First Year: Semester I

First Year: Semester II

Second Year: Semester I

Second Year: Semester II

Third Year: Semester I

Third Year: Semester II

Fourth Year: Semester I

Fourth Year: Semester II

A comprehensive oral test will be held after the completion of the semester.

Anthropology as a field of knowledge, culture, physical anthropology, archeology, linguistics, ethnology, Research Methodology in Anthropology; the physical nature of Homo sapiens, early hominids, Development of social anthropology (Different theories in Anthropology). Social differentiation: Differentiation by age, sex, rank, hierarchy and stratification, caste & class. Social organization: kinship, kinship terminology, Descent, Marriage, Family. Food Getting and Technological Systems: Hunting gathering societies; Horticultural societies; Agricultural societies: Communities and Industrial societies. Exchange and Distribution: Reciprocity: The Kula ring; Redistribution: the Kwakiutl Potlatch, Traditional Currencies and Spheres of Exchange. Politics without State: Anthropology and its relationship with Power and Politics; Different Political organizations: Band Society, Tribal Society, Chiefdoms, and State. Religious Ideology & Ritual: Religion as a System of Beliefs; Beliefs and Practices; Rituals and Functions; Animism; Animatisms; totemism; Religion and Magic. Anthropology in the contemporary world.

1. Lucy Mair, Introduction to Social Anthropology, Marvin Harris, Cultures, Man and Nature.

2. John Beattoc, Other cultures, Marvin Harris. The Rise of Anthropological Theory;

3. G. Foster, Applied Anthropology.

4. David C. Pitt, Development from Below.

5. Barnouw,V, Ethnology.

6. Marvin Harris, Culture, Man and Nature.

7. David C. Pitt, Development from Below.

8. Marvin Harris. The Rise of Anthropological Theory.

 

ANP 102 AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY (FOR SOCIAL WORK)

Anthropology as a field of knowledge, culture, physical anthropology, archeology, linguistics, ethnology, Research Methodology in Anthropology; the physical nature of Homo sapiens, early hominids, Development of social anthropology (Different theories in Anthropology). Social differentiation: differentiation by age, sex, rank, hierarchy and stratification caste & class. Social organization: kinship, kinship terminology, descent, marriage, family. Food getting and technological systems: hunting gathering societies; horticultural societies; agricultural societies: agricultural technology and source of energy, types of peasant communities Industrial societies. Exchange and distribution: reciprocity: the kula ring; redistribution: the kwakiutl potlach, traditional currencies and spheres of exchange. Polities without state: anthropology and its relationship with power and politics; different political organizations: band society, tribal society, chiefdoms, and state. Religious ideology & ritual: religion as a system of beliefs; beliefs and practices; rituals and functions; animism; animatism; totemism; religion and magic. Anthropology in the contemporary world.

1. Luucy Mair, Introduction to Social Anthropology, Marvin Harris, Cultures, Man and Nature.

2. John Beattoc, Other cultures, Marvin Harris. The Rise of Anthropological Theory;

3. G. Foster, Applied Anthropology.

4. David C. Pitt, Development from Below.

5. Bamouw, Ethnology.

6. Marvir Harris, Culture, Man and Nature.

7. David C. Pitt, Development from Below.

8. Marvin Harris. The Rise of Anthropological Theory.

 

ANP 111 INTRODUCTORY ANTHROPOLOGY

4 Hours/Week, 4 Credits

Anthropology as a field of Knowledge, misconception about Anthropology, subfield and integration, Social and cultural Anthropological, Symbolic, Ecological and Medical Anthropology. The anthropological perspective: Evolution, Biological & cultural; biological evolution-mutation random drift and natural selection; per hominid and human evolution. adaptation: human and non human. Cultural evolution: The emergence of culture, evidence of culture, stages of cultural evolution, relationship between hominid and cultural evolution. The concept of in Anthropology: features of culture, culture as an adaptive system, the relationship between culture, individual and society. Language and communication. Some basic concepts.

Other culture and otherness. Otherness and politics of identity. Culture and ethnography: Case studies. Ethnology Problems of Field work, Role conflicts in fieldwork. Cultural Imperialism and Mediation of Otherness.

Conrad Philip Kottak, Cultural Anthropology, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1997

Adam Kuper, Anthropology and Anthropologists, Routledge, 1985

William Haviland, Cultural Anthropology, Holt, Rinchart and Winston, 19990

Paul Bohaman and Mark Glazer (ed)., High Points in Anthropology, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.

Serena Nanda, Cultural Anthropology, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1990

Rebert Keesing, Cultural Anthropology – A Contemporary Perspective, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978

Marvin Harris, Culture, People and Nature – An Introduction to General Anthropology, Harper Row Publishers, 1988

Lucy Mair, An Introduction to Social Anthropology, Oxford University Press, 1973

Raymond Scupin, Cultural Anthropo,logy – A Global Pespective, Prentice – Hall, 1998

L.H. Morgan, Ancient Society, World Publishing, 1963

Marvin Harris, the Rise of Anthropological Theory – A History of Theories of Culture, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968

I.M. Lewis, Social Anthropology in Perspective, Penguin Books, 1991

Robert A. manners and David Kaplan (ed.), culture Theory, Prentice – Hall, 1978.

 

1.Study of Kinship and Anthropology / Historical overview of Kinship Study; importance of Kinship, Conceptual issues: Family, Lineage, Descent, Moiety, Phratry, Tribe, Incest, Taboo etc. Kinship terminology (Morgan, Lowie and Murdock). Structural Approaches, trends in Kinship study : Feminist approaches, Race and color. new Issuse : Carrol B. Stack: All our kin, Approaches to the study of Kinship, 19^th century approaches:Maine: From status to contract Morgan: Evolutionary Approach, Engels: Family, Private Property and State Bachofen Descent Theory: Arguments of Radcliffe-Brown, Jack Goody, Rivers, Evans Pritchard Alliance Theory:

Arguments of Levi-Strauss, Dumont , Leach and Needham Feminist Approaches Feminist critique to the nineteenth century theories: Leacock, and others Christine Delphy: Sharing the same table and the family. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall: The role of marriage in Family formation, Hilary Standing: The Historical Background of Household Management New Issues:

Robin Fox, Kinship and Marriage: An anthropological Perspective, Penguin Books, 1984

Roger M Keesing, Kin Groups and Social Structure, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc. 1975

Nelson Graburn (ed.), Readings in Kinship and Social Structure, Hrvard and row Publishers, 1971

Patricia Uberoi, Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, Oxford University Press, 1994

