CA610e: Texts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

Required Reading

Please note: To comply with current law, these online texts are provided for students to read online. To print them out or otherwise duplicate these texts may violate copyright law.

 

Seminar #1

Geertz, "Thick Description" and "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" (packet)

 

Seminar #2

People Studying People

 

Seminar #3

Ethnographer's Magic, Chapters 1 - 4;
and Coming of Age in Samoa.

 

Seminar #4

"Preface" (packet),
and The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead

 

Seminar #5

Ethnographer's Magic, Chapters 5 - 7;
and Malinowski, Diary in a Strict Sense, introductory materials, pages 1-29, and pages 254-298. (packet)

 

Seminar #6

Clifford, "Introduction: Partial Truths," (packet)
Marcus, "Contemporary Problems of Anthropology in the Modern World System," (packet)
Rabinow, "Representations are Social Facts: Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology,"(packet)


Seminar #7

Mama Lola

 

Seminar #8

Marcus, "Beyond Malinowski and After Writing Culture," (packet),
Marcus, "Ethnography in/of the World System," (packet),
and Green, "Disrupting the Field." (packet)

 

Seminar #9

Jackson, Fieldwork "Part One" and "Part Two."

 

Seminar #10

Jackson, Fieldwork, "Part Three" and "Part Four."

 

Seminar #11

none

 

Seminar #12

Ceruzzi, “Inventing Personal Computing,” (packet),
Internet Society, “A Brief History of the Internet,” (packet),
Segal, “A Short History of Internet Protocols,” (packet),
Burners-Lee, “Information Management: A Proposal,” (packet),
and Castells, “Lessons from the History of the Internet” (packet).

 

Seminar #13

Fernback, “There is a There There,”
Baym, “Interpreting Soap Operas and Creating Community,”
Slack and Williams, “The Dialectics of Place and Space,”
and Feenberg and Bakardjieva, “Virtual Community: No “Killer Implication.” (packet)

Seminar #14

Turkle, Life on the Screen, "Part One," and "Part Two."

Seminar #15

Turkle, Life on the Screen, "Part Three."

 

Seminar #16

Markham, Life Online.

 

Seminar #17

Hine, Virtual Ethnography.

 

Seminar #18

Miller & Slater, The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach excerpts,
and Bakardjieva and Smith, “The Internet in Everyday Life,” (packet).

 

Seminar #19

none
Seminar #20

Fernback, “Legends on the Net,”
and Kanayama, “Ethnographic Research on the Experience of Japanese Elderly People Online.”

Seminar #21

none

 

Seminar #22

none

Seminar #23

none

Seminar #24

none