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Week 1 Elites 1/10/19

Salverda, Tijo and J Abbink eds 2013 The Anthropology of Elites Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction

Nader, Laura 1972 Up the anthropologist

Wedel, Janine R. 2017 From Power Elites to Influence Elites: Resetting Elite Studies for the 21st Century

Daloz, Jean-Pascal 2008 Elite Distinction: Grand Theory and Comparative Perspectives

International Qualterly for Asian Studies 2017 Cultural Elites and Elite Cultures in South Asia

Stephen Nugent and Cris Shore 2002 Elite Cultures, Anthropological Perspectives

Gusterson, Hugh 1997 Studying up Revisited

Lotter, Stefanie 2004 Studying-up those who fell down: elite transformation in Nepal

Stig Stenslie 2012 Regime stability in Saudi Arabia: The challenge of succession

Karen Ho Disciplining Investment Bankers.....American Anthropologist. 111(2):177-189; Blackwell Publishing, 2009

Rosita Armytage (2015) The Social Lives of the Elite: Friendship and Power in Pakistan, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 16:5, 448-463

Week 1 Elites slides

Week 2 Subjectivies 8/10/19

Freeman, Derek 1983 Margaret Mead and Samoa: The making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Paul Shankman 2018 The Mead–Freeman Controversy Continues: A Reply to Ian Jarvie

Mead, Margaret 1943 Coming of Age in Samoa: a study of adolescence and sex in primitve societies (several copies at the library)

Simpson, Edward 2016 The trials and tribulations of village 'restudies'Social change and anthropological knowledge in rural India

Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman 2005 One Discipline, Four Ways : British, German, French, and American Anthropology

Otten, Simpson FG Bailey's Bisipara Revisited

Edward Simpson, Alice Tilche, Tommaso Sbriccoli, Patricia Jeffery 2018 A Brief History of Incivility in Rural Postcolonial India: Caste, Religion, and Anthropology

March, Kathryn S. 2002 If Each comes Halfway: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal

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Week 3 Senses 15/10/19

Fahmy, Ziad. 2013. Coming to our senses: Historicising sound and noise in the Middle East. History Compass 11.4: 305–315.

Bull, Michael and Les Back, Les 2016 The Auditory Reader (2nd edition)

Rice, Tom 2016 Sounds inside: prison, prisoners and acoustical agency

Low, Kelvin E. Y. 2009 Scents and scent-sibilities: smell and everyday life experiences.

Jonathan Reinarz 2014 Past scents : historical perspectives on smell

Carolyn O’Meara and Asifa Majid 2016. How changing lifestyles impact Seri smellscapes and smell language.Anthropological Linguistics. Summer2016, Vol. 58 Issue 2, p107-131. 25p. ,

Constance Classen, David Howes and Anthony Synnott 1994. Aroma : the cultural history of smell

Constance Classen 2005 The book of touch

Marc Lafrance 2018 Skin Studies: Past, Present and Future

Heidi Kellett 2017 Skin Portraiture: Embodied Reperesntaions in Contemporary Art

Ben Highmore 2010 in Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth. The affect theory reader.

Axel Michaels Untouchability and Tactility in Hindu Death Rituals

Carolyn Korsmeyer 2007 or 2nd edition 2017 The taste culture reader: Experiencing food and drink

Casey Man Kong Lum and Marc de Ferrière le Vayer 2016 Urban foodways and communication : ethnographic studies in intangible cultural food heritages around the world

Jakob A. Klein, Anne Murcott 2014 Food consumption in global perspective : essays in the anthropology of food in honour of Jack Goody

slides week 3

Group 1 Hearing Slides for all.....

Group 2 Taste Slides for all ....

Group 3 Touch Slides for all ....

Group 4 Smell Slides for all....

Week 4 Writing Culture

Clifford Reading

Geertz Reading

Writing Culture summary for all....

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Week 5 Multi-sited Ethnography (Ben) 29/10/19

Marcus Reading (Essential)

Candea Reading (Essential)

Week 5 - Lecture Slides Pre-circulation

Panopto Link

Week 6 Memory 12/11/19

Halbwachs, Maurice 1992 On Collective Memory

Connerton, Paul 1989 How societies remember

Connerton, Paul 2009 How modernity forgets

Assmann, Jan 2009 Religion and Cultural Memory, Ten Studies

Foster, Jonathan 2008 Memory: A Very Short Introduction (chapter 4 Inaccuracies)

Nora, P. 1989. Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire. Representations 26: 7-24. URL

Philippe Tortell, Mark Turing, Margot Young 2018 Memory

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Week 7 Absence, Loss and Forgetting 19/11/19

Mikkel Bille, , Frida Hastrup, , and Tim Flohr Sørensen 2010 The Anthropology of Absence : Materializations of Transcendence and Loss (key reading)

Connerton, Paul 2011. The Spirit of Mourning: History, Memory and the Body.

Paul Connerton 2008 7 ways of forgetting (reference, not essential reading)

Pia Kontos Embodied Selfhood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Alzheimer's disease

Hann, Chris 2015. Why Post-imperialist Trumpls Post-socialist: Criying Back the National Past in Hungary

Thornton, Robert 2008 Unimagined Communities