Readings

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Foundations: Ethnography & Social Theory

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Mauss, Marcel. "Conclusion." In The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. Translated by W.D. Halls. W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780393320435.

Buy at Amazon Malinowski, B. "Methodological Introduction." In Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Waveland Pr Inc, 2984. ISBN: 9780881330847.

Buy at Amazon Fleck, Ludwik. The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. University Of Chicago Press, 1935. ISBN: 9780226253251. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Martin, Emily. Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Beacon Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780807046272.

Buy at Amazon Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer. Introduction, Chapters 1 and 4 in Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and The Experimental Life. Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780691150208.

Buy at Amazon Latour, Bruno. Chapter 2 in We Have Never Been Modern. Harvard University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780674948396. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Beck, Ulrich. Chapters 1 and 2 in The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory. Sage Publications Ltd, 1992. ISBN: 9780803983465. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. What is Globalization? Polity, 2000. ISBN: 9780745621265.

Buy at Amazon ———. World at Risk. Polity, 2008. ISBN: 9780745642000. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780226458083. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Merton, Robert K. Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. University of Chicago Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780226520926.

Buy at Amazon Foucault, Michel. Chapter 1 in The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Vintage, 1994. ISBN: 9780679753353.

Buy at Amazon Fischer, Michael M.J. "Las Meninas & Robotic-Virtual Surgical Systems." In Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice. Duke University Press Books, 2003, pp. 309–32. ISBN: 9780822332381. [Preview with Google Books]

2 Climate Change, and Creating Useable Social Theories for 21st Century: MetaNarratives & Local Narratives

Required Readings

Callison, Candis. "Inuit Circumpolar Council," and "Blessing the Facts." Chapters 2 and 3 in Climate Change. NSF Final Report, 2009.

Lahsen, Myanna. "A Science-Policy Interface in the Global South: The Politics of Carbon Sinks and Science in Brazil." Climatic Change 97, no. 3–4 (2009): 339–72.

Buy at Amazon Giddens, Anthony. Chapters 4 and 5 in Politics of Climate Change. Polity, 2009. ISBN: 9780745646923. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Lyotard, J. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. University of Minnesota Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780816611737.

 Buy at Amazon Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins. Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780674929531. [Preview with Google Books]

3 The Force of the Social: Emotion, Trauma, Organs, the Durkheimian Challenge & Social Anthropology

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Durkheim, Emile. "Piacular Rites," and "Conclusion." In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780192832559. [Preview with Google Books]

 Buy at Amazon Crapanzano, Vincent. "Rite of Return: Circumcision in Morocco." In Psychoanalytic Study of Society. Edited by W. Meunsterberger and L. Bryce Boyer. Vol. 9. Psychohistory Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780914434214.

Buy at Amazon Fassin, Didier, and Richard Rechtman. The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780691137537. [Preview with Google Books]

Sanal, Aslihan. "Robin Hood' of Techno-Turkey, or, Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings." Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 28, no. 3 (2004): 281–309.

Satel, Katie. "Desperately Seeking A Kidney." New York Times, December 17, 2007.

Buy at Amazon Fox, R., and J. Swazey. Chapters 2, 3 and 8 in Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society. Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780195076509.

Gender, Debt, Markets

Cohen, Lawrence. "Where it Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation." Daedalus 128, no. 4 (1999): 135–65.

Cultural Presuppositions of the Law

Buy at Amazon Das, Veena. "The practice of Organ Transplants: Networks, Documents, Translations." In Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry. Edited by Margaret Lock, Alberto Cambrosio, and Allan Young. Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780521655682. [Preview with Google Books]

Demographic Transition

Buy at Amazon Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population. University of Michigan Library, 1826. Or later online: http://www.econlib.org/library/Malthus/malPlong1.html

Cultural and Technology Supplement

Buy at Amazon Geertz, Clifford. Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia. UC Press, 1969. ISBN: 9780520004597 [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. The Peasants of Languedoc. University of Illinois Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780252006357.

Statistical and Mechanical Models

Buy at Amazon Levi-Strauss, Claude. "Mechanical and Statistical Models." In Structural Anthropology. Basic Books, 1974. ISBN: 9780465095162. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Perrow, Charles. Last chapter in Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. 2nd ed. Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780691004129. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Taylor, 2002. ISBN: 9780415289955

Buy at Amazon Douglas, Mary, and Aron Wildavsky. Risk and Culture. University of California Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780520050631.

