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ANTHR 318/A1: POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE BALKANS & THE MEDITERRANEAN Fall 2016
Marko Zivkovic Mon/Wed 10:00-11:20AM Chemistry E5 36
Office: Tory 13-28 Office hours: Mondays 11:30AM-12:30 PM
E-mail: [email protected]
This course will address some of the classical issues of political anthropology by drawing on case studies from the Balkans and the Mediterranean. The main thread running through the themes we will explore will be the relationship between forms of political mobilization based on personalistic and kinship ties on the one hand, and those based on state-level organization on the other. Special attention will be paid to symbolic dimensions of politics.
In addition to the final paper there will be one short assignment (5 pages) due on November 14. Grades will be based on class attendance and activity (20%), the short assignment (30%), and the final paper (10-15 pages) (50%). Students will have to submit a written proposal for the final paper topic by December 7.
The following books are available for purchase at the Bookstore:
Herzfeld, Michael. The Poetics of Manhood
Schneider, Jane and Peter Schneider. Reversible Destiny Mintz, Jerome. Anarchists of Casas Viejas
Verdery, Katherine. The Political Lives of Dead Bodies Silverstein, Paul. Algeria in France
The rest of the readings will be available as e-files.
SCHEDULE OF READINGS WEEK I
September 7 Introduction
WEEK II THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTING BALKANS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
September 12
Bakic-Hayden, Milica. 1995. Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former Yugoslavia. Slavic Review 54 (4):917-931.
Fernandez, James W. 1986. Andalusia on Our Minds: Two Contrasting Places in Spain As Seen in a Vernacular Poetic Duel of the Late 19th Century. Cultural Anthropology Vol 3 (1):21-35.
September 14
Herzfeld, Michael. 1984. The Horns of the Mediterraneanist Dilemma. American Ethnologist 11 (3):
439-454.
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WEEK III POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ESSENTIALS: SEGMENTARY LINEAGES & BLOOD REVENGE
September 19
Cohen, Ronald. 1973. Political Anthropology. In Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology, edited by J. J. Honigmann. Chicago: Rand McNally. pp. 861-881.
Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1969 [1940]. The Nuer. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-28, 48-50, 139-191 & 192-195.
September 21
Sahlins, Marshall. 1967. The Segmentary Lineage: An Organization of Predatory Expansion. In Comparative Political Systems: Studies in the Politics of Pre-industrial Societies, edited by R. Cohen and J.
Middleton. New York: The Natural History Press. pp. 89-119.
WEEK IV GREECE: THE POETICS OF MANHOOD
September 26
Herzfeld, Michael. 1985. The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Preface + Chapters 1, 2 & 3.
September 28
Herzfeld, Michael. 1985. The Poetics of Manhood. Chapters: 4 & 8.
Zivkovic, Marko. 1997. Violent Highlanders and Peaceful Lowlanders: Uses and Abuses of Ethno- Geography in the Balkans from Versailles to Dayton. Replika (Special issue: Ambiguous Identities in the New Europe):107-119.
WEEK V HONOR & SHAME
October 3
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1966. The Sentiment of Honor in Kabyle Society. In Honor and Shame: The Values of Mediterranean Society, edited by J. G. Peristany. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press.
Schneider, Jane. 1971. Of Vigilance and Virgins: Honor, Shame, and Access to Resources in Mediterranean Societies. Ethnology 9:1-24.
October 5
Denich, Bette S. 1974. Sex and Power in the Balkans. In Woman, Culture, and Society. M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (pp. 243-263).
Simic, Andrei. 1983. Machismo and Cryptomatriarchy: Power, Affect, and Authority in the Contemporary Yugoslav Family. Ethos 11 (1/2):66-86.
Collateral readings
Zivkovic, Marko. 2002. Noble Criminals, Highlanders and Cryptomatriarchy: Poetics of Masculinity in Serbia (and how to get at it). unpublished manuscript.
Zivkovic, Marko. 2006. Ex-Yugoslav masculinities under female gaze, or why men skin cats, beat up gays and go to war. Nationalities Papers 34 (3):257-263.
WEEK VI ITALY: MAFIA
October 10 No class October 12
Schneider, Jane, and Peter Schneider. 2003. Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo. Berkeley: University of California Press. Electronic resource. Chapters 1-5 & 9 & 12
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October 17
Mintz, Jerome. 1982. Anarchists of Casas Viejas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. HX 928 C34 M66 1982. Chapters 1-12 (pp. 1-200)
October 19
Mintz, Jerome. 1982. Anarchists of Casas Viejas. Chapters 13-17 (pp. 201-317) WEEK VIII MACEDONIA & SERBIA: DESIRABLE PASTS AND IMAGINED CONTINUITIES
October 24 :
Brown, Keith S. 1994. Seeing stars: character and identity in the landscapes of modern Macedonia.
Antiquity 68:784-796.
October 26 Macedonia: Desirable Pasts and Imagined Continuities II
Zivkovic, Marko. 2007. Inverted Perspective and Serbian Peasants: Antiquities and the Byzantine Revival in Serbia. In Hyphenated Histories: Articulations of Central European Bildung and Slavic Studies in the Contemporary Academy, edited by A. C. Gow. Leiden: Brill. pp. 141-166.
WEEK IX LANGUAGES AND BOUNDARIES
October 31
Irvine, Judith T., and Susan Gal. 2000. Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation. In Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities, edited by P. V. Kroskrity. Santa Fe: School of American Research. P 119.3 R44 2000. pp. 35-83; YOU CAN SKIP pp. 39-59!
November 2
Friedman, Victor A. 1996. Observing the Observers: Language, Ethnicity, and Power in the 1994 Macedonian Census and Beyond. In Toward Comprehensive Peace in Southeast Europe: Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans. edited by B. R. Rubin. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund Press. pp. 81-105.
handout.
READING WEEK NOVEMBER 7-11 WEEK XI
November 14 Film
November 16 No class (AAA Meetings)
WEEK XII NATIONAL NARRATIVES IN THE BALKANS
November 21 II
Bruner, Edward M., and Phyllis Gorfain. 1984. Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada. In Text, Play, and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society. Washington, DC: American Ethnological Society. pp. 56-79.
Zivkovic, Marko. 2001. Kosovo is the Most Expensive Serbian Word: Political Enchantment and Milosevic’s Rise to Power. Anthropology of East Europe Review. 19(1)
November 23
Verdery, Katherine. 1999. The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change. New York:
Columbia University Press. GT 3242 V47 1999. pp. 95-127 + notes: pp. 158-166
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WEEK XIII ORIGINS, CAUSES, AND TRIGGERS OF YUGOSLAV CONFLICT
November 28
Denich, Bette. 1994. Dismembering Yugoslavia: nationalist ideologies and the symbolic revival of genocide. American Ethnologist 21 (2):367-390.
Hayden, Robert M. 1996. Schindler's Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers.
Slavic Review 55 (4):727-748 + discussion: 749-778.
November 30
Tone Bringa: “Bosnia: We Are All Neighbours.” A documentary film.
Bringa, Tone. 1995. Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village.
Preface & Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Preface, Introduction and Chapter 1.
pp. xv-xxi & 3-36.
WEEK XIV ALGERIA IN FRANCE
December 5
Silverstein, Paul A. 2004. Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation, New Anthropologies of Europe.
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Introduction, Chapters 3 & 4. pp. 1-16, 76-150.
December 7 (brief final paper proposals due)
Silverstein, Paul A. 2004. Algeria in France. Chapter 7 & Conclusion. pp. 213-245.
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