ANTHROPOLOGY OF MUSIC Anthro 430 / Music 480 Spring 2006 1:30-3:50 Tu Music 212 Prof. Ellingson, Music 28D (ellingsn@u…) Class website: http://faculty.washington.edu/ellingsn/Anthro_Music.html

8. Structure, Cognition, and Symbolism Readings: Structure, Cognition, and Symbolism Levi-Strauss, Claude 1973 "The Instruments of Darkness," pp. 359-475, Part 4 in From Honey to Ashes. Introduction to a Science of Mythology II. New York: Harper & Row. Tyler, Stephen A. 1969 "Introduction," in Tyler, ed., Cognitive Anthropology, pp. 1-23. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston. Feld, Steven 1982 Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (for both this unit and next week’s unit on Performance, Experience, and Communication. For this week, skim Introduction; read Chapters 1-2, skim Chapter 3. For next week, skim Chapters 4-6.) Zemp, Hugo 1978 "'Are'are Classification of Musical Types and Instruments." Ethnomusicology 22/1: 37- 67. Additional sources, History and Criticism: Burling, Robbins 1969 "Cognition and Componential Analysis: God's Truth or Hocus-Pocus?" In Tyler, ed., Cognitive Anthropology, pp. 419-28. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston. (cf. discussions by Dell Hymes, pp. 428-31, and Charles Frake, 432) Douglas, Mary 1970 Natural Symbols. New York: Random House. Harris, Marvin 1968 The Rise of Anthropological Theory. New York: Crowell. (Ch. 20: "Emics, Etics, and the New Ethnography.") Leach, Edmund 1976 Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols are Connected. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Levi-Strauss, Claude 1964 The Raw and the Cooked. Introduction to a Science of Mythology I. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

1958 Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 1963 Sakata, Hiromi Lorraine 1983 Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musician in Afghanistan. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. Anthropology of Music Week 8 2

Sperber, Dan 1974 Rethinking Symbolism. Alice L. Morton, tr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975 1982 On Anthropological Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Tyler, Stephen A., ed. 1969 Cognitive Anthropology. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston. White, Leslie 1940a "The Symbol: The Origin and Basis of Human Behavior." Philosophy of Science 7:451- 63. Reprinted in Charles C. Hughes, ed., Make Men of Them: Introductory Readings for Cultural Anthropology, pp. 199-205. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1972. 1940b "Mind is Minding — But or Still?" Scientific Monthly 50:365-66. Zemp, Hugo 1979 "Aspects of 'Are'are Musical Theory." Ethnomusicology 23/1: 5-48.