Readings | Social Theory and Analysis | Anthropology

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1	Foundations: Ethnography & Social Theory	Required Readings 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. Malinowski, B. "Methodological Introduction." In Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Waveland Pr Inc, 2984. ISBN: 9780881330847. Fleck, Ludwik. The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. University Of Chicago Press, 1935. ISBN: 9780226253251. [Preview with Google Books] Martin, Emily. Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Beacon Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780807046272. 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. Latour, Bruno. Chapter 2 in We Have Never Been Modern. Harvard University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780674948396. [Preview with Google Books] 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] ———. What is Globalization? Polity, 2000. ISBN: 9780745621265. ———. World at Risk. Polity, 2008. ISBN: 9780745642000. [Preview with Google Books] Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780226458083. Merton, Robert K. Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. University of Chicago Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780226520926. Foucault, Michel. Chapter 1 in The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Vintage, 1994. ISBN: 9780679753353. 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 21^st 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. Giddens, Anthony. Chapters 4 and 5 in Politics of Climate Change. Polity, 2009. ISBN: 9780745646923. [Preview with Google Books] Lyotard, J. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. University of Minnesota Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780816611737. 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 Durkheim, Emile. "Piacular Rites," and "Conclusion." In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780192832559. [Preview with Google Books] 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. 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. 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 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 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 Geertz, Clifford. Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia. UC Press, 1969. ISBN: 9780520004597 [Preview with Google Books] Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy. The Peasants of Languedoc. University of Illinois Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780252006357. Statistical and Mechanical Models Levi-Strauss, Claude. "Mechanical and Statistical Models." In Structural Anthropology. Basic Books, 1974. ISBN: 9780465095162. [Preview with Google Books] Perrow, Charles. Last chapter in Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. 2nd ed. Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780691004129. [Preview with Google Books] Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Taylor, 2002. ISBN: 9780415289955 Douglas, Mary, and Aron Wildavsky. Risk and Culture. University of California Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780520050631. Perin, Constance. Shouldering Risks: The Culture of Control in the Nuclear Power Industry. Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780691127774. 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 Lacan, Jacques. "The Function and Field of Speech in Psychoanalysis." In Ecrits. W. W. Norton, 2005. ISBN: 9780393061154. 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] McGowan, Todd, and Sheila Kunkle, eds. "The Anxiety of Love Letters." Chapter 2 in Lacan and Contemporary Film. Other Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781590510841. Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Effectiveness of Symbols." In Structural Anthropology. Basic Books, 1974. ISBN: 9780465095162. [Preview with Google Books] (Read with 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]) 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] Malinowski, B. Sex and Repression in Savage Society. Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415255547. Obeysekere, Gananath. Selections from Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. University Of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780226616018. 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] Held, David. "Chapters on Oedipus." In Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas. University of California Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780520041752. [Preview with Google Books] Good, Byron J., Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, et al., eds. Postcolonial Disorders. University of California Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780520252240. [Preview with Google Books] Biehl, Joao, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, eds. Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations. University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520247932. [Preview with Google Books] 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] Goodman, Allegra. Intuition. The Dial Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780385336123. Luhrman, Tanya. Of Two Minds: An Anthroplogist Looks at American Psychiatry. Vintage, 2001. ISBN: 9780679744931. Foucault, Michel. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981-82. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 9780312203269. ———. The History of Madness. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 9780415277013. ———. Psychiatric Power. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. ISBN: 9781403986511.
5	System Transformation, Social Formations, Multiple Historical Horizons: The Marxian Challenge	Required Readings Fortun, Kim. Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders. University Of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780226257204. [Preview with Google Books] Petryna, Adriana. When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780691126579. [Preview with Google Books] Rajan, Kaushik Sunder. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Duke University Press Books, 2006. ISBN: 9780822337201. [Preview with Google Books] Marx, Karl. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Wildside Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781434463753. [Preview with Google Books] ———. "Commodity Fetishism," "Machines," and "Primitive Accumulation." In Capital (Volume 1). Penguin Classics, 2002. ISBN: 9780140445688. ———. "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. 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. Derrida, J. "Wears and Tears: Tableau of an Ageless World." Chapter 3 in Spectres of Marx. Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 9780415910453. [Preview with Google Books] Nimtz, August. Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough. State University of New York Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780791444894. [Preview with Google Books] Hobsbawn, Eric. How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism. Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780300176162. Blackburn, Robin, ed. An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. Verso, 2011. ISBN: 9781844677221. [Preview with Google Books] STS Ethnographies Masco, Joseph. The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780691120775. [Preview with Google Books] Petryna, Adriana. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691090191. ———. "Ethical Variability: Drug Development and Globalizing Clinical Trials." American Ethnologist 32, no. 2 (2005): 183–97. Rabinow, Paul. Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology. University Of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780226701479.
6	Meaningful Social Action in Post-Bureaucratic Worlds: The Weberian Challenge, Hermeneutics & Interpretive Anthropology	Primary STS Reading MacKenzie, Donald. Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199278152. Primary Social Theory Readings Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Dover Publications, 2003. ISBN: 9780486427034. [Preview with Google Books] Geertz, Clifford. "Deep Play," "Thick Description," and "Person, Time & Conduct in Bali." In The Interpretation of Culture. Basic Books, 1973. ISBN: 9780465034253. 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 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 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. Ho, Karen. Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Duke University Press Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780822345992. [Preview with Google Books] 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] MacKenzie, Donald. An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780262134606. [Preview with Google Books] 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] 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. 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 Berger, P., and T. Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor, 1967. ISBN: 9780385058988. Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives, and A Rhetoric of Motives. World Publishing Company, 1962. Cassirer, Ernst. The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies. Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780300081152. Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method. Continuum, 2004, pp. 5–39. ISBN: 9780826476975.