Buy at Amazon Perin, Constance. Shouldering Risks: The Culture of Control in the Nuclear Power Industry. Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780691127774.

Buy at Amazon Vaughan, Diane. The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. University Of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780226851761. [Preview with Google Books]

Key Terms

Malinowski, Mauss, Fleck, Shapin and Shafer on epistemes: Foucault, The Order of Things

For Discussion

On sensus communis: Gadamer

On common sense: Fischer, opening Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution

On semiology & floating signifiers: Levi-Strauss: Introduction to Marcel Mauss

To consider: "If social sciences are of use to society... it is by virtue of the critique they offer. This critique primarily addresses the concepts and tools with which the men and women of today think and transform the world—concepts and tools that are often invisible, and therefore unrecognized, by those who use them." From Fassin, Didier and Richard Rechtman. The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood.

4 Subjectivity and Displacements of the Rational: The Freudian and Lacanian Challenge

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Lacan, Jacques. "The Function and Field of Speech in Psychoanalysis." In Ecrits. W. W. Norton, 2005. ISBN: 9780393061154.

Buy at Amazon Ragland, Ellie, Dragan Milovanovic, and Jean Lafont, eds. "Introduction," Chapter 1 "Topology and Efficiency," and Chapter 3 "Lacan's Topological Unit and the Structure of Mind" in Lacan: Topologically Speaking. Other Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781892746764. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon McGowan, Todd, and Sheila Kunkle, eds. "The Anxiety of Love Letters." Chapter 2 in Lacan and Contemporary Film. Other Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781590510841.

Buy at Amazon Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Effectiveness of Symbols." In Structural Anthropology. Basic Books, 1974. ISBN: 9780465095162. [Preview with Google Books] (Read with Buy at Amazon Watson, Zak. "Floating between Original and Semblance." Chapter 6 in Lacan: Topologically Speaking. Edited by Ellie Ragland. Other Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781892746764. [Preview with Google Books])

Buy at Amazon Good, Byron, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. "The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence and Subjectivity in Indonesia." In Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations. University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520247932. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Malinowski, B. Sex and Repression in Savage Society. Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415255547. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Obeysekere, Gananath. Selections from Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. University Of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780226616018.

Buy at Amazon Brooks, Peter. "The Case of the Wolf-Man." In Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. Harvard University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780674748927. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Held, David. "Chapters on Oedipus." In Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas. University of California Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780520041752. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Good, Byron J., Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, et al., eds. Postcolonial Disorders. University of California Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780520252240. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Biehl, Joao, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, eds. Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations. University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520247932. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Marcus, G., and Michael M.J. Fischer. "Conveying Other Cultural Experience: The Person, Self and Emotions." Chapter 3 in Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. University Of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780226504506. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Goodman, Allegra. Intuition. The Dial Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780385336123.

Buy at Amazon Luhrman, Tanya. Of Two Minds: An Anthroplogist Looks at American Psychiatry. Vintage, 2001. ISBN: 9780679744931.

Buy at Amazon Foucault, Michel. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981-82. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 9780312203269.

Buy at Amazon ———. The History of Madness. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9780415277013. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. Psychiatric Power. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. ISBN: 9781403986511.

5 System Transformation, Social Formations, Multiple Historical Horizons: The Marxian Challenge

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Fortun, Kim. Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders. University Of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780226257204. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Petryna, Adriana. When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780691126579. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Rajan, Kaushik Sunder. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Duke University Press Books, 2006. ISBN: 9780822337201. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Marx, Karl. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Wildside Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781434463753. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. "Commodity Fetishism," "Machines," and "Primitive Accumulation." In Capital (Volume 1). Penguin Classics, 2002. ISBN: 9780140445688.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Introduction," "Social Relations and Exchange Value," "Circulation and Value," "Accumulation and Social Relations," "Simple Exchange," "Exchange of Labor," "Labor as Objectified Value," and "Precapitalist Economic Formations." In Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. Penguin Classics, 1993, pp. 83–111, 136–67, 186–203, 221–38, 240–73, 274–75, 304–310, and 469–514. ISBN: 9780140445756.