K.M.A. Aziz, Kinship in Bangladesh, ICDDRB, 1979

Martine Segalen, Historical Anthropology of the Family, Cambridge University Press, 1986

A.M. Shah: Household Dimension of the Family in India, Berkely, 1974

T.N. Madan, family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir, Oxford University Press, 1987

Tadalico L Hana, Paribar and Kinship in a Muslim Rural Village in East Pakistan, Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, Australian National University, 1967

Rahnuma Ahmed and Milu Shamsun Nahar, Brides and the Demand System in Bangladesh, Center for Social Studies, 1987

Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, In the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan, Progress Publishers, 1948

Janet Sayers, Mary Evans & Nanneke Redelift (eds), Engels Revisited. New Feminist Essays, Tavistock Publications, 1987

Rayna R. Reitzr, Towara an Anthropology of Women, Monthly Review Press, 1975

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Concept of Religion, Religion as a system of belifs, belief and practices, Rituals and functions, Functions of religions, Religion as culture , Religion in simple societies: totem ancestor worship, fetishism, Mana, Magic, Witcheraft, Shamanism Divination, Myth, and others . Religion in contemporary societies: World religions, religious cults, religious fundamentalism, religion and politics. Theories of religion: Tylor, Frazer, freud, Engels, Levi Strauss, Radin, B. Malinowski, Michel Banton, Clifford Geertz, Leach, Durkhiem, R, Brown, Kroeber, Walter kaufmann.

1. Emile Durkhem,.The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. George Allen & Unwin 1976.

2. Sigmund Freud. The Origins of Religion. Pelican Books, 1985

3. Evans Pritchard, Theories in Primitive religion Clarendon press, Oxford, 1963.

4. Brian Morris, Anthropological Studies of Religion. An introductory text, Cambridge, USA, 1987.

5. Levi- Strauss, Structural Anthropology, vol-1, Penguin Press, 1965

 

Early Anthropology (19^th century Evolutionism): Darwin, Spencer, Tylor, Frazer, Evolution of Family: Bachofen, McLenan, Maine, Morgan, Engels. Diffusionism: Revers, Kroeber, Ratzel, Wissler. Early American anthropology: Boas: His works and influence. British Social Anthropology: Durkheim and his influence on British Anthropology, Malinowski, Radcliffe Brown.

1. Marvin Hariss, The Rise of Anthropological theory.

2. Emile Durkheim, the Rules of Sociological Method, ed. G Catlin , Chcago University press 1958.

3. Adam Kuper, The Social Anthropology of Radeclife Brown, RKP1977.

Adam Kuper, Anthropology and Anthropologist, Routledge, 1985

L. H Morgan, Ancient society, World Publishing, 1963.

 

The course has been designed in a view to give a social and cultural picture of Bangladesh from a historical background. It would be analytical in the approach to visit the history of Bangladesh; so that the students could not only learn the existing history, but also could achieve a critical view to it. As the students of anthropology, they will learn the micro perspective of history, rather than the mere broad and macro level of history along with methodology of historical investigation what would inspire them toward further research in their career as future anthropologists.

§ Approaches to study history of Bangladesh. The ways and contents to write a history of the land. Methodological issues in historical investigation

§ The social and cultural context of Bangladesh

§ Ancient Bengal: ethnic origin & composition of the people of Bangladesh

§ Religion in Bengal: Rise of Islam and islamization in the east frontier, religious revitalization movement in the nineteenth century

 

§ Mode of production, land system and agriculture in Bengal

 

§ Social stratification: class, caste and gender in Bengal. Formation of the middle class

 

§ Problem of nationalism and ethnicity in Bangladesh

 

§ Folklore and peasantry

 

§ The changing maps of the land in different historical periods:

a. Ancient Bengal with the settlements, rivers and other geographical marks.

b. Bengal in 1660 by Broke

c. Bengal in 1764-76 by Renel

d. Undivided Bengal Presidency under British regime.

e. East Pakistan and Bangladesh after 1947 & 1971.

Selected Articles:

1. Joya Chartterjee- The Bengali Muslim: A contradiction in Terms? An Overview of the Debate on Bengali Muslim Identity, in Islam, Communities and Nation, pp. 265-282.

2. Ramkrisna Mukharjee- The Social Background of Bangladesh, in Kathleen Gough & Hari P. Sharma (ed.)- Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia, Monthly review Press, New York & London, 1973, pp- 399-418.

3. a.Introduction

b.Mass Conversion to Islam:133- 134

c.Islam and the Agrarian Order in the East:194-227

d.Conclusion: 305-315 in Eaton, Richard-The Rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204- 1760, University of California Press, Berkley, 1993.

4. In Kathleen Gough & Hari P. Sharma (ed) Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia, Monthly reveiw Press. New York & London, 1973. pp- 399-118.

5. Guha, Ranajit (1996): ‘The Small Voice of History’ in Amin, Shahid & Chakrabarty, Depesh (Eds.)-Subaltern Studies IX, Writings on South Asian History and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi, pp.1-12.

6. Chatterjee, Partha (1994): ‘Claims on the Past: The Genealogy of Modern Historiography in Bangal’ in Arnold, David & Hardiman, David (Eds.)-Subaltern Studies VIII, Writings on South Asian History and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi,pp.1-49.

7. Chakrabarty, Dipesh (1994): ‘The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British India’ in Arnold, David & Hardiman, David (Eds.)-Subaltern Studies VIII, Writings on South Asian History and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi,pp.50-88.

8. Chakrabarty, Dipesh (1994): Guha, Ranajit (1996): ‘The Small Voice of History’ in Amin, Shahid & Chakrabarty, Depesh (Eds.)-Subaltern Studies IX, Writings on South Asian History and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi,pp.50-88.

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1. Sengupta, Nitish- Hisory of Bengali-speaking People, London School of Oriental Studies.

2. Thapar, Ramila –

3. Damodar Kosambi-

4. S.R. Chakrabarty& Virendra Narain- Bangladesh: History and Culture, Vol.1, South Asian Publishers, New Delhi, 1986.

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Students will conduct fieldwork and prepare research report on the same topic of the previous semester under the supervision of respective supervisors. The teacher will take a regular account of progress of the student

Scope of Political anthropology. Distinction between political anthropology and social sciences. Origin of human being, Biological as well as cultural, cultural adaptation. Origin of society, Primitive society, Ancient society, Civilized society, Modern society. State and Political anthropology: types of pre-industrial state, the evolution of state, anthropological theory of state, Social stratification and Power. Culture: anthropological perspective. Power structure: structure of power in local community, national power structure, local community and class structure. Factionalism and specialized institutions.

