Disciplinary ancestries of Anthropology and History

Stocking, George W. Jr., excerpts from Victorian Anthropology. New York: Free Press, 1987.-- "Prologue: A Precipice in Time" and "The Idea of Civilization Before the Crystal Palace (1750-1850)"

Disciplinary Ancestries: on the impact of the idea of evolution
Stocking: "Ethnology on the Eve of Evolution (1830-1858)"
Herder: excerpt from Philosophical Writings (edited and translated by Michael N. Forster (Cambridge 2002).

History and the postmodern critique
C. Behan McCullagh, excerpt from The Logic of History (2004).
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, "History in a postmodern world" in Fox-Genovese and Lasch-Quinn, eds., Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society. 1999, Routledge.

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Case Studies: Nick, Maria, Dusty, Anabella

5 oct

Roseberry, W. 1996 "The Unbearable Lightness of Anthropology" Radical History Review 65:5-25.
Said, E. 1989. Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors. Critical Inquiry, no. 15, pps. 205-225.
Dirks, Nicholas (1994) "Is Vice Versa? Historical Anthropologies and Anthropological Histories." in Assessing Cultural Anthropology . New York,: McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Preliminary project presentations:Maria, Kirsten, Beau, Anabella

What is Ethnohistory?
Fogelson, Ray "The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents" (1988)
Trigger, Bruce G. "Ethnohistory: Problems and Prospects" (1982)
Excerpt from Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, "Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629" translated by J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig

Preliminary project presentations:Nick, Dusty, Morgan, Barbara, Octavio, Shannon, Nedra

Chinese Ethnology

Hostetler, Laura (2000), Qing Connections to the Early Modern World: Ethnography and Cartography in Eighteenth-Century China. Modern Asian Studies; Jul2000, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p623, 40p.

for background on the Chinese development of ethnology, consult:
Wang Mingming, 'The Third Eye: Towards a Critique of 'Nativist Anthropology Critique of Anthropology; Jun2002, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p149, 26p (and if possible, download and read the brief history of early ethnology by Mingming contained in this document)

Thanksgiving

Trigger "The Relevance of Archaeology " in History of Archaeological Thought (Second Edition, 2006)

Presentations: Morgan, Octavio, Maria, Shannon, Kirsten

final topics
Trouillot, excerpt from Silencing the Past"
Williams, Brackette F. (1992) Of straightening combs, sodium hydroxide, and potassium hydroxide in archaeological and cultural-anthropological analyses of ethnogenesis. American Antiquity 57(4):608-612.

other readings --

Stocking, George (1992) "Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology" in The Ethnographer's Magic. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 342-361.

Sahlins, M. "Introduction: History and Structural Theory" from Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities (1981) Michigan Pr.

Sahlins, M. (1994). Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the context of modern world history. In R. Borofsky (Ed.), Assessing Cultural Anthropology . New York,: McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Stocking, G. 1995 "Delimiting Anthropology: historical reflections on the boundaries of a boundless discipline." Social Research 62(4):933-67.
Sahlins, M. 1985 "Other times, other customs: The anthropology of history" American Anthropologist 85(3):512-544.
Borofsky, R. 1994 "Introduction" to Assessing Cultural Anthropology . New York,: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Gilgamesh

Presentations: Needra, Dusty, Anabela, Beau, Nick

Final project due Monday, Dec. 10.