Summer 2013 Philosophy of Culture Reading List
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Reading List
This reading list, along with the Learning Community Reading List, and your own reasearch, comprise the reading for the course.
- Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, eds. 2012. Why nations fail: Crown Business.
- Tim Coates. 2001. King guezo of dahomey 1850-52: The abolition of the slave trade on the west coast of africa (uncovered editions). London: The Stationery Office.
- Clifford Geertz. 1973. Chapter 1: Thick description: Toward and interpretive theory of culture. In The interpretation of cultures, ed. Clifford Geertz:3-30. New York: Basic Books.
- Joshua Hammer. 2012. On the vodun trail in benin. New York Times, February 3, 2012.
- Judy Rosenthal. 2005. Religious traditions of the togo and benin ewe. In A handbook of eweland: The ewe of togo and benin, ed. Benjamin Lawrance:183-96. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services.
- Jeffrey Sachs. 2005. The end of poverty. New York: Penguin.
- USAID. 2005. Promoting women's legal rights in benin. Economic Perspectives.
- E. O. Wilson. 2012. The social conquest of earth. New York: Norton.
