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Anthropology 632
Comparative Analysis of Kinship
KINSHIP AND RELIGION
Wednesday, 4-7pm, Winter 2003
Tom Frick and Gillian Feeley-Harnik
(The syllabus in Word format)
In the Winter 2003 term, this course will examine current theoretical and methodological issues in the analysis of kinship and religion, using case studies from Africa, Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Europe, and North America. In the words of anthropologist Robert McKinley: "Kinship itself is a moral philosophy. It answers the question of how it is possible for one human being to be morally bound to another. The strength of a kinship system is based on its ability to draw people into this framework of mutual trust." Yet kin relations may also be fraught with violence, ranging from sacrifice to murder; some would argue that kinship and racism are simply different dimensions of the same phenomenon. This course will focus on the social processes through which people define, create, extend, limit, sever or transform their relatedness with others within and over generations. We will explore how people conceptualize who is, or is not, their own "kin" or "kind" and why; the moral imagination involved in working through the contradictory loyalties characterizing even the most intimate, small-scale relations; where, how and why people draw the lines between themselves and other forms of organic life; how generative relations are expressed in forms ranging from substances like blood, milk, or semen, to new reproductive technologies and genetic genealogies; and the significance of places - houses, land - in creating, shaping, containing, transforming relationships over time.
Course requirements: This is a small, seminar-style course in which students can expect lots of reading for discussion in class and a major research paper, as well as one, perhaps more, oral presentation/s to the class based on the reading and on the research for the term paper.
Grades: Grades will be based on the term paper, the presentation/s, and contributions to class discussions.
Readings: The required reading will include 8-10 books available at the Shaman Drum Bookstore (313 State St, tel: 662-7407) and a "coursepack" of articles which will be distributed at no cost during class times at least a week before discussion. The required books will also be on reserve at Mischa Titiev Library (2033 LSA, ph. 764-8310).(http://www.lib.umich.edu/reserves/ures/).
Books Available at Shaman Drum Bookshop:
Bahloul, Joëlle
1996 The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial
Algeria, 1937-1962. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Carsten, Janet
2000 Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship.
NY/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Franklin, Sarah and Susan McKinnon (eds.)
2001 Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press.
Hallowell, A. Irving
1992 The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba: Ethnography into History. Edited
with Preface and Afterword by Jennifer S. H. Brown. Fort Worth, TX: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston.
Holmberg, David H.
1989 Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange among Nepal's Tamang.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Holy, Ladislav
1996 Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship. London: Pluto.
Kahn, Susan
2000 Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Out of Print Book & Possible Places to Purchase on Web:
Neville, Gwen Kennedy
1987 Kinship and Pilgrimage: Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant
Culture. NY/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
abebooks.com
alibris.com
amazon.com
powells.com
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COURSE SCHEDULE:
PART I: INTRODUCTIONS
January 8. Introduction to Course
Bateson, Gregory
1988 "Introduction." In Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity.
New York: Bantam Books, pp. 3-22.
Bly, Robert
1972 "Looking for Dragon Smoke." The Seventies No. 1, Spring:
3-8.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson
2000 "Dancing with Professors: The Trouble with Academic Prose."
In Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West. New
York: W.W. Norton, pp. 333-340.
Ortner, Sherry B.
1973 On key symbols. American Anthropologist 75(4): 1338-1346.
January 15. Introduction to Issues, I: Rethinking Kinship and Social Relations
Carsten, Janet
2000 "Introduction: Cultures of Relatedness." In Cultures of
Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship, ed. Janet Carsten,
pp. 1-36. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Franklin, Sarah and Susan McKinnon
2001 "Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies [introduction]."
In Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, eds. Sarah Franklin
and Susan McKinnon, pp. 1-25. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press.
Holy, Ladislav
1996 "Introduction," "First Principles" (Ch. 1), and
"Universality of Kinship and the Current Practice of Kinship Studies"
(Ch. 7). In Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship, pp. 1-39, 143-90.
London: Pluto.
Ingold, Tim
1997 "Life Beyond the Edge of Nature? Or, the Mirage of Society."
In The Mark of the Social, J. B. Greenwood, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and
Littlefield, pp. 231-52.
