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Reading List for the Ambitious Non-Graduate Student
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I do not know if I will ever have the benefit of formal post-undergraduate education in anthropology, but I do want to continue my anthropological learning. Having joined a neuro-economics lab at…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Brendan P. Sullivan Dec 17, 2012.
time to moderate new membership?
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The spamming of this site is really starting to get out of hand. The pattern is pretty clear. A person or bot joins, spams, and then is removed. Rinse, repeat.Perhaps it is time for new membership to…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Francine Barone Oct 12, 2010.
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Full Text of AAA Long-Range Plan Adopted by the AAA Executive Board on 11/20/2010
Russell Bernard sent me the full text of the AAA Long-Range Plan adopted by the AAA Executive Board on 11/20/2010. He obtained the document from Virginia Dominguez, president of the AAA. Here is the text in…
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AAA new Long-Range Plan drops reference to science
AAA new proposed Long Range Plan drops reference to science. I find this a little troubling.
This is the mission statement:
Section 1. The purposes of the Association shall be to advance anthropology as the science that
studies… Continue
This is the mission statement:
Section 1. The purposes of the Association shall be to advance anthropology as the science that
studies… Continue
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 5:00am — 11 Comments
Around the Infonosphere
Originally posted on my blog at jacoblee.net Around the Infonosphere is my regular report on the stuff I've found or have been reading out there in the infonosphere.
Philosopher Mandel Cabrera over at Lexilalia discusses the… Continue
Philosopher Mandel Cabrera over at Lexilalia discusses the… Continue
Posted on October 26, 2010 at 7:39am
Situation Theory and Situation Semantics
In August OAC's Oscar González wrote in the Theory for Anthropology group that:
If somebody wants to arrange information for comparing situations looking for cultural signs into them, I think that Situation theory offers a language with capabilities for writing ethnographic information down and make formally well written comparisons.…
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Brendan P. Sullivan replied to Jacob Lee's discussion Reading List for the Ambitious Non-Graduate StudentBrendan P. Sullivan replied to Jacob Lee's discussion Reading List for the Ambitious Non-Graduate Student"Here's my list -I hope you may find something that you'd like to read. I can't say if I would expect any well educated PhD to have read these because I don't know many and I followed my interests on my own to find and read this…"
ryan anderson replied to Jacob Lee's discussion Reading List for the Ambitious Non-Graduate Student"A few books:
Anything by George Stocking for the history of anthropology angle.
Eric Wolf: Europe and the People Without History
William Roseberry: Anthropologies and Histories
Michel Rolf Trouillot: Global Transformations
Marcel Mauss: The Gift
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"Sorry, I thought I had replied to this earlier. Answer: No, I haven't read them. Was fishing for a cogent review.
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"Sorry to say, I haven't read them either! Was fishing for a cogent review."
"Unfortunately I haven't. But tell us about what you got from them."
"Hello, Jacob
Whether "Lightning Warrior", by Matthew Looper (superlative Mayanist epigrapher/art historian), would make a must-read list concocted by knowledgeable anthropologists, I couldn't say. I will say that this book about…"
"If you have read either of the books referenced below, perhaps you'll share your take on them, Keith. …"
Abraham Heinemann replied to Jacob Lee's discussion Reading List for the Ambitious Non-Graduate Student"Perhaps a little smaller, but I found subtly solid
Yali’s Question: Sugar, Culture, and History by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz"
"I hesitated to mention my favourite classical author, but I do think that Durkheim's last book on religion has the most unexplored potential for us of any of the books left by the founders of modern social theory. I would link it with Roy…"
Joel M. Wright replied to Jacob Lee's discussion Reading List for the Ambitious Non-Graduate Student"Building on John's comments, I'd add the following: Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Division of Labor in Society, Francis LaFesche's Osage and the Invisible World.
In grad-level work, it's likely that students will get…"
John McCreery replied to Jacob Lee's discussion Reading List for the Ambitious Non-Graduate Student"Malinowski, the big books: Argonauts of the Western Pacific; Coral Gardens and Their Magic, Vols. I-II; The Sexual Life of Savages. I didn't get around to these until I wrote my chapter "Malinowski, Magic and Advertising"…"
"J. M. Synge's The Aran Islands (1907) is available in free or almost free versions (html, epub, kindle etc) with a biographical introduction. It came out in the same year as his revolutionary play, The Playboy of the Western World. It is…"
"Well that just about nails it on the head John.
On the other hand, there is no inherent reason that OAC can't continue on slowly accreting interesting content for folks to rummage through. As you see, I periodically come back, and as long as…"
Reading List for the Ambitious Non-Graduate Student
I do not know if I will ever have the benefit of formal post-undergraduate education in anthropology, but I do want to continue my anthropological learning. Having joined a neuro-economics lab at Virginia Tech as a research programmer, I now have, if not more time, at least the freedom and resources with which to improve my knowledge. And so I am asking everyone here to suggest a reading list of no more than 10-30 books (or articles) for me to read (unfortunately the possibility that I might…See More
"I might be wrong, but Pajek, the very popular software for social network analysis, was originally developed with genealogical analysis in mind.Regarding kinship studies: not to nitpick, but I would want to emphasize that Dwight Read's…"
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- At 1:22pm on November 7, 2010,
Francine Barone said… - Thanks, Jacob!
- At 2:56pm on October 25, 2010,
Udo Krautwurst said… - Hi Jacob,
Thanks for the greetings. I'm looking forward to lots of stimulating dialogue with you and the entire OAC community.
- At 1:23am on October 13, 2010,
Philip Swift said… - Many thanks Jacob,
I hope the paper - somewhat obscure as it is - will make for an interesting discussion.
Fingers crossed!
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