MPHIL in Social Anthropological Analysis BACKGROUND READING LIST 2010-11

Paper 1, The Scope of Social Anthropology I: Production and Reproduction Background Reading General Introduction Eriksen, T Small Places, Large Issues (1995), Pluto Core Ethnographies *Leach, Edmund 1961. Pul Eliya: A Village in Ceylon . Cambridge University Press: Cambridge *Collier, Jane Fishburne 1997. From Duty to Desire: Remaking Families in a Spanish Village. Princeton University Press: Princeton Kinship *Parry, J.P. 1979. Caste and Kinship in Kangra. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London Carsten, J After Kinship (2004), CUP Carsten, J (ed) Cultures of Relatedness (2000), CUP Finkler, K Experiencing the New Genetics: family and kinship on the medical frontier (2000), Pennsylvania University Press Fortes, M Kinship and the Social Order (1969), Routledge & Kegan Paul, London Goody, J The Character of Kinship (1973) CUP, Cambridge Goody, J (ed) The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups , NB, Fortes. Introduction (1958), MacMillan Gittins, D The Family in Question (1985), MacMillan Holy, L Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship (1996), Pluto Press, London Lvi-Strauss, C Elementary Structures of Kinship (1969), Beacon Press, Boston; Eyre & Spottiswoode, London Schneider, D A Critique of the Study of Kinship (1984), The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor Simpson, R Changing Families (1998), Berg Yanagisako, S & C Delaney (eds) Naturalizing Power: essays in feminist cultural analysis (1995) Routledge Economics Douglas, M & B Isherwood The World of Goods (1978), Allen Lane, London Gudeman, S Anthropology and Economy (2001), Blackwell Gudeman, S & A Rivera Conversations in Colombia (1991), CUP, Cambridge Hann, C M (ed) Property Relations (1998), CUP Hugh-Jones, S & C Humphrey (eds) Barter, Exchange and Value (1993), CUP, Cambridge Kondo, D Crafting Selves: power, gender and discourses of identity in a Japanese workplace (1990), University of Chicago Press Mintz, S W Sweetness and power (1985), Penguin Parry, J & M Bloch (eds) Money and the Morality of Exchange (1989), CUP, Cambridge 1

Plattner, S (ed) Economic Anthropology (1989), Stanford University Press Sahlins, M Stone Age Economics (1972), Aldine-Atherton, Chicago Young, K, C Wolkowitz & R McCullagh (eds) Of Marriage and the Market (1981), Routledge

Paper 2, The Scope of Social Anthropology II: Systems of Power and Knowledge Background Reading Religion Atkinson, J The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanism (1987), University of California Press Bloch, M From Blessings to Violence (1986), CUP, Cambridge Block, M & J Parry Death and the Regeneration of Life (1982), CUP, Cambridge Bowie, F The Anthropology of Religion (2000), Blackwell, Oxford Kertzer, D Ritual, Politics and Power (1988), Yale UP, New Haven Lambek, M Anthropology of Religion (2002), Blackwell, Oxford Lessa, W A & Vogt E Z Reader in Comparative Religions (4th edition) Harper & Row, New York, London Lewis G Day of Shining Red (1980), CUP, Cambridge Lienhardt, G Divinity and Experience (1961), Oxford Morris, B Anthropological Studies of Religion (1987), CUP, Cambridge Weber, M The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1985), London Whitehouse, H Inside the Cult (1995), Oxford Politics Comaroff, J L & Roberts, S Rules and Processes: the cultural logic and dispute in an African context (1981), Chicago Fortes, M & Evans-Pritchard E African Political Systems (1940), Oxford Gellner, E Nations and Nationalism (1983), Blackwell, Oxford Gilsenan, M Lords of the Lebanese Marches; violence and narrative in an Arab society (1996), I B Tauris Gluckman, M Politics, Law and Ritual (1965), Oxford Hobsbawm, E & Ranger T The Invention of Tradition (1983), CUP Cambridge Leach, E Political Systems of Highland Burma (1954), Athlone, London Malkki, L Purity and Exile: violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania (1995), Chicago

Paper 3(a), Social Anthropology and the Professional Process: Social Anthropology and Development Afshar, H (ed) Women and Politics in the Third World (1996), Routledge, London Cheater, A (ed) The Anthropology of Power: Empowerment and Disempowerment in Changing Structures (1999), Routledge, London Crush, J (ed) Power of Development (1995), Routledge, London Duffield, M Global Governance and the New Wars. The Merging of Development and Security (2001), Zed Books, London. Escobar, A Encouraging Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995), Princeton UP Ferguson, J The Anti-Politics Machine: development, depoliticizatioin and bureaucratic power in Lesotho, (1990), Cambridge University Press Gardner, K & D Lewis Anthropology, Development and the Postmodern Challenge (1996), Pluto Press, London Grillo, R & Stirrat, R Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives , (1997), Berg, Oxford, New York Hobart, M (ed) The Growth of Ignorance: An anthropological critique of development , (1993) Routledge, London Nelson, N & S Wright (ed) Power and Participatory Development (1995), IT Publications, London