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: Introduction, Definition of an emerging field of specialized knowledge, Scope of Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Evolution, The Biology of Languages, Origin of Languages : Family Tree Theory and Wave Theory, Languages and different Theories of culture, Early tends and approaches of Language Study, Theories of Linguistic diversity Language in Culture: the Boasian tradition, Sapir and the search foe language’s internal logic: it’s formal completeness, Development of linguistic Relativity Hypothesis: Benjamin lee Wholf, Limitations of linguistic Relativism. STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS: Structural approach to the study of Language, Ferdinand de Sassure and the development of Structuralism, Elements of language and its significant discrete units, Phoneme, Morpheme, Syntax, Semantics, Limitations of structuralism, Problems, of Structural ambiguity, Noam Chomsky’s search of Universal Grammar, The development of Generative Grammar, Structuralism and the study of Culture and later trends of Minimalist program, Parallel development of Structuralism in the study of culture, Claude Levi Strauss’s Constituent element and the study of Myth. LANGUAGE, HISTORY AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: Models of Language Change, Classificatory Schemes: Genetic, Typology and Arial, Syntagramatic Paradigmatic Dichotomy, Synchronic and Diachronic Dichotomy LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: Lexican, Taxonomy and Meaning. SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Relationship between Language and culture, Language Variation in Time and Space, Dialectology (Social Dialects) and Ethnolinguistics, Geolinguistics, Pidginization, and Creolization of Language, Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Co-variation of Linguistic and Social Phenomena. LANGUAGE MAP AND CLASSIFICATIONS: language and language Families, Geography and Language Boundaries, Language Areas of the World. FIELD WORK IN LINGUSITIC ANTHROPOLOGY: the comparative Method in Linguistic.

1. Hickerson, Nancy P 2000. Linguistic Anthropology. Harcourt College Publishers.

2. Boas,Fran 1940 Race, language and Culture. New York, Free Press.

3. Chomsky, Noam 1957. Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton.

4. 1968. Language and Mind. New York: Harcourt.

5. Hymes, Del 1971. Pidginization and Creolization of Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

6. Jakobson, Roman & M. Hall 1956. Fundamentals of Languages. The Hague: Mouton.

7. Sapir, E. 1921. Language. New York: Harcourt.

8. 1949. The Psychological Reality of the Phonemes.

9. Saussure, F. de 1958 (Original 1916) Course in General Linguistics. New York.

10. Bloomfield, Leonard (1935) Language, London: Allen & Unwin.

11. Chomsky, Noam (1957) (1968) Syntactic Structure, Mouton, The Hague

12. Language an Mind, New York, Harcourt.

13. Derrida, Jacques [76(67)] Of Grammatology, Trans, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press.

14. Duranti, Alessandro (1997) Linguistic Anthropology, Cambridge University Press.

16. Levi-Strauss, Claude (1963) Structural Anthropology. New York : Basic Book.

17. Lucy, John A. (1992a), Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis Cambridge University Press.

18. Lucy, John A. (1992b) Language Diversity and Cognitive Development: a reformulation the Linguistic relativity Hypothesis

 

Physical Anthropology and its scope, Principle of Evolution: Darwin’s theory of evolution, geographic distribution of life forms, geological and paleoantogical records, comparative anatomy, embryology, Natural selection in action, biological basis of life: DNA structure, DNA genetic code, DNA process. Theory of gene, mutation, heredity and environment. Genetics and Evolution: early theories of inheritance, Mendel’s experiment, selection of plants, genes, chromosomes and Mendel, Modern theory of evolution (mutation, migration, genetic drift, recombination), micro and macro evolution, Evolution in Modern Populations: population, population genetics, evolution in modern population, blood group, antigen systems. Human adaptation: adaptation and acclimatization, dietary adaptation, disease and human adaptation, chemicals and mutation. Primates and Human Evolution: time scale, earliest primates, hominid evolution, Human Diversity: racial classification, clinical distribution, racism. Forensic anthropology.

Empiricism: Durkheim: Social fact, observation and explanation, social solidarity and individualism; Psychological school: Mead, Benedict, Kardiner and others Cultural Ecological School: White, Stewart; Classical Marxism; Cultural Materialism; Saussure: Language, Song

Theoretical issues in Economic Anthropology: The Formalist-substantivist debate. 2. The Formaist School: Herskovits, Firth, Nash, Cook and Salisbury. 3. the Substantivist School: Malinowski, Polanyi, Shalins and Dalton. Traditional and primitive Economics: Production, consumption, distribution and exchange, the Evolution of money, Money in different societies, and Im pact of money, 5. Marxist Economic Anthropology, 6. Anthropology and economic development, 7. Anthropology and rural development & Recent trends in Economic Anthropology

Selected Articles:

1. Paul Bohanan- Impact of Money in the African Society.

2. Marshall Shahlins- The Original Affluent Society, pp. in Marshall Sahlins- Stone Age Economics, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1972.

3. George Dalton- Theoretical Issues in Economic Anthropology in Current Anthropology, vol.10 Feb.1969, pp. 63-79.

4. Staurt Platner- Marxism

 

1. Melville Herskovits- Economic Anthropology, The Economic life of Primitive People, Eurasia Publishing House (P) Ltd. RamNagar, New Delhi, 1974

2. Edward E. Leclair and Harold Schneider (ed.)- Economic Anthropology, Reading in theory and analysis, Holt Rinehart and Winston Inc.1968

3. Manning Nash-Primitive and Peasant Economic Systems, Chandler Publishing Company,Chicago, USA, 1966.

4. Stuart Plattner (ed.) Economic Anthropology, Stanford University Press, 1989

5. Scott cook- Economic Anthropology: Problems in Theory, Method and Analysis in JohnHonigmann (ed.) Handbook of Anthropology, Rand Menally & Co., Chicago, 1973.

6. Marshall Sahlins- Stone Age Economics, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1972.

7. Bronislaw Malinowski- Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Routledge & Kegan Ltd. London 1992 (reprint 1978)

8. Raymond Firth (ed.)- Themes in Economic Anthropology, ASA Monographs 6, Tavistock Publications, 1967.

9. Raymond Firth & B. S. Yamey- Capital Saving and Credit in Peasant Society, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago 1964.

10. Mairice Godelier- Perspectives in Marxist anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 1977.

11. Tim Ingold, David Riches & James woodburn (ed.)- Hunters and Gatherers, Property, power and ideology, BERG Oxford, Washington, D.C. 1991.

