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課程名稱 |
宗教人類學專題
Seminar on Anthoropological Study of Relligion |
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開課學期 |
102-1 |
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授課對象 |
文學院 人類學系 |
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授課教師 |
王梅霞 |
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課號 |
Anth5028 |
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課程識別碼 |
125 U2140 |
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學分 |
3 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
選修 |
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上課時間 |
星期三6,7,8(13:20~16:20) |
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上課地點 |
水源人105 |
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備註 |
本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。文化人類學次領域課程。
限學士班三年級以上
總人數上限：35人 |
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Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1021Anth5028_R |
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課程概述 |
102學年度第一學期
授課老師：王梅霞
授課時間：每周五上午9:10-12:10
授課地點：水源校區人類學系系館201
研究室：人類學系系館401；電話33664993
Office hour: 星期三下午3:00-5:00；人類學系系館401
Email：meihsia@ntu.edu.tw
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課程目標 |
課程宗旨：這門課程著重在引導學生思考：不同學派（例如涂爾幹學派、主知論、韋伯學派、馬克思主義、宇宙觀論者）的人類學家在各自的知識論立場下，如何論證宗教和社會的關係。其中尤其針對某些議題深入分析，包括：轉換儀式、巫術和理性、宗教和資本主義、權力的合法化、象徵性的反抗。最後討論社會變遷的動態性質，尤其著重殖民與後殖民時期“國家”與“西方宗教”與當地社會文化相互轉化的過程。 |
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課程要求 |
修課要求：上課同學必須事先閱讀該週必讀（打*號者），並參與課堂討論。每人須選擇四週作課堂報告，並寫成書面報告，在該週上課結束時繳交。學期末再交一份研究報告，主題須先與授課老師討論。
評分方式：課堂討論 30%
四篇書面報告 40%
期末報告 30%
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指定閱讀 |
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參考書目 |
Week1: Introduction (11 Sep.)
Week2 & Week3: Durkheim on Religion and Society (25 Sep.)
What does Durkheim mean by ‘mechanical’ and ‘organic solidarity’, and how are
they related to the division of labour? Are traditional tribal societies
characterized by mechanical solidarity, and are they made of homogenous
segments? What are ‘collective representations’? How does the ‘sacred’ symbolize
society, and how is religion socially determined? What is the social function of
religious ritual?
*Durkheim, E.
1915(1907) The elementary forms of the religious life, especially Introduction,
Book1 chapter1, Book3 chapter5, Conclusion.
Morris, B
1987 Anthropological studies of religion, ch.3
Pickering, W.
1984 Durkheim’s sociology on religion, especially ch.7
Week4: Mauss on Bodily Techniques and the Notion of Person (2 Oct.)
What are ‘bodily techniques’ and how are they socially constructed? How is the
body used to symbolize social organization and how is it culturally constituted?
How should we consider the ‘person’ cross-culturally? What was the thrust of
Mauss’s essay, and what were his claims about the crucial stages of evolution
from ‘person’ to ‘individual’? Is the ‘individual’ a creation of a particular
kind of religion?
*Mauss, M.
1979(1950) Sociology and psychology.
Durkheim, E. & Mauss, M.
1963(1903) Primitive Classification
Hertz, R.
1960 Death and the right hand
Carrithers, M. et al. (eds)
1985 The category of the person
Csordas, Thomas J.
1990 Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology. Ethos 18:5-47.
1994 The sacred self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing. 2002
Body/Meaning/Healing.
Week5: Structural-Functionalism and Functionalism (9 Oct.)
Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski prioritize issues of ‘social statics’ over those
of ‘social dynamics’. But are some of the assumptions of structural-
functionalism still shared with the way evolutionism conceptualizes the nature
of society?
*Radcliffe-Brown, A.
1952 ‘Religion and society’, in A.R. Radcliffe-Brown Structure and function I
primitive society, pp153-77
1972(1951) ‘The comparative method in social anthropology’, in Adam Kuper (ed.)