Supplementary Readings

Beckert, Sven. "Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War." The American Historical Review 109, no. 5 (2004): 1405–38.

Bendix, R., and S. Lipset. "Social Status and Social Structure: A Re-Examination of Data and Interpretations: II." The British Journal of Sociology 2, no. 3 (1951): 230–54.

Buy at Amazon Cohen, Lawrence. "Operability: Surgery at the Margins of the State." In Anthropology at the Margins of the State. Edited by V. Das and D. Poole. SAR Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781930618411.

———. "Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation." Daedalus 128, no. 4 (1999): 135–65.

Buy at Amazon Derrida, J. "Wears and Tears: Tableau of an Ageless World." Chapter 3 in Spectres of Marx. Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 9780415910453. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Nimtz, August. Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough. State University of New York Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780791444894. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Hobsbawn, Eric. How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism. Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780300176162.

Buy at Amazon Blackburn, Robin, ed. An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. Verso, 2011. ISBN: 9781844677221. [Preview with Google Books]

STS Ethnographies

Buy at Amazon Masco, Joseph. The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780691120775. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Petryna, Adriana. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691090191. [Preview with Google Books]

———. "Ethical Variability: Drug Development and Globalizing Clinical Trials." American Ethnologist 32, no. 2 (2005): 183–97.

Buy at Amazon Rabinow, Paul. Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology. University Of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780226701479. [Preview with Google Books]

6 Meaningful Social Action in Post-Bureaucratic Worlds: The Weberian Challenge, Hermeneutics & Interpretive Anthropology

Primary STS Reading

Buy at Amazon MacKenzie, Donald. Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199278152.

Primary Social Theory Readings

Buy at Amazon Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Dover Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9780486427034. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Geertz, Clifford. "Deep Play," "Thick Description," and "Person, Time & Conduct in Bali." In The Interpretation of Culture. Basic Books, 1973. ISBN: 9780465034253.

Buy at Amazon Fischer, Michael M.J. "Imam Khomeini: Four Ways of Understanding." In Voices of Resurgent Islam. Edited by J. Esposito. Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780195033403.

Discussion Topics

Buy at Amazon MacKenzie, Donald. "The Most Promising Approach to Investigating the Constraints on Accounting is Ethnographic." Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed. Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 130. ISBN: 9780199278152.

Markets

Buy at Amazon Abolafia, Mitchel Y. Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street. Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780674006881. [Preview with Google Books]

Beunza, Daniel, and David Stark. "The Organization of Responsiveness: Innovation and Recovery in the Trading Rooms of Lower Manhattan." Socio-Economic Review 1, no. 2 (2003): 135–64.

———. "Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room." Industrial and Corporate Change 13, no. 2 (2004): 369–400.

Buy at Amazon Ho, Karen. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Duke University Press Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780822345992. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Lepinay, Vincent-Antonine. "Decoding Finance: Articulation and Liquidity around a Trading Room." In Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics. Edited by D. MacKenzie, F. Muniesa, and Lucia Siu. Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 87–127. ISBN: 9780691130163. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon MacKenzie, Donald. An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780262134606. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon MacKenzie, D., F. Muniesa, and Lucia Siu, eds. Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics. Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780691130163. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Mirowski, Philip. Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780521775267. [Preview with Google Books]

Weber, Max. "Stock and Commodity Exchanges [Die Börse (1894)]." Theory and Society 29, no. 3 (1894): 305–38.

———. "Commerce on the Stock and Commodity Exchanges [Die Börsenverkehr]." Theory and Society 29, no. 3 (2000): 339–71.

Buy at Amazon Zaloom, Caitlin. Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. University Of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780226978130. [Preview with Google Books]

Interpretive Social Theory

Buy at Amazon Berger, P., and T. Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor, 1967. ISBN: 9780385058988.

Buy at Amazon Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives, and A Rhetoric of Motives. World Publishing Company, 1962.

Buy at Amazon Cassirer, Ernst. The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies. Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780300081152.

