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WEEKLY SYLLABUS
Spring 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 1/15 INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
1/17 CONCEPT-METAPHORS OF CULTURE
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Conrad- Heart of Darkness (begin)
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Pandian- Anthropology in the Western Tradition
pp 1-46
Reccomended: Film Apocalypse Now
(Coppola)
WK 2 1/22 US AND THE
OTHER: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE THIRD WORLD
WK 3 1/29 FIELD/WORK AND ETHNO/GRAPHY
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Chagnon- "Doing Fieldwork
Among the Yanomamo" (xerox)
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Tierney--clips from Darkness in El Dorado (xerox)-
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Rosenthal (& Ahrens)- "Myth of the Man-Eaters"
(xerox)
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Obeyesekere- "'British Cannibals':...(xerox)
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Miner- "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (xerox)
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VIDEO: On
Cannibalism (Rony 6 min)
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Recommended video: Cannibal
Tours
| Read
more about the Yanomamo Controversy!
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1/31 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" (xerox)
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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" (xerox)
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VIDEO: The
Couple in the Cage (Gomez-Peña & Coco Fusco 1993, clip)
WK 4 2/5 ETHNOGRAPHIC
SURREALISM; HUMANISM / COLONIALISM
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Slides of surrealist paintings
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Clifford- "Ethnographic Surrealism" (xerox)
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Check out
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Young- "Colonialism and Humanism" (xerox)
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Rosaldo- "Imperialist Nostalgia" (xerox)
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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] |
2/7 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?"
(xerox)
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Escobar-"Power & Visibility: Development &
the Invention & Management of the Third World" (xerox)
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B. The "third-worlding" of the First World
WK 5
2/12 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"
(xerox)
2/14 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)
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[Note: skip this essay
Spring 2002]
WK 6 2/19 QUESTION OF THE GAZE:
IS THE GAZE MALE / WESTERN / WHITE / STRAIGHT? 
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Kaplan- "Is the Gaze Male?" (xerox--note: short
clips of these 4 articles)
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Diawara-"Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification
& Resistance" (xerox)
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Williamson- "Woman is an Island: Femininity &
Colonization"(xerox)
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Fuss-"The Homospectatorial Look" (xerox)
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VIDEO: Killing
Us Softly 3 (2000, 34 min)
2/21 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 2/26 MODES OF PRODUCTION: HUNTER-GATHERERS/HORTICULTURALISTS
WK 8 3/5 ETHNOGRAPHIC HYPERREALISM?
WK 9 3/12 AND 3/14
SPRING
BREAK!!!
START READING I,
Rigoberta Menchu! Take her with you!
WK 10 3/19 MODES OF PRODUCTION:
PEASANTRY/WORLD CAPITALIST SYSTEM
| Read
about the Menchu controversy:
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3/21 TRANSNATIONAL INCORPORATIONS,
INFORMAL
DEVELOPMENTS, POPULAR RESPONSES
DUE:
Critical
Essay #5 on Rigoberta Menchu
WK11 3/26 MENCHU WHO? Controversy
about Menchu's testimony (see web)
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Burgos-Debray (ed)- I...Rigoberta Menchu
(finish)
3/28 "SILICON WOMAN" IN THE GLOBAL FACTORY
WK 12 4/2 "SILICON WOMAN"
& THE NEW TRANSNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOR
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Kamel- "Overview: The U.S. Economy Goes Global"
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Miyoshi- "A Borderless World? From Colonialism to
Transnationalism" (xerox)
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Franco- "The Incorporation of Women" (xerox)
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Also
check out these web sites:
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check out these web sites:
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4/4 THE ROMANCE OF THE SILICON
WOMAN-- DISCUSSION
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Finish The Maquiladora Reader and "silicon
woman" readings from 3/28
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:
Take-Home Exam Essays to be handed out today !!!!
DUE:
Critical
Essay #6 on the "silicon woman" in the global factory
WK
13 4/9 FAMILY FABLES OF US AND THEM:
KINSHIP AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
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Kellman-"The Yanomamis: Portrait of a People in
Crisis" (xerox)
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VIDEO: The
Ax Fight (Chagnon & Asch 1975; on the Yanomamo)
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See web sites on the Yanomamo listed above in Week
2
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VIDEO: The Stepfather
(Dir Joseph Ruben 1987) (fast forward Hollywood thriller)
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Recc: Yanomamo
Interactive: The Ax Fight(CD-Rom- on reserve:F2520.1.Y3B54x)
4/11
EXAM
DUETake-home essays due
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maximum 5 pp double spaced
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SHOW ME THE TIP OF
THE ICEBERG
OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE
OF ANTHROPOLOGY ! ----------------->>
THIRD-WORLDING THE U.S.
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Sassen- "Why Migration?" (xerox)
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Koptiuch- "Third-Worlding
at Home" (xerox)
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Rieff- "Last Hurrahs" from Los Angeles:
Capital of the Third World (xerox)
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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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NOTE:
Ethnography Field Project Explained Today--
WK 14 4/16 SUBCULTURES:
HEGEMONY & SUBALTERN SPEECH (culture & power)
WK 15 4/23 SUBCULTURES: DISCUSSION
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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Web: The
Sprawl
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VIDEO: Once
Upon a Time in Cyberville (1996)
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VIDEO: Donna
Haraway Reads National Geographics of Primates (Paper
Tiger 30 min)
Cyberpunk/Neuromancer
Web Links
there are zillions of sites out there!
here's a few--if broken, try another
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WK 16 4/30 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)
DUE:
MEDIA
COLLAGE
WK 17 5/7 TUESDAY 1:55-3:40 pm DUE:
ETHNOGRAPHY
FIELD PROJECT
(see key readings from 4/11
and 2/7 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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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 2/8, restricted 3/29.
Graduation filing deadline 4/5
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