ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE BODY ANG 6286 (13G3); Spring 2017 Turlington Hall 2341

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1 ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE BODY ANG 6286 (13G3); Spring 2017 Turlington Hall 2341 Instructor: Michael Heckenberger Location/Time: T Period 3-5 (9:35 AM - 12:35 PM) Office Hours: Tuesday afternoon or by appointment Contact info: ; mheck@ufl.edu Course Description: Anthropology of the Body examines diverse aspects of the human social body, notably conceptions of personhood, subjectivity, and social relationship. It considers the body as representation, as identity, and as experience; questions of embodiment, the body as technology and as the site of social and power relations; and the scalar and multiple qualities of the body, and how bodies aggregate or congeal into larger social and political bodies. The seminar focuses on the physicality and materiality of the human body, as a critical medium or intersection of the social person and the external world. It therefore considers how bodies are inscribed in the material world, in material culture, built environment and landscape, including how human bodies are constructed and how movements and engagements between bodies re-construct the material world. The course adopts a viewpoint that considers the archaeology of the present, particularly how contemporary human bodies have been conceived and perceived by anthropologists. It is therefore not strictly or even predominantly about the past or dead bodies. These basic issues of the body or corporeality are considered with respect to major issues in anthropological theory, such as identity, agency, power, gender, and race/ethnicity and culture. The course is broken down into three parts: Part I considers the foundations of interest and study of the body or bodies in anthropology and social theory; Part II considers current thinking and discussions of the body; and Part III considers Latin American ethnographies that focus, in one way or another, on bodies. Foundations, considers the roots of interest in bodies in social theory. Three critical strands can be delineated: (1) phenomenology and lived world, exemplified by Ingold in anthropology; (2) related concept of embodiment, particularly as elaborated by Bourdieu; and (3), also related post-structural and critical consideration of subjectivity as part of larger social, historical, and political trends, particularly as envisioned or inspired by Foucault (weeks 1-3, 6-7). The Body in Theory and Practice, considers how understanding the body can be used in contemporary social theory and practice to promote not only understanding but inclusion of diverse persons and social groups in contemporary social and political life, notably in rural and urban settings of the global south. Questions of identity, representation, inscription (externalizing the interior of the body) and incorporation

2 (internalizing the exterior), gender and race, consumerism and body trade, scale and partible or fractal bodies, and normalcy, power, and violence. Latin American ethnography looks to address other possible worlds, other perceptions about, for instance, how women and men, old and young, top and bottom, here and there, differently perceive, act upon and otherwise engage their worlds. These works address deeply contextualized perspectives, which are created through long-term time in place or, in other words, a dwelling perspective that is situated or grounded in place. Here, the critical relation to phenomenological research is clear, as another strategy of inquiry of human experiences as described by participants, which requires studying a few subjects through extensive and prolonged engagement as the basis to develop patterns and relationships of meaning (Moustakas, 1994). Ethnography is the heart-blood of anthropology, at least, and it is what we do (best) in the knowledge production world. The class considers what directions and implications are critical for body work in anthropology, particularly in relation to contentions and (dis)articulations between what are commonly referred to as modernist and post-modernist perspectives/approaches, which can be crudely contrasted as follows: Modernism Scientific knowledge Grand theory (meta-narrative) Universalism Mono-vocality Symbolic meaning Coherence Holism History Rational ego Intellectual post-modernism wisdom (cultural and practical knowledge) relative cultural corpuses particularism poly-vocality simulacra and polysemy pastiche fragmentation histories libidinal self tactile The first and last two on the list are most obviously important in the present context, but each of these contrasts has important implications for human bodies and how we conceive or perceive them. Many authors have suggested some rapprochement between the polemic positions of logical positivist science and interpretive or critical approaches, the so-called Science Wars of the late 20 th century. Many argue that the 21 st century is defined by a neo-modernism across knowledge production systems, which recognizes the vital importance and inevitability of science but incorporates questions of voice, perspective, and scale. In his short paper in Science (1998), From the World of Science to the World of Research?, Latour (1998) eloquently sums up the contrast: Science is certainty; research is uncertainty. Science is supposed to be cold, straight, detached; research is warm, involving, and risky. Science puts an end to the vagaries of human disputes; research creates controversies. Science

