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Order Description Section 1: Discuss how Ehrenreich and Fuentes resemble and/or differ from either Marx or Binford and Preibisch in their description of labor. Ehrenreich, B and A Fuentes 1984 Life on the Global Assembly Line. Ms. Magazine Section 2: In what ways does Geertz’s “Deep Play” rely on thick description of (i.e. an interpretive approach to) the Balinese Cockfight? Geertz, C 1972 Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. Daedalus 101:1 1-37 Section 3: How and to what ends does Merton draw on Durkheim? Merton, R. 1938 Social Structure and Anomie. American Sociological Review. 3:5 672-682 Section 4: In what ways is “The Sorcerer and His Magic” an example of structural anthropology? Lévi-Strauss, C. 1963 Structural Anthropology. C. Jacobson and B. Schoepf, transl. New York: Basic Books. The Sorcerer and His Magic 167-185 Section 5: How does Rose use a genealogical approach to the study of governing ‘advanced’ liberal democracies? Rose, N 1996 Governing ‘Advanced’ Liberal Democracies, in Barry, Andrew, Thomas Osborne, and Nikolas Rose, eds. Foucault and Political Reason. Chicago: Chicago UP. 37-64 Section 6: How does Lambek’s analysis of action compare to Giddens’s? Lambek, M. 2010 Toward and Ethics of the Act. The Ethical Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 242-264