Welcome to the course website.  I will be actively updating the website as we move through the semester. For the time being, please purchase the two required books from a local or on-line retailer.  They have not been ordered at the bookstore:

Marcus, George E, and Michael M. J Fischer, eds. Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Rancière, Jacques. 2006. The politics of aesthetics : the distribution of the sensible. Pbk. ed. London; New York: Continuum.

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To read for next class (January 28).

George E. Marcus and Erkan Saka, “Assemblage,” Theory Culture Society 23, no. 2-3 (May 1, 2006): 101-106. [marcus-saka2006.pdf]

Arnd Schneider, “Three modes of experimentation with art and ethnography.,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14, no. 1 (March 2008): 171-194. [schneider2008.pdf].

Michael Taussig, “The Diary as Witness: An anthropologist writes what he must,” The Chronicle Review, 2003.