III. Anthropology and History: Hot and Cold, Structure and Event (Jan. 23)

Topics: Continuing from second week: Consideration of the changing relationships between anthropology and history; a rethinking of major issues in anthropology: Lévi-Strauss's "hot" and "cold" societies, and the relationship between "structure" and "event" (or agency)
 

Lévi-Strauss, Claude
1966 The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. excerpt, pp. 228-237 on hot and cold.

Willis, Roy
1982 Translator's Introduction. In The Drunken King, or The Origin of the State by Luc de Heusch, pp. vii-xiv. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
 

T Hill, Jonathan D.
1988 Myth and History. Introduction to Rethinking History and Myth.

T Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
1990 Introduction: The Historicization of Anthropology. Chap. 1 of Culture Through Time

Sahlins, Marshall
1981 Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. excerpt pp. 3-17 (Chap. 1 and part of Chap. 2)

Sahlins, Marshall
T 1985 Islands of History, pp. vii-xvii, Chap 2, Chap 5

T Turner, Terence
1988 Ethno-Ethnohistory: Myth and History in Native South American Representations of Contact with Western Society.

Recommended: (for those who read French)

Lévi-Strauss, Claude
1983 Histoire et ethnologie. Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations 38(6): 1217-1231. Paris.