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Entity ritual and power an anthroplogicalAnthropology 103 is an introduction to some of the major topics and issues that concern well-disposed and cultural anthropologists today. It complements Anth 102 Anthropological Perspectives, offered in the second semester, which deals with a separate run away of anthropological issues. Together, Anth 102 and 103 constitute a comprehensive introduction to anthropology and students intending to major in anthropology should do both of them. Both Anth 102 and Anth 103 in like manner complement our other 100-level courses, Anth 104 Endangered Peoples (offered in 2011) and Anth 105 Human Evolution, offered this semester.Course convenor lecturerAssoc. Prof. Patrick McAllister, Room 325, Department of Sociology and Anthropology peal ext 7103 email emailprotectedCourse administratorRoslyn Kerr, Room 207, School of loving and Political SciencesPh iodine ext 7185 email emailprotectedy.ac.nzTutorsAmba Brackenreg Morton, Room 207, School of Social an d Political SciencesPhone ext 7185 email emailprotectedNiki McCusker, Room 207, School of Social and Political SciencesPhone ext 7185 email emailprotectedConsulting hoursYour tutor allow for in motley you of her/his consulting hours once you have been assigned to a tutorial group. Feel free to pose an appointment with the course lecturer at any time.Lectures and tutorials in that respect will be two lectures a week on Monday from 11 to 11.50 a.m. in A4 lecture theatre and Wednesday from 11 to 11.50 a.m. in A5 lecture theatre. There is one compulsory tutorial a week. tutorial groups, venues and times will be arranged at the beginning of the course. Lecture outlines will be posted on Learn each week.AssessmentTutorial participation (attendance and preparation of notes) 15%Class test Wednesday31 March 15%Essay due on Friday 21 May 20%Exam (date t.b.a.) 50%Satisfactory participation in tutorials will require the preparation of written notes (approximately one page of 300 lecture per tutorial) establish on the tutorial reading. Most tutorials involve participation in small-group work, and adequate preparation is essential. You ar required to take a hard written matter of the notes to the tutorial so that you can consult it during discussions. The notes will be collected and recorded further not assessed, but the mark for tutorial participation is ground on both the hard copy handed in to the tutor and on your attendance at the tutorial. The essay (see p. 7) should be typed, double spaced, and around 2000 haggle in length. Learn contains a guide to essay writing and a referencing guide which you must read.The class test will be based altogether on material dealt with in tutorials and lectures, including the relevant readings in the course reader ( weekly readings as well as tutorial readings). The exam will be based on all aspects of the course readings, lectures, tutorials and videos. For details on assessment policy, aegrotats, extensions, etc., see Lear n.Course reader and Tutorial readingsPart One of the Course Reader contains the weekly readings relevant to the weekly lectures. Tutorial readings argon found in Part Two of the course reader. Students are also advised to consult the Anthropology and other social science encyclopaedias in the reference section of the Central Library.TextbookThere is a recommended text book for this course, available from the University book shop. It is Monaghan, J and Just, P. Social and pagan Anthropology A Very Short entryway. Oxford, 2000. There is also a course Reader. It contains readings relevant to both lectures and tutorials but not readings from the recommended text book.Other recommended texts (on short give in the library)Metcalf, Peter Anthropology The Basics. Routledge 2005.Eriksen, Thomas Hyland Small Places, Large Issues. Second edition. London Pluto Press. 2001.Internet resourcesLearn contains everything you need to know about the course (see http//learn.canterbury.ac.nz/login/ind ex.php) and also has links to a number of sites of interest to anthropologists.Course overview Anth 103 introduces students to a range of topics aimed at enabling them to critically examine the nature and role of glossiness in constructing a sense of individual and collective individuality, and how this is related to various appoints of power. Culture is viewed as a system of symbols that provide meaning, manifested in language, in impulses of space and place, in art, in ritual, and in other material things such as food and dress. The course explores the role of symbols and rituals in the construction of burnish. It demonstrates how ideas about culture