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《1021 學期》
人類發展學系碩士
開課系所
任課老師 安天木
班 1 年級
開課課號 HD5067
開課班別 A
中文課名 社會文化人類學理論
英文課名 The Theory of Sociocultural Anthropology
學分數
3 學分
修課別
必修
開課期間 一學期
人數上限 5 人
上課時數
每週授課時數 3 小
時
上課地點 2E204
上課時間 星期 1 第 5～7 節
備註
此課程與公衛碩班合開
教學綱要
《中文》
人類學研究的是人和文化。「理論」這個詞通常意味著觀點和人類學家帶入研究
的假定方法。人類學已經存在了 150 年，很多的理論取向被用於人和文化的研
究。這些取向通常是他們時間的產物。換句話說，他們和廣大的人類學文化背景
是有關的，包括當前的科學背景，及政治和流行社會學。
似乎每一個世代企圖再一次的獨立創造人類學。但過去理論的每個例證影響著新
人類學的成形。然而，我們必須在自身的訓練中學習理論的歷史。為了以過去為
基礎，或是單純的去避免錯誤，我們需要了解以前人類學家所知道的。在這堂課
中，我們會介紹關於人類學的歷史和理論。
這門課介紹從 19 世紀至今，人類學不同學派的見解。透過閱讀大多數有名、受
尊崇的人類學家的作品，結合不同時代及學派的代表性人類學讀物來達成。此外
我們會閱讀人類學家過去對於人類學和理論的撰寫。綜合以上，使學生們深入的
教學目標 了解人類學領域，並知道在他們企圖去構思和討論自身的人類學研究時什麼是不
與內容 可或缺的。
《英文》
Anthropology studies people and culture. The word ‘theory’ usually
implies the perspective and perhaps methods that the anthropologist
brings to that study. In the one-hundred and fifty years that
anthropology has existed, many different theoretical approaches have
been applied to the study of people and culture. Those approaches are
usually products of their time. In other words, they relate to the
wider cultural context of anthropology, including especially the
current scientific context, but also the political and popular social
contexts within which science and academia reside. Each generation,
it seems, attempts to re-invent anthropology anew. But in each case
the past theories influence the form that the new anthropology takes.
Therefore, we must study that history of theory in our discipline. We
must understand what past anthropologists knew, in order to build upon
it, or simply to avoid past mistakes. In this class we will introduce
you to that history of anthropology and its theory.
This course introduces the various schools of thought in anthropology,
from the 19th Century to the present. This will be accomplished by
reading the works of our most famous and respected anthropologists.
Readings have been chosen to be representative of different times and
different schools of anthropological thought. In addition we will
read what anthropologists have written ‘about’ anthropology and its
theories. Together this will give students a deep understanding of
the field of anthropology, which will be essential as they attempt to
design and conduct their own research in anthropology.
先修科目
Readings will be assigned each week. One or two students will produce
PowerPoint presentations to guide discussion of the readings. These
are ‘rough’ ppts, intended to aid discussion. Students should
attempt to ‘understand’ the readings, but a fuller understanding
should come from class discussion. After class the student may
‘improve’ the ppt, and the student will then post the ppt to our
class Moodle site. Students are therefore cooperating to educate each
教學方式
other about course content.
The readings for this class come from several sources. Most will be
made available to students in a package that can be purchased.
Alternatively, those readings will be available individually in
Moodle. The other source of readings is the book by Smith. That book
is available in Chinese and should be purchased or borrowed. That
book is referred as the ‘Text Book’ for the class:
Cultural Theory: An Introduction (2001) Philip Smith (available in
Chinese translation)
Sources of readings (in package)
Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (1996, 2008) R. Jon
教科書
McGee & Richard L. Warms (M&W)
及參考書
High Points in Anthropology (1988) Paul Bohannan & Mark Glazer (B&G)
Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology (2006) Henrietta L.
Moore & Todd Sanders (M&S)
Week
Subject
教學進度 1
Introduction
Foundations
2
The Early History of Anthropological Theory (Erickson & Murphy
2008, Part1)
3
The Evolution of Society (1864) Herbert Spencer (B&G:3-26)
Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook (1845)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (M&W:57-68)
4
Culture in Classical Social Theory (BCh.1)
What is a Social Fact (1895) Emile Durkheim (M&W:69-79)
Class, Status, Party (1922) Max Weber (M&W:103-115)
Structure and Function (Language, Biology, Kinship, and Ecology)
5
Linguistics and Ethnology (1911) Franz Boas (In Handbook of
American Indian Languages (Vol. 1-3) Bureau of American Ethnology,
also B&G:81-82)
The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis (1922) Bronislaw
Malinowski (B&G:272-293)
6
On Joking Relationships (1940) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (M&W:179189, also B&G:294-296)
The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology (1955) Julian Steward (B&G:
319-332)
Symbolic Anthropology (The Durkheimians)
7
The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred
(BCh.5)
Gifts and Return Gifts (1925) Marcel Mauss (B&G:264-270)
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1967) Victor Turner (M&W:493-510, also
B&G:501-502)
French Structuralism
8
Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture (BCh.6)
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology (1963:31-54)
Claude Levi-Strauss In Structural Anthropology.
Midterm Exam
9
Midterm Exam
Cultural Evolution
10
Ethnical Periods (1877) Lewis Henry Morgan (M&W:43-54, also
B&G:29-32)
Theoretical Principles of Cultural Materialism (1979) Marvin Harris
(B&G:377-402)
Interpretive Anthropology
11
Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics (BCh.11)
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture (1973)
Clifford Geertz (M&S,Ch.21, also B&G:529-530)
Western Marxism
12
Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism (BCh.3)
Introduction to Of Revelation and Revolution (1991) Comaroff and
Comaroff (M&S,Ch.35)
Poststructuralism
13
The Poststructural Turn (BCh.7)
Two Lectures (1975) Michel Foucault (M&S,Ch.38)
14
Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis
(BCh.8)
Distinction : Introduction to the First Edition (1984) Pierre Bourdieu
Postmodernism
15
The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism and Postmodernity
(BCh.13, to p. 223)
Postmodern and Poststructural Critical Theory (BCh.14)
Partial Truths: Introduction to Writing Culture (1986) James Clifford
Environmental Anthropology
16
Nature in the Making (2001:3-23) Anna Tsing (In New Directions
in Anthropology and Environment, CL Crumley, ed.)
Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rain
Forest (1999) Peter J. Brosius (American Anthropologist 101(1):36-57)
Neo-Cultural Evolution
17
Developing a Scientific Paradigm for Understanding Culture
(2008:3-13) Melissa J. Brown (In Explaining Culture Scientifically,
Melissa J. Brown, ed.)
The Emergence and Persistence of Inequality in Premodern Societies
(2010) Samuel Bowles, Eric Alden Smith, and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
(Current Anthropology 51(1):7-17)
Final Exam
18
Final Exam
There will be a midterm and a final exam. Exams will be matching,
true-false, or multiple-choice. They will be written in English and
評量方式
Chinese (if necessary). This is not an English class, and I will not
judge students on their ability to produce English in essays.
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育目標、
學生基本
素養與核
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