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Anthropology 297‐7
Instructors: Linda Garro & Elinor Ochs
Winter 2013
Thursday 2‐4:50 Haines 314
E‐mail: lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu eochs@anthro.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206‐6249 (310) 825‐0984
Office hours: Monday 1:30‐2:45pm Monday 1:30‐2:45pm
This advanced seminar bridges psychological and linguistic anthropology to explore the notion that
emotion is configured as genres. The seminar will examine how genres of emotion relate to situated
social practices, identities, and ideologies, along with their expressive linguistic, somatic, and other
symbolic features. Participants are expected to have completed graduate coursework in both
psychological and linguistic anthropology.
Readings:
Available on course website: https://moodle2.sscnet.ucla.edu/course/view/13W‐ANTHRO297‐7
Course Requirements:
1. Whole Class Commentaries
Everyone in the seminar is expected to write commentaries (1 single‐spaced page only) for all
weeks in which readings are assigned. Commentaries should raise and discuss one issue as it
applies across 2 or more readings. Clearly indicate the page numbers when referencing
passage(s) relevant to the point you’re making. Post the commentaries to the class website in
the “Student Responses” section by 2 PM on the Tuesday preceding each class meeting. Please
bring electronic or hard copies of the articles with you to class.
2. Class Discussion ‘Provocateur’
Each week 1‐2 seminar participants will lead off the discussion with thoughts related to the
weekly theme, readings, and commentaries posted by fellow students.
3. Writing Project
Each student in the seminar will write a preliminary essay (Prolegomenon*) that 1) situates a
facet of the genre‐ing of emotion in an ethnographic context and 2) relates this dynamic to the
student’s broader research interests. Length: Roughly 10‐12 pages double‐spaced.
Due Date: Post the Prolegomena to the class website in the “Student Responses” section by
Tuesday March 12 at 2PM.
4. ‘Incubator’ Presentations
Starting on Week 4, we plan on devoting roughly 40 minutes at the end of each meeting time to
allow participants to talk through ideas re their writing project and get feedback. Each student
will be allotted roughly 10 minutes each. We will have space to incubate the ideas of 3‐4
participants each week.
*Definition: 1. Prolegomenon: A preliminary discussion, especially a formal essay introducing a work of considerable length
or complexity. 2. Prolegomena (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Prefatory remarks or observations.
Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: “The keyword in the title is the Greek term prolegomenon (singular) which
denotes a prefatory essay or a foreword to something that is supposed to follow. Accordingly, the prolegomena (plural)
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are a kind of introductory examinations designed for "preparatory exercises". By spelling out what "we have to do to make
a science actual if it is possible" these exercises should prepare the emergence of the only viable Metaphysics ‐ the
"scientific" one. [http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/proleg.htm]
Final Grade
Grading is based on weekly commentaries, class participation, and the Prolegomena.
January 10 Introduction
[Heather Loyd: Guest Speaker]
January 17 The Concept of Genre
Ferguson, Charles. 1994. “Dialect, Register, and Genre: Working Assumptions About
Conventionalization.” In Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register, Douglas Biber and Edward
Finegan, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.15‐30.
Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1981. “The Problem of Speech Genre.” In Speech Genres and Other Essays,
Vern W. McGee, trans., Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, eds. Austin: University of Texas
Press, pp.60‐102.
Briggs, Charles and Richard Bauman. 1992. Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power. Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology 2(2):131‐172.
Hill, Jane. 1995. “The Voices of Don Gabriel: Responsibility and Self in a Modern Mexicano
Narrative,” in Dialogic Emergence of Culture, Dennis Tedlock and Bruce Mannheim, eds.
Urbana: U. Illinois, pp.97‐147.
Keane, Webb. 2011. “Indexing Voice: A Morality Tale,” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20
(2): 166‐178.
January 24 Genre‐ing Emotion 1: Language As a Phenomenological Force
Ochs, Elinor 2012 “Experiencing Language,” Anthropological Theory 12:2, pp. 142‐160.
Goffman, Erving. 1959. “Performances” in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, pp.17‐76.
Agha, Asif. 2005. Voice, Footing, Enregisterment. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1): 38‐59.
Ochs, Elinor and Bambi Schieffelin. 1989. Language Has a Heart. Text 9(1): 7‐25.
Levy, Robert. 1984. “Emotions, Knowing and Culture.” In Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self,
and Emotion, Richard Shweder and Robert LeVine, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pp.214‐237.
Rosaldo, Michelle. 1984. “Toward an Anthropology of Self and Feeling.” In Culture Theory:
Essays on Mind, Self, and Emotion, Richard Shweder and Robert LeVine, eds. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp.137‐157.
January 31 Genre‐ing of Emotion 2: Just How Relevant is Language and Culture?
White, Geoffrey 2005. Emotive Institutions. In A Companion to Psychological Anthropology:
Modernity and Psychocultural Change. Conerly Casey and Robert Edgerton, eds. Malden, MA:
Blackwell, pp. 241‐254.
