Discussion Leadership

Week Two: Critical Anthropology: Portraits of White Men (Troillot, Basso)

Johnny // Morgan

Week Three: Anthropological Precedents: Evolutionism and New Anthropological Methods at the Turn of the 20th Century (Fabian, Morgan, Boas, Malinowski)

Caroline and Alice // Paulina

Week 4: Boasian approaches  and Historical Particularism (1st Decades of the 20th Century) (Boas, Sapir)

Larisa // Ben

Week 5: Robert Lowie: Culture, Kinship and Indians (1930s)

Anjuli // Erin and Imani

Week Six: Durkheim's Science of Society and Religion (First Decades 20th Century)

Josh and Alex // Lumo and Izy

Week Seven: The Anthropology of Exchange: "Primitive Reciprocity" (1920s) (Mauss, Malinowski)

Charlie and Anna // Marisa

Week Eight: Structure and Function: British Social Anthropology (1930s-40s) (Radcliffe-Brown, Evans-Pritchard)

Frida and Elizabeth // Joanna and Chiara

Week Nine: Primary Categories?  Structuralist Approaches (1960s) (Levi-Strauss, Sahlins)

Lisa // Claire

Week Ten: The Symbolic Turn: Symbols, Meaning and Power (1960s and 70s) (Geertz, Turner)

Kenzie // Geena

Week Eleven: Political Economies (1980s) (Marx, Wolf, Sahlins)

Sam // Anna

Week Twelve: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality (1980s-1990s) (Ortner, Weston)
(only one day, these discussants will also do final day, week 14)

Nikki // Leda

Weeks Thirteen: Intersections, Globalization and The Future of Culture? (1990s) (Tsing)

 Molly // Noah

Week Fourteen: Final day (di Leondardo)
(only one day, these discussants will also do week 12)