Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach

Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Timeline
Introduction: A Contested Canon
SECTION ONE: On Roots of Social Difference
	1.1. An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man (1833)
	1.2. The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered (1854)
	1.3. Bourgeois and Proletarians (1872)
	1.4. Ethnical Periods (1877)
	1.5. Afternoon Session, June 29: Speeches at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905)
	1.6. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
	Section One Glossary
SECTION TWO: On Methods of Fieldwork
	2.1. Language and Environment (1912)
	2.2. The Origin of the Iroquois as Suggested by Their Archeology (1916)
	2.3. The Methods of Ethnology (1920)
	2.4. The Methodology of Racial Testing: Its Significance for Sociology (1926)
	2.5. Mules and Men (1935)
	Section Two Glossary
SECTION THREE: On Hidden Logics of Culture
	3.1. The Essentials of the Kula (1922)
	3.2. The Gift (1925)
	3.3. The Science of Custom (1935)
	3.4. Facing Mt. Kenya (1938)
	3.5. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws (1951)
	Section Three Glossary
SECTION FOUR: On History, Power, and Inequality
	4.1. The White Worker (1935)
	4.2. On the Social Phenomenon of “Transculturation” and Its Importance in Cuba (1940)
	4.3. The World in 1400 (1982)
	4.4. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures (1989)
	4.5. An Anthropology of Structural Violence (2004)
	Section Four Glossary
SECTION FIVE: On Writing Cultures
	5.1. Twenty-Seventh Day: Journey to Accompong (1946)
	5.2. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1973)
	5.3. Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage (1989)
	5.4. Writing against Culture (1991)
	5.5. Sensuous Stories in the Indian Ocean Islands (2017)
	Section Five Glossary
SECTION SIX: On Colonialism and Anthropological “Others”
	6.1. Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining “Native” (1978)
	6.2. Knowing the Oriental (1979)
	6.3. Anthropologies of the South: Their Rise, Their Silencing, Their Characteristics (1997)
	6.4. Anthropology and the Savage Slot: Poetics and Politics of Otherness (2003)
	6.5. Our Sea of Islands (2008)
	Section Six Glossary
SECTION SEVEN: On Anthropology and Gender
	7.1. Introduction to The Origin of the Family, PrivateProperty and the State: In the Light of the Researches ofLewis H. Morgan, by Friedrich Engels (1972)
	7.2. Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship (1987)
	7.3. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987)
	7.4. La conciencia de la mestiza / Towards a New Consciousness (1987)
	7.5. In Search of Masculinity: Violence, Respect, and Sexuality among Puerto Rican Crack Dealers in East Harlem (1996)
	Section Seven Glossary
SECTION EIGHT: On Queering Anthropological Knowledge Production
	8.1. The History of Sexuality (1976)
	8.2. Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the “Third Gender” Concept (2002)
	8.3. Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity (2008)
	8.4. One Way or Another: Erotic Subjectivity in Cuba (2012)
	8.5. Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship (2019)
	Section Eight Glossary
SECTION NINE: On Social Position and Ethnographic Authority
	9.1. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988)
	9.2. Anthropology and the Oppressed: A Reflection on “Native” Anthropology (1995)
	9.3. What Did You Do Today? Notes from a Politically Engaged Anthropologist (2003)
	9.4. Fieldwork in Shared Spaces: Positionality, Power, and Ethics of Citizen Anthropologists in Southern Africa (2005)
	9.5. “Gone Anthropologist”: Epistemic Slippage, Native Anthropology, and the Dilemmas of Representation (2013)
	Section Nine Glossary
SECTION TEN: On Theorizing Globalization
	10.1. Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery (1986)
	10.2. Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference (1992)
	10.3. Mutations in Citizenship (2006)
	10.4. Global Apartheid at Home and Abroad (2008)
	10.5. Non-hegemonic Globalizations: Alternative Transnational Processes and Agents (2009)
	Section Ten Glossary
SECTION ELEVEN: On Environment, Pluriverse, and Power
	11.1. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology (1955)
	11.2. Translation, Value, and Space: Theorizing an Ethnographic and Engaged Environmental Anthropology (2005)
	11.3. Indigenizing the Anthropocene (2015)
	11.4. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (2018)
	11.5. Complicity and Resistance in the Indigenous Amazon:
	Section Eleven Glossary
SECTION TWELVE: On State Power
	12.1. Symbolic Power (1977)
	12.2. What the Border Hides: Partition and Gender Politics of Irish Nationalism (1998)
	12.3. Seeing like a Mayor; or, How Local Officials Obstructed Romanian Land Restitution (2002)
	12.4. Necropolitics (2003)
	12.5. Strange Fruit: Brazil, Necropolitics, and the Transnational Resonance of Torture and Death (2013)
	Section Twelve Glossary
SECTION THIRTEEN: On Agency and Social Struggle
	13.1. The Subject of Freedom (2005)
	13.2. Speaking like a Model Minority: “FOB” Styles, Gender, and Racial Meanings among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley (2008)
	13.3. Abjects or Agents? Camps, Contests, and the Creation of “Political Space” (2013)
	13.4. #Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States (2015)
	13.5. Consent’s Revenge (2016)
SECTION FOURTEEN: On Critical Theory for the Twenty-First Century
	14.1. Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology (2001)
	14.2. Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology (2005)
	14.3. Toward an Ethics of the Theoretical Encounter (2016)
	14.4. At Home in the End Times
	14.5. Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming (2019)
Provocation: Going Native – A Satirical End to Anthropology Theory
Appendix I: Anthropological Futures
Appendix II: Websites and Syllabi Projects
About the Editors
Sources
Index