Recommended Reading
Barnard, Alan
1994 "Rules and Prohibitions: The Form and Content of Human Kinship."
In Tim Ingold (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology, London, Routledge,
pp. 783-811.
Barry, Laurent S. (ed.)
2000 Special issue on "Question de Parenté." L'Homme
vol. 154-155 (avril/septembre).
Parkin, Robert
1997 Kinship: An Introduction to Basic Concepts. Oxford: Blackwell.
Peletz, Michael G.
1995 "Kinship Studies in Late Twentieth-Century Anthropology."
Annual Review of Anthropology 24:343-372.
Peletz, Michael G.
2001 "Ambivalence in Kinship Since the Forties." In Relative
Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, eds. Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon,
pp. 413-44. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press.
Stone, Linda
1997. Kinship and Gender: An Introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview.
January 22. Introduction to Issues, II: The Ethnography of Moralities
Beidelman, T. O.
1993 "Imagining Beliefs and Morality" "Speculations about
the Social Order: Stories and Society," "Humans and Animals:
Stories and Subversion," "Conclusion." In Moral Imagination
in Kaguru Modes of Thought, Chaps 1, 10-12 (pp. 1-10, 160-215). Washington,
D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. (Originally 1986)
Delaney, Carol
2001 "Cutting the Ties that Bind: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Patriarchal
Kinship." In Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, eds.
Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, pp. 445-67. Durham, NC: Duke Univ.
Press.
Howell, Signe
1997 "Introduction." In The Ethnography of Moralities, ed. Signe
Howell, pp. 1-22. London: Routledge.
Murdoch, Iris
1997 "Vision and Choice in Morality." In Existentialists and
Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature. New York: Penguin, pp.
76-98. [Originally 1956]
Strathern, Marilyn
1997 "Double standards." In The Ethnography of Moralities, ed.
Signe Howell, pp. 127-51 London: Routledge.
Recommended Reading
Laidlaw, James
2002 "For an Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom." Journal of
the Royal Anthropological Institute 8:311-32
Murdoch, Iris
1997 "The Sovereignty of the Good Over Other Concepts." In Existentialists
and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature. New York: Penguin,
pp. 363-385. [Originally 1967]
Taylor, Charles
1985 "The Person." In Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, and
Steven Lukes, eds., The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy,
History. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 257-281.
Walsh, Andrew
2002 "Responsibilities, Taboos and 'the Freedom To Do Otherwise"
in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar." Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute 8:451-68.
PART II: RELATEDNESS
January 29: Kinship as Descent: Rethinking Genealogies
Feeley-Harnik, Gillian
2001 "The Ethnography of Creation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the American
Beaver." In Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, eds.
Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, pp. 54-84. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press.
Gross, Placid Alois
1971 Schmaltz Family History. Richardton, ND: Assumption Abbey.
Kawbawgam.
1994 "Nanabozho" and "Kawbawgam's Remarks on Nanabozho."
In Ojibwa Narratives of Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques LePique,
1893-1895, ed. A. P. Bourgeois, pp. 25-31. Recorded with notes by H. H.
Kidder. Detroit, IL: Wayne State U. P. [Original ca. 1894].
McKinley, Robert
2001 "The Philosophy of Kinship: A Reply to Schneider's Critique
of the Study of Kinship." In Richard Feinberg and Martin Ottenheimer
(eds.), The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 131-167.
Morgan, Lewis Henry
1871 "Preface"; Chap. 1: "Introduction"; Chap 2: "General
Observations upon Systems of Relationships"; skim one of the later
chapters on the "Families". In Systems of Consanguinity and
Affinity of the Human Family. Smithsonian "Contributions to Knowledge,"
XVII, pp. xxi-xxv, 3-15. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Trautmann, Thomas
2001 "The Whole History of Kinship Terminology in Three Chapters:
Before Morgan, Morgan, and after Morgan." Anthropological Theory
1: 268-87.
Recommended Reading
Feeley-Harnik, Gillian
2001 "'The Mystery of Life in All Its Forms': Religious Dimensions
of Culture in Early American Anthropology." In Religion and Cultural
Studies, ed. Susan L. Mizruchi, pp. 140-91.
Schneider, David M.
