21F 830 Global Culture

Course Readings

Trobriand Cricket

• Leach, Jerry W. 1988. Structure and Message in Trobriand Cricket. In J. Rollwagen, ed., Anthropological Film-making (Harwood Academic Press, Chur): 237-51. Rpt. of paper given at British Association for the Advancement of Science symposium "Problems of Anthropological Filming," University of Lancaster, 6 September 1976.
• Weiner, Annette. 1977. Review of Trobriand Cricket. American Anthropologist 79(2): 506-7.
• Weiner, Annette. 1978. Epistemology and Ethnographic Reality: A Trobriand Island Case Study. American Anthropologist 80(3): 752-57.

Cargo Cult

• Lindstrom, Lamont. 1993. What Happened to Cargo Cults?, The Birth of Cargo Cult. Chs. 1-2 of Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire frm Melanesia and Beyond. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Tourists and Other Cannibals

• MacCannell, Dean. 1992. Cannibalism Today. In Empty Meeting-Grounds: The Tourist Papers. New York: Routledge.
• Lutkehaus, Nancy. 1989. 'Excuse Me, Everything Is Not Alright': On Ethnography, Film, and Representation. Interview with Dennis O'Rourke. Cultural Anthropology 4(4): 422-37.

National Geographic

• Lutz, Nancy, and Jane Collins. 1994. Becoming America's Lens on the World: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century. Ch. 2 of Reading National Geographic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Price, Sally. 1989. The Universality Principle. Ch. 2 of Primitive Art in Civilized Places. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Baraka

• Stapes, Amy J. 1994. Mondo Mediations. American Anthropologist 96: 662-68.

Heart of Darkness

• Torgovnick, Marianna. 1990. Defining the Primitive / Reimagining Modernity. Introduction to Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Taussig, Michael. 1993. The Talking Machine. Ch. 14 of Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. New York: Routledge.

Trade Routes

• Brooke, James. 1995. Who Braves Piranha Waters? Your Avon Lady! New York Times 7 July 1995.
• Business Ethics September 1994. Selected articles [Entine, Kelly, Bavaria]
• Franklin Research's Insight. 1994. Body Shop Scrutinized. [Bavaria, Becker, Billeness]
• Utne Reader January 1995. Body Shop dossier.
• Boston Globe 27 July 1995. Not Exactly Shell Game: Ben & JerryÕs Shelves Inaccurate Rain Forest PitchÓ

African Mythologies

• Bruner, Edward, and Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett. 1994. Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa. Cultural Anthropology 9(4): 435-70.
• MacCannell, Dean. 1976. Staged Authenticity. In The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Schocken Books.

• Steiner, Christopher. 1994. Commodity Outlets and the Classification of Goods, Cultural Brokerage and the Mediation of Knowledge. Chs. 1, 6 of African Art in Transit. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sex

• Rieker, Martina. 1993. Narrating the Post-Colonial Everyday: An Interrogation of The Good Woman of Bangkok. Visual Anthropology Review 9(1): 116-22.

Diasporas

• Clifford, James. 1995. Diasporas. Cultural Anthropology. 9(3): 302-38.

• Naficy, Hamid. 1993. Introduction, Exile Discourse. Introduction and Ch. 1 of The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.