The social anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown, pp53-69
*Maliowski, B.
1948 Magic, Science and Religion
Radcilffe-Brown, Alfred Reginal
1964[1922] The Andaman Islanders. New York: The Free Press of Glencoe.
Middleton, J.
1960 Lugbara religion: ritual and authority among an east African people
Gluckman, M.
1963 Order and Rebellion in tribal Africa
Kuper, A.
1988 The invention of primitive society
Goody, J.
1995 The expansive moment: anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918-1970
Week6 & Week7: Rituals of Transition (23 Oct.)
Why should changes in status be an occasion for ritual and ceremony? Why is
ritual inversion a common feature of rites of passage? How are roles conferred
and differentiated through ritual? How does ritual transmit cultural values and
knowledge?
*Turner, V.
1967 The forest of symbols, especially chapters 1,2,4,7
1969 The ritual process, especially chs.1,3,4,5
Van Gennep, A.
1960(1909) The rite of passage
Hubert, Henri & Marcel Mauss
1964 (1898) Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function.
Barth, F.
1989 Cosmologies in the making.
Bloch, M. & Parry, J. (eds.)
1982 Death and regeneration of life
1992 Prey into hunter
Ashley, Kathleen M. (ed.)
1990 Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between
Literature and Anthropology.
McCauley, Robert N. & E. Thomas Lawson
2002 Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms.
Week8: Rationality and Order (30 Oct.)
How are witchcraft and spirit possession used in the explanation of misfortune?
In what circumstances may these phenomena appear as 1.products of social
tension; 2. means of social control; 3.moral concepts? Why do magic and
witchcraft pose problems concerning rationality? Do anthropologists exaggerate
the extent to which the religions of non-literate societies constitute ‘ordered’
system? How might literacy affect the systematization of religion?
Evans-Prichard, E.E.
*1937 Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande.
1956 Nuer Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Levi-Bruhl, L.
1926(1912) How natives think.
Wilson, B.
1970 Rationality.
Hollis, M. & Lukes, S. (eds)
1982 Rationality and relativism.
Overing, Joanna (ed.)
1985 Reason and Morality.
Goody, J.
1986 The logic of Writing and the organization of society.
Horton,R.
1993 Patterns of thought in Africa and the West: essays on magic, religion and
science.
Week9 (6 Nov.) Midterm Report
Week10: Structuralism (13 Nov.)
Levi-Strauss has expressed differences between the cognitive processes of
members of simple and complex societies in terms of binary contrasts. Is this
approach satisfactory? How are the concepts of structure, mind, relation,
transformation, communication, sign, contradiction, code, nature and culture,
etc. used? How does Levi-Strauss analyze that totemic societies and caste
societies are inverted transformations of each other?
Levi-Strauss, C.
*1966 The savage mind.
1963 Totemism.
1982 The way of the masks.
Leach, E.
1970 Levi-Strauss.
Dumont, L.
1980 (1966) Homo Hierarchicus: The caste system and its implication.
Week11: Weber and Geertz on Religion and Capitalism (20 Nov.)
What is the ‘spirit of capitalism’, what is relation to religious belief, and
how – according to Weber – did it contribute to the rise of capitalism? What is
meant by ‘elective affinity’, and how does Weber’s sociology differ from
Durkheim’s?
Does Weber’s concept of rationality suggest ways to understand the relation
between contemporary religion and social change outside Western society? Given
the fixed text and authority for religious doctrine, how would you explain
religious variation in Muslim society?
Geertz, C.
*1960 The religion of Java
1968 Islam observed
1973 The interpretation of cultures
1983 Local knowledge
Weber, M.
1956 The sociology of religion.
Weber, M.
1946 ‘The social psychology of the world religion’, in H.H. Gerth & C. Wright
Mills (eds) From Max Weber: Essays in sociology, pp267-301
1958 The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
Week12: Marxists on Religion: Stability and Legitimation (27 Nov.)