Reddy, William M. 1997. Against Constructionism: The Historical Ethnography of Emotions.
Current Anthropology 38: 327‐351.
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Wikan, Unni 1992. “Beyond the Words: The Power of Resonance,” American Ethnologist 19 (3),
p460‐482.
Shohet, Merav 2010. Silence and Sacrifice: Intergenerational Displays of Virtue and Devotion in
Central Vietnam, Chapter 6: Grief, Mourning and Sacrifice: The Affordances of Written
Inscription. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA, pp.282‐362.
February 7 Genre‐ing of Emotion: Ritual
Urban, Greg. 1988. Ritual Wailing in Amerindian Brazil. American Anthropologist 90(2): 385‐400.
Desjarlais, Robert. 1991. Poetic Transformation of Yolmo ‘Sadness’. Culture, Medicine, and
Psychiatry 15: 387‐420.
Feld, Steven. 1995. “Wept Thoughts: The Voicing of Kaluli Memory.” In South Pacific Oral
Traditions, Ruth Finnegan and Margaret Orbell, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, pp.85‐108.
Wilce, James “Genres of Memory and the Memory of Genres: Forgetting Laments in
Bangladesh,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 44 (1), pp. 159‐185.
Good, Mary Jo DelVecchio and Good, Byron 1988. “Ritual, the State, and the Transformation of
Emotional Discourse in Iranian Society,” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 12, pp. 43‐63.
February 14 Genre‐ing of Emotion: Idioms
Hinton, Devon and Lewis‐Fernandez, Roberto 2010. “Idioms of Distress among Trauma
Survivors,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 34 (2) 209‐218.
Nichter, Mark 2010. “Idioms of Distress Revisited.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 34 (2),
401‐416.
Throop, C. Jason. 2012. “Moral Sentiments,” in A Companion to Moral Anthropology, Didier
Fassin, Ed., Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell, pp. 150‐168.
Drew, Paul and Elizabeth Holt. 1988. Complainable Matters: The Use of Idiomatic Expressions in
Making Complaints. Social Problems 3(4) Special Issue: Language, Interaction, and Social
Problems, pp.398‐417.
February 21 Genre‐ing of Emotion: Embodied Provocation, Openness, and Restraint
Goodwin, Marjorie H., Cekaite, Asta, and Goodwin, C. 2012 . “Emotion As Stance. In Emotion in
Interaction, Marja‐Leena Sorjonen and Anssi Perakyla. Oxford University Press.
Loyd, Heather 2012. The Logic of Conflict: Practices of Social Control among Inner City
Neapolitan Girls,” Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Danby, Maryanne Theobald, (eds.)
Disputes in Everyday Life: Social and Moral Orders of Children and Young People. Sociological
Studies of Children and Youth, Volume 15, pp. 325 – 353.
García‐Sánchez, Inmaculada M. 2011. Language Socialization and Exclusion. In The Handbook of
Language Socialization, Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Malden,
MA: Wiley‐Blackwell, pp.391‐419.
Carr, E. Somerset 2006. “Secrets Keep You Sick: Metalinguistic Labor in a Drug Treatment
Program for Homeless Women,” Language in Society 35, pp. 631‐653.
Wikan, Unni. 1989. Managing the Heart to Brighten Face and Soul: Emotions in Balinese
Morality and Health Care. American Ethnologist 16: 294‐312.
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February 28 Genre‐ing of Emotion: Desire
Ahearn, Laura M. 2003. “Writing Desire in Nepali Love Letters,” Language & Communication 23,
pp. 107‐122.
Good, Mary K. 2012. Moral Modernities: Ambivalence and Change among Youth in Tonga
(Chapter 5 “My Heart Is in the Phone: Romance and Mobile Morality”), unpublished Ph.D.
Dissertation, U. Arizona, pp. 173‐235.
Foster, George M. 1972. “The Anatomy of Envy: A Study in Symbolic Behavior,” Current
Anthropology 13(2), pp. 165‐202 (including commentaries).
Garro, Linda 2011. “Enacting Ethos, Enacting Health: Realizing Health in a California Family of
Mexican Descent,” Ethos 39 (3),pp301‐331.
March 7 Genre‐ing of Emotion: Absorbing the Spirit
(Guest Speaker: Anna Corwin)
Luhrmann, Tanya 2011 “Hallucinations and Sensory Overrides,” Annual Review of
Anthropology 40 , pp. 71‐85.
Corwin, Anna 2012. “Changing God, Changing Bodies: The Impact of New Prayer Practices on
Elderly Catholic Nuns’ Embodied Experience,” Ethos 40 (4), pp. 390‐410
Hirschkind, Charles. “The Ethics of Listening: Cassette‐Sermon Audition in Contemporary
Egypt,” American Ethnologist 28 (3), pp. 623‐649.