1995 "Studying Kinship." Chapter 10 in Schneider on Schneider:
The Conversion of the Jews and Other Anthropological Stories. Durham:
Duke University Press, pp. 193-217.
Trautmann, Thomas
1987 Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
February 5: Kinship and Marriage: "House Societies"
Carsten, Janet
1995 "Houses in Langkawi [Malaysia]: Stable Structures or Mobile
Homes?" In About the House:. Lévi-Strauss and Beyond, eds.
J. Carsten and S. Hugh-Jones, pp. 105-28. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Fricke, Tom
1997 "Marriage Change as Moral Change: Culture, Virtue, and Demographic
Transition." In The Continuing Demographic Transition, eds. Gavin
W. Jones, Robert M. Douglas, John C. Caldwell, and Rennie M. D'Souza,
pp. 183-212. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Holmberg, David H.
1989 In Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange among Nepal's Tamang.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapter 3, "A Culture of Exchange
and Its Paradoxes," pp. 51-82; Chapter 7, "An Amonastic Bhuddism,"
pp. 175-212.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
1982 "The Social Organization of the Kwakiutl." In The Way of
the Masks, trans. Sylvia Modelski, pp. 163-87. Seattle: University of
Washington Press. [Original 1975]
Orsi, Robert A.
1985 Chapter IV, "The Domus-Centered Society," in The Madonna
of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New
Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 75-106.
Sabean, David Warren
1990 "The Ideology of the House." In Property, Production, and
Family in Neckerhausen, 1700-1870. New York: Cambridge University Press,
pp. 88-123. [Concentrate on pp. 88-101]
Recommended Reading
Behar, Ruth
1986 Part two in Santa María del Monte: The Presence of the Past
in a Spanish Village. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [See especially
"The Village House," and "An Archaeology of the House,"
and "Setting up House."]
Holmberg, David H.
1989 Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange among Nepal's Tamang.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapter 1, "Elementary Structures
in Ritual Life," pp. 1-10; Chapter 8, "Ritual Polarities,"
pp. 213-36.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
1969 The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Boston: Beacon. [Originally
1949] Chapter 5, "The Principle of Reciprocity," pp. 52-68;
Chapter 16, "Exchange and Purchase," pp. 255-68.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
1987 Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951-1982. Oxford: Oxford Univ.
Press. [See especially section on "house societies" in which
house becomes "the objectification" of unstable relations of
alliance, giving them illusion of solidity.]
Orsi, Robert A..
1985 Chapter V, "Conflicts in the Domus," in The Madonna of
115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Haven:
Yale Univ. Press, pp. 107-49.
February 12. Cultural Conceptions of Generative Relations: Sap, Blood, Eggs, Sperm...
Bouquet, Mary
1996 "Family Trees and Their Affinities: The Visual Imperative of
the Genealogical Diagram." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(n.s.) 2:43-66. (See also "Comment" by Robert Parkin and response
by Mary Bouquet in JRAI 3(2) [1997]:374-376.)
Carsten, Janet
1995 "The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding,
Personhood and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi." American
Ethnologist 22:223-41.
Fox, James J.
1971 "Sister's Child as Plant: Metaphors in an Idiom of Consanguinity."
In Rethinking Kinship and Marriage, ed. Rodney Needham. London: Tavistock.
Pp. 219-52.
Hutchinson, Sharon Elaine
2000 "Identity and Substance: The Broadening Base of Relatedness
among the Nuer of Southern Sudan." In Cultures of Relatedness, ed.
Janet Carsten. Cambridge UP, pp. 55-72.
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane
1991 "The Genesis of the Family Tree." I Tatti Studies 4: 105-29.
Renne, Elisha P.
2002 "The Fundamentals of Fertility: Cosmology and Conversion in
a Southwestern Nigerian Town." Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute 8:551-69.
Recommended Reading
Giambelli, Rodolfo A.
1998 "The Coconut, the Body and the Human Being: Metaphors of Life
and Growth in Nusa Penida and Bali." In The Social Life of Trees,
ed. Laura Rival, pp. 133-57. Oxford/NY: Berg.
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane
2000 L'ombre des ancLtres: essai sur l'imaginaire médiéval
de la parenté. Paris: Fayard.
