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I assume the law pertains exclusively to public/campus housing. The article you cited refers to the off-campus alternative for couples barred by state law from obtaining on-campus housing together. On-campus housing isn't especially popular or attractive at UF, so there's really no concern. You'll find an apartment, and I can say as a Gainesville native that it is currently a renter's market. Good luck searching.

Right so there are a lot of approaches to the literature, any one of which would have its emphases and exclusions. I find it perennially useful and intellectually satisfying to see the discipline from the longue durée, particularly since the problems of theory and method that now absorb it are nested in its curious history. My list went no further than the 80s because things after that, from our perspective, haven't yet cemented too neatly--stuff becomes confused, and a series of new critiques (post-modern, feminist, queer, post-colonial, to name the bigger ones) splinter the discipline. Certain theoretical markers crop up with great frequency, and a taste for Parisian theorists takes hold in a big way. Contemporary ethnographies are a special literature, and there's a lot of dispute about what makes a good ethnography. Meanwhile, the journal literature is strange and hermetic, and has entirely different standards to follow and agendas to advance. Personally, then, I would shy from reading too many contemporary ethnographies and articles, save for in your chosen sub-field, in which case the recommendation would have to be rather personal. What do you plan to work on, "wheninhell"? "Frozenroses," the latter Pritchard book on magic is perhaps most interesting. If you do read it, do consult secondary sources about it to put the work in the colonial context from which it emerged.

Hi Anzaria, I posted the Penn acceptance. The email was sent out by the graduate admissions coordinator to all accepted students in the PhD and MA programs. POIs have followed suit. Hope this helps...

A sort of 101 list of primary materials would be: Franz Boas - Language and Culture Emile Durkheim - Elementary Forms of Religious Life + Rules of Sociological Method + Division of Labor in Society Weber - The Protestant Ethic + Political Writings + Economy and Society (vol. I if you have time) Marcel Mauss - The Gift Malinowski - Argonauts of the Western Pacific A.R. Radcliffe-Brown - Structure and Function in Primitive Society EE. Evans Pritchard - African Political Systems + Witchcraft, Oracles, Magic Edmund Leach - Political Systems of Burma Raymond Firth - Elements of Social Organization Ruth Benedict - various Claude Lévi-Strauss - Structural Anthropology Maurice Godelier - Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology Max Gluckman - Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa Clifford Geertz- The Interpretation of Cultures Marshall Sahlins - Culture in Practice James Clifford and George Marcus - Writing Culture Besides that, a lot of smaller works should be suggested. What's more, Anthropology's reliance on continental philosophy and social theory make these latter literatures essential reading--i.e. Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Bourdieu. I've left out Queer and Feminist critiques, the contributions of semiotic perspectives, the contemporary basically, but it all depends on the sub-area you're working in and what faculties you're working with. Good Luck!