Robbins, Joel. 1998. “Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Desire among the Urapmin of Papua
New Guinea,” Ethnology 37 (4), pp. 299‐316.
March 14 Genre‐ing of Emotion: Thinking it Through/Interweaving Prolegomena
(Open Discussion)
Related Readings for All Weeks
Abu‐Lughod, Lila. 1985. Honor and Sentiments of Loss in a Bedouin Society. American
Ethnologist 12(2): 245‐261.
Abu‐Lughod, Lila. 1986. “Appendix: Formulas and Themes of the Ghinnawa.” In Veiled
Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press,
pp.261‐272.
Abu‐Lughod, Lila and Catherine Lutz. 1990. “Introduction.” In Language and the Politics of
Emotion, Catherine Lutz and Lila Abu‐Lughod, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.1‐
23.
Besnier, Niko. 1989. Literacy and Feelings: The Encoding of Affect in Nukulaelae Letters. Text
9(1): 69‐91.
Besnier, Niko 1990. Language and Affect. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 419‐451.
Briggs, Charles. 1992. “Since I am a Woman, I Will Chastise My Relatives”: Gender, Reported
Speech, and the (Re)Production of Social Relations in Warao Ritual Wailing. American
Ethnologist 19(2): 337‐361.
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Briggs, Charles. 1993. Personal Sentiments and Polyphonic Voices in Warao Women’s Ritual
Wailing. American Anthropologist 95(4): 929‐957.
Feld, Steven and Aaron Fox. 1994. Music and Language. Annual Review of Anthropology 23: 25‐
53.
Fessler, Daniel. 1999. “Toward an understanding of the universality of second order emotions.”
In Biocultural approaches to the Emotions, Alexander Hinton, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp.75‐116.
Gingrich, Andre 2010. Blame it on the Turks: Language regimes and the culture of ‘frontier
orientalism’ in eastern Austria. In Discourse, Politics and Identity: Festschrift for Ruth Wodak, R.
de Cilla, H. Gruber, M. Krzyz.anowski, F. Menz, Eds.
Hanks, William. 1987. Discourse Genres in a Theory of Practice. American Ethnologist 14:668‐
692.
Hanks, William. 1989. Text and Textuality. Annual Review of Anthropology 18: 95‐127.
Herzfeld, Michael. 1993. “In Defiance of Destiny: Management of Time and Gender at a Cretan
Funeral.” American Ethnologist 20(2): 241‐255.
Irvine, Judith. 1990. “Registering Affect: Heteroglossia in the Linguistic Expression of Emotion.”
In Language and the Politics of Emotion, Catherine Lutz and Lila Abu‐Lughod, eds. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp.126‐161.
Kockelman, Paul. 2004. Stance and Subjectivity. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 12(2),pp.
127‐150.
Kuipers, Joel. 1999. Ululations from the Weyewa Highlands (Sumba): Simultaneity, Audience
Response, and Models of Cooperation. Ethnomusicology 43(3): 490‐507.
Lindholm, Charles. 2005. “An Anthropology of Emotion.” In A Companion to Psychological
Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change. Conerly Casey and Robert Edgerton, eds.
Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp.30‐47.
Lo, Adrienne and Fung, Heidi 2012. Language Socialization and Shaming. In The Handbook of
Language Socialization, Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Malden,
MA: Wiley‐Blackwell, pp.169‐189.
Luhrmann, Tanya 2005. “The Art of Hearing God: Absorption, Dissociation, and Contemporary
American Spirituality,” Spiritua 5, pp. 133‐157.
Lutz, Catherine and Geoffrey White. 1986. The Anthropology of Emotions. Annual Review of
Anthropology 15: 405‐436.
Lutz, Catherine. 1987. “Goals, Events and Understanding in Ifaluk Emotion Theory,” in Cultural
Models in Language and Thought, Dorothy Holland and Naomi Quinn, eds. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 290–312.
Ochs, Elinor. 1986. “From Feelings to Grammar: A Samoan Case Study.” In Language
Socialization Across Cultures, Bambi Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp.251‐272.
Reddy, William M. 1999 “Emotional Liberty: Politics and History in the Anthropology of
Emotions” Cultural Anthropology 14: 256‐288.
Rosaldo, Renato. 1984. “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage: On the Cultural Force of Emotions.” In
Text, Play, and Story: The Construction and Reconstruction of Self and Society, Edward Bruner,
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Roseman, Marina. 1990 Head, Heart, Odor, and Shadow: The Structure of the Self, the
Emotional World, and Ritual Performance among Senoi Temiar. Ethos 18(3): 227‐250.
Schiffrin, Deborah. 1984. Jewish Argument as Sociability. Language in Society 13: 311‐335.
White, Geoffrey. 2000. “Representing Emotional Meaning: Category, Metaphor, Schema,
Discourse.” In Handbook of Emotions, Lewis and Haviland‐Jones, eds. pp.30‐44.