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WEEKLY SYLLABUS
Fall 2003
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WK 1 8/26 INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
** BB=Blackboard Electronic Reserves.
8/28 CONCEPT-METAPHORS OF CULTURE
Homework Questions to Get you Started
- Conrad- Heart of Darkness (begin)
- Pandian- Anthropology in the Western
Tradition pp 1-46
WK 2 9/2 US AND THE
OTHER: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE THIRD WORLD
WK 3 9/9 FIELD/WORK AND ETHNO/GRAPHY
- Rosenthal (& Arens)- "Myth of the Man-Eaters"
(xerox)
- Obeyesekere- "'British Cannibals':...(BB)
- Miner- "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
(BB)
- Chagnon Controversy
- Chagnon- "Doing
Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo" (xerox)
- Tierney--"The Fierce Anthropologist: Did
Chagnon Harm the Yanomamo?" BB)
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9/11 HISTORIES OF ANTHROPOLOGY: ETHNO/LOGY
- Pandian- Anthropology in the Western
Tradition pp 47-95
- Johanson & Edey- "Lucy" (xerox)
- Zihlman & Lowenstein- "A Few Words
with Ruby" (xerox)
- Hrdy & Bennett- "Lucy's Husband" (BB)
- Landau- "Human Evolution as Narrative"
(BB)
- VIDEO: The
Couple in the Cage(Gomez-Peña & Coco Fusco 1993, clip)
Ota Benga,
a Pygmy exhibited at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair and 1906 in the
Bronx Zoo
WK 4 9/16 ETHNOGRAPHIC
SURREALISM; HUMANISM / COLONIALISM
- Slides of surrealist paintings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Check out
- Clifford- "Ethnographic Surrealism" (xerox)
- Young- "Colonialism and Humanism" (BB)
- Rosaldo- "Imperialist Nostalgia" (BB)
- VIDEO: Un
Chien Andalou (1928 Bunuel & Dali)
See also another
controversial issue:
David Price, Anthropologists
as Spies in The Nation 11/20/00 [on Franz Boas, science
as espionage, World War I & II, McCarthyism, ethics and politics of
anthro in wartime] |
9/18 ANTHROPOLOGY
IN THE WORLD SYSTEM: TWO WORLDINGS
- Pandian- Anthropology in the Western
Tradition pp 97-126
- A. The "worlding" of the "Third World"
- Lappe & Collins-"Why Can't People Feed
Themselves?" (BB)
- Escobar-"Power & Visibility: Development
& the Invention & Management of the Third World" (BB)
- B. The "third-worlding" of the First World
WK 5 9/23
VENUS: BLACK/BLONDE
Media presentation and discussion of readings
- VIDEO:Blonde Venus
(1932 Von Sternberg);
- Gould- "The Hottentot Venus" (BB)
- Hall-"The Spectacle of the Other" (selection
on the Hottentot Venus) (BB)
- Lispector- "The Smallest Woman" (BB)
- Map of
Africa 1808 (918K, i.e. big sized map) "Africa" from Brookes, R.,
The General Gazetteer; or Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Eighth Edition.
Dublin, 1808
9/25 CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER
AND SEXUALITY
Semiotics: science of signs and signification (production of meaning)
Europe supported by Africa and America
- Tiffany & Adams- The Wild
Woman (begin)
- Rensberger- "Margaret Mead: Nature-Nurture
Debate" (BB)
WK 6 9/30 QUESTION OF THE GAZE: IS
THE GAZE MALE / WESTERN / WHITE / STRAIGHT?
- Note: only short
clips of these 4 articles--read in sequence
- Kaplan- "Is the Gaze Male?" (BB)-
- Diawara-"Black Spectatorship: Problems
of Identification & Resistance" (BB)
- Williamson- "Woman is an Island: Femininity
& Colonization"(BB)
- Fuss-"The Homospectatorial Look" (BB)
- VIDEO: Still
KillingUs Softly 3 (2000, 34 min)
10/2 THE ROMANCE OF THE WILD WOMAN
- Tiffany & Adams- The Wild Woman
(finish)
DUE: Mini-Presentation #1 (1-2
minutes) on the gaze; bring in one ad from a magazine or newspaper and prepare
a quick analysis in light of WK 5-6 materials
************REQUIRED OF EVERYONE************
WK 7 10/7 MODES
OF PRODUCTION: HUNTER-GATHERERS/HORTICULTURALISTS
WK 8 10/14 ETHNOGRAPHIC HYPERREALISM?
