Readings List - Xerox Packet
(available in Education Equity Library, Room 344)
EDUC 6325 -- Anthropology & Education
Fall 2002
Margaret Eisenhart, Professor
Eckert, P. (1993). Status and subordination. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association.
Erickson, F., & Mohatt, G. (1982). Cultural Organization of Participation Structures in Two Classrooms of Indian Students. In G. Spindler (Ed.), Doing the Ethnography of Schooling: Educational Anthropology in Action (pp. 132-174). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Geertz, C. (1973). Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. In C. Geertz The Interpretation
of Cultures (pp. 412-453). New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers.
Geertz, C. (1973). Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture. In C. Geertz
The Interpretation of Cultures (pp. 3-30). New York: Basic Books, Inc.,
Publishers.
Hart, S. (1982). Analyzing the social organization for reading in one elementary school. In G. Spindler (Ed.), Doing the ethnography of schooling: Educational anthropology in action (pp. 410-438). San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
McDermott, R.P., & Gospodinoff, K. (1979). Social contexts for ethnic borders and school failure. In A. Wolfgang (Ed.), Nonverbal Behavior: Applications and Cultural Implications (pp. 175-195). New York: Academic Press.
Minick, N. (1993). Teacher's directives: The social construction of "literal meanings" and "real worlds" in classroom discourse. In. S. Chaiklin & J. Lave (Eds.). Understanding practice: Perspectives on activity and context. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Salzman, P.C. (2001). Introduction to theory. In P.C. Salzman, Understanding culture: An introduction to anthropological theory (pp. 1-12). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Salzman, P.S. (2001). Critical advocacy: Feminism and postmodernism: In P.C. Salzman, Understanding culture: An introduction to anthropological theory (pp. 113-125). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
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