Buy at Amazon Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method. Continuum, 2004, pp. 5–39. ISBN: 9780826476975. [Preview with Google Books]

7 Media, the Culture Industry, Visualization: The Challenge of the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory

Ethnographies & Social Theory of Simulation/Visualization Technologies

Buy at Amazon Dumit, Joe. Picturing Personhood Brain Scans & Biomedical Identity. Princrton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780691113982.

Buy at Amazon Turkle, Sherry. Simulation and Its Discontents. MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262012706.

Buy at Amazon Bishop, Ryan, ed. Baudrillard Now: Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies. Polity, 2009. ISBN: 9780745647074. [Preview with Google Books]

Benjamin & Frankfurt School

Buy at Amazon Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. CreateSpace, 2010. ISBN: 9781453722480.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Filling Station," "Fire Alarm," "Stereoscope," "Technical Aid," and "To the Planetarium." In One-Way Street and Other Writings. Penguin Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780141189475.

Hansen, Miriam Bratu. "Room-for-Play: Benjamin's Gamble with Cinema." October 109 (2004): 3–45.

Buy at Amazon Leonard, Robert J. ""Seeing is Believing": Otto Neurath, Graphic Art, and the Social Order". In Economic Engagements with Art. Edited by N. De Marchi and C. D. W. Goodwin. Duke University Press Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780822324898. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Lipsitz, George. Chapters on Jazz, Hip Hop, and Techno in Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music. University Of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780816650194. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. MIT Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780262581080.

Supplementary Readings

Buy at Amazon Abelson, Hal, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008. ISBN: 9780137135592. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Buck-Morss, Susan. Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West. MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262523318.

Buy at Amazon ———. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780822959786. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Clifford, James. "On Ethnographic Surrealism." In The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Harvard University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780674698437. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. "On Ethnographic Allegory." In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. University of California Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780520057296. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Fischer, Michael M.J. "Las Meninas and Robotic-Virtual Surgical Systems." In Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice. Duke University Press Books, 2003. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. "Ethnicity and the Postmodern Arts of Memory." In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. University of California Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780520057296. [Preview with Google Books]

Hansen, Miriam. "Of Mice and Ducks: Benjamin and Adorno on Disney." South Atlantic Quarterly 92, no. 1 (1993): 27–61.

Buy at Amazon Juris, Jeffrey. Networking Futures: Movements Against Corporate Globalization. Duke University Press Books, 2008. ISBN: 9780822342694. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Leslie, Esther. Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-garde. Verso, 2004. ISBN: 9781859846124. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. Walter Benjamin: Overcoming Conformism. Pluto Press, 2000. ISBN: 9781844675043. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Benjamin, Walter. Chapter 1 (on "Filling Station," "Fire Alarm," and "To the Planetarium") and Chapter 3 (on "Technical Aid," "Stereoscope," and "A Descriptive History of Tecknik") in One-Way Street and Other Writings. Penguin Books, 2009, pp. 1–41, 63–8, and 73–8. ISBN: 9780141189475.

Buy at Amazon Lipsitz, George. Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place. Verso, 1994. ISBN: 9781859849354.

Buy at Amazon ———. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780816638819.

Buy at Amazon Poster, Mark. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. University Of Chicago Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780226675961.

Buy at Amazon Serres, Michel. Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies. Continuum, 2009. ISBN: 9780826459855.

Buy at Amazon Singer, P. W. Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. Penguin Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781594201981.

Buy at Amazon Taussig, Michael T. The Nervous System. Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 9780415904452.

Buy at Amazon ———. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. Routledge, 1993. ISBN: 9780415906876.

Buy at Amazon ———. What Color Is the Sacred?. University Of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780226790060. [Preview with Google Books]

Turley, Alan C. "Max Weber and the Sociology of Music." Sociological Forum 16, no. 4 (2001): 633–53.

Buy at Amazon Adorno, Theodor W. Philosophy of New Music. University Of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780816636662.

Buy at Amazon Jenemann, David. Adorno in America. University Of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780816648092. [Preview with Google Books]

Key Terms

Benjamin, Hansen, Taussig, Lipsitz (Weber and Freud), historization, dialectics, critique (immanent critique), concrete objects (contradictions), constellation, rationalities, ratio, kitch-avant garde, dommercial logic, domination

8 Structuralism & Poststructuralism: French Theory

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Hill and Wang, 2012. ISBN: 9780374532345.