12. Andre Gunder Frank- Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, Monthly Review Press, New York and London 1967.

13. Maurice Bloch-Marxist Analyses and Social anthropology, Tanvistock Publication, New York, 1984.

14. Richard Lee & Irven DeVore (ed.)- man the Hunter, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 1968.

15. Alan Barnard & Jonathan Spencer (ed.)- Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Routledge, London & New York, 1996.

16. John Clammer (ed.) Beyond the New Economic Anthropology, Macmillan Press, 1987.

 

Research method: Meaning of research, meaning of scientific and social science research; limitation of the application of scientific method in social science. Anthropological approaches to Research, Basic concepts of anthropological research: Objectivity in social research. Relation between social sciences research and anthropological research. Various approaches in anthropological research: a) Intensive field work b) Participant observation c) Emic and Etic approaches d) Synchronic and diachronic approach e) Mapping f) Interview g) Life history h) Personal documents i) Oral sources j) Questionnaires k) key informant technique l) Sampling, census m) Survey n) Combining strategies in field research. Recording field data: Keeping field notes, dairy maintenance, Using camera and video camera (visual anthropology). Ethnographic method, Reflexive ethnogrphy, problem in ethnogrphy (culture shock, ethnocentrism, cross cultural understanding, neutrality). Preparing Research proposal. Theorising in field research. Changes in anthropological research. Ethics in research: The field worker and the field. Uniqueness of Anthropological research; Nature of ethnographic data.

(Any two of the following Classics) Bronislaw Malinowski- Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Margaret Mead- Coming of age in Samoa. Evans Pritchard- The Nuer. Edmund Leach- The Political leader and Highland Burma. Raymond Firth- We, the Tikopia Contrad Arens Berg- The Irish Countrymen. Franz Boas- The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Islands/The Central Eskimo Radcliffe Brown- The Andaman Islanders

(Any two of the following South Asian ethnographies)M.N. Srinivas- Remembered Village. Fredrick Barth- The Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans. Ramkrishan Mukharjee- Six Villages of Bengal. Nur Yalmin- Under the Bo Tree. Anwarullah Chowdhury (1978) A Bangladesh Village: A Study of Social Stratification.. H. K. S. Arefeen (1986) Changing Agrarian Structure in Periurban Village. Peter Bertocci – The Illusive Village. Sarah White – Arguing with the Crocodiles.

Introduction to Political Anthropology: Anthropology and it’s relationship with power politics, Political anthropology: 1. Persons, issues and paradigms, scope of political anthropology, different approaches in political anthropology. 2. State and political anthropology: Types of pre-industrial state, the evolution of state. Anthropological theory of state. Emergency of economical and political hierarchies. Social stratification and power. 3. Power and Institution: Power structure: Local-National level, Linkages between local and national power structure. Other characteristics of state power, Community power structure, Individual in the political arena. Factionalism and specialized institution: Factions, Basis of factionalism, Factions and local politics, anthropological approach to the study of factions, horizontal and vertical alignment, Factions and local politics, Specialised local institutions, Relationship between person in specialised structures, equal and unequal relationship.

1. Robert Carnerio, A Theory of the Origin of the State, 1970

2. Ronald Colien and Elman R, Service, Origins of the State: The Anthropology of Political Evaluation, Institute for the study of human issues, 1978.

3. Georges Blander, Political Anthropology, 1970.

4. A. H. M Zehadul Karim, The pattern of Rural Leadership in an Agrarian Society.

 

Introduction: Concepts of Peasants. Origin of Agriculture: Ecotype- Paleotechnic & Neotechnic. Anthropological approach to study Peasant society: Works on Peasant society: Redfield, Shanin, Wolf, Marx, Chayanov, Foster, Oscar Lewis Economic, Social and Political aspects of Peasantry. Peasant social organization. Peasant Economy and economic theories. State and peasants. Women in peasant households. Peasant perception in Hazards, credit, sanitation etc. Peasant movements-Case study from Indian subcontinent. Peasant Society in contemporary world. Different ecotypes: Bangladesh and other developing and developed societies.

Transformation of the Agrarian. Structure during two colonial impositions. Agrarian structure and the peasantry in Bangladesh. Social conditions of Agrarian Structure. Mode of production, development of capitalism, social classes and types of farm enterprises. Empirical characteristics of the rural class structure. Types and consequences of land reforms. Strategy of rural development and the political economy of rural development.

Theories and approaches. World system and global approaches. Understanding global migration Models of migration. Transition theory, the postmodernist view, the changing global migration. Regionalizations the state in international system.the typologies of migrants. Globalisation and its affect on the structure of societies,

Migration and its affect on rural and urban communities. The new immigration; Various pattern and citizenship. The historical background of Migration in East Asia. The regional origins of Labour Migration. Social & political consequences of Migration.

Migration: Migration histories of Bangladesh, An overview of migration in Bangladesh & its and impact and key issues. Anthropology of migration and immigration. Migration and Migration policy in Asia. Gender and migration in Asia; Internal seasonal migration, livelihood and vulnerability, Internal Migration policies in Asia. Internal Migration and the development nexas; the case of Bangladesh. migration to the Middle East Europe USA, Australia. Migration in local context. Economic and social mobility, Migration, Kinship Marriage, Force marriage issues. Migration and women in the local economy.

Migration histories of Sylhet region, Migration and dependency, history of migration, migration and production, Impact of migration on Infrastructure. Migration and its effects on agricultural production, Land tenancy system, effects on non agricultural production, effect on employment occupational structure of migrants house holds, effects on social economic, demographic and political power.

1. Global Migration Local lives, ( Travel and Transportation in Rural Bangladesh), Katy Gardner, Clerendon pres, U K, 1995,

2. Families and Migration: Older people from South Asia, CSPRD, University of Wales , 2003, G. C wenger & Dr. A A Biswas & etl.

