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AS1 LATE SUMMER RE-SUBMISSION

WEEK 1: Introductory Lecture (readings listed for this week are to read over the term, not for this week, all can be found in the library except Miller which is open access online)

Class one slides

WEEK 2: Food, Famine and Memory in the People’s Republic of China/ Jakob Klein

Lora-Wainwright, Anna (2009) ‘Fatness and well-being: bodies and the generation gap in contemporary China’, in Byan S. Turner and Zheng Yangwen (eds), The Body in Asia. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.113-26.

Mueggler, Erik (2007) ‘Spectral chains: remembering the Great Leap Forward famine in a Yi community’ in Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang etc.

Not a key reading! Obituary of Du Runsheng in FT, 'father of rural reform in China'.

WEEK 3: The Power of the Senses Kostas Retsikas

Retsikas, Konstantinos. 2007. The Power of the Senses: Ethnicity, History and Embodiment in East Java, Indonesia, Indonesia and the Malay World 35 (102): 183-210

Kostas 3rd try just go to the e journals site in this link and find 2007 (35) 102

Kostas PDF

Law, Lisa. 2001. Home Cooking: Filipino Women and the Geographies of the Senses in Hong Kong, Cultural Geographies 8 (3): 264-283.

Hirschkind, Charles. 2001. The Ethics of Listening: Cassette-sermon Audition in Contemporary Egypt. American Ethnologist 28 (3): 623-649.

Ben Anderson obituary NOT A KEY READING JUST FOR INTEREST

Week 4. The Precarious Nature of Women’s Photography in Yemen Gabriele vom Bruck

E. Edwards. Objects of affect. Annual Review of Anthropology 2012.41:221-34

G. vom Bruck. Elusive bodies. Signs 1997. 23(1): 175-214

Vom Bruck alternative route, may work better

edwards alternative route may work better

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WEEK 5: Livelihoods, aspirations and informal economies Elizabeth Hull

Du Toit, Andries &amp; David Neves 2007. ‘In search of South Africa’s “second economy”’ in Africanus: Journal of Development Studies 37 (2), 145-74

Meagher, Kate (2013) ‘Informality, religious conflict, and governance in northern Nigeria: economic inclusion in divided societies’, in African Studies Review, 56 (3). pp. 209-234.

borom Garett classic film on 'informal' transport by late great Ousmane Sembene

Welcome to Lagos youtube documentary lots on informal economy

Jan Breman interview, an important scholar of informality in India

Interview on youtube with Jan Breman

Discussion of informal transport/urban popular economies Tanzania

WEEK 7: Localizing Global Islam and Globalizing Local Islam: The Tablighi Jama'at in The Gambia. Marloes Janson

Janson, Marloes. 2011. ‘Guidelines for the Ideal Muslim Woman: Gender Ideology and Praxis in the Tabligh Jama‘at in the Gambia’. In Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law, ed. Margot Badran, 147–172

Freitag, Ulrike and Achim von Oppen. 2010. Introduction: ‘Translocality’: An Approach to Connection and Transfer in Regional Studies. In Translocality. The Study of Globalising Processes from a Southern Perspective,

Mahmood, Saba. 2001. Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival. Cultural Anthropology 16 (2): 202–236.

Interview with Dr Janson NOT KEY READING!

Film about Chrislam in Lagos

Week 8 Essay class Joe Trapido

essay about Malinowski

Cannibals and Kings an exchange

Writing essays voice and place

A modest proposal Swift.

voice and place a sample essay that got a first

Week 9 Zoe Goodman Blood donation, Islamic reform and political insecurity in Mombasa

Insert to course book Zoe Goodman on Blood donation

CARSTEN, J. 2013. Introduction: blood will out. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19, S1–S23.

COPEMAN, J. 2009b. Gathering points: blood donation and the scenography of ‘national integration’ in India. Body &amp; Society 15, 71–99.

COPEMAN, J. 2009a. Veins of devotion: blood donation and religious experience in north India. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Introduction or Chapter 3 (available to download on the SOAS library website).

Week 10: Dolls and How to Get Rid of Them: A View from Japan Dr. Fabio Gygi

Katsuno, Hirofumi 2011. ‘The Robot’s Heart: Tinkering with Humanity and Intimacy in Robot-Building’, Japanese Studies, 31, 93–109

Schattschneider, Ellen. 2001. ‘“Buy Me a Bride”: Death and Exchange in Northern Japanese Bride-Doll Marriage’, American Ethnologist, 28, 854–80

WEEK 11: An Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility Catherine Dolan

Cross, Jamie, and Alice Street. 2009. Anthropology at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Anthropology Today 25(4): 4¬–9.

Rajak, D. 2009. 'I am the Conscience of the Company': Responsibility and the Gift in a Transnational Mining Corporation, In: Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches, K. Browne and L. Milgram (eds.). AltaMira Press, pp. 211-232.

Not a Key reading, just interesting link...Leigh Day solicitors, miner's silicosis the case against anglo american plc

Roy, A. 2012. Ethical Subjects: Market Rule in an Age of Poverty, Public Culture, 24(1): 105-108 (editorial introduction to the special issue on “Poverty Markets”).

Schwittay, A. 2011. The Marketization of Poverty, Current Anthropology, 52(S3): S71-82.

Welker, M. 2009. Corporate Security Begins in the Community: Mining, the Corporate Social Responsibility Industry and Environmental Advocacy in Indonesia, Cultural Anthropology, 24(1): 142-179.

WEEK 1: Parliaments: a place for verbal contest, misogyny and shapeshifting

PDF of Emma's article

WEEK 2: Anthropology, infrastructure and climate change

The video to which Prof Simpson referred in his lecture

WEEK 3: Making the law transparent: “voiceless” refugees in the British asylum system

WEEK 4: Palestinian women refugees and their memories of war and displacement

WEEK 5: Anthropology and the study of media: the curious case of Edmund Carpenter

WEEK 7: Voices of settlement and resistance in Palestine/Israel

WEEK 8: Memory, rupture, and generational cultures

WEEK 9: Media and the transformation of audiences in China: from traditional theatre to the Internet

WEEK 10: Riots in Kinshasa, in low GDP countries, and in the world

WEEK 11: Colour terms and colour practices: Africa for example

Revision class term 1

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Revision lecture and classes term 2

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Du Toit, Andries & David Neves 2007. ‘In search of South Africa’s “second economy”’ in Africanus: Journal of Development Studies 37 (2), 145-74

COPEMAN, J. 2009b. Gathering points: blood donation and the scenography of ‘national integration’ in India. Body & Society 15, 71–99.