Here's what I'll be reading in the next 10 weeks in just two classes. I don't have the reading list for a third class yet, but it should be a lot smaller. I'm also taking French.
2 October: African History, Historical Explanation, and the Colonial Encounter
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Charles Piot, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (Duke UP, 1999).
Charles Tilly, "Retrieving European Lives," in Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History, (edited by Olivier Zunz (Virginia, 1985).
David W. Cohen, "Doing Social History from Pim's Doorway," in Reliving the Past..
F. Cooper, "What is the Concept of Globalization Good For?: An African Historian's Perspective," African Affairs, 100, no. 399, 2001: 189-213.
Steven Feierman, "African Histories and the Dissolving of World History," in Africa and the Disciplines, edited by Bates, et al (Chicago, 1993).
9 October: The Colonial Encounter
Jonathan Glassman, Feasts and Riot (Heineman, 1995).
Richard Roberts, Two Worlds of Cotton (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996) introduction, chapters 1, 2, 9, and conclusion.
A.G. Hopkins, An Economic History of West Africa (Longman, 1973), chapter 4.
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Howard UP, 2002), chapters 1, 2, 5, and 6.
Philip Curtin, Steven Feierman, Jan Vansina, and Leonard Thompson, African History (Longman, 1995), chapter 15.
16 October: Resistance and Collaboration
Terrance O. Ranger, Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896‑97: A Study in African Resistance (Northwestern, 1967) chapters 1,2, 10.
-----. "Connections Between 'Primary Resistance' Movements and Modern Mass Nationalism in East and Central Africa," Parts 1 and 2, JAH 9, 1968.
Allen Issacman and Barbara. Issacman, “Resistance and Collaboration in Southern and Central Africa,†International Journal of African History Studies, 10 (1), 1977: 31-62.
George Shepperson and T. Price, Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting, and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Uprising of 1915 (Edinburgh, 1958), chapters 2-5.
L. Vail and L. White, "Forms of Resistance: Songs and Perceptions of Power in Colonial Mozambique," American Historical Review, 88 (4), 1983.
James Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale, 1985), chapters 1 and 2.
-----. Domination and the Arts of Resistance (Yale, 1990), chapters 1, 2, 6.
Frederick Cooper, "Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History," AHR, Dec 1994.
Karen Fields, Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa (Princeton, 1985)
Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily L. Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts, “African Intermediaries and the “Bargain†of Collaboration,†Introduction to Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks: African Employees and the Making of Colonial Africa (Wisconsin, 2006)
23 October: Inventing Traditional Africa
Terence Ranger, "The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa," in Hobsbawm and Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge, 1983).
-----. "The Invention of Tradition Revisited: The Case of Colonial Africa," in Legitimacy and the State in 20th Century Africa, edited by T. Ranger and Olufemi Vaughan (1993).
M. Chanock, Law, Custom and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (Cambridge, 1985), chapters 1 and 4.
S. Berry, No Condition is Permanent Social Dynamics of Agricultural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (Wisconsin, 1993), chapters 1 and 2.
I. A. Asiwaju, "The Aleketu of Ketu and the Onimeko of Meko: The Changing Status of Two Yoruba Rulers under French and British Rule," in Crowder and Ikime, West African Chiefs (London, 1970).
L. Vail, ed.,The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (Berkeley, 1989), introduction.
M. Mamdani, Citizen and Subject¸(Princeton, 1996), chapters, 1-4.
T. Spear, “Neo-Traditionalism and the Limits of Invention in British Colonial Africa,†Journal of African History, 44 (1), 2003: 3-27.
30 October: Colonial Courts and Social Conflict
Richard Roberts and Kristin Mann, "Introduction: Law in Colonial Africa," in Law in Colonial Africa, edited by K. Mann and R. Roberts (Heinemann, 1991)
Martin Chanock, Law, Custom and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (Cambridge, 1985), chapters 5, 6, and 7.
Richard Roberts, Litigants and Households: African Disputes and Colonial Courts in the French Soudan, 1895-1912 (Heinemann, 2005)
Brett Shadle, Girl Cases: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya 1890–1970 (Heinemann, 2006), introduction, chapters 4 and 5.
Kristin Mann, Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 (Indiana UP, 2007), introduction, chapters 7 and 8.
6 November: Rural Social Change
P. Hill, Migrant Cocao Farmers of Southern Ghana (1963) chapters 2‑7.
S. Berry, No Condition is Permanent (Wisconsin, 1993), chapters 3-7.
C. Bundy, Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry (Berkeley, 1979), chapters 1, 3, 4, and aftermath.
H. Bradford, A Taste for Freedom: The ICU in Rural South Africa, 1924-1930 (1987), chapters 1, 4, and 5.
T. Lane, “Witchcraft, Chiefs, and the State in Northern Transvaal, 1900-1930,†in C. Crais, ed., The Culture of Power in Southern Africa (Heinemann, 2003), 121-49.