Patlagean, Evelyne
1966 "Une Represéntaion Byzantine de la Parenté et
ses Origines Occidentales." L'Homme: Revue française d'anthropologie
VI(4): 59-81.
Strong, Pauline Turner
1996 "'Indian Blood': Reflections on the Reckoning and Refiguring
of Native North American Identity." Cultural Anthropology 11:547-576.
Watson, Arthur
1928 "The Speculum Virginium with Special Reference to the Tree of
Jesse." Speculum 3(4): 445-469.
February 19. Separating and Remembering: Houses, Mementoes, Heirlooms
Bahloul, Joëlle
1996 The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial
Algeria, 1937-1962. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Recommended Reading
Bachelard, Gaston
1994 "The House, from Cellar to Garret, the Significance of the Hut."
Chapter 1 in The Poetics of Space. Beacon Press, pp. 3-37.
Bahloul, Joëlle
1989 "From a Muslim Banquet to a Jewish Seder." In Arabs and
Jews: Contact and Boundaries, eds. A. Udovitch and M. Cohen, pp. 85-95.
Princeton: Darwin Press.
Bahloul, Joëlle
1992 "Remembering the Domestic Space: A Symbolic Return of Sephardic
Jews." In GOING HOME, ed. Jack Kugelmass, pp. 133-50. Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University Press. (Special edition of YIVO Annual, vol. 21.)
Bahloul, Joëlle
1995 "Food Practices among Sephardic Immigrants in Contemporary France:
Dietary Laws in Urban Society." Journal of the American Academy of
Religion LXIII:485-96.
Bahloul, Joëlle
1999 "On 'Cabbages and Kings': The Politics of Jewish Identity in
Post-Colonial French Society and Cuisine." In Food in Global History,
ed. Raymond Grew, pp. 92-106. Boulder, CO: Westview.
Bahloul, Joëlle
1999 "The Memory House: Time and Place in Jewish Immigrant Culture
in France." In House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe, eds.
Donna Birdwell-Pheasant and Denise Lawrence-ZúZiga, pp. 239-49.
Oxford: Berg.
Bourdieu, Pierre
1990 "The Kabyle House or the World Reversed." Appendix in The
Logic of Practice. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 271-283.
Brown, Peter
1981 "Praesentia." In The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function
in Late Christianity. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, pp. 86-105.
Desjarlais, Robert R.
1992 "Pain Clings to the Body." In Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics
of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 90-134.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff
1984 "Craftsman Style and Technostyle." In Discovering the Vernacular
Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 113-123.
McDannell, Colleen
1995 "The Bible in the Victorian Home." In Material Christianity:
Religion and Popular Culture in America. New Haven: Yale University Press,
pp. 67-102.
Marcoux, Jean-Sébasien
2001 The 'Casser Maison' Ritual: Constructing the Self by Emptying the
Home." Journal of Material Culture 6:213-35.
Mueggler, Erik
2001 "An Empty Frame." In The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence,
and Place in Southwest China. University of California Press. Pp. 50-94.
Parkin, David
1999 "Mementoes as Transitional Objects in Human Displacement."
Journal of Material Culture 4:303-20.
Peterson, Fred W.
1992 "Farmhouse Types 1 and 2: What Makes a House a Home?" Chapter
4 in Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest,
1850-1920. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, pp. 61-95.
WINTER BREAK: FEBRUARY 22 - MARCH 2
PART III: ANCESTRY, LAND, AND LABOR
March 5: Land, Memory, Kinship, and Pilgrimage
Fricke, Tom
2003 "Next Year Country." DoubleTake Magazine, in press.
Kendall-Taylor, Nathaniel and Bradd Shore
2002 "Salem Camp Meeting: A Theater of Family Memory. Working Paper
No. 11, The Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life.
Neville, Gwen Kennedy
1987 Kinship and Pilgrimage: Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant
Culture. NY/Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Recommended Reading
Chaucer, Geoffrey
1957 "General Prologue." In F.N. Robinson, ed., The Canterbury
Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 17-25. [Originally circa 1387-92]
Frey, Nancy Louise
1998 "Going Home." In Pilgrim Stories On and Off the Road to
Santiago: Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain. Berkeley: University
of California Press, pp. 177-216.
