Course+Links

Michael Wesch: @http://ksuanth.weebly.com/wesch.html @http://ksuanth.wetpaint.com/ @http://www.upcolorado.com/book/Michael_Wesch/Human_No_More_Paper

This course is aimed at upper level undergraduates and graduate students. It will be run as a discussion group and as a seminar, not as a lecture. We will go through the readings and discuss each in turn.

Gospel of Wealth

This course is aimed at upper level undergraduates and graduate students. It will be run as a discussion group and as a seminar, not as a lecture. We will go through the readings and discuss each in turn.

E. Digbey Batzall Max Weber Carnigies Gospel of Wealth Mauss Ostwawer, Fancine George Marcus and Peter Dobkin Hall Bakhtin Mary Douglas

Papers on: Strategic Philanthropy

ANTH 529B ANTHROPOLOGY OF AESTHETICS:
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~ds8s/529b/529b.html


 * Anderson, Richard L. - //American Muse : Anthropological Excursions Into Art//
 * Holm, Bill - //Northwest Coast Indian Art//
 * Dewey, John - //Art as Experience//
 * Pinney, Christopher (ed.), //Beyond aesthetics : art and the technologies of enchantment//
 * Plattner, Stuart - //High Art Down Home//
 * Price, Sally - //Primitive Art in Civilized Places//

This course is aimed at upper level undergraduates and graduate students. It will be run as a discussion group and as a seminar, not as a lecture. We will go through the readings and discuss each in turn. The first readings will be the Kant followed by the John Dewey. These two will serve to block out Western notions of Art and Aesthetics. After these readings we will move into the domain of anthropology. We will cover a number of topics starting with the traditional view of art within the anthropology. The reading here will be Franz Boas' classic, //Primitive Art//. Each student will be responsible for two projects. The first will be a presentation on the aesthetics of one non-Western (typically anthropological) subject. The other topic will be to investigate an aspect of common aesthetics in our own culture. The latter could, but not necessarily, entail some actual ethnographic field research. Each project will be presented orally and then written up. The course grade will be determined by performance on the presentation and write-up and on class participation. I want to emphasize here the importance of the latter.

[|Dialectical Anthropology] [|Volume 10, Numbers 1-2], 27-41, DOI: 10.1007/BF00244248 =The anthropology of aesthetics= [|Toni Flores]