Phd Course, Recent Theory in Anthropoloy 2013: Anthropology and History

Recommended Reading:

Choose one or several of the following monographs:
Mette Louise Berg (2011) Diasporic Generations: Memory, Politics, and the Nation among Cubans in Spain.
New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books
Richard Price (2011) Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press
Macdonald, Sharon (2008) Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond.
London/New York: Routledge.

Choose among the following edited collections:
Catherine Trundle and Chris Kaplonski (eds.) (2011) Tracing the Political Lives of Archival Documents.
Special Issue of History and Anthropology, Volume 22, Issue 4. Please read introduction and
select chapters relevant to your essay.
Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen (2013)Time and the Field. Special Issue of Social Analysis 57,
vol 1. Please read Introduction: Time and the Field and select chapters relevant to your
essay.
Axel, Brian Keith (ed.) (2002) From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures. Durham and
London: Duke University Press. In this collection, please choose among the following 6
chapters:
- Brian Keith Axel Introduction: Historical Anthropology and Its Vicissitudes, pp. 1-
44.
- Nicholas B. Dirks Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of
History, pp. 47-65.
- Talal Asad Ethnographic Representations, Statistics, and Modern Power, pp. 66-91.
- Irene Silverblatt New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth-Century
Peru, pp. 95-121.
- Ann Laura Stoler Developing Historical Negatives: Race and the (Modernist)
Visions of a Colonial State, pp. 156-185.
- John L. and Jean Comaroff Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction:
Notes from the South African Postcolony, pp. 267-301.
Janet Carsten ed. (2007) Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing. In addition to Carstens introductory chapter, Introduction: Ghosts of
Memory, pp. 1-35, please select and read two of the following four chapters:
- Janet Carsten Connections and Disconnections of Memory and Kinship in
Narratives of Adoption Reunions in Scotland, pp. 83-103 (Chapter 4)
- Stephan Feuchtwang Belonging to What? Jewish Mixed Kinship and Historical
Disruption in Twentieth-Century Europe, pp. 150-171 (Chapter 7)
- Sophie Day Threading Time in the Biographies of London Sex Workers, pp 172-
193 (Chapter 8)
- Veena Das and Lori Leonard Kinship, Memory, and Time in the Lives of HIV /
AIDS Patients in a North American City, pp. 194-217 (Chapter 9)

Other recommended articles and book chapters:
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1995) The Power in the Story, Chapter 1 in Trouillot Silencing the Past:
Power and the Production of History, pp. 1-30. Boston: Beacon Press
Eric Hirsch and Charles Stewart (2005) Introduction: Ethnographies of Historicity, History and
Anthropology, 16 (3): 261-274
Dipesh Chakrabarty (2007) Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe; Postcoloniality
and the Artifice of History (Chapter 1); and The Two Histories of Capital (Chapter 2), in
Chakrabarty Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, New Edition, pp. 3-71.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Scott, Michael W. (2012) The Matter of Makira: Colonialism, Competition, and the Production
of Gendered Peoples in Contemporary Solomon Islands and Medieval Britain, History and
Anthropology, Vol. 23, Iss. 1, 2012