Marx argued that the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas of the
epoch. How has anthropological research modified this view? Why are the origins
of power and authority so often placed in the realm of the transcendental? Does
religion provide the machinery for generating political change or does it
legitimate changing political relations?
*Bloch, M.
1986 From blessing to violence: history and ideology in the circumcision ritual
of the Merina of Maddagascar, especially chapters 1, 3, 4, 5 & 8
Godellier, M.
1977 Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology
Bloch, M.
1989 ‘The past and the present in the present’, in M. Bloch, Ritual history and
power
1989 ‘Symbol, song, dance and features of articulation: is religion an extreme
form of traditional authority?’ in M. Bloch, Ritual history and power.
1998 Internal and External Memory: Different Ways of Being in History, in How We
Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy,
M. Bloch, pp.67-84. Boulder: Westview Press.
Week13: Religion and Political Resistance (4 Dec.)
Can religions of ‘traditional authority’ also be religions of political
‘resistance’? Can conversion religions also be religions of political
‘resistance’? And how should we use the term ‘resistance’ in anthropological
writing?
Comaroff, Jean
*1985 Body of power, spirit of resistance, especially part 1 & 2
1991 Of revolution and revelation. Vol. One, Christianity, colonialism and
consciousness in south Africa, especially chapters 2,3,6
1992 Ethnography and the historical imagination, especially chapters 7,9
1997 Of Revelation and Revolution. Vol. Two, The Dialectics of Modernity on a
South African Frontier.
Whitehouse, H.
1995 Inside the cult: religious innovation and transmission in Papua New Guinea.
1996 ‘Rites of terror: emotion, metaphor and memory in Melanesian initiation
cults’, in J.R.A.I. 2(4): 703-16
1998 ‘From mission to movement: the impact of Christianity on patterns of
political association in Papua New Guinea’, in J.R.A.I 4(1): 143-64
Week 14: Shamanism and Spirit Mediumship (11 Dec.)
What is the distinction between ‘shamanic’ and ‘chiefly’ forms of authority? Are
shamanism and spirit mediumship to be understood only as the way of conducting
politics in ‘peripheral’ (non-state) areas? If not, in what other ways can and
should we understand these phenomena？How have spirit-related practices figured
in recent ethnographies of complex, post-colonial situations, and how are these
ethnographies born out the earlier images of spirit possession?
*Cannell,F.
1999 Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philipines. Cambridge:
Taussig, Michael T.
1980 The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
1987 Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing.
Atkinson, J. M
1989 The art and politics of Wana shamanship.
Humphrey, C.
1994 ‘Shamanic practice and the state in Northern Asia: views from the center
and periphery’, in Thomas, T. & Humphrey, C. (eds.) Shamanism, history and the
state.
Bloch, M.
1994 ‘The slaves, the king and Mary in the slums of Antanamarivo’, in Thomas, T.
& Humphrey, C. (eds.) Shamanism, history and the state
Stoller, P.
1995 Embodying colonial memories: spirit possession, power and the Hanka in West
Africa.
Keane, Webb
2007 Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter.
Week 15 & 16: Anthropology of Conversion （25 Dec.）
Hefner, R. (eds.)
1993 Conversion to Christianity: historical and anthropological perspectives on
a great transformation.
Knauft, B.
2002 Exchanging the past : a rainforest world of before and after.
Whitehouse, H. & Laidlaw, J. （eds）
2004 Ritual and memory : toward a comparative anthropology of religion.
Robbins, J. (eds.)
2005 The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation,
transformation, and the nature of cultural change.
Cannell, Fenella (ed.)
2006 The Anthropology of Christianity.
Matthew Engelke and Matt Tomlinson（eds.）
2006 The limits of meaning : case studies in the anthropology of Christianity.
Keane, W.
2007 Christian moderns : freedom and fetish in the mission encounter.
Week 17 Holiday (1 Jan.)
Week 18 Final Report (8 Jan.)
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