Comments on: Savageminds Summer Reading Circle

By: dm

dm — Mon, 22 May 2006 18:16:53 +0000

I’ve already voted, but Sources of the Self and the ET Cultures would both be really good, too.

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Mon, 22 May 2006 01:12:17 +0000

I, for one, would be happy to contribute to a discussion of Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self. Have been trying to get a discussion of the book going on lit-ideas.

By: Kevin Champion

Kevin Champion — Sun, 21 May 2006 21:39:29 +0000

Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

The Sources of the Self, Charles Taylor

By: Juliana Essen

Juliana Essen — Fri, 19 May 2006 14:16:09 +0000

I’m a nubie here–a summer reading group is a fantastic idea. I might suggest this year’s American Ethnological Society’s Senior Book Award Winner: Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, by Anna Tsing. Read the introduction at http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7885.html

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Fri, 19 May 2006 09:41:59 +0000

Just a note: I have ordered Ferguson, so if the choice goes that way I should be set, too. (Unless that is, my first grandchild is born before the book arrives in Japan. We’re at 38 weeks and counting.)

By: maniaku

maniaku — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:13:08 +0000

Oops, did the link wrong. Why America’s Top Pundits Are Wrong : Anthropologists Talk Back

By: maniaku

maniaku — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:10:55 +0000

I don't know if it fits what you are looking for, but because of the interest in public anthropology:

By: dm

dm — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:33:56 +0000

that should be Mutual Life, Ltd., of course.

By: Ozma

Ozma — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:13:11 +0000

I don’t have any specific ideas along this line, so this suggestion may die but would it be worth including one recently translated work, just to have something that was produced outside the sphere of anglophone anthropology?

By: dm

dm — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:53:36 +0000

Even though (or perhaps because) they have both been dumped on in SM posts, The Network Inside Out and Mutual, Inc would make good candidates, I think. Both seem like the kind of book that would really profit from a group reading/discussion – plus it would be more fun with snide remarks about style and whatnot. Seriously, though, isn’t one advantage to a reading group dealing with tough but intersting material that you might not have the energy to get through yourself? Both also seem to be on various people’s agenda.

Just a thought…

By: ckelty

ckelty — Thu, 18 May 2006 13:52:26 +0000

I'd like to read NeoLiberalism: The Awakening, with special focus on the comments... Kidding. Since I doubt anyone wants to read Process and Reality with me, I'm intrigued by Kupilikula and pruriently interested in E.T. Cultures

By: Kerim

Kerim — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:08:17 +0000

“The Bovine Mystique” is one of my favorite articles, so I vote for Ferguson, even though I haven’t kept up with his more recent work.

We could also consider doing articles instead of or in addition to books.

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Thu, 18 May 2006 02:26:37 +0000

Worker in the Cane. Have it. Read it. Want to see what others make of it.