3. Oversees Migration from Rural Bangladesh: A Micro Study, Islam & etl. University of Chittagong 1987.

4. Migration and Development; a Global Perspective, Ronald Skeeldon , Longmen Publisher, 1997, U K.

5. The New Migration in Europe, Khalid Koser and Helma Lutz, Macmillon Press Ltd, 1998, U K.

6. Exploring Contemporary Migration, Paul Boyle & etl., Longmen Press , 1998, U K.

 

Ancient Greek Philosophy: Socrates, Aristotle and others, the Sophists

Historicism and Romanticism

Karl Marx: Dialectical and historical materialism, Alienation, Class and Class Struggle, Labor and Surplus value

Durkheim: Division of Labor, Social Solidarity, Suicide, and Religion

Structuralism: Reaction to functionalism, Levi-Straus, Godelier, Meillassoux, Therray, Morris Bloch. Marxism: Marx, Engels andanthropology, directs successors to Marx and Engels. Neo-Marxism: British, French and Asian (subcontinental), Empiricism and the colonial encounter, Gramsci

History of Sociology and Anthropology in Bangladesh: Anthropology and Sociology in South Asia (India, Nepal and Pakistan) and in Bangladesh- the historical context; Ethnographic Materials collected during British Colonial Period; Conditions exited in Bangladesh between 1947 and 1971; Anthropological and Sociological studies conducted during Pakistani Regime; The Emergence of Anthropology in Bangladesh as a Separate Discipline, the context, the needs, the reasons; Anthropology as part of Sociology Curriculum; Village studies in Bangladesh– the introduction of anthropological methods; The separation of Anthropology from Sociology Discipline during post independence era; The scope and Importance of Anthropology in Bangladesh; The Prospect and the Future of Anthropology in Bangladesh.

Institutionalizing Anthropology Discipline in Bangladesh: The Beginning of Anthropological Research in Bangladesh at the Institute of Bangladesh Studies (Rajshahi University) during mid seventies, Anthropology at different Public Universities: University of Dhaka, Jahangirnagar University, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Chittagong University Rajshahi University and National University. Anthropology as minor course in Private Universities; Anthropology in other Academic and Research Institutions (Institute of Applied Anthropology, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Institute of Bangladesh Studies (IBS) at Rajshahi, etc.

Trends in Anthropological Studies in Bangladesh: Village studies during pre-institutional stage; Research Priorities and Orientation of anthropology in different universities; Fieldwork tradition in Anthropology; is there any unique trend in theoretical orientation.

Core Curriculum in Anthropology: Anthropologists in Small–Scale and Traditional Societies in Bangladesh; Development Studies and anthropology; Anthropology, Gender Studies and women’s empowerment; Medical anthropology in Bangladesh; Environmental studies and Ecological anthropology; Indigenization of Modernity and Indigenous Knowledge System; Subaltern history; Linguistic Anthropology and Language Planning for Ethnic Minorities; and Applied Anthropology.

Applying Anthropological Perspectives in Bangladesh: Theoretical learning and Fieldwork tradition; The Applicability of Anthropological Knowledge in Development; approaching contemporary development concerns in Bangladesh; Anthropological Research infrastructure in Bangladesh; the Predicaments of Applying Anthropological Perspectives; Anthropologist in Multidisciplinary Environment; Development Processes and the Integration of Anthropological Knowledge; Ethno development and Indigenous Issues in Bangladesh.

Assessing Anthropology in Bangladesh: Tasks and Priorities of Anthropology in a Developing Country like Bangladesh; Anthropologists as engaged citizens; What Bangladesh expects from Anthropology?

1. Adnan, Shapan. 1990. Annotation of Village Studies in Bangladesh and West Bengal: A Review of Socio-Economic Trends over 1942-88. Comilla: Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development.

2. Ali, Ahsan 199_. The Santals of Bangladesh. Bidisha, India.

3. Ahsan, Selina. 1993, 1995. The Marmas of Bangladesh. Dhaka: Ahsan Publications.

4. Alam, S. M. Nurul 2002. Contemporary Anthropology: Theory and Practice. University Press Ltd.

5. Alam, Salauddin Md. Nurul. 1983. Marginalization, Pauperization, and Agrarian Change in Two Villages of Bangladesh. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University.

6. Alam, S. M. Nurul, 1990. Anthropology in Bangladesh: World Context, Main Issues, Concerns and Priorities. Jahangirnagar Review (Part II, Social Sciences,Vols. XI-XII, 1986-88):93-110.

7. Arefeen, H.K. 1986. Changing Agrarian Structure in Bangladesh: Shimulia: A Study of a Peri-urban Village. Centre for Social Studies. University of Dhaka.

8. Arens, Jennecke, and van Beurden, Jos. 1977. Jhagrapur: Poor Peasants and Women in a Village in Bangladesh. Amsterdam: Third World Publications.

9. Aziz, K.M. Ashraful. 1979. Kinship in Bangladesh. Dhaka: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

10. Aziz, K.M. Ashraful and Clarence Maloney. 1985. Life Stages, Gender and Fertility in Bangladesh. Dhaka: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

11. Bernot, Lucien. 1964. Ethnic Groups of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. In Pierre Bessaignet, ed., Social Research in East Pakistan. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

12. Bertocci, Peter J. 976. Toward a Social Anthropology of Bangladesh. In W. Eric Gustafson, ed. Pakistan and Bangladesh: Bibliographic Essays in Social Science. Islamabad: University of Islamabad Press.

13. Bessaignet, Pierre. 1958 Tribesmen of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Dhaka : Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

14. Biswas, Abdul Awwal. 1996 . An Ethnography of a Coastal People in Bangladesh. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Dhaka: University of Dhaka.

15. Blanchet, Therese. 1984. Women, Pollution and Marginality: Meanings and Rituals of Birth in Rural Bangladesh. Dhaka:University Press Limited.

16. Chowdhury, Anwarullah. 1978. A Bangladesh Village: A Study in Social Stratification. Centre for Social Studies. Dhaka:University of Dhaka

17. Chowdhury, Anwarullah. 1982. Agrarian Social Relations and Rural Development in Bangladesh. New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publishing.

18. Chowdhury, Anwarullah. ed. 1985. The Pains and Pleasures of Fieldwork. Dhaka: National Institute of Local Government.

19. Dannecker, Petra. 1998. Between Conformity and Resistance: Women Garment Workers in Bangladesh. Unpublished Doctor of Social Science Dissertation. Bielefeld: University of Bielefeld.

20. Ellickson, Jean. 1972. A Believer among Believers: The Religious Beliefs, Practices and Meanings in a Village in Bangladesh. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. East Lansing: Michigan State University.

21. Hara, Tadahiko. 1967. Paribar and Kinship in a Moslem Rural Village in East Pakistan. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Canberra: Australian National University.

22. Harris, Michael S. 1989. Diminishing Resources: Land Fragmentation and Inheritance in a Bangladeshi Village. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University.

23. Hartmann, Betsy and Boyce, James. 1983. A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village. London: Zed Press.

24. Islam, A.K.M. Aminul. 1974. A Bangladesh Village: Conflict and Cohesion: An

25. Islam, Zahidul 1986. A Garo Village. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Rachi, India.

26. 2003. Marriage and kinship. (Bengali Translation of the book written by Robin Fox) Dhaka.