7	Media, the Culture Industry, Visualization: The Challenge of the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory	Ethnographies & Social Theory of Simulation/Visualization Technologies Dumit, Joe. Picturing Personhood Brain Scans & Biomedical Identity. Princrton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780691113982. Turkle, Sherry. Simulation and Its Discontents. MIT Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780262012706. Bishop, Ryan, ed. Baudrillard Now: Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies. Polity, 2009. ISBN: 9780745647074. [Preview with Google Books] Benjamin & Frankfurt School Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. CreateSpace, 2010. ISBN: 9781453722480. ———. "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. 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] 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] Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. MIT Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780262581080. Supplementary Readings 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] Buck-Morss, Susan. Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West. MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262523318. ———. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780822959786. [Preview with Google Books] 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] ———. "On Ethnographic Allegory." In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. University of California Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780520057296. [Preview with Google Books] 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] ———. "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. Juris, Jeffrey. Networking Futures: Movements Against Corporate Globalization. Duke University Press Books, 2008. ISBN: 9780822342694. [Preview with Google Books] Leslie, Esther. Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-garde. Verso, 2004. ISBN: 9781859846124. [Preview with Google Books] ———. Walter Benjamin: Overcoming Conformism. Pluto Press, 2000. ISBN: 9781844675043. [Preview with Google Books] 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. Lipsitz, George. Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place. Verso, 1994. ISBN: 9781859849354. ———. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780816638819. Poster, Mark. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. University Of Chicago Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780226675961. Serres, Michel. Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies. Continuum, 2009. ISBN: 9780826459855. Singer, P. W. Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. Penguin Press, 2009. ISBN: 9781594201981. Taussig, Michael T. The Nervous System. Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 9780415904452. ———. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. Routledge, 1993. ISBN: 9780415906876. ———. 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. Adorno, Theodor W. Philosophy of New Music. University Of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780816636662. 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 Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Hill and Wang, 2012. ISBN: 9780374532345. Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Vintage, 1994. ISBN: 9780679753353. Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 17. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780393330403. Levi- Strauss, Claude. Chapters 1 and 9 in The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press, 1968. ISBN: 9780226474847. ———. "Overture." In The Raw and the Cooked. University of Chicago Press, 1983, pp. 1–32. ISBN: 9780226474878. ———. "Finale." In The Naked Man. University of Chicago Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780226474960. ———. Chapter 1 in The Way of the Masks. University of Washington Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780295959290. ———. Structural Anthropology. Basic Books, 1974. ISBN: 9780465095162. "The Effectiveness of Symbols." "Social Structure." "Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology." ———. "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 Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Beacon Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780807046692. Morgan, Lewis Henry. Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family. University of Nebraska Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780803282308. [Preview with Google Books] Malinowski, B. Sex and Repression in Savage Society. Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415255547. [Preview with Google Books] Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780816614028. 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 Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. Columbia University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780231157278. Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures. Walter de Gruyter, 2002. ISBN: 3110172799. Commentaries Bourg, Julian. From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780773531994. Leonard, Miriam. Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780199277254. Ross, Kristin. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780262680912. [Preview with Google Books]
9	Biology in the World	Required Readings 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. Landecker, Hannah. Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies. Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780674023284. [Preview with Google Books] Kay, Lily. Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code. Stanford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780804734172. [Preview with Google Books] Haraway, Donna. "FemaleMan^©_ Meets_OncoMouse^TM." Chapter 2 in Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience. Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415912457. [Peview with Google Books] 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] Fischer, Michael M.J. "Body Marks." In Anthropological Futures. Duke University Press Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780822344612. [Preview with Google Books] Supplementary Readings Fischer, Michael M.J. "Emergent Forms of Un/Natural Life." In Anthropological Futures. Duke University Press Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780822344612. [Preview with Google Books] 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. Hayden, Cori. When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico. Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780691095578. [Preview with Google Books] Helmreich, Stefan. Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. University of California Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780520250628. [Preview with Google Books] ———. "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. Jasanoff, Sheila. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691118116. [Preview with Google Books] Martin, Emily. Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Beacon Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780807046272. Rabinow, Paul. French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory. University Of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780226701509. Rapp, Rayna. Testing Women, Testing the Fetus; the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415916455 Reardon, Jenny. Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics. Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780691118574. [Preview with Google Books] Rheinberger, Hans-Jorg. Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Stanford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780804727860. Rajan, Kaushik Sunder. Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Duke University Press Books, 2006. ISBN: 9780822337201. [Preview with Google Books] 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 Haraway, Donna. When Species Meet. University Of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780816650460. ———. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780971757585. Supplementary Readings 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] Franklin, Sarah. Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Duke University Press Books, 2007. ISBN: 9780822339205. [Preview with Google Books] Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge, 1990. ISBN: 9780415902946. Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction. Harvard University Press, 1980. ISBN: 9780674510586. 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] ———. 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. 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] 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 Davis, Mike. "Ecocide in Marboro Country." In Dead Cities: And Other Tales. New Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781565848443. 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] Masco, Joseph. The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780691120775. [Preivew with Google Books] White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill & Wang, 1996. ISBN: 9780809015832. 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 Allen, Barbara. Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes. MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780262511346. [Preview with Google Books] Lerner, Steve. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780262622042. 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] 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] Crawford, Colin. Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek: The Battle over Race, Class and the Environment in the New South. Perseus Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780201627237. George, Timothy. Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. ISBN: 9780674007857. Harr, Jonathan. A Civil Action. Vintage, 1996. ISBN: 9780679772675. 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 Kelty, Chris. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Duke University Press Books, 2008. ISBN: 9780822342649. [Preview with Google Books] 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] 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 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. 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. 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]