Buy at Amazon Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Vintage, 1994. ISBN: 9780679753353.

Buy at Amazon Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 17. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780393330403.

Buy at Amazon Levi- Strauss, Claude. Chapters 1 and 9 in The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press, 1968. ISBN: 9780226474847.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Overture." In The Raw and the Cooked. University of Chicago Press, 1983, pp. 1–32. ISBN: 9780226474878.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Finale." In The Naked Man. University of Chicago Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780226474960.

Buy at Amazon ———. Chapter 1 in The Way of the Masks. University of Washington Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780295959290.

Buy at Amazon ———. Structural Anthropology. Basic Books, 1974. ISBN: 9780465095162.

  • "The Effectiveness of Symbols." [Preview with Google Books]
  • "Social Structure." [Preview with Google Books]
  • "Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology." [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. "The Story of Asdiwal." In The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism. Edited by Edmund Leach. Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 9780415611626. [Preview with Google Books]

Supplementary Readings

Buy at Amazon Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Beacon Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780807046692.

Buy at Amazon Morgan, Lewis Henry. Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family. University of Nebraska Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780803282308. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Malinowski, B. Sex and Repression in Savage Society. Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415255547. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780816614028.

Buy at Amazon Derrida, Jacques. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9780415389570.

Linguistics as Background

Buy at Amazon Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. Columbia University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780231157278.

Buy at Amazon Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures. Walter de Gruyter, 2002. ISBN: 3110172799.

Commentaries

Buy at Amazon Bourg, Julian. From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780773531994.

Buy at Amazon Leonard, Miriam. Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780199277254.

Buy at Amazon Ross, Kristin. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 978-0262680912. [Preview with Google Books]

9 Biology in the World

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Fischer, Michael M. J. "Lively Biotech and Translational Medicine." In Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets. Duke University Press Books, 2012. ISBN: 9780822348313.

Buy at Amazon Landecker, Hannah. Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies. Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780674023284. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Kay, Lily. Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code. Stanford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780804734172. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Haraway, Donna. "FemaleMan©_ Meets_OncoMouseTM." Chapter 2 in Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience. Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415912457. [Peview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Ong, Aihwa, and Nancy Chen. "Introduction." In Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate. Duke University Press Books, 2010. ISBN: 9780822348092. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Fischer, Michael M.J. "Body Marks." In Anthropological Futures. Duke University Press Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780822344612. [Preview with Google Books]

Supplementary Readings

Buy at Amazon Fischer, Michael M.J. "Emergent Forms of Un/Natural Life." In Anthropological Futures. Duke University Press Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780822344612. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Fortun, Michael. Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation. University of California Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780520247505. [Preview with Google Books]

Harvey, Mark, and Andy McMeekin. "Brazilian Genomics and Bioinformatics: Instituting New Innovation Pathways in a Global Context." Economy and Society 34, no. 4 (2005): 634–58.

Buy at Amazon Hayden, Cori. When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico. Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780691095578. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Helmreich, Stefan. Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. University of California Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780520250628. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. "Life@Sea: Networking Marine Biodiversity into Biotech Futures." In Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences. Edited by Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock. SAR Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781930618190.

———. "Trees and Seas of Information: Alien Kinship and the Biopolitics of Gene Transfer in Marine Biology and Biotechnology." American Ethnologist 30, no. 3 (2003): 340–58.

Buy at Amazon Jasanoff, Sheila. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691118116. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Martin, Emily. Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Beacon Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780807046272.

Buy at Amazon Rabinow, Paul. French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory. University Of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780226701509.

Buy at Amazon Rapp, Rayna. Testing Women, Testing the Fetus; the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415916455

Buy at Amazon Reardon, Jenny. Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics. Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780691118574. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Rheinberger, Hans-Jorg. Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Stanford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780804727860. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Rajan, Kaushik Sunder. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Duke University Press Books, 2006. ISBN: 9780822337201. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Werth, Barry. Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug. Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN: 9780671510572.

10 Material-Semiotic Objects, Companion Species, & Other Objects

Required Readings

Buy at Amazon Haraway, Donna. When Species Meet. University Of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780816650460. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780971757585.