Gold, Ann Grodzins
1988 "Responses to Mortality." In Fruitful Journeys: The Ways
of Rajasthani Pilgrims. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.
59-132.
Halbwachs, Maurice
1992 "The Collective Memory of the Family." In On Collective
Memory, Lewis A. Coser, editor and translator. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, pp. 54-83. [Originally 1941]
Höfer, András
1994 "Ritual Journey." In A Recitation of the Tamang Shaman
in Nepal. Bonn: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag, pp. 29-31.
McDannell, Colleen
1995 "The Religious Symbolism of Laurel Hill Cemetery." In Material
Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America. New Haven: Yale
University Press, pp. 103-131.
Sheldrake, Philip
2001 "Place in Christian Tradition." In Spaces for the Sacred:
Place, Memory, and Identity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Turner, Victor and Edith L.B. Turner
1978 "Introduction: Pilgrimage as a Liminoid Phenomenon." In
Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. New York: Columbia University
Press, pp. 1-39.
White, Richard
1998 "Introduction" and Chapters 1-2." In Remembering Ahanagran:
Storytelling in a Family's Past. New York: Hill & Wang, pp. 4-21.
March 12: Political-Economic Perspective on Ancestry, Land, and Labor
Auslander, Mark
2001 "Going by the Trees: Glimpsing Slavery's Landscapes in African
American Family Memory." Paper presented at conference, "Dutiful
Occasions: Working Families, Everyday Lives," University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, 3-5 May 2001.
Auslander, Mark
2001 "The Myth of Kitty: Paradoxes of Blood, Law and Slavery in a
Georgia Community."Atlanta: Emory University, Center for Myth and
Ritual in American Life (MARIAL) Working Paper No. 1.
Auslander, Mark
2002 "Something We Need to Get Back to: Mythologies of Origin and
Rituals of Solidarity in African American Working Families." Atlanta:
Emory University, Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL)
Working Paper No. 6.
Cole, Jennifer and Karen Middleton
2001 "Rethinking Ancestors and Colonial Power in Madagascar."
Africa 71(1): 1-37.
Feeley-Harnik, Gillian
1997 "Death, Mourning, and Ancestry." In Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan
Africa, John Middleton (ed.), vol. 1: 406-16. NY: Simon and Schuster.
Recommended Reading
Auslander, Mark
1993 "'Open the Wombs': The Symbolic Politics of Ngoni Witchfinding."
In Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Africa, eds. Jean
Comaroff and John Comaroff, pp. 167-92. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Auslander, Mark
2002 "Rituals of the Family." A Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia
Entry. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/wfnetwork/rft/wfpedia/wfpROFent.html.
Feeley-Harnik, Gillian
1997 "Madagascar: History, Religious Systems, Rituals." In Encyclopedia
of Sub-Saharan Africa, ed. John Middleton (ed.), vol 3, pp. 86-89. New
York: Simon and Schuster.
March 22: Ancestry, Generation, Substance, Memory, Land [NOTE: THIS MEETING
IS ON A SATURDAY-REGULAR WEDNESDAY CLASS WILL BE MOVED]
Hallowell, A. Irving
1992 The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba: Ethnography into History. Edited
with Preface and Afterword by Jennifer S. H. Brown. Fort Worth, TX: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston.
Ingold, Tim
2000 "Ancestry, Generation, Substance, Memory, Land." In The
Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill,
pp. 132-51. London/NY: Routledge.
Recommended Reading
Brown, Jennifer S. H.
1987 "A. I. Hallowell and William Berens Revisited." Papers
of the Eighteenth Algonquian Conference, ed. William Cowan. Ottawa, Caroleton
University, pp. 17-27.
Hallowell, A. Irving
Culture and Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Hallowell, A. Irving
1958 "Ojibwa Metaphysics of Being and the Perception of Persons."
In Person Perception and Interpersonal Behavior, Renato Tagiuri and Luigi
Petrullo, eds. Pp. 63-85. Stanford University Press.
Hallowell, A. Irving
1960 "Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior, and World View." In Culture
in History: Essays in Honor of Paul Radin, Stanley Diamond, ed. Pp. 19-52.
New York: Columbia University Press.
Hallowell, A. Irving
1976 Contributions to Anthropology: Selected Papers of A. Irving Hallowell.
Raymond D. Fogelson, ed. University of Chicago Press.
