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WEEKLY SYLLABUS
Fall 2002
SORRY
FOR ANY BROKEN LINKS!
Let Dr.
K. know if you find any--and keep your eye out for relevant web sites to
add.
WK 1 8/27 INTRODUCTION TO
THE COURSE **
BB=Blackboard Electronic Reserves.
8/29 CONCEPT-METAPHORS OF CULTURE
Homework Questions to Get you Started
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Conrad- Heart of Darkness (begin)
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Pandian- Anthropology in the Western Tradition
pp 1-46
Reccomended: Apocalypse Now (Coppola
1979 & 2001); Barbara Kingsolver,
The Poisonwood Bible (1998); Adam Hochschild,
King Leopold’s Ghost (1998)
WK 2 9/3 US AND THE OTHER:
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE THIRD WORLD
WK 3 9/10 FIELD/WORK AND ETHNO/GRAPHY
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Rosenthal (& Arens)- "Myth of the Man-Eaters"
(xerox)
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Obeyesekere- "'British Cannibals':...(BB)
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Miner- "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (BB)
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Chagnon- "Doing Fieldwork
Among the Yanomamo" (xerox)
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Tierney--"The Fierce Anthropologist: Did Chagnon
Harm the Yanomamo?" and "Afterword" to his
Darkness in El Dorado (xerox)
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Kellman-"The Yanomamis: Portrait of a People in
Crisis" (BB)
9/12 HISTORIES OF ANTHROPOLOGY: ETHNO/LOGY
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Pandian- Anthropology in the Western Tradition
pp 47-95
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Landau- "Human Evolution as Narrative" (BB)
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Johanson & Edey- "Lucy" (xerox)
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Zihlman & Lowenstein- "A Few Words with Ruby"
(xerox)
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Hrdy & Bennett- "Lucy's Husband" (BB)
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VIDEO: The
Couple in the Cage(Gomez-Peña & Coco Fusco 1993, clip)
WK 4 9/17 ETHNOGRAPHIC
SURREALISM; HUMANISM / COLONIALISM
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Slides of surrealist paintings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Check out
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Clifford- "Ethnographic Surrealism" (xerox)
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Young- "Colonialism and Humanism" (BB)
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Rosaldo- "Imperialist Nostalgia" (BB)
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VIDEO: Un
Chien Andalou (1928 Bunuel & Dali)
See also another controversial
issue:
David Price, Anthropologists
as Spies in The Nation 11/20/00 [on Boas, science as espionage,
World War I & II, McCarthyism, ethics] |
9/19 ANTHROPOLOGY IN
THE WORLD SYSTEM: TWO WORLDINGS
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Pandian- Anthropology in the Western Tradition
pp 97-126
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A. The "worlding" of the "Third World"
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Lappe & Collins-"Why Can't People Feed Themselves?"
(BB)
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Escobar-"Power & Visibility: Development &
the Invention & Management of the Third World" (BB)
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B. The "third-worlding" of the First World
WK 5 9/24
VENUS: BLACK/BLONDE
Media presentation and discussion of readings
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VIDEO:Blonde
Venus (1932 Von Sternberg);
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Zou
Zou-with Josephine Baker (1934 clip)
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Gould- "The Hottentot Venus" (xerox)
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Gilman- "Black Bodies, White Bodies..." (xerox)
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Lispector- "The Smallest Woman" (xerox)
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Map
of Africa 1808 (918K) "Africa" from Brookes, R., The General
Gazetteer; or Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Eighth Edition.
Dublin, 1808
DUE:
Critical
Essay #2 on readings from weeks 4 & 5 (minimum two readings)
9/26 CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF
GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Semiotics: science of signs and signification (production of meaning)
Europe
supported by Africa and America
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Tiffany & Adams- The Wild Woman
(begin)
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Rensberger- "Margaret Mead: Nature-Nurture
Debate" (BB)
WK 6 10/1 QUESTION OF THE GAZE: IS THE
GAZE MALE / WESTERN / WHITE / STRAIGHT? 
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Note: only short clips
of these 4 articles--read in sequence
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Kaplan- "Is the Gaze Male?" (BB)-
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Diawara-"Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification
& Resistance" (BB)
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Williamson- "Woman is an Island: Femininity &
Colonization"(BB)
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Fuss-"The Homospectatorial Look" (BB)
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VIDEO: Still
KillingUs Softly 3 (2000, 34 min)
10/3 THE ROMANCE OF THE WILD WOMAN
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Tiffany & Adams- The Wild Woman (finish)
DUE:
Critical
Essay #3 on The Wild Woman
************REQUIRED
OF EVERYONE************
WK 7 10/8 MODES
OF PRODUCTION: HUNTER-GATHERERS/HORTICULTURALISTS
WK 8 10/15 ETHNOGRAPHIC HYPERREALISM?
