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Mellon Faculty-Student Research Project
Summer 2014
Sepideh Bajracharya and J. M. Fritzman
Elizabeth Reynolds Growdon and Claire Elizabeth Hinkley
Eating the World: The Constitution of the Self in Ayurveda and Hegel
Week 1
Tuesday, May 27:
Preliminary discussion of faculty/student research project: Eating the World: The Constitution of the Self in Ayurveda.
Wikipedia.
Thursday, May 29:
Roland Barthes, "Towards a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption"
Claude Lévi-Strauss, "The Culinary Triangle"
Mary Douglas, "The Abominations of Leviticus"
Food and Culture: A Reader, third edition, edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik, (New York: Routledge, 2013).
Week 2
Tuesday, June 3:
R. S. Khare, "Introduction" and "Food with Saints: An Aspect of Hindu Gastrosemantics"
David Gordon White, "You Are What You Eat: The Anomalous Status of Dog-Cookers in Hindu Mythology"
Vidyut Aklujkar, "Sharing the Divine Feast: Evolution of Food Metaphor in Marathi Sant Poetry"
Paul M. Toomey, "Mountain of Food, Mountain of Love: Ritual Inversion in the Annakuta Feast at Mount Govardhan"
The Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists, edited by R. S. Khare, (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).
Thursday, June 5:
Manuel Moreno, "Pancamirtam: God's Washings as Food"
H. L. Seneviratne, "Food Essence and the Essence of Experience"
R. S. Khare, "Annambrahman: Cultural Models, Meanings, and Aesthetics of Hindu Food"
A. K. Ramanujan, "Food for Thought: Toward an Anthology of Food Images"
The Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists, edited by R. S. Khare, (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).
Week 3
Tuesday, June 10:
Arjun Appadurai, "Gastro-Politics in Hindu South Asia"
American Ethnologist 8:3, August 1981, pages 494-511.
Jonathan Parry, "Death and Digestion: The Symbolism of Food and Eating in North Indian Mortuary Rites"
Man 20:4, December 1985, pages 612-630.
Thursday, June 12:
Joseph S. Alter, "Gandhi's Body, Gandhi's Truth: Nonviolence and the Biomoral Imperative of Public Health"
The Journal of Asian Studies, 55:2, May 1996, pages 301-322.
Joseph S. Alter, "Heaps of Health, Metaphysical Fitness: Ayurveda and the Ontology of Good Health in Medical Anthropology"
Current Anthropology 40, Supplement, February 1999, S43-S66.
Zimmerman, "The Scholar, the Wise Man, and Universals: Three Aspects of Ayurvedic Medicine"
Donald G. Bates, Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Week 4
Wednesday, June 18:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
"On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress"
"The Ethics of the Concern of the Self as a Practice of Freedom"
Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, translated by Robert Hurley et al., (New York: The New Press, 1998).
Margaret Trawick, "Writing the Body and Ruling the Land: Western Reflections on Chinese and Indian Medicine"
Lawrence Cohen, "The Epistemological Carnival: Meditations on Disciplinary Intentionality and Ayurveda"
Donald G. Bates, Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Thursday, June 19:
Jean Langford, Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), pages 1-96.
Week 5
Tuesday, June 24:
Jean Langford, Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), pages 97-187.
Thursday, June 26:
Jean Langford, Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), pages 188-272.
Week 6
Tuesday, July 1:
J. M. Fritzman and Kristin Parvizian, "The Extended Mind Rehabilitates the Metaphysical Hegel"
Metaphilosophy 43:5, October 2012, pages 636-658.
J. M. Fritzman and Kristin Parvizian, "Hegel’s Geist -- Immodestly Metaphysical!"
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism, edited by Matthew Altman, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan; forthcoming).
Thursday, July 3:
Judith Farquhar, Appetites: Food and Sex in Postsocialist China, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), pages 1-119.
Week 7
Tuesday, July 8:
Judith Farquhar, Appetites: Food and Sex in Postsocialist China, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), pages 123-209.
Thursday, July 10:
Arjun Appadurai, "Commodities and the Politics of Value"
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, (New York: Cambridge University Press 1986), pages 3-63.
Week 8
Tuesday, July 15:
Jane Bennett, The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pages 1-90.
Thursday, July 17:
Jane Bennett, The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pages 91-170.
Week 9
Tuesday, July 22:
Gilles Deleuze, "Body, Meat, and Spirit: Becoming-Animal"
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Thursday, July 24:
Ben Highmore, "Bitter After Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics"
The Affect Theory Reader, edited by Melissa Gregg and Gregory J Seigworth, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
Week 10
Thursday, July 31:
Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh, "Introduction: Experiments between Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and Antagonisms"
Bhrigupati Singh, "How Concepts Make the World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative Genealogies of Thought"
Michael Pruett, "Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Anthropology"
The Ground Between: Anthropologist Engage Philosophy, edited by Veena Das, Michael D. Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014).
Friday, August 1:
Steven C. Caton, "Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen"
Vincent Crapanzano, "Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive Foibles"
The Ground Between: Anthropologist Engage Philosophy, edited by Veena Das, Michael D. Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014).
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