Harrod, Howard L.
1997 "A Kinship Among Beings." In Renewing the World: Plains
Indian Religion and Morality. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pp.
157-172.
Ingold, Tim.
2000 "A Circumpolar Night's Dream." In The Perception of the
Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, pp. 89-110. London,
New York: Routledge.
Nelson, Richard K.
1983 "The Watchful World." In Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon
View of the Northern Forest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.
14-32.
March 26: Recombinant Relations: Property, New Reproductive Technologies,
and Genetic Genealogies
Kahn, Susan
2000 Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Recommended Reading
Edwards, Jeanette and Marilyn Strathern
2000 "Including Our Own." In Cultures of Relatedness, ed. J.
Carsten. Cambridge UP, pp. 149-66.
Franklin, Sarah
2001 "Biologization Revisited: Kinship Theory in the Context of the
New Biologies." In Relative Values, eds. S. Franklin and S. McKinnon.
Duke UP, pp.302-25.
Marks, Jonathan
2001 "'We're Going to Tell These People Who They Really Are': Science
and Relatedness." In Relative Values, eds. S. Franklin and S. McKinnon.
Duke UP, pp. 355-83.
Sharp, Lesley A.
2001 "Commodified Kin: Death, Mourning, and Competing Claims on the
Bodies of Organ Donors in the United States." American Anthropologist
103:112-33.
Simpson, Bob
2000 "Imagined Genetic Communities: Ethnicity and Essentialism in
the Twenty-first Century." Anthropology Today 16: 3-6.
Simpson, Bob
2001 "Making 'Bad' Deaths 'Good': The Kinship Consequences of Posthumous
Conception." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N. S.)
7: 1-18.
Strathern, Marilyn
1992 "Greenhouse Effect." In After Nature: English Kinship in
the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp
128-185.
Thompson, Charis
2001 "Strategic Naturalizing: Kinship in an Infertility Clinic."
In Relative Values, eds. S. Franklin and S. McKinnon, pp. 175-202. Durham,
NC: Duke Univ. Press.
April 2: Presentations of Students' Projects
April 9: Presentations of Students' Projects, continued
April 16: Presentations of Students' Projects, continued
Additional Handouts in the course of the semester, not listed above:
Bede
1994 The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Judith McClure
and Roger Collins, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Chapters 26-28,
pp. 40-55.
Bloch, Maurice and Jonathan Parry
1982 "Introduction: Death and the Regeneration of Life." Death
and the Regeneration of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp
1-44.
Bynum, Caroline Walker
1995 The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. New
York Columbia University Press. "Introduction: Seed Images, Ancient
and Modern, " pp. 1-17; "Chapter 5, Resurrection, Heresy, and
Burial ad Sanctos: The Twelfth Century Context," pp. 200-225.
Davis, Natalie Zemon
2000 The Gift in Sixteenth Century France. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press. "Introduction," pp. 3-10; "Chapter 1, The Spirit
of Gifts," pp. 11-22; "Chapter 4, Gifts and Sales," pp.
43-66; "Conclusion," pp. 124-132.
Freedberg, David
1989 "Image and Pilgrimage." Chapter 6 in The Power of Images:
Studies in the History and Theory of Response. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, pp. 99-135.
Heaney, Seamus
1975 "Funeral Rites." In North. London: Faber and Faber.
1980 "The God in the Tree: Early Irish Nature Poetry." In Preoccupations:
Selected Prose, 1968-1978. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 181-189.
Howe, Nicholas
2003 "Pilgrimage Sites: Starting form Chartres." In Across an
Inland Sea: Writing in Place from Buffalo to Berlin. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, pp. 109-139.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff
1994 "In Favor of Trees." In A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time.
New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 95-103..
1994 "Vernacular Gardens." In A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time.
New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 121-133.
Paxton, Frederick S.
1990 Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval
Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [Paper back 1996] "Introduction:
History and Ritual," pp. 1-18; "Conclusion," pp. 201-210.
Schneider, David M.
1972 "What is Kinship All About?" In Kinship in the Morgan Centennial
Year, ed. Priscilla Reining. Washington, D.C.: The Anthropological Society
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