27. Anthropological Study of Politics. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Company.

28. Jahangir, B.K. 1979. Differentiation, Polarization and Confrontation in Rural Bangladesh. Centre for Social Studies. Dhaka: University of Dhaka.

29. Jansen, Erik G. 1987. Rural Bangladesh: Competition for Scarce Resources. Dhaka: University Press Limited.

30. Karim, A.K.M. Zahedul. 1990. The Pattern of Rural Leadership in an Agrarian Society: A Case Study of the Changing Power Structure in Bangladesh. New Delhi: Northern Book Center.

31. Kotalova, Jitka. 1993. Belonging to Others: Cultural Construction of Womanhood Among Muslims in a Village in Bangladesh. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.

32. Lévi-Strauss, C. 1951 Miscellaneous Notes on the Kuki of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Man: 167-169. Nos. 284.

33. ---- 1952 Kinship System of Three Chittagong Hill Tribes (Pakistan). Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 8: 40-51.

34. Lewin, Capt. T. H. 1869. The Hill Tracts of Chittagong and the Dwellers Therein. Calcutta.

35. Löffler, L. G. and Brauns, Claus-Dieter. 1990. Mru: Hill People on the Border of Bangladesh. Birkhäuser Verlag, Germany.

36. Mannan, Manzurul. 1990. Kinship Nexus and Class Politics: the Case of the State in Post-Colonial Bangladesh. Unpublished Cand.Polit Dissertation. Institute of Social Anthropology. Bergen: University of Bergen.

37. Qadir, S.A. 1960. Village Dhanishwar: Three Generations of Man Land Adjustment in an East Pakistan Village. Comilla: Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development.

38. Rahman, Aminur, 1999b. Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of Grameen Bank Lending. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

39. Rahman, Habibur. 199 . The Shandar Beday Community of Bangladesh: A Study of Social Change of a Quasi-Nomadic People. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Dhaka: University of Dhaka.

40. Sattar, Abdus. 1983. The Sylvan Shadows. Bangla Academy, Dhaka.

41. Shafie, Hasan 2000. "The Murucha of CHTs: Matrilateral Cross Cousin Marriage in Religious and Politico-Economic Context." Unpublished Cand.Polit Dissertation. Institute of Social Anthropology. Bergen: University of Bergen.

42. Shafie, Hasan and Kilby, Patrick. 2003. Including the Excluded: Ethnic Inequality and Development in Northwest Bangladesh. ‘Labor and Management in Development Journal, Volume 4 (3) (ANU), Asia Pacific Press.

43. Shafie, Hasan and Mahmood, Raasheed. 2003. The Plight of an Ethnic Minority: The Munda of Northwest Bangladesh. Asian Anthropology. Volume 2 (1), Hong Kong University Press.

44. Thorp, John P. 1978. Power among the Farmers of Daripalla: A Bangladesh Village Study. Dhaka: Caritas.

45. White, Sarah. 1992. Arguing with the Crocodile. London: Zed Press.

46. Wood, Geoffrey D. 1976. Class Differentiation and Power in Bandakgram: The Minifundist Case. In M. Ameerul Huq, ed. Exploitation and the Rural Poor: A Working Paper on the Rural Power Structure in Bangladesh. Comilla: Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development. [Reprinted in Wood 1994, below.]

47. Wood, Geoffrey D. 1994. Bangladesh: Whose Ideas, Whose Interests? Dhaka: University Press Ltd.

48. Zaman, M.A. 1988. The Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics of Adjustment to Riverbank Erosion and Population Resettlement in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna Floodplain. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.

 

Geographic Regions and the Ethnic Settlement in Bangladesh, A social-cultural History of their Settlement in South Asia, Ethnic, Identity, Race and Nationalism: theoretical orientation, Ethnic People of CHT, The Khasis of Sylhet, the Garo Mymenshing region, The Ethnic communities of Bangladesh, Recent problem and Change,

1. Ahsan Ali , The Santals.

2. Ahsan , Selina, The Murmas of Bangladesh

3. Burling, Robin, Strong Women of Modupur,

4. Dalton, E T Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal.

 

A comprehensive viva voce will be taken at the end of the semester.

A comprehensive viva voce will be held for general assessment.

Concepts and Perspectives in South Asian Studies: Indian Subcontinent Vs. South Asia: A 'Common' History, Culture, Heritage, Tradition; History- Writing: The Subaltern Perspective, The 'Elitist' historiography Vs. 'History from Bellow' to 'Small Voices'; Readings around core conceptual issues in South Asian studies such as faction, patron-client, tribes, castes, class, gender, ethnicity and nationalism. Empirical Studies (Three or Four to be selected by Course Teacher each year).

This course has been designed in a view to make the advanced level students in under graduation stage capable of analysing the South Asian societies from an anthropological and historical perspective. They will be familiar with the especial characteristics of South Asian societies. Colonialism, peasantry, caste, tribe, communalism, and kinship etc. will be discussed in the South Asian context. It will start from the debate South Asian vs. Indian/ Sub-continental.

The academic purpose of the course is to introduce the students with South Asia as a social, cultural as well as political region and its distinction. In this course, students are supposed to get a deeper understanding of the structure and nature of this society. You will face and exercise the questions: how such identity called 'South Asian' is constructed? What does it mean when something identified as 'South Asian'?

Finally, the interest behind it is to brainstorm and to contribute in the discussion on shaping the future of South Asia inseparably integrated to as our own.

§ The concept of South Asia vs. Indian sub-continent

§ The colonial encounter and transformation of the societies in South Asia

§ The pre-colonial situation of South Asian society

§ The issues significant in South Asia and characterize it: Class, Caste, Gender, Kinship relation, Tribes, Communalism, Faction, Patron-client Relation, and Nationalism etc.

§ Empirical studies on South Asian societies.

§ Contemporary South Asia and its future: Globalization of South Asia and migration of the people to the occidental societies.

 

1. Suggested Articles: Formation of the Social Structure of South Asia under the Impact of Colonialism by Hamza Alavi, in Alavi, Hamza & Harris, John (ed)- Sociology of " Developing Societies" in South Asia, Macmillan, London, 1989, pp 5-19.

2. British India or Traditional India? : Land, Caste and Power by Chris Fuller in ibid, pp. 28-40.

3. The Indian "Faction": A Political Theory Examined by David Hardiman in SS I, pp.198-232.

4. Potentialities of Capitalistic Development in the Economy of Mughal India by Habib, Irfan- Eassays in the Indian History Towards a Marxist Perception, Taluka, New Delhi, 1995, pp. 181-232.

