Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century

A. Lynn Bolles was a professor emerita in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland.  Ruth Gomberg is a professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago.  Bernard C. Perley is a professor in the Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia.  Keri Vacanti Brondo is the Lambros Comitas Chair of applied anthropology and a professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.

• TimelineIntroduction: A Contested CanonSection 1: On Roots of Social Difference1.1 An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man (1833) – William Apess1.2 The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered (1854) – Frederick Douglass1.3 Bourgeois and Proletarians (1872) – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels1.4 Speeches at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905) – Lucy E. ParsonsSection 2: On Anthropological Paradigms2.1 Ethnical Periods (1877) – Lewis Henry Morgan2.2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) – Max Weber2.3 The Methods of Ethnology (1920) – Franz Boas2.4 Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? (2002) – Abu LughodSection 3: On Ethnographic Insights3.1 Mules and Men (1935) – Zora Neale Hurston3.2 Twenty-Seventh Day: Journey to Accompong (1946) – Katherine Dunham3.3 Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (1973) – Clifford Geertz3.4 Sensuous Stories in the Indian Ocean Islands (2017) – Rosabelle BoswellSection 4: On History, Power, and Inequality4.1 The White Worker (1935) – W.E.B. Du Bois4.2 An Anthropology of Structural Violence (2004) – Paul Farmer4.3 Anthropology and the Savage Slot: Poetics and Politics of Otherness (2003) – Michel-Rolph Trouillot4.4 Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology (2005) – Leith MullingsSection 5: On Colonialism and Anthropological "Others"5.1 The Science of Custom (1935) – Ruth Benedict5.2 Facing Mt. Kenya (1938) – Jomo Kenyatta5.3 Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures (1989) – Ann L. Stoler5.4 Consent's Revenge (2016) – Audra SimpsonSection 6: On Politics of Ethnographic Positions6.1 Learning to be an Anthropologist and Remaining "Native" (1978) – Beatrice Medicine6.2 Anthropology and the Oppressed: A Reflection On "Native" Anthropology (1995) – Delmos J. Jones6.3 Grief and a Headhunter's Rage (1989) – Renato Rosaldo6.4 What Did You Do Today? Notes From a Politically Engaged Anthropologist (2003) – Dána-ain DavisSection 7: On Anthropology and Gender7.1 Introduction to the Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan, by Friedrich Engels (1972) – Eleanor Burke Leacock7.2 Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987) – Ifi Amadiume7.3 La Conciencia De La Mestiza / Towards A New Consciousness (1987) – Gloria Anzaldúa7.4 In Search of Masculinity: Violence, Respect, and Sexuality Among Puerto Rican Crack Dealers in East Harlem (1996) – Philippe BourgoisSection 8: On Queering Anthropological Knowledge Production8.1 The History of Sexuality (1976) – Michel Foucault8.2 Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the "Third Gender" Concept (2002) – Evan B. Towle and Lynn M. Morgan8.3 Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity (2008) – Susan Stryker8.4 Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship (2019) – Savannah ShangeSection 9: On Environment, Pluriverse, and Power9.1 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology (1955) – Julian Steward9.2 Translation, Value, and Space: Theorizing an Ethnographic and Engaged Environmental Anthropology (2005) – Paige West9.3 Indigenizing the Anthropocene (2015) – Zoe Todd9.4 Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (2018) – Arturo EscobarSection 10: On State Power10.1 Symbolic Power (1977) – Pierre Bourdieu10.2 Seeing Like a Mayor; Or, How Local Officials Obstructed Romanian Land Restitution (2002) – Katherine Verdery10.3 Necropolitics (2003) – Achille Mbembé10.4 The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn (2020) – Ryan Cecil JobsonSection 11: On Agency and Social Struggle11.1 The Subject of Freedom (2005) – Saba Mahmood11.2 Speaking Like a Model Minority: "Fob" Styles, Gender, and Racial Meanings Among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley (2008) – Shalini Shankar11.3 Abjects or Agents? Camps, Contests, and the Creation of "Political Space" (2013) – Victoria Redclift11.4 Keep Moving: Collective Agency Along the Migrant Trail (2016) – Abby C. Wheatley and Ruth Gomberg[NG4.1]Section 12: On Anthropological Futures12.1 Our Sea of Islands (2008) – Epeli Hau'ofa12.2 Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist Tradition in Anthropology (2001) – A. Lynn Bolles12.3 At Home in the End Times – Jeff Maskovsky12.4 Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming (2019) – Kim TallbearAbout the EditorsSourcesIndex