ANTHROPOLOGY OF TIME & SPACE - University of Alberta

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ANTHR 385-A1 FALL 2019

ANTHROPOLOGY OF TIME & SPACE

Marko Zivkovic Tu/Th 2:00-3:20PM Tory 1-5

Office: Tory 13-28 Office hours: Mondays 1:00-2:30PM or by appointment (e-mail only) In the first part of this course we will trace the classical debates on the social/cultural inflections of time in anthropology as well as examine more contemporary concerns with temporalities of

industrial and “post-industrial” ages. In the second part we will analogously combine the classic anthropological accounts of spatial dimensions of social/cultural life with more contemporary concerns with urban and “postmodern” spatialities.

Prerequisite: Consent of the Department.

Determination of grade: Midterm exercise (5 pages max, given October 3, due October 17) 20%;

Observational exercise (5 pages max, given November 7, due November 26) 20% class activity 20%;

Final paper (10-15 pages, due December 14) 40%

The following books will be available for purchase in the bookstore:

Paul Connerton. How Societies Remember Fred Myers. Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self

Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso. Senses of Place (optional) Gell, Alfred. The Anthropology of Time (optional)

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Kern, Stephen. 1983. The Nature of Time. Chapter 1. In The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. pp. 10-35.

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Durkheim, Emile. 1995 [1915]. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Translated by Karen E. Fields. New York: The Free Press. pp. 8-18; 440-448.

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Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1956. The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language.

In his Language, thought, and reality; selected writings. Cambridge: M. I.T. pp. 134-159.

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Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1969 [1940]. The Nuer. Chapter III: Time and Space, sections I-IV &

X, pp. 94-113, 135-138.

Leach, E. R. 1971 [1961]. Two Essays concerning the Symbolic Representation of Time. In his Rethinking Anthropology (Ch. 6). pp. 124-136.

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Bourdieu, Pierre. 1963. The attitude of the Algerian peasant toward time. In Mediterranean Countrymen, edited by J Pitt-Rivers, The Hague: Mouton. pp. 55-72.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Generative Schemes and Practical Logic. part on “The Calendar and

the Synoptic Illusion.” In his Outline of a Theory of Practice. pp. 96-109, read also pp. 94-95.

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Geertz, Clifford. 1973. Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali. In his The Interpretation of Cultures.

pp. 360-404.

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Bloch, Maurice. The past and the present in the present. In The Past and the Present: The Collected Papers of Maurice Bloch. (originally in Man 12:278-92 1977)

Howe, Leopold E. A. 1981. The social determination of knowledge: Maurice Bloch and Balinese Time. Man. Vo 16, No. 2, June 1981. pp. 220-234.

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Gell, Alfred. 1992. The Anthropology of Time. Chs. 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. pp. 3-14, 54-92.

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II (Midterm given) Gell, Alfred. 1992. The Anthropology of Time. Chs. 11-13. pp. 93-117.

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Fabian, Johannes. 1983. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. New York:

Columbia University Press. Chapters 1-2. pp. 1-69.

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Fabian, Johannes. 1983. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object. Chapters 3-4.

pp. 71-123.

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Zerubavel, Eviator 1981. Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press. Chapter 2: The Schedule, pp. 31-69.

Verdery, Katherine. 1996. The “Etatization” of Time in Ceausescu’s Romania. In What Was Socialism, And What Comes Next. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 39-57(Chapter 2).

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(Midterm due in class)

Kypseli: Women and Men Apart – A Divided Reality. Produced by Paul Aratow, Richard Cowan and Susannah M. Hoffman. 1976

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Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990. The Kabyle House or the World Reversed. In his The Logic of Practice pp. 271-283.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Structures and the Habitus – the part on “The Dialectic of Objectification and Embodiment.” In his Outline of a Theory of Practice. pp. 87-92 , also 116-119.

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Certeau, Michel de. 1984. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. Part III: Spatial Practices. pp. 91-130, also 34-39 on strategies and tactics.

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Myers, Fred. 1986. Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Introduction, Chapters 1-3. pp.

11-102.

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Myers, Fred. 1991. Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self. Chapter 5 and Conclusion. pp. 127-158 and 286-297.

Munn, Nancy. 1970. The Transformation of Subjects into Objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjara Myth. in R. Berndt, ed. Australian Aboriginal Anthropology. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press. pp. 141-63.

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Basso, Keith. 1996. Wisdom Sits in Places: Notes on a Western Apache Landscape. In S.

Feld & K. Basso eds., Senses of Place. pp. 53-90. Or read as much as you can of his Wisdom Sits in Places.

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Feld, Steven. Waterfalls of Song: An Acoustemology of Place Resounding in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea. In Senses of Place. pp. 91-136.

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Hall, Edward T. 1990. Space Speaks. Chapter 10 in The Silent Language. New York: Anchor Books. pp 158-180.

Hall, Edward T. 1989. Monochronic and Polychronic Times. Chapter 3 in The Dance of Life:

The Other Dimension of Time, pp. 44-58. New York: Anchor.

Richardson, Miles. 2003. Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America. In The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture, edited by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga, pp. 74-91.

Malden, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell.

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(Observational Exercise due) Halbwachs, Maurice. 1992. On Collective Memory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

pp. 37-61 & 167-189.

Connerton, Paul. 1989. How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chapters 1-.2, pp. 1-71. E-book

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Connerton, Paul. 1989. How Societies Remember. Chapter 3, pp. 72-104.

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Bishop, Peter. 1989. The Myth of Shangri-la: Tibet, Travel writing and the Western Creation of sacred landscape. Chapter 1. “An imaginative geography,” pp. 1-21

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Zivkovic, Marko. 1990. Famous Places of Japanese Poetry: Making of the National

Geography of the Mind. Term paper for ANTHRO 455 (Nancy Munn).

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