S. Feierman, Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania (Wisconsin, 1990), chapters 1, 3, 5, 10.
M. Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine: Gender and famine and 20th century Malawi (Cambridge, 1987), chapters 1, 5.
R. Roberts, "Women's Work and Women's Property," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1984.
Barbara Cooper, Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989 (Heinemann, 1997), chapters 1-3, 5, 6.
Clifton Crais, The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South Africa (Cambridge, 2002), introduction, chapters 1-2.
Allen Isaacman, Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and the Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 (Heinemann, 1996), chapters 1, 3, 5, 10.
13 November: African Cities and Crucibles of Change and Conflict
C. van Onselen, New Babylon; New Ninevah: Studies in the Economic and Social History of Witswatersrand (Longman, 1982), especially "Regiment of the Hills," and "Amawasha: The Zulu Washerman's Guild," in vol. 2.
F. Cooper, On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombassa (Yale, 1987), introduction, chapter 1, 6.
L. White, Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (Chicago, 1990), chapters 1, 3, 5, 6.
Lisa Lindsay, Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria (Heinemann, 2003), chapters 1-2.
T.O. Ranger, Dance and Society in East Africa (California, 1975) chapters 1‑4.
P. Martin, Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville (Cambridge, 1995), introduction, chapter 4 and 6.
C. Waterman, Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music (Chicago, 1990), chapters 1,2,and 4.
Bill Freund, The African City: A History (Cambridge, 2007), chapters 1, 3, and 4.
20 November: Money, Commodities, and Struggles over Meanings
Jane Guyer, Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa (Chicago, 2004).
Controversy over Jane Guyer in ASR
L. White, Speaking of Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (California, 2000), chapters 1, 2, 4, 9.
P. Geschiere, The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (Virginia, 1997), chapters 1 and 3.
T. Burke, Lifebouy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Duke, 1996), introduction, chapter 1. 
L. Fair, Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945 (Ohio, 2001), chapters 1, 2.
27 November: Thanksgiving
4 December: African Lives
M. Wright, Strategies of Slaves and Women: Life-Stories from East/Central Africa (1993), introduction, chapters 1, 2, 7, and 8.
B. Bozzoli, Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983 (Heinemann, 1991), introduction, prelude, chapter 1, conclusion.
Stephen Miescher, Making Men in Ghana (Bloomington, 2005), chapters 1, 4, and epilogue.
Charles van Onselen, The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 (New York, 1997), chapters 3-6.
-----. “The Reconstruction of a Rural Life from Oral Testimony: Critical Notes on Methodology in the Study of a Black South African Sharecropper,†Journal of Peasant Studies 20 (3), 1993.
S. Mirza and M. Strobel, Three Swahili Women: Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya (Indiana, 1989), introduction, chapter 1.
M. Smith, Baba of Karo (Yale, 1981), introduction, parts 1‑3.
Personal Narratives Group, Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Thoery and Personal Narratives (Indiana, 1989), chapters by Mbilinyi and Marks.
L. White, S. Miescher, and D. W. Cohen, eds., African Words, African Lives (Indiana, 2001), chapters 2, 4, 5.
Greg Mann, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the 20th Century (Duke, 2006), introduction, chapters 1 and 2.
Week Two (9/30): Social evolutionism
Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society, Preface and Chapter One, “Ethnical Periods.†(1877).
Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Chapter Two (“The Familyâ€). 1884.
E. B. Tylor, “Animismâ€, in William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt (eds), Reader in Comparative Religion. (abridged from Tylor, Primitive Culture, 1871)
James Frazer, The Golden Bough (1922, abridged edition; first publication was 1890), Chapter 3, “Sympathetic Magicâ€, Chapter 24 “The Killing of the Divine Kingâ€
Presentation: Karl Marx, Pre-capitalist Social Formations
Week Three (10/7): The Boasians
Franz Boas, “The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology,†Science 4(103), 1896.
Franz Boas, “The Methods of Ethnology,†American Anthropologist 22(4):311-321, 1920.
Franz Boas, “The Outlook for the American Negro,†Commencement Address at Atlanta University, in George Stocking (ed). A Franz Boas Reader. (1906)
Benjamin Lee Whorf, “The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language,†in Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality (1939),.
Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture, Chapter One (“The Science of Customâ€) and Chapter Eight (“The Individual and the Pattern of Cultureâ€). 1934.
Presentation: Lee Baker: From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race 1896-1952. University of California Press, 1998.
