Midterm Time.... gah.
1. What does it mean to speak of the economy as both local and global? How are ideas about the local and global sufficient and insufficient to think of the contemporary world economy? How do ideas about culture affect the economy? Consider these questions in relation to - at minimum - Lisa Rofel’s Other Modernities, James Ferguson’s Expectations of Modernity, Timothy Mitchell’s “The Work of Economics,” Anna Tsing’s “The Global Situation,” and the work of Karl Marx and Max Weber.
2. What does it mean to be modern? How have various models of modernity been used by the governments, individuals, societies, and anthropologists presented in - at minimum - Lisa Rofel’s Other Modernities and James Ferguson’s Expectations of Modernity? How do ideas about being modern affect ideas about gender? You may consider - additionally - the works of Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser in the development of your answer.
3. What is culture? Based on the readings we have considered so far, which model of culture best captures the experiences of anthropologists and the societies they study? Use the ethnography of your choice (Abu-Lughod, Taussig, Rhodes, Ferguson, or Rofel) and consider - at minimum - the strengths and weaknesses in the approaches of Alfred Kroeber, Clifford Geertz, Akhil Gupta and James Fergsuon, and Sherry Ortner as they relate to the ethnography you have chosen.
2. What does it mean to be modern? How have various models of modernity been used by the governments, individuals, societies, and anthropologists presented in - at minimum - Lisa Rofel’s Other Modernities and James Ferguson’s Expectations of Modernity? How do ideas about being modern affect ideas about gender? You may consider - additionally - the works of Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser in the development of your answer.
3. What is culture? Based on the readings we have considered so far, which model of culture best captures the experiences of anthropologists and the societies they study? Use the ethnography of your choice (Abu-Lughod, Taussig, Rhodes, Ferguson, or Rofel) and consider - at minimum - the strengths and weaknesses in the approaches of Alfred Kroeber, Clifford Geertz, Akhil Gupta and James Fergsuon, and Sherry Ortner as they relate to the ethnography you have chosen.