Supplementary Readings

Buy at Amazon Fischer, Michael M.J. "Emergent Forms of Un/Natural Life" and "Body Marks." In Anthropological Futures. Duke University Press Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780822344612. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Franklin, Sarah. Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Duke University Press Books, 2007. ISBN: 9780822339205. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge, 1990. ISBN: 9780415902946.

Buy at Amazon Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction. Harvard University Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780674510586.

Buy at Amazon Ronell, Avital. The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. University of Nebraska Press, 2001, pp. 1–15 and 227–349. ISBN: 9780803289383. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. The Test Drive. University of Illinois Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780252075353.

Sanal, Aslihan. ""Robin Hood" of Techno-Turkey or Organ Trafficking in the State of Ethical Beings." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 28, no. 3 (2004): 281–309.

Cohen, Lawrence. "Where It Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation." Daedalus 128, no. 4 (1999): 135–65.

Buy at Amazon Das, Veena. "The Practice of Organ Transplants: Networks, Documents, Translations." In Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry. Edited by Margaret Lock, Alberto Cambrosio, and Allan Young. Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780521655682. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Fox, R., and J. Swazey. Chapters 2, 3, and 8 in Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society. Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780195076509.

Ecology

Buy at Amazon Davis, Mike. "Ecocide in Marboro Country." In Dead Cities: And Other Tales. New Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781565848443.

Buy at Amazon Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Story of Asdiwal." In The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism. Edited by Edmund Leach. Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 9780415611626. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Masco, Joseph. The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780691120775. [Preivew with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill & Wang, 1996. ISBN: 9780809015832.

Buy at Amazon Wohlforth, Charles. The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change. North Point Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780865477148.

Environmental Issues and Democratic Organization

Buy at Amazon Allen, Barbara. Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes. MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780262511346. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Lerner, Steve. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780262622042.

Buy at Amazon Wright, Beverly. "Race, Politics, and Pollution: Environmental Justice in the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor." In Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. Edited by J. Agyeman, R. D. Bullard and B. Evans. MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780262511315. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Brown, Phil, and Edwin J. Mikkelsen. No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action. University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780520212480. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Crawford, Colin. Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek: The Battle over Race, Class and the Environment in the New South. Perseus Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780201627237.

Buy at Amazon George, Timothy. Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. ISBN: 9780674007857.

Buy at Amazon Harr, Jonathan. A Civil Action. Vintage, 1996. ISBN: 9780679772675.

Buy at Amazon Reich, Michael. Toxic Politics: Responding to Chemical Disasters. Cornell University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780801424342.

11 New Media, Visualization, Networks, Infrastructures, Open Source, Surveillance

Primary Ethnographic Readings

Buy at Amazon Kelty, Chris. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Duke University Press Books, 2008. ISBN: 9780822342649. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Qui, Jack Linchuan. Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China. MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262170062. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Shull, Natasha. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas. Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780691127552.

Fischer, Michael M.J. "Iran and the Boomeranging Cartoon Wars: Can Public Spheres at Risk Ally with Public Spheres Yet to be Achieved?" Cultural Politics 5, no. 1 (2009): 27–62.

Fischer, Michael M.J., Christopher M. Kelty, et al. "ANTHROPOLOGY OF/IN CIRCULATION: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies." Cultural Anthropology 23, no. 3 (2008): 559–88.

Massing, Michael. "The News About the Internet." The New York Review of Books, August 13, 2009.

Myers, Natasha. Modeling Proteins, Making Scientists: An Ethnography of Pedagogy and Visual Cultures in Contemporary Structural Biology. Ph.D. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007, pp. 260–77.

Rosling, Hans. "Hans Rosling Shows the Best Stats You've Ever Seen." February, 2006. TED.com. Accessed July 6, 2012. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

Buy at Amazon Singer, P. W. Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. Penguin Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781594201981.

Supplementary Readings

Condry, Ian. "Anime Creativity: Characters and Premises in the Quest for Cool Japan." Theory, Culture and Society 26, no. 2–3 (2009): 139–63.

Buy at Amazon Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. MIT Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780262581080.

Kelty, Chris. "Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics." Cultural Anthropology 20, no. 2 (2005): 185–214.

Buy at Amazon Fischer, Michael M.J. Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry. Duke University Press Books, 2004. ISBN: 9780822332985. [Preview with Google Books]