教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

教學週次Course Week	彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week	彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 9 週 Week 9	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work
	第 18 週 Week 18	自主總整學習Capstone self-learning

Week	Date	Topics	Assignments Due
1	9/12	Course Overview
2	9/19	Salvage Ethnography	Nanook of the North Reflection
3	9/26	Race and Ethnicity
4	10/3	Gender and Sexuality
5	10/10	National holiday. No class.
6	10/17	Exchange
7	10/24	Ritual and Symbol
8	10/31	Production
9	11/7	Midterm	Midterm exam
10	11/14	Participant Observation
11	11/21	Interpretation
12	11/28	Why Indigenous Anthropology?	Two-paragraph thick-description plan
13	12/5	Environmental anthropology
14	12/12	State and Violence (*Fieldtrip)
15	12/19	Power and Biopolitics
16	12/26	Science, Technology, and Society	3-4-page thick-description paper
17	1/2	Life and Being
18	1/9	Wrap up

 

9/12 Week 1: Course Overview and Introduction

• Morgan, Lewis Henry 1985 (1877). “Ethnical Periods.” In Ancient Society. http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/morgan-lewis/ancient-society/ch01.htm 
• In-class screening: Nanook of the North (1922, 79 min., B&W, silent, Dir: Robert Flaherty)

 

9/19 Week 2: Salvage Ethnography

• Malinowski, Bronislaw 1960 (1922). “The Subject, Method and Scope of this Inquiry” and “Conclusion.” In Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London: EP Dutton, pp 1-25 and 516-518.

Supplementary readings:

• Rony, Fatimah Tobing. 1997. Ch. 4 “Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography,” in The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle, pp. 99-126.

• Grimshaw, Anna 2001. “The Innocent Eye: Flaherty, Malinowski and the Romantic Quest,” in The Ethnographer’s Eye, pp. 44-57.

 

** DUE in class (week 2): Nanook of the north Reflection **

Within one-page written response (about 400-500 words) reflect in any way you wish on the documentary, but do not consult outside sources. The 79-minute documentary is accessible through YouTube.

 

9/26 Week 3: Race and Ethnicity

• Boas, Franz 1889. On Alternating Sounds. American Anthropologist. 2(1): 47-54

Supplementary readings:

• Boas, Franz 1920. The Methods of Ethnology. American Anthropologist. 22(4): 311-321

 

10/3 Week 4: Gender and Sexuality

• Benedict, Ruth 1934. “The Integration of Culture” and “The Individual and the Pattern of Culture.” In Patterns of Culture. Boston: Mariner, pp 45-56 and 251-278. Focus on 259-267.

Supplementary readings: 

• Mead, Margaret. Introduction, in Coming of Age in Samoa: A Study of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies.
• Mead, Margaret 1935. Introduction, Chapters 2 and 3. In Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. Pp. v-xiv,15-39. New York: William Morrow and Company.
• Benedict, Ruth. Chapter 1, in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture.

 

10/10 Week 5: National holiday. No class. 

 

10/17 Week 6:  Exchange

• Mauss, Marcel. Chapter 1 (focus on pp. 13-16), in The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. Translated by W. D. Halls. London; New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

 

10/24 Week 7: Ritual and Symbol

• Turner, Victor 1970. “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage (focus on pp. 93-97).” In The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp 94-111.

Supplementary reading:

• Levi-Strauss, Claude, “The Sorcerer and his Magic,” 167-185. In Structural Anthropology. Revised ed. edition. New York: Basic Books, 1974.
• Saussure, F. 1959. “Nature of the Linguistic Sign” and “Immutability and Mutability of the Sign” in Course in General Linguistics. New York: McGraw-Hill Book.

 

10/31 Week 8: Production

• Mintz, Sidney 1985. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books. “Food, Sociality and Sugar " Pp. 3-18.

Supplementary reading:

• Marx, Karl. “Section 4 - The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof,” In Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Translated by Ben Fowkes. New York: Penguin Books in association with New Left Review, 1990. (Chinese edition available).
• Srnicek, Nick. 2017. Platform Capitalism. Theory Redux. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity Press.

 

11/7 Week 9: Midterm week.

***Due in class: Midterm exam***

 

11/14 Week 10: Participant Observation

• Geertz, Clifford 1973. “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture (focus on pp. 5-10).” In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, pp 3-30.

 

11/21 Week 11: Interpretation

• Geertz, Clifford 1973. “Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight.” In The Interpretation of Cultures, pp 412-453. 

 

11/28 Week 12: Why Indigenous anthropology?

In-class film screening: 蘭嶼觀點 Voices of orchid island (1993)

 

 

12/5 Week 13: Environmental anthropology

• Ranco, Darren J. “Toward a Native Anthropology: Hermeneutics, Hunting Stories, and Theorizing from Within.” Wicazo Sa Review 21, no. 2 (2006): 61–78.

Supplementary reading:

• Powell, Dana E. “Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation.” Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
• Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. “Part Two. After Progress: Salvage Accumulation,” pp. 55-148. In The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
• Bruno Latour, pp.1-16, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Polity, 2018).
• Frantz Fanon, Chapter 1 “Concerning Violence,” in The Wretched of the Earth (focus on pp. 1-13).

 

12/12 Week 14: State and Violence (Fieldtrip)

• Fieldtrip to the National Human Rights Museum 
• Historical Sites of Injustice

https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/Index

**Due in class: Group Worksheet***

Supplementary reading: 

• https://monumentlab.com/
• Huang, Shu-Mei. “Ethics of Heritage: Locating the Punitive State in the Historical Penal Landscape of Taipei.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 23, no. 2 (February 7, 2017): 111–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2016.1246463.
• Jeffrey Hou, 2021. 不義地景(landscape of injustice)與正義長弧

 

12/19 Week 15: Power and Biopolitics

• Marwick, Alice Emily. Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Focusing on pages 1-13.

Supplementary reading:

• Foucault, Michel 1995 (1975). “Docile Bodies.” In Discipline and Punish. New York: Vintage, pp 135-170 (focus on pp. 135-141).
• Foucault, M. 2003 “Lecture 11” in Society Must Be Defended. New York: Picador. pp. 239- 264.
• Ortner, Sherry B. “Dark Anthropology and Its Others: Theory since the Eighties.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 1 (2016): 47–73.
• Foucault, M. 2007 “Lectures 1” in Security, Territory and Population. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-27

 

12/26 Week 16: Science, Technology, and Society

• Seaver, Nick. 2018. “What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?” Cultural Anthropology 33 (3): 375–385. 

Supplementary reading:

• chuang. “Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System.” Chuang (blog), November 12, 2020. http://chuangcn.org/2020/11/delivery-renwu-translation/.
• Nardi, Bonnie. My Life As a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft. Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life Ser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.

 

 

1/2 Week 17: Life and Being

• Kohn, Eduardo. “Introduction,” in How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. First edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Supplementary reading:

• Stevenson, Lisa. “Introduction,” in Life beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2014.
• Cruickshank, Julie. 2005. Do Glaciers Listen? University of British Columbia Press.
• Povinelli, Elizabeth. 1995. Do Rocks Listen? The cultural politics of apprehending Australian aboriginal labor. American Anthropologist, New Series 97(3): 505-518. 
• Teaiwa, Katherina Martina. 2015. Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba. University of Indiana Press.
• Escobar, Arturo. 2008 Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes. Duke University Press.

 

1/9 Week 18: Wrap up