may form the basis of group formation, ethnic and national identity, and how many forms of social action (including conflict between groups) may be understood as the politics of culture in which there are struggles for identity and power. Culture and identity are frequently acted out or performed in ritual and other forms of pub lic action, and the notion of functioning is introduced and developed in relation to the construction and demonstration of identity. The course illustrates the diverse nature of the ways in which humans perform identity and how these topics are of interest and relevance to countries such as bare-ass Zealand. In this sense it demonstrates how anthropology is relevant in todays world, by showing how an anthropological approach may be applied to contemporary social issues. _____________________________________________________________________Lecture programme_____________________________________________________________________ workweek 1 22 FebruaryWe start, this week and next, with an introduction to socio-cultural anthropology, its perspectives and its methods. Certain basic anthropological concerns are introduced. These include the nature of culture and participation, and the ways in which humans organise themselves socially (weeks 2 and 3). In later weeks we see that time, spac e, the body and material culture form important components of this, as do ritual and power. In this respect the importance of symbols and meaning are emphasised, before we move on (in the second half of the course) to the doubt of ritual and ritual performance, through which culture is expressed, identities constructed and maintained, and power relationships acted out and reflected upon. Ritual performances, so, turn out to be basic to understanding the nature of social identity and the politics of culture, and vice versa. mental pictures and video clips are used to provide visual illustrations and food for thought.1. Welcome and introduction what is socio-cultural anthropology, and why study it? Academic members of the UC anthropology programme and what they do.2. The anthropological approach Ethnographic fieldworkVideo Off the Verandah (Malinowski)Readings Monaghan and Just 2000 (ch1) Eriksen 2001, ch 3.No tutorial this week.____________________________________________________ _________________Week 2 1 March3. Culture and society Video The Kawelka Ongkas Big Moka4. Culture, symbols, society, meaning Video Dogtown and Z boysReadings Monaghan and Just 2000 (chs 2 3) Hendry, 1999, ch 1.Tutorial Metcalf refers to the culture shock experienced by anthropological fieldworkers. How is this illustrated by Richard Lees experience of Christmas in the Kalahari?Metcalf 2005, ch1 Lee 2000._____________________________________________________________________Week 3 8 March5. Symbols, identity and power Video Dogtown and Z boys (contd.)6. Reflections and consolidation Dogtown, the Kawelka, and the anthropological approachReading Delaney 2004, pp. 323-332Tutorial It has been suggested that culture consists of meanings conveyed by symbols. Your tutorial notes should address the following questions What is a symbol? How do symbols convey meaning? Why is symbolism central to understanding culture and society?Hendry 1999, Ch 5.____________________________________________ _________________________Week 4 15 March7. Material culture the things that matter8. Economic anthropology The Potlatch. Video Box of TreasuresReadings Monaghan and Just 2000 (ch 6) Piddocke 1965Tutorial Body ritual in New Zealand society How does body ritual and the associated material things in your own home compare with the lengths to which the Nacirema go to ensure bodily purity?Miner 2000._____________________________________________________________________Week 5 22 March9. Time and space10. The politics of culture. Video Basques of SantaziReadings Bourdieu 1973Tutorial Maria Tam considers yumcha to be a typically Hong Style of eating. What is the association between food, time and place in this instance? Can you think of other examples of close associations between a particular national or regional identity and specific foods or eating styles?Tam 1997._____________________________________________________________________Week 6 29 March11. The politics of culture (contd) 12. Class test.Readings Monaghan and Just 2000 (ch 5) Atran 2007.Tutorial incline and culture Why is race a discredited concept in biology? And if it is discredited, why is it relevant to anthropologists? Check it out in your tutorial readings, then go to the library and look through last weeks New Zealand and Australian newspapers for articles that refer to race, race differences, or similar issues and bring the article with you to the tutorial for discussion, along with your notes.Metcalf 2005, ch 2 Diamond 1999._____________________________________________________________________Mid semester break_____________________________________________________________________Week 7 26 April13. Nationalism and ethnicity Ethnicity and the politics of culture in New Zealand14. Aesthetics, identity and societyReadings Eriksen 2001, ch 17-18 Hendry 1999, ch 6Tutorial Discuss and evaluate Koligs analysis of the links between culture, ethnicity, politics and power in New Zealand. Kolig 2009.