WK 9 10/21 MODES OF
PRODUCTION: PEASANTRY/WORLD CAPITALIST SYSTEM
- Burgos-Debray (ed)- I, Rigoberta Menchu:
An Indian Woman in Guatemala (begin)
- Nelson- "Maya Hackers & the Cyberspatialized
Nation-State" (BB)
- Stoll--Ethical Dilemmas: "Life Story as Mythopoesis" (BB)
Contests Menchu's story
- VIDEO: Rigoberta
Menchu: Broken Silence (1993, 21 min)
Read about the Menchu controversy:
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10/23 TRANSNATIONAL INCORPORATIONS,
INFORMAL
DEVELOPMENTS, POPULAR RESPONSES
DUE: Critical
Essay #2 on Rigoberta Menchu
WK10 10/28 MENCHU WHO? Controversy about
Menchu's testimony (see web)
- Burgos-Debray (ed)- I...Rigoberta
Menchu (finish)
10/30 "SILICON WOMAN" IN THE GLOBAL
FACTORY
WK 11 11/4 "SILICON WOMAN"
& THE NEW TRANSNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOR
- Miyoshi- "A Borderless World? From Colonialism
to Transnationalism" (BB)
- Franco- "The Incorporation of Women"
(BB)
Take-home Exam Questions
to be handed out today
Also check out these web sites:
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11/7 THE ROMANCE OF THE SILICON
WOMAN-- DISCUSSION
- Finish The Maquiladora Reader
and "silicon woman" readings from 11/4
DUE:
Critical
Essay #3 on the "silicon woman" in the global factory
WK 12
11/11 VETERAN'S DAY----NO CLASS
11/13 EXAM
DUE TODAY--
Take-home Essays due--maximum 5 pp double spaced
- SHOW ME
THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE
OF ANTHROPOLOGY ! ---------------------------------------->
- NOTE: Ethnography Field Project Explained
Today--
- Cooper- "The Heartland's Raw Deal"
(BB)
- Sassen- "Why Migration?" (BB)
- Koptiuch- "Third-Worlding at Home"
(BB)
- Rieff- "Last Hurrahs" from Los
Angeles: Capital of the Third World (xerox)
- Smith- "Is Gentrification a Dirty
Word?" (BB)
- AUDIO:
"Third
World USA: First Stop, Philadelphia" (Koptiuch & Negron)
- VIDEO:
Blade
Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) (clips--but you should watch the whole
movie--fabulous!)
- RECC: The
Matrix (Wachowski brothers,1999--how could you
have missed this one!)
WK 13 11/18 SUBCULTURES:
HEGEMONY & SUBALTERN SPEECH (culture & power)
WK 14 11/25 SUBCULTURES: DISCUSSION
- Hebdige- Subculture: The Meaning
of Style (finish)
DUE: Mini-presentation #2 (1-2
minutes) on a subculture of your own choice, using Hebdige's insights to
shape your interpretation.
- *************Required of Everyone*********
11/27 Thanksgiving Holiday--
WK 15 12/2 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."
- Nichols-"The Work of Culture in the
Age of Cybernetic Systems" (clip)(xerox)
- Allison-"Cyborg Violence: Bursting
Borders & Bodies with Queer Machines" (xerox)
- Highly
Recommended:William Gibson's cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer
- VIDEO:
Once Upon a Time in Cyberville (1996)
- 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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12/4 COLLAGE GALLERY GRAND OPENING! (Last Class)
- Exhibition of your classmates' ethnographic
surrealist media collages!
- (with your brief oral explanation)
- Guest Performance by Leopard
Lady??
DUE: MEDIA COLLAGE
WK 16 12/9 OVERFLOW CLASS
FOR CATCH-UP OR FREE FOR RESEARCH TIME
12/11 THURSDAY 9:30-10:20 am DUE: ETHNOGRAPHY FIELD PROJECT
(see key readings from 11/13 and 9/18 to guide
your thinking)
NOTE TIME CHANGE!! (scheduled
exam time)
- Final Paper Due Today: 5-7
pages, double spaced)
- Reminder: Papers must
relate to assignment on U.S. third-worlding!!
- Must be based on your own
ethnographic research, not library or internet sources (you may include
these sources too if you wish)
- 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 9/26 restricted 10/31/03.
Graduation filing period 9/2-10/31/03
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