3 produces objectivity by escaping as much as possible from the shackles of ideology, passions, and emotions; research feeds on all of those to render objects of inquiry familiar. Readings: Lecture periods will be divided into three parts: (1) lecture introducing topics (weeks 1-6) or Latin American ethnographies (week 7-14); (2) open discussion about readings; and (3) free-flowing discussion building on themes that develop each week and the particular interests and projects of students. After week 7, discussion will focus on readings from major Latin American ethnographies, particularly from Brazil and participant projects. As noted, additional recent readings or links will be provided by all members tied to themes developed in class, which may substitute readings from list below as primary readings. Readings (see below) will be made available in pdf during the week before the reading is discussed. All students are expected to skim all readings from reading list below (others will be added at discretion of group); from these primary core readings will be selected each week (2-3 readings selected based on class composition and interests). Core readings will be read more carefully in terms of three things: citationality (how is author situated or positioning themselves, explicitly in citations or allusions or implicitly in the between the lines ); strategy & substance (what themes, targets [sites and persons], terms, methods and results are discussed ]; and directionality (where do you think the text leads us in terms of future, again whether by author s design or not) (these might be thought of the past, present, and future aspects of the work). Short written summary statements, one to three sentences optimally one-liners about each of three aspects of reading, expected for all core readings that will create basis for discussion of reading: Basic Evaluation: Course grade is based on participation (20%), moderated discussion (20%), presentations (20%) and final product (40%). Summary abstract of a topic (500 words) and thinkers related to it (500 words) in three historical moments, pre-1950, ; (1000 words); all will be distributed by students in weeks noted below and discussed the following week in class. Students are encouraged to build on their own materials for this. There will be an initial presentation on how the thinkers/schools of thought developed in abstracts influences our own projects (summarized in a 5-15 minute first presentation) and a final presentation that packages all previous activities in a coherent product, such as a powerpoint presentation, written narrative paper, chapter or proposal, aimed at directly aligning class content with individual student on overall research project (20-40 minutes). The seminar requires class participation, stimulated by readings; only one unexcused absence is allowed (excused absences include documented emergency situations and absences authorized beforehand); second unexcused absence drops grade one value, i.e., A>A-, A->B+, and third two values, A>B+). General Weekly Topics: Week 1 (1/10): Introduction: basic course structure, syllabus and assignments W2 (1/17): What are Bodies in Classical Social Theory?

4 W3 (1/24): What are Bodies to Anthropologists? (abstract 1) W4 (1/31): Old and Big Bodies: Phenomenology of Landscape W5 (2/7): Big Bodies & Structures: Foucault (abstract 2) W6 (2/14): Small, Practicing Bodies & neo-structuralism: Bourdieu W7 (2/21): Garden Cities & Archaeology of Silences (abstract 3) W8 (2/28): Guest: Simone Athayde, Weaving Lives ; Individual Project Development; Spring Break (3/7) W9 (3/14): Pain & Un-West: Studying down and over (São Paulo) W10 (3/21): Making Bodies: Subjectivity, Performance & Position (project overview) W11 (3/28): Body Parts, Large and Small: Fitting Bodies to World W12 (4/4): Violence and Fixing Bodies: Crisis, Desire and Healing W 13 (4/11): Pre-moderns, Post-humans and Human Traffic (final presentation) W 14 (4/18): Conclusions: Archaeologies of the Future (final presentation) Readings: Week 2: Foundations: Introduction to Phenomenology (D. Moran, 1999): (1) D. Welton, Introduction: Foundations of a Theory of the Body ; (2) E. Holenstein, The Zero-Point of Orientation ; and (3) D. M. Levin, The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment: Heidegger s Thinking of Being. Sociological Foundations: B. Turner [1984]. Sociology and the Body C. Shilling [1993]. The Body in Sociology Week 3: Some Anthropological Primers Mauss,M Technologies of the body Douglas, M The Two Bodies Strathern, A The Social Body: Mauss to Douglas Additional (skim): The Divide in the 1970s: Culture (US) & Society (UK/EU): Strathern, A. and M. Strathern Self-Decoration in Mt Hagen Strathern, M The Self in Self-Decoration; Oceania Strathern, A Why is shame on the skin? Ethnology Also (skim), From Annual Review of Anthropology, Special Section on the Body (2004): (1) Wolputte, Hang on to Yourself ; (2) Hansen, The World in Dress ; (3) Schildkrout, Inscribing the Body ; (4) Reischer and Koo, The Body Beautiful. Week 4: Past Bodies made Present: Tim Ingold T. Ingold The Perception of Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill (London: Routledge), chapters 8-11, 13, 15, 18-19, 23 (student selected).

5 2013. Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture, chapters 3-4, 7-9 (student selected). Deep Histories of Bodies (skim): Joyce, R The Archaeology of the Body. Annual Review of Anthropology Richlin, A Towards a History of Body History, In Inventing Ancient Culture, M. Golen and P. Touhey, pp Boric, D. and J. Robb Introduction, Past Bodies: Body-centered Research in Archaeology; Week 5: Foucault 1. Discipline and Punish :1 (pp. 3-31), III:1 (pp ), III: 3 (pp ) 2. History of Sexuality vol. 1, part 5, pp ; vol. 3, parts 3-4, pp Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, (March 1976), pp H. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (pp. 3-15; pp , quick read) Additional readings (skim): J. Biehl, Subjectivity, Annual Review of Anthropology (2009) M. Bakhtin The Grotesque Image of the Body and Its Sources. G. Deleuze Ethology: Spinoza and Us G. Deleuze and F. Guattari We Always Make Love to Worlds Butler Foucault and the Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions Week 6: Practice, Plain and Simple N. Elias. 1978[1939]. Civilization as a Specific Transformation of Human Behavior (selected readings on table manners, bodily functions, gender). In The Civilizing Process. P. Bourdieu Outline of a Theory of Practice (2&3, pp ). Cambridge: CUP Distinction (selected readings) Additional (skim): Csordas, T Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology. Ethos 18:5-47. Connerton, R Bodily Practices. In How Societies Remember, pp ; Strathern, A. and M. Lambek Introduction: Embodying Sociality: Africanist and Melanesianist Comparisons. In Bodies and Persons Lock, M. and J. Farquhar Beyond the Body Proper (read Introduction and introductions to nine parts);

