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Mary Douglas Awards

Apply by 15 May 2013

Postgraduate Open Day

12 June 2013

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M.Sc. in Social and Cultural Anthropology

M.Sc. in Social and Cultural Anthropology

For further details, please contact:

Postgraduate Taught Programmes Officer

James Emmanuel

Telephone: +44 20 7679 1040
E-mail: james.emmanuel@ucl.ac.uk

Introduction | Degree Structure | Courses | Dissertation | Seminars | Some Recommended Readings | How to Apply

13:Recommended texts for incoming students


T.Hyland Erikson Small Places, Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and

Cultural Anthropology Pluto Press London 2001

A. Barnard & J. Spencer (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology London, Routledge, 2004

B.M. Knauft Critically Modern. Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2002

C. Levi-Strauss "The Effectiveness of Symbols" in Structural Anthropology vol1. Penguin Books, London, New Edn. 1993

S. Mahmood Politics of Piety: the Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject 2004


C. Zaloom Out of the Pits. Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006


L. Wacquant Body and Soul. Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004


M. Sahlins Culture in Practice. Selected Essays New York, Zone Books 2000


R. Borofsky Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn From It University of California Press, 2004


S. Ortner Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering Princeton: Princeton VP 1999


J. Vincent The Anthropology of Politics. A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique Malden, Blackwell Publishing, 2002


F. Cannel (ed.) The Anthropology of Christianity Durham, Duke University Press, 2006


J. Ferguson The Anti-Politics Machine. “Development”, Depoliticisation and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho University of Minnesota Press 1994

 
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