Course materials are comprised of a monograph and online articles.
You can buy the required book from Akademika Blindern bookstore, or purchase through online booksellers such as amazon.co.uk. Required book can also be borrowed from the University Library (provided the item is held).
"Kopiutsalget” on the lower level of Akademika Blindern bookstore, sells course materials such as compendia. You will be required to show your UiO student ID and semester card prior to your transaction. If course material is out of stock, please contact the department asap in the semester in order for us to re-order.
To access online articles when using a computer outside the UiO, go to Easier off-campus-access.
SYLLABUS
Monograph
@ Simón Uribe (2017) Frontier Road. Power, History, and the Everyday State in the Colombian Amazon. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (250 pages).
Online articles
Anthropology after Globalization
Ulf Hannerz (1987) “The World in Creolization”, Africa 57(4): 546-559. jstor.org
Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (1992) “Beyond ‘Culture’: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference”, Cultural Anthropology 7(1): 6-23. jstor.org
Sidney W. Mintz (1998) “The Localization of Anthropological Practice: From Area Studies to Transnationalism”, Critique of Anthropology 18(2): 117-133. sagepub.com
Anna Tsing (2000) “The Global Situation”, Cultural Anthropology 15(3): 327-360. jstor.org
James Ferguson (2006) “Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development”, in Ferguson Global Shadows, pp. 176-193. Durham: Duke University Press. eBook
Sylvia Yanagisako (2018) “Reconfiguring Labour Value and the Capital/Labour Relation in Italian Fashion”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24 (S1): 47-60. Wiley.online
Ethnographies of the State
Philip Abrams ([1977] 1988) “Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State”, Journal of Historical Sociology 1(1): 58-89. Wiley.online
Akhil Gupta (1995) “Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State”, American Ethnologist 22(2): 375-402. jstor.org
Akhil Gupta, David Nugent, and Shreyas Sreenath (2015) “State, Corruption, Postcoloniality: A Conversation with Akhil Gupta on the 20th Anniversary of ‘Blurred Boundaries’”, American Ethnologist 42(4): 581-591. Wiley.online
Christine Folch (2013) “Surveillance and State Violence in Stroessner’s Paraguay: Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam, Archive of Terror”, American Anthropologist 115(1): 44-57. Wiley.online
Christian Krohn-Hansen (2015) “Political Anthropology”, in James D. Wright (ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier Ltd. (6 pages.) sciencedirect.com
Gray Albert Abarca and Susan Bibler Coutin (2018) “Sovereign Intimacies: The Lives of Documents within US State-Noncitizen Relationships”, American Ethnologist 45(1): 7-19. Wiley.online
Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship
Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell (2013) “The Difference Kinship Makes”, in McKinnon and Cannell (eds.) Vital Relations. Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship, pp. 3-38. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press. eBook
Janet Carsten (2013) “Ghosts, Commensality, and Scuba Diving: Tracing Kinship and Sociality in Clinical Pathology Labs and Blood Banks in Penang”, in McKinnon and Cannell (eds.) Vital Relations. Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship, pp. 109-130. eBook
Rose Wellman (2017) “Sacralizing Kinship, Naturalizing the Nation: Blood and Food in Postrevolutionary Iran”, American Ethnologist 44(3): 503-515. LibKey
Sian Lazar (2018) “A ‘Kinship Anthropology of Politics’? Interest, the Collective Self, and Kinship in Argentine Unions”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(2): 256-274. LibKey
Anthropology and History
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1995) “The Power in the Story”, in Trouillot Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, pp. 1-30. Boston: Beacon Press. eBook
Chelsey Kivland (2018) “Washing Out Trump’s Mouth With Haitian History”, Anthropology News website, February 2, 2018. (6 pages). Wiley.online
Ann Laura Stoler (2013) “Introduction ‘The Rot Remains’: From Ruins to Ruination”, in Stoler (ed.) Imperial Debris, pp. 1-35. Durham and London: Duke University Press. dukeupress.edu
Stephan Palmié and Charles Stewart (2016) “Introduction: For an Anthropology of History”, Hau: Journal of Ethnographi Theory 6(1): 207-236. HAU
Jonah S. Rubin (2018) “How Francisco Franco Governs From Beyond The Grave: An Infrastructural Approach To Memory Politics in Contemporary Spain”, American Ethnologist 45(2): 214-227. LibKey