Syllabus

Syllabus (Autumn 2005)

CUS 304/ GEC 304 Social and Cultural Anthropology

Instructor: IP Iam Chong　（葉蔭聰）
E-mail: chong@ln.edu.hk Contact no.: 2616-7443
Office: GE 319
Websites: http://anthropology.wikispaces.org/; http://csanthropology.blogspot.com/

Description

The primary aim of this course is to help students develop a basic understanding of social and cultural anthropology by introducing them to several theoretical perspectives, ethnographic writing and their relevance to contemporary cultural issues. Topics to be covered include anthropological theories of culture, ethnographic practice and their connection with colonialism and the changing relationship of the West to the “Others”. The final part of the course focuses on several case studies related to anthropological knowledge and cultural studies.

Requirement and Assessment

1. Tutorial (35%)
Each student is required to make presentation of some articles and facilitate group discussion.
2.Ethnographic assignment (35%)
3. Take-home Exam (30%, open-book)

Textbook

*王銘銘2005《西方人類學思潮十講？》桂林：廣西師範大學出版社。
*Monaghan, John and Peter Just. 2000. Social and Cultural Anthropology: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP.
(Please read both. They are highly relevant to final examination!)
王銘銘2002《人類學是甚麼？》北京：北京大學出版社。

Schedule

[Week 1: Briefing]

[Week 2: Culture: What? Why?]
Monaghan and Just 2000: Chapter 1 and 3
王銘銘2002: 第三章；2005:第一章
陳其南＜婚姻的象限＞《文化的軌跡（下冊）：婚姻、家族與社會》台北：允晨，39-42。

[Week 3 Culture as institution, part I]
王銘銘2005: 第二章
Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1964. Crime and Custom in Savage Society, Paterson, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams & Co.
中譯：馬凌諾斯基1994(1926)《原始社會的犯罪與習俗》台北：桂冠。
Monaghan and Just 2000, Chapter 3

[Week 4 Culture as institution, part II]
王銘銘1998＜世紀轉折中的文化表述＞《想象的異邦：社會文化人類學散論》上海：上海人民出版社，36-38。
Leach, E. R. 1977. "Chapter 1" Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure. London: The Athlone Press, pp. 1-17.

[Week 5 Culture as collective character or "pattern"]
王銘銘2005: 第三章
Benedict, Ruth. 1935. Patterns of culture. London: Routledge & Paul.

[Week 6 Culture as symbol, part I]
Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1987 [1967]“Social structure: Structural anthropology.”In Perspectives in cultural anthropology. Edited by Herbert Applebaum. New York: State University of New York Press, 411-415.

[Week 7 Culture as symbol, part II]
Geertz, Clifford. 1973. “Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture.” In The Interpretation of Cultures. BasicBooks, 3-32.
紀爾茲「稠密描述」：一個文化詮釋理論
http://htc.emandy.idv.tw/newsletters/001/article02.html
[Week 8 Culture as practice, part I]
Sahlins, Marshall. 2003(1982). “Individual Experience and Cultural Order.” Culture in Practice. NY: Zone.
陸德泉1993＜記海德園的「理性選擇」論戰＞《信報》一九九三年十月二十六日。
王銘銘2005：第九章

[Week 9/ Culture as practice, part II]
王銘銘2003＜薩林斯及其西方認識論反思＞《西方與非西方》北京：華夏出版社，373-390。
Dirks, Nicholas B. 1994. “Ritual and resistance: Subversion as a social fact.” In Culture/ Power/ History: A reader in contemporary social theory. Edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley and Sherry B. Ortner. Princeton: Princeton UP, 483-503.

[Week 10/ Reflections on fieldwork and ethnographic writing]
Rabinow, Paul. 1977. “Respectable information.” Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 101-124.
王銘銘2002: 第七章

[Week 11: Special topic (guest speaker)]

[Week 12/ Case study I: Tourism and cultural identities]
White, Sydney D. 1997. “Fame and sacrifice: The gendered construction of Naxi identities.” Modern China 23(3): 298-327.
Schein, Louisa. 1999. “Performing modernity.” Cultural Anthropology 14(3): 361-395.

[Week 13/ Case study II: Culture and Development]
Sahlins, Marshall.1972. "The Original Affluent Society." Stone Age Economics. Chicago: Chicago UP.
Escobar, Arturo. 1998. "Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the Third World." Cultural Anthropology 3(4):
中譯：艾思確巴（Arturo Escobar）＜權力與能見性：發展與第三世界之編造發明和管理＞《發展的迷思》香港：牛津大學出版社，頁41-60。

[Week 14/ Conclusion: anthropology and cultural studies]

Other references

English
Fei, Xiaotong. 1939. Peasant Life in China. London: Routledge.
Geertz, Clifford. 1993 (1973). Interpretation of Cultures. London: Fontana Press.
Geertz, Clifford. 1983. Local knowledge : further essays in interpretive anthropology. NY: Basic Books.
Herzfeld, Michael. 2001. Anthropology : theoretical practice in culture and society. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers.
Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Socieites. NY: Vintage.
Mead, Margaret. 1961. Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization. New York: Morrow.
Sahlins, Marshall. 2000. Culture in Practice. NY: Zone.
Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. 2001. Tasting food, Tasting freedom: Excursing into eating, culture and the past. Boston: Beacon.

Chinese
費孝通1987(1939)《江村經濟》香港：中華。
克利福德‧格爾茲著，納日碧力戈...[等]譯1999《文化的解釋》，上海 : 上海人民出版社。
克利弗德‧紀爾茲著 ; 楊德睿譯2002《地方知識 : 詮釋人類學論文集》台北：麥田。
賈雷德．戴蒙德2000《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵：人類社會的命運》上海：上海譯文出版社。
瑪格麗特米德 ; 周曉虹, 李姚軍譯1990《薩摩亞人的成年 : 為西方文明所作的原始人類的青年心理研究》台北：遠流。）
Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. 2001《吃》台北 : 藍鯨出版有限公司。
林耀華著 ; 莊孔韶, 林宗成譯 1990 《金翼 : 中國家族制度的社會學研究》香港 : 三聯書店(香港)有限公司。
項飆2000《跨越邊界的社區 : 北京「浙江村」的生活史》北京：三聯書店。
周華山2001《無父無夫的國度？ : 重女不輕男的母系摩梭》 香港：香港同志研究社。