6 Week 7: The Amazon, Bodies I ve known and loved A. Vilaça Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agencies and Scences of Encounters in Amazonia, espeecially Part 1: Other Becoming, pp (3 chapters). C. Fausto (2012). Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia, especially The Master and the Pet, pp , and Death Producing Life, pp E. Viveiros de Castro Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism, JRAI T. Turner Bodies and Antibodies and (1995) Social Body and Embodied Subject: Bodiliness, Subjectivity, and Sociality among the Kayapo M. Heckenberger Enigma of the Great Cities: Body and State in Amazonia selected readings from The Ecology of Power Fractal Landscapes, in Big History Week 8: tba Week 9: Brazil Urban, other bodies I ve known and loved J. Biehl (2005): Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, especially Part One: Vita, pp ; Part Three: The Medical Archive, pp ; and Part Five: Biology and Ethics, p M. Heckenberger (2012): Altered States, marginal Bodies and Sub-humans in Centro, São Paulo, in Human No-More M. de Certeau, Walking in the City R. Wagner The Fractal Person Week 10: R. Parker Bodies, Pleasures and Passions, especially, Men and Women, Norms and Perversions, and Bodies and Pleasures, pp Beneath the Equator, especially Changing Places, pp J. Butler Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions. J. Butler. 1993; The Lesbian Phallus and critically Queer from Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. D. Harraway The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Constitutions of Self in Immune System Discourse; (1988) Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective; and (1991) A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, pp P. Geller Body-scapes, Biology, and Heteronormativity, American Anthropologist

7 Week 11: S. Low On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture, especially, Spatializing Culture, pp , Constructing Difference, pp , Conversations on the Plaza, pp R. Sheriff Narratives: Racism on the Asphat, pp , in Dreaming Equality: Color, Race and Racism in Urban Brazil. J. Moore The Architecture of Social Control: Theory, Myth, and Method. In Architecture & Power in the Ancient Andes, pp L. Wacquant From Slavery to Mass Incarceration. Week 12: Scheper-Hughes Death Without Weeping, especially Nervoso, pp , and Bodies, Death, and Silence, pp , and other selected readings. S. Whitmore (2002): Hybrid Geographies V. Das Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain (In Social Suffering, pp ) N. Scheper-Hughes & M. Locke The Mindful Body, In Assessing Cultural Anthropology; Margaret Lock. Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools P. Bourgois School Days, From In Search of Respect (pp ) Week 13: D. Kulick Travesti: Sex, gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes, especially Becoming Travesti, pp , and The Pleasure of Prostitution, pp Review of What is Post-humanism? (Wolfe 2009), Journal of Critical Animal Studies Whitehead (2009): Post-human Anthropology, Identities Whitehead (2009): Ethnography, Torture and the Human Terrain/Terror Systems, Fast Capitalism 5.2 Radical Post-humanism (Gane 2005), Theory, Culture and Society 22:25-41 D. Graebner. Anarchist Anthropology (response to Viveiros de Castro 2015) Week 14: S. Houston, et al The Memory of Bones: Body, Being and Experience among the Classic Maya, especially chapter 1-5, The Classic Maya Body, Body and Portraits, Ingestion, Senses, and Emotion, pp A. Mol The Body Multiple (Chapter 5: Inclusion). N. Oudshoorn Introduction (Ch. 1) and The Power of Structures that Already Exist (Ch. 5), In Beyond the Natural Body: An Archaeology of Sex Hormones. J. Baudrillard The finest consumer object: the body. Final Concluding Readings: M. Gibbons et al The New Dynamics of Knowledge Production H. Nowotny et al Rethinking Science

8 Additional Syllabus Items: Please note that there are new policies for calculating grade point averages. See for details (for further information regarding minus grades go to: Academic Honesty, Student Responsibilities, Student Conduct Code: Students are required to do their own work on exams. The penalty for cheating is to receive no points for that exam and the incident will be reported to the Student Honor Court. The student is responsible to review the UF Student Responsibilities Guidelines, available online. Students with Disabilities: Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who then must provide this documentation to the instructor.

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE BODY ANG 6186 (Section 1B54): Fall 2012

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE BODY ANG 6186 (Section 1B54): Fall 2012 Instructor: Michael Heckenberger Location/Time: Classroom Building (CBD) 0224: M 4-6 (10:40-1:40) Office contact hours: W 2:00-3:00 pm or by