonia. Descola, Philippe. 1994. In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia. Gow, Peter. 2002. An Amazonian Myth and its History. Fisher, William H. 2000. Rainforest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier. Seeger, Anthony. 2004. Why Suy? Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People. Gregor, Thomas. 1985. Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People. L?vi-Strauss, Claude. 1984. Tristes Tropiques. Conklin, Beth. 2001. Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society.
Take-home assessment (100%) in the MT. The take home exam will be held the week following the end of the MT.