5. More on Mode of Power and Peasantry by Partha Chatterjee in SS II, pp. 311- 350.

6. Chandra's Death by Ranajit Guha, SS V.

7. The Colonial Construction of 'Communalism': British Writing on Banaras in Nineteenth Century by Gyanendra Pandey, p. 132- 168, SS, OUP.

8. Structure and Contradiction in Pakistan by Feroz Ahmed, p. 174-202. / Peasant Classes in Pakistan, p. 203- 221 in Gough, Kathaleen & Sharma, Hari P. (ed.)- Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1993.

9. Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Perceptions and Solutions by Newton Gunasinghe in ibid, pp.

10. Speech, Silence and the Making of Partition Violence in Mewat by Shail Mayaram in SS IX. pp. 126-164.

11. Small Voice of History by Ranajit Guha in ibid, pp.1-12.

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1. Alavi, Hamza & Harris, John (ed.) - Sociology of "Developing Societies" in South Asia, Macmillan, London, 1989.

2. Gough, Kathaleen & Sharma, Hari P. (ed.)- Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1993.

3. Guha, Ranajit (Ed) - Subaltern Studies I, Writing on South Asian History and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1982.

4. Guha, Ranajit (Ed) - Subaltern Studies II, Writing on South Asian History and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1983.

5. Guha, Ranajit (Ed) - Subaltern Studies V, Writing on South Asian History and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987.

6. Amin, Shahid & Chakrabarty, Dipesh (ed.)-Subaltern Studies IX, Writings on South Asian History and Society, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997.

7. Habib, Irfan- Eassays in the Indian History Towards a Marxist Perception, Taluka, New Delhi, 1995.

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Useful Maps: (would be presented and displayed by a group of students)

1. South Asia with geographical, social and cultural marks

2. Mughal India, 1602 by Irfan Habib

3. Colonial India

4. South Asia After Partition and Independence in 1947

 

1. Abelove, H., et. al. (eds.) Vision of History, Interview with E.P. Thomson, Eric Hobsbawm.

2. Carr, E.H., What is History? Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1961.

3. Marx, K. & Engles, F, The Materialist Conception of Historiography.

4. Kohn –Anthropologists among the historians.

5. Guha, Ranajit- Subaltern Studies I-X, Oxford University Press Ltd. New Delhi.

 

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE : Introduction, Definition of an emerging field of specialized knowledge, Scope of Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Evolution, The Biology of Languages, Origin of Languages : Family Tree Theory and Wave Theory, Languages and different Theories of culture, Early tends and approaches of Language Study, Theories of Linguistic diversity Language in Culture: the Boasian tradition, Sapir and the search foe language’s internal logic: it’s formal completeness, Development of linguistic Relativity Hypothesis: Benjamin lee Wholf, Limitations of linguistic Relativism. STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS: Structural approach to the study of Language, Ferdinand de Sassure and the development of Structuralism, Elements of language and its significant discrete units, Phoneme, Morpheme, Syntax, Semantics, Limitations of structuralism, Problems, of Structural ambiguity, Noam Chomsky’s search of Universal Grammar, The development of Generative Grammar, Structuralism and the study of Culture and later trends of Minimalist program, Parallel development of Structuralism in the study of culture, Claude Levi Strauss’s Constituent element and the study of Myth. LANGUAGE, HISTORY AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: Models of Language Change, Classificatory Schemes: Genetic, Typology and Arial, Syntagramatic Paradigmatic Dichotomy, Synchronic and Diachronic Dichotomy LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: Lexican, Taxonomy and Meaning. SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Relationship between Language and culture, Language Variation in Time and Space, Dialectology (Social Dialects) and Ethnolinguistics, Geolinguistics, Pidginization, and Creolization of Language, Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Co-variation of Linguistic and Social Phenomena. LANGUAGE MAP AND CLASSIFICATIONS: language and language Families, Geography and Language Boundaries, Language Areas of the World. FIELD WORK IN LINGUSITIC ANTHROPOLOGY: the comparative Method in Linguistic.

1. Hickerson, Nancy P 2000. Linguistic Anthropology. Harcourt College Publishers.

2. Boas,Fran 1940 Race, language and Culture. New York, Free Press.

3. Chomsky, Noam 1957. Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton.

4. 1968. Language and Mind. New York: Harcourt.

5. Hymes, Del 1971. Pidginization and Creolization of Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

6. Jakobson, Roman & M. Hall 1956. Fundamentals of Languages. The Hague: Mouton.

7. Sapir, E. 1921. Language. New York: Harcourt.

8. 1949. The Psychological Reality of the Phonemes.

9. Saussure, F. de 1958 (Original 1916) Course in General Linguistics. New York.

10. Bloomfield, Leonard (1935) Language, London: Allen & Unwin.

11. Chomsky, Noam (1957) (1968) Syntactic Structure, Mouton, The Hague

12. Language an Mind, New York, Harcourt.

13. Derrida, Jacques [76(67)] Of Grammatology, Trans, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press.

14. Duranti, Alessandro (1997) Linguistic Anthropology, Cambridge University Press.

16. Levi-Strauss, Claude (1963) Structural Anthropology. New York : Basic Book.

17. Lucy, John A. (1992a), Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis Cambridge University Press.

18. Lucy, John A. (1992b) Language Diversity and Cognitive Development: a reformulation the Linguistic relativity Hypothesis

 

Conceptual issues of development. Evolution of development studies. Contemporary theories of underdevelopment and model of development and critical analuysis, Dependency school. Mode of production: concepts. World system theories Frank, Hamza Alavi, Samir Amin, Wallerstien, Baran. Deconstructing the development discourse; History of Development Discourse; Development: Different meanings and conceptual issues; The invention of development and underdevelopment; The culture concept in development and underdevelopment; Gender and development; The culture concept in development; Response to development; Practice and reality: case studies.

Gerald M. Meir (ed.), Leading Issues in Economic Development, Oxford University Press, 1989

Andre Gunder Frank, Latin America: Under-Development or Revolution, Monthly Review Press, 1970

Charles K. Wilber (ed.), The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, Random House, 1978

Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World-Economy, Cambridge University Press, 1980

A.F. Roberston, People and the State – An anthropology of Planned Development, Cambridge University Press, 1984

Mark Hobart, An Anthropological Critique of Development, Routledge, 1989

Nalini Visanathan et. al. (eds.), The Women, Gender and Development Reader, UPL, 1997

 

Students will conduct fieldwork and prepare research report on the same topic of the previous semester under the supervision of respective supervisors. The teacher will take a regular account of progress of the student.

