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.