Week Four (10/14): Structure and function
Bronislaw Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, “Introduction: The Subject, Method, and Scope of this Inquiry†(1922).
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, “The Nuer of the Southern Sudan,†in in E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes (eds.), African Political Systems (1940).
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, “The Mother’s Brother in South Africaâ€, “On Social Structureâ€, in Structure and Function in Primitive Society (1924)
Meyer Fortes. “The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups.†American Anthropologist, volume 55: 17-41. 1953.
Marcel Mauss, The Gift, Chapter 1, 2, 4 (1925)
Presentation: Victor Turner, “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage,†in Turner, The Forest of Symbols (1964)
Week Five (10/21): Structuralism
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Structural analysis in linguistics and anthropology,†in Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, 1963.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Totemism. 1963.
Edmund R. Leach, Rethinking Anthropology, Chapter One (“Rethinking Anthropologyâ€). 1961.
Edmund R. Leach. Anthropological aspects of language: animal categories and verbal abuse. In New Directions in the Study of Language. (ed.) Lenneberg. 1964.
Presentation: Edmund R. Leach. Political Systems of Highland Burma: a Study of Kachin Social Structure. 1954.
Week Six (10/28): Post-war American developments: neo-evolutionism and ethnoscience
Leslie White, “Energy and the Evolution of Cultureâ€, American Anthropologist 45: 335-356. 1943.
Julian Steward, “Multilinear evolution,†in Theory in Anthropology: A Sourcebook, Manners and. Kaplan, eds. pp. 241-250. Chicago: Aldine, 1968
Marvin Harris, “Introduction,†The Rise of Anthropological Theory (1968) ; and “The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle,†Current Anthropology 7:51-66, 1966.
George Peter Murdock, “The Cross-Cultural Survey,†American Sociological Review, Vol. 5, No. 3. (Jun., 1940), pp. 361-370.. (Also browse web page: HYPERLINK "
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Harold Conklin, “Hanunoo Color Categories,†in Dell Hymes (ed.), Language in Culture and Society, 1964, pp. 189-192.
Presentation: Dell Hymes, Reinventing Anthropology
Week Seven (11/4): Symbolic anthropology, Marxism, world system, practice theory
Clifford Geertz, “Thick Descriptionâ€, “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Manâ€, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfightâ€, in The Interpretation of Cultures. 1973.
David Schneider. American Kinship: a Cultural Account. 1968. Selections: pp. 1-54.
Claude Meillassoux, “From Reproduction to Production: A Marxist Approach to Economic Anthropology.†Economy and Society 1(1), 1974.
Pierre Bourdieu, selections from Outline of a Theory of Practice. 1977. chapters 2 and 4
Presentation: Eric Wolf, Europe and the People without History, Introduction. 1982.
Week Eight (11/11): Feminist anthropology
Sherry Ortner, “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?â€, in Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere (eds), Woman, Culture, and Society. 1974.
Michelle Z. Rosaldo, “Woman, Culture, and Society: A Theoretical Overviewâ€, in Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere (eds), Woman, Culture, and Society. 1974.
Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex,â€
in Rayna Reiter (ed.), Toward an Anthropology of Women. 1975
Sylvia Yanagisako and Jane Collier. “Introduction: Gender and Kinship: Towards a Unified Analysis.†Stanford University Press. 1987
Presentation: Marilyn Strathern.  "No Nature, No Culture: the Hagen Case.†In:
Nature, Culture and Gender, edited by Carol P. MacCormack and Marilyn Strathern. 1980. Cambridge University Press.
Week Nine (TBA): Postcolonial critique and the crisis of representation
Edward Said, Orientalism, Introduction. 1979.
Talal Asad. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. Introduction.
James Clifford, “Introduction: Partial Truths,†from James Clifford and George Marcus (eds.), Writing Culture: The Politics and Poetics of Ethnography. 1986.
Edward Said, “Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutorsâ€, Critical Inquiry, vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 1989, pp. 205-225.
Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discoursesâ€, Feminist Review August 1988; Number 30
Presentation: Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective,†in Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. 1991.
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No Class on November 25– Thanksgiving break
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Week Ten (12/2): Transnational flows and theories of globalization
Roger Rouse, “Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism,†Diaspora 1(1):8-23. 1991.
Arjun Appadurai, “Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology,†in Richard Fox (ed.), Recapturing Anthropology. 1991.
Anna Tsing, “The Global Situation,†Cultural Anthropology 15(3):327-360, 2000.
Engseng Ho: “Empire Through Diasporic Eyes: A View from the Other Boat.†Comparative Studies in Society and History. 2004, pp. 210-246.