Symbolism and Symbolic Anthropology: Victor Turner, Clifford Geertz, Marshall Sahlins, Mary Douglas, Erving Goffmen: Cognitive Theory of Goodenough Radical Approaches: ‘Reinventing Anthropology’, ‘Invention of Primitive Society’, ‘Studying up’, ‘Native Anthropology’ etc. Fanon- on the Psychology of the oppressed. Decolonization. James Scott- Everyday forms of resistance. Contact and Colonialism- Notions and relations of colonial agency, Power and contested knowledgefrom and integrated anthropological perspectives. Global cultures- Relationship between global politico-economic forcesand local cultures. Cultural studies approaches and theories of cultural imperialism.

Positivism, Pragmatism and Interpretive approaches. Enlightenment and some philosophical traditions. Anthropological research ( Conceptual issues, influence of scientific approach). History of anthropological research. Subjectivity and objectivity. Ethnography reinvestigated: ‘Writing culture’, ‘new ethnography’,’Fields’. Theory, observation and practical adequacy, truth and practical adequacy in field work, Verificatin and falsification, Writing and the future of method in social science. Narrative vs. Analysis – the neglect of description, the influence of rhetoric. Critical approaches to development of research and evaluation of research design. Some recent research methods in applied anthropology.

The course aims at exploring the historical subordination of women in the family, at work and at the level of ideas in different cultural contexts and at developing analytical skills to attempt to understand the nature and forms of gender subordination in ones own culture.

Gender studies: methodological issues; Women;: myths of male dominance; Feminism and history (some cases) Sexuality: concepts and issues; Gender and economics: sexual division of Labor and gender relations; Women in politics; Women, the state and ideology: the oppression of women; Few instances from Bangladesh; Women's Health, Reproduction and the subordination of women; Women & empowerment: Some cases; Violence on women: Ethnic and class based issues

Definition and scope; development of urban anthropology; methods of urban anthropology; pre-industrial cities; kinship, family and voluntary association in urban societies; urban class, ethnicity and stratification; peasant in cities; urban poverty: growth of poverty, culture of poverty; migration and adaptation of migrants in city life; prospects of urban anthropology.

Comprehensive oral test.

1. Ethnic identity, Ethnicity and Globalization of Social Network: Global Cultural flows, Modernity and Transnational Anthropology: Ethnoscapes, Mediascapes, Technoscapes Ideoscape (Fredrik Barth, Thomas H. Eriksen, Ulf Hannertz, J. Obesekere, Arjun Appadurai, Stanley J. Tambiah). 2. Post Structuralism (P. Bourdieu), 3. Writing Culture and Writing Against Culture (g.F. Marcus and Lila Abu-Lughod) 4. the fields of Intersubjectivity: The Idea of metatheory, Metahermeneutics, Nomology. (J. Obesekere). 5. Analysis of Culture in Complex Societies, Models of Social Organizations, Naturalism, Discovery Procedures, Generative Approach in Anthropology, Analysis of meanings of acts (F. Barth). 6. Interpretivism Vs. Positivism and Knowledge traditions in Anthropology. 7. Action, Cariations and anti-essentialism in Anthropology (F. Barth and Andrew P. Vayda). 8. The development of Cognitive Anthropology: Psycolinguistics, Ethnosemantics and Ethnopsychiatry (Roy D’ Andrade, Noamy Quinn and Claudia Strauss) 9. Ethnomethodology, role performance, Impression Management and theatre metaphor (E. Goffman).

1. Abu-Lughod 1991 Writing Against Culture In Fox (ed) Rethinking Anthropology.

2. Barth, F.

2002, Towards a reacher Description of Cultural Phenomena, Forthcoming

1987, Cosmologies in the making: A generative approach to Cultural variation in Inner New Guinea, New York, Cambridge University Press.

1966, Models of Social Organization, Royal Anthropological Institute, Great Britain,

1993, Balinese World,

1989, The Analysis of Culture in Complex Societies.

3. Bourdieu, Pierre Language and Symbolic Power,

The Logic of Practice, Stanford University Press, California.

4. Appadurai, Arjun 1996 Modernity at Large, New York, Cambridge University Press.

5. D’ andrade 1995 the Development of Cognitive Anthropology.

6. Geertz, Clifford 1973, The Interpretation of Culture, New York, Basic books.

7. Goffman, Irving 1957, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Penguin Publications, Columbia

8. Obeyesekere, Gananath # Frued and Anthropology: 1981, Medusa S Hari, An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experiences, University of Chicago University Press, Chicago.

9. Vayda, A.P. 1983 Progressive Contextualization: Methods for Research in Human Ecology, Human Ecology-11, 1994, Actions Variations and Change: The Emerging Anti-Essentialist view in Anthropology, in Borofski R. Assessing Cultural Anthriopology, Mc Graw Hill.

 

Ecological approach to culture study: Rappaport, Vayda, Geertz etc.

Medical Anthropology: Definition and Scope; Basic concepts and Theoretical paradigms of medical anthropology, Relationship with other Health Sciences; Medical Ecology and Epidemiological Approach; Research tools of medical anthropology: Retrospective method, prospective method, case control method, Longitudinal method, Cohort method (Pathogenesis and prognosis of disease, Estimates of risk factors, Prevalence rate, Incidence Rate, Point Prevalence Rate, Morbidity Rate), Diagnostic Criteria for Health Disorders; Parameters of Health and Diseases in a Population; Health problems and Disease Pattern in Rural environment with reference to Bangladesh; Malnutrition, Causes of child mortality and maternal mortality; Culture, food and nutrition; Nature of Women’s reproductive health; Health seeking behavior; Preventive and curative medicine; Utilization and evaluation of Health Care Services; Primary Health Care, Folk medical beliefs, ethnophysiology, ethnomedicine, ethno psychiatry; Indigenous knowledge of medicine: values of plants, animals and creatures in malsetting, Traditional medicine (Homeopathy, Ayurvedic, Yunani etc.) vs.threats modern scientific medicine; relevance of medical anthropology in the context of Bangladesh society; International Health Package for coping with emerging threats e.g. AIDS, Arsenic, Drug abuse etc.

Applied anthropology: definition and scope; development of applied anthropology; role of applied anthropology; applied vs. academic dichotomy; different methodologies of applied anthropology; applied anthropology in practice such as Project Camelot, Peru-Vicos; Globalization; Micro Credit and NGOs, Drug abuse, ethnocentrism, shrimp cultivation, research theory and action.