| 'You think it's the end, but it's
just the beginning...' Reflections on 'the ending' as an analytical concept and an empirical reality |
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held at the Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen University, Fall 2007 By Finn Sivert Nielsen |
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| Course plan and reading list | Go to the course homepage | |
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| Week One: Theoretical and Methodological considerations | ||
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| Introduction to an anthropology of endings | ||
| Winn, Steven. 2005. "Endings are a catharsis. They give meaning to what comes before, and change us from the way we were." San Francisco Chronicle, 01.01.2005. | ||
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/01/DDG7VAJAL81.DTL |
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| Crow, Graham. 2005. "Towards a Sociology of Endings." Sociological research online, Vol. 10, Issue 3 (2005-09-30). | ||
| Hutnyk, John. 2002. "Jungle studies: the state of anthropology." Futures 34 (2002) p.15-31. | ||
| Weil, Simone. 1970. Exerpt from: First and Last Notebooks. London: Oxford University Press, p.148-149. | ||
| Time and poetry | ||
| Zerubavel, Eviatar. 1991 [2006]. "Islands of Meaning," in Jodi O'Brien, ed.: The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings on Social Interaction. 4th edition. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press. | ||
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http://www.pineforge.com/upm-data/6029_Chapter_1_O'Brien_I_Proof_2.pdf |
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| Adam, Barbara. 2006. "Time." Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 2-3, p.119-126. | ||
| Yampolsky, Mikhail. 1995. "In the shadow of monuments: Notes on iconoclasm and time", in Nancy Condee (ed.): Soviet Hieroglyphics. Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia, p.93-112, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. | ||
| Tsur, Reuven. 2002. "Aspects of Cognitive Poetics", in Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), Cognitive Stylistic: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Philadelphia. | ||
| Daniels, Barbara. n.d. "Poetic closure" | ||
| Taha, Ibrahim: "Openness and closedness: Four categories of closurization in modern Arabic fiction" | ||
| Nielsen, Finn Sivert. 1987-1996. "The Morality of Mythical Worlds: Critical Reflections on Narrative Form." Manuscript. | ||
| Loss and death | ||
| Goffman, E. (1962) "On cooling the mark out", in A. Rose (ed.) Human Behavior and Social Processes. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, p.487-8. | ||
| Höjdestrand, Tova. 2005. "No close ones." In Needed by nobody: Homelessness, humiliation and humanness in post-socialist Russia. Stockholm: Ph.D. Dissertation, Stockholm University. | ||
| Mitchell, Don. 1995. "The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85(1), 1995, p.108-133. | ||
| Sennett, Richard. 1974 [1993]. "The public domain." In The Fall of Public Man. London: Faber, p.3-27. | ||
| Justus, Z. S. & Aaron Hess. 2006. "One Message for Many Audiences: Framing the Death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi." June 23, 2006, Report #0605, Consortium for Strategic Communication, Arizona State University. | ||
| Saarinen, Leena. 2002. "Imagined community and death." Digital Creativity, 2002, Vol. 13, No. 1, p.53-61. | ||
| Slaughter, Virginia. 2005. "Young children’s understanding of death." Australian Psychologist, November 2005; 40(3): 179-186. | ||
| Madison, Greg. c.2000. "Framing Death (or, what's so existential about communicative psychotherapy?)" | ||
| Lock, Margaret. 1996. "Death in technological time: Locating the end of meaningful life." Medical anthropology quarterly 10(4), p.575-600. | ||
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| Week Two: Case Study | ||
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| The End of History | ||
| Fukuyama, Francis. 1989. "The End of History?" The National Interest, Summer 1989. | ||
| Baudrillard, Jean. n.d. "Illusion of the End or Strike of Events." New York: European Graduate School EGS. | ||
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http://www.egs.edu/faculty/baudrillard/baudrillard-illusion-of-the-end-or-strike-of-events.html |
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| Risse-Kappen, Thomas. 1994. "Ideas do not float freely: Transnational coalitions, domestic structures, and the end of the cold war." International Organization 48,2, Spring 1994, p.185-214. | ||
| Szelenyi, Ivan & Balazs. 1994. "Why socialism failed: Toward a theory of system breakdown. Causes of disintegration of East European state socialism." Theory and Society, Vol. 23, p.211-231. | ||
| Verdery, Katherine. 1996. "Faith, hope and Caritas in the land of the pyramids: Romania, 1990-94." In What was socialism, and what comes next? Princeton: Princeton University Press. p.168-203, 266-79. | ||
| Hart, Keith. 1996. "End of the world: anthropologists speechless." Anthropology today. Vol. 12 No. 5 October 1996. | ||
| Carothers, Thomas. 2001. "The End of the Transition Paradigm." Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 1. | ||
| Haley, P. Edward. 2001. "First the Towers Crumbled, Then Unilateralism." Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2001. | ||
| Borrador, Giovanna. 2003. "An exerpt from Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida." Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | ||
| Chomsky, Noam. 2001. Interview, Radio B92, Belgrade. September 18, 2001. | ||
| AAA. 2001. [Two statements from the American Anthropological Association on 9-11.] Downloaded from www.aaanet.org. | ||
| Gold, Scott. 2001. "You're on the 87th Floor, and Something's Terribly Wrong… Survival: How three office mates, amid thousands of others, fled for their lives through a very tall trap." Los Angeles Times, 2001-09-16 | ||
| Sanchez, Rene & Bill Broadway. 2001. "'A Kinship of Grief'. With Prayers and Patriotism, a Nation Comes Together." Washington Post, 2001-09-15, p.A01 | ||
| Bell, David A. 2007. "Putting 9/11 into perspective: The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we're overreacting." Los Angeles Times, 2007-01-28. | ||
| Gage, Beverley. 2002. "The first Wall Street bomb," in Sorkin M. & S. Zukin. eds. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City. New York: Routledge, p.45-55. | ||
| Hathaway, Rosemary V. 2005. "'Life in the TV.' The visual nature of 9-11 lore and its impact on vernacular response." Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 42, No. 1. | ||
| Richards, Sam. 2007. "9/11 - the art, the terror, and the spectacle." Tux Delux, 2007-03-27. | ||
| Lentricchia, Frank & Jody McAuliffe. 2002. "Groundzeroland." The South Atlantic Quarterly 101:2. | ||
| Redhead, Steve. 2006. "The Art of the Accident: Paul Virilio and Accelerated Modernity." Fast Capitalism, 2.1. | ||
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