PhD Field Exams

Bibliography

Philosophical Pragmatism, with Giles Gunn

Biblical Prophecy, with W. Randall Garr

Jewish Mysticism, with Barbara Holdrege

Sociology of Religion, with Roger Friedland

Anthropology of Religion, with Elvin Hatch

Foundations:


Durkheim -

Elementary Forms
The Division of Labor in Society

Freud -

The Interpretation of Dreams
Moses and Monotheism
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Peter Gay Reader

Marx -

Capital
Wage, Labor, and Capital

Mauss -

The Gift

Mauss and Hubert -

A General Theory of Magic

Saussure -

Course

Weber -

Protestant Ethic
Economy and Society



Modern Incarnations:


Adams, Carol -

The Sexual Politics of Meat

Agamben -

Homo Sacer
Means Without End

Alexander, Jeffrey -

Durkheimian Sociology

Bourdieu -

Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Logic of Practice
Male Domination

Butler, Judith –

The Psychic life of Power

Foucault -

History of Sexuality (volumes)
Power/Knowledge
The Order of Things
Discipline and Punish

Friedland, Roger and Diedre Boden –

NowHere: Space, Time, and Modernity

Godelier, Maurice -

The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power…
The Enigma of the Gift

Jung –

Man and his Symbols

Levi-Strauss -

Totemism
The Elementary Structures of Kinship

Rabinow, Paul -

French Modern

Schluchter, Wolfgang -

The Rise of Western Rationalism

Searle -

The Construction of Social Reality

Simmel, George -

The Philosophy of Money

Taussig -

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism
“Transgression”
“Viscerality, Skepticism, and Faith”

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