WK 9 10/22 MODES
OF PRODUCTION: PEASANTRY/WORLD CAPITALIST SYSTEM
| Read
about the Menchu controversy:
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10/24 TRANSNATIONAL INCORPORATIONS,
INFORMAL
DEVELOPMENTS, POPULAR RESPONSES
DUE:
Critical
Essay #5 on Rigoberta Menchu
WK10 10/29 MENCHU WHO? Controversy
about Menchu's testimony (see web)
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Burgos-Debray (ed)- I...Rigoberta Menchu
(finish)
10/31 "SILICON WOMAN" IN THE GLOBAL FACTORY
WK 11 11/5 "SILICON WOMAN"
& THE NEW TRANSNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOR
Participatory
Exam Questions to be handed out today!
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Kamel- "Overview: The U.S. Economy Goes Global"
(BB)
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Miyoshi- "A Borderless World? From Colonialism to
Transnationalism" (BB)
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Franco- "The Incorporation of Women" (BB)
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check out these web sites:
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11/7 THE ROMANCE OF THE SILICON
WOMAN-- DISCUSSION
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Finish The Maquiladora Reader and "silicon
woman" readings from 11/5
DUE:
Critical
Essay #6 on the "silicon woman" in the global factory
WK 12
11/12 IN-CLASS PARTICIPATORY EXAM TODAY!
Admission ticket required!
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Study questions, prepare
your answers to all questions
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Take notes of two or
three points you would make on each question
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We will discuss your answers
in
class (by groups and together)!
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MUST BE PRESENT TO RECEIVE
CREDIT (10%)
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Or must submit written exam
if absence is unavoidable (5 pp. Typed, double spaced)
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SHOW ME THE TIP OF
THE ICEBERG
OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE
OF ANTHROPOLOGY ! ---------------------------------------->
11/14 THIRD-WORLDING
THE U.S.
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Cooper- "The Heartland's Raw Deal" (BB)
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Sassen- "Why Migration?" (BB)
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Koptiuch- "Third-Worlding at Home" (BB)
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Rieff- "Last Hurrahs" from Los Angeles:
Capital of the Third World (xerox)
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Smith- "Is Gentrification a Dirty Word?" (BB)
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AUDIO: "Third
World USA: First Stop, Philadelphia" (Koptiuch & Negron)
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VIDEO: Blade
Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) (clips--but you should watch the whole
movie--fabulous!)
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RECC: The
Matrix (1999)
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NOTE:
Ethnography Field Project Explained Today--
WK 13 11/19 SUBCULTURES:
HEGEMONY & SUBALTERN SPEECH (culture & power)
WK 14 11/26 SUBCULTURES: DISCUSSION
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Hebdige- Subculture: The Meaning of
Style (finish)
DUE: Critical
Essay #7 on Subculture
11/28 Thanksgiving
Holiday--
WK 15 12/3 CYBORG CULTURES: VIRTUAL REALISMS----CYBERPUNK
ANTHROPOLOGY? 
William
Gibson--Neuromancer's
opening line:
"The sky above
the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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Nichols-"The Work of Culture in the Age of
Cybernetic Systems" (clip)(xerox)
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Allison-"Cyborg Violence: Bursting Borders
& Bodies with Queer Machines" (xerox)
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Koptiuch-"'Cultural Defense' and Criminological
Displacements..."(xerox??)
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Highly Recommended:William
Gibson's cyberpunk classic,
Neuromancer
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VIDEO: Once
Upon a Time in Cyberville (1996)
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FILM CLIP FEST?
Men
in Black vs X-Men?? Robocop vs Pleasantville??
Cyberpunk/Neuromancer
Web Links
there are zillions of sites out there!
here's a few--if broken, try another
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12/5 COLLAGE
GALLERY GRAND OPENING! (Last Class)
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Exhibition of your classmates' ethnographic
surrealist media collages!
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(with your brief oral explanation)
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Guest Performance by Leopard Lady??
DUE:
MEDIA
COLLAGE
WK 16 12/10 OVERFLOW
CLASS FOR CATCH-UP OR FREE FOR RESEARCH TIME
12/12 THURSDAY 12:15-2:05 pm DUE:
ETHNOGRAPHY
FIELD PROJECT
(see key readings from 11/14
and 9/19 to guide your thinking)
NOTE TIME CHANGE!! (scheduled
exam time)
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Final Paper Due Today: 5-7 pages, double
spaced)
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Reminder: Papers must
relate to assignment on U.S. third-worlding!!
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Must be based on your own ethnographic
research, not library or internet sources (you may include these
sources too if you wish)
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Brief Presentation Today: 10% of your
paper grade
**no show means highest possible paper
grade = B**
NOTE: It is not advisable to attempt
to submit the same paper to fulfill assignments for more than one course
without first obtaining approval from each instructor involved.
ALL ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE IN TODAY!!
(Check to see if you owe any assignments!
a zero is terribly damaging to your grade!!)
NO EXCEPTIONS!!
WARNING: NO INCOMPLETES ! !
Withdrawal deadlines:
unrestricted 9/20 restricted 11/1.
Graduation filing period 9/3-11/15
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Benga, a Pygmy exhibited at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair and 1906
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