___ __________________________________________________________________Week 8 3 May15. morality and Ritual16. Ritual and the life-cycleReadings Monaghan and Just 2000 (ch 7) Hendry 1999 (ch 4)Tutorial What are the characteristics of the liminal stage of rites of passage?Turner 2000._____________________________________________________________________Week 9 10 May17. Rites of Passage. Video Masai Manhood18. Masai ritual, politics and powerReadings Turnbull 1993 (Ch 10)Tutorial How did Moerans attention to the ritualised consumption of alcohol and to drinking talk help him to understand power relations in the Japanese community that he studied?Moeran 1998._____________________________________________________________________Week 10 17 May19. Ritual, identity, power witches, sorcerers, and oraclesVideo Strange Beliefs (Evan-Pritchard)20. Magic and shamanismVideo Off the Verandah (Malinowski)Readings Beattie 1964, pp. 139-151Tutorial What is globalisation and why are anthropologists interested in it?Eriksen 2001, ch 19._____________________________________________________________________Week 11 24 May21. Cultural performance22. Performing identity Video Trobriand CricketReadings Bauman 1992Tutorial What are the ways in which you perform your identity? How are such performances related to your nationality, age, gender, education and ethnicity?Fernea and Fernea 2000_____________________________________________________________________Week 12 31 May23. Cultural performance and public ritual in New Zealand ANZAC Day24. Conclusion, course overview, exam detailsReadings Delaney 2004, 376-391Tutorial Revision and consolidation_____________________________________________________________________Essay due on Friday 21 May (2000 words, typed)Choose ONE of the following topics.1. Discuss the usefulness or otherwise of regarding Pakeha/Maori relations as relations between ethnic groups. Use the media to make reference to contemporary issues and controversies in your an swer.Banks, M. Ethnicity Anthropological Constructions. London New York Routledge. 1996.Eriksen, T. H. Ethnicity and Nationalism Anthropological Perspectives. London Pluto. 1993.Kolig, E. Romancing Culture and its Limitations Policies of Cultural Recognition, Multiculturalism and Cultural Boundaries in New Zealand. In The Politics of Conformity in New Zealand, edited by R. Openshaw and E. Rata. Auckland Pearson. 2009.Kottak, C. Anthropology The Exploration of Human Diversity. 9th edition. McGraw Hill. 2002. Ch 12.Barber, K. Pakeha Ethnicity and Indigeneity. Social Analysis, 43, 2. 1999Spoonley, P Pearson, C. Nga Patai Racism and Ethnic Relations in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Palmerston North Dunmore Press. 1996. (Chapters by Bell and Spoonley).2. Anthropology is said to be concerned with the contemporary study of culture and society. What do these two terms mean, and in what ways are they connected?Barnard, A. and J. Spencer Encyclopaedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. London R outledge. 1996. (Make use of other Anthropology encyclopaedias as well).Metcalf, Peter.Anthropology The Basics. Abingdon/New York Routledge. 2005.Bailey, James and Peoples, Garrick. Humanity An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. 6th edition. Belmont, Ca. Thomson/Wadsworth. 2003Hendry, Joy. An Introduction to Social Anthropology. London MacMillan Press. 1999.Eriksen, Thomas Hyland. Small Places, Large Issues. Second edition. London Pluto Press. 2001Beattie, John. Other Cultures. LondonRoutledge. 1964.3. The body, it is said, is not a natural thing but a cultural one. The body is implicated in ritual and performance, and it is an important source of symbolism in most societies. Discuss.Delaney, Carol. An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology. Malden/Oxford. 2004, chs 6-8Hendry, Joy. An Introduction to Social Anthropology. London MacMillan Press. 1999. Ch 5Bowie, F. The anthropology of religion. Second edition. Oxford Blackwells. 2006. Ch 2.Hertz, R. Death and the Right Hand. L ondon Cohen and West. 1960. pp89-116.