Power and Difference:
Colonialism, Identity, and Development in Anthropological
Perspective
Part I
Professor María Elena García First
Year Studies
Office: Lynd 1 Anth-1018-F
Phone: x2279 Library
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Email: mgarcia@slc.edu T
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the
taking it
away from those who have a different complexion or
slightly
flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when
you
look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.
An idea
at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an
idea; and
an unselfish belief in the idea—something you
can set up, and
bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to…
Joseph Conrad, Heart
of Darkness
Into each life, it is said, some rain must fall. Some
people have
bad horoscopes, others take tips
on the stock market…. But
Indians have been cursed above all other people. Indians
have
anthropologists. The
origin of the anthropologist is hidden in
the historical mists. Indians are
certain that all societies of
the Near
East had anthropologists at one time because all those
societies are now defunct.
Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer
Died For Your Sins
Anthropology, it has been said, is the offspring of
colonialism and imperialism. This first year studies course explores the
troubled histories of anthropology and contemporary efforts to question and
challenge imperial imaginings. This course also introduces students to gendered
interpretations of concepts such as nationalism and culture, and invites them
to think about the social construction of racial, ethnic, sexual, class, and
gendered identities. Additionally, students in the seminar will explore current
controversies about the aims and practices of “development” and
about the role of anthropology and anthropologists in the making and un-making
of “first” and “third” worlds. Finally, the course
interrogates important debates over representation, advocacy, and ethnographic
responsibility. Readings will
include classic and contemporary works set in Africa, Asia, the Middle
East, and the Americas.
FALL SEMESTER
Course Requirements
1) You are expected to attend all class sessions and
participate actively in class discussions.
If you cannot avoid missing a class session, you are expected to find out
from another student what has taken place. Three or more unexcused absences will result in reduced
credit.
2) For each class meeting, you will write 1-2 page
critical reactions to (and not summaries of) the major points made in the readings,
raising questions about these readings. These are due by email on Tuesday and Friday mornings no later than 5:00
a.m. so that
I can read them before our seminar meetings.
You may skip writing these twice each semester. We will begin on the
second week of the semester (week A). Your first response should reach me on
(or before) September 16.
3) Once during the semester, each of you will pair up with
a partner and the two of you will conduct a short (15 min.) in-class
presentation that introduces the readings for that day. The idea is to raise
some insightful questions and to lead the class in a (hopefully) provocative
discussion of some of the main themes that emerge from readings and films.
Students should check with me before your scheduled class presentation.
4) During the semester you will complete two brief
writing assignments. Each assignment will be an exercise in developing a
certain set of skills.
a)
Book Review: Critiquing Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness. Due in class on Tuesday October 7. More instructions and guidelines will be
provided in class.
b)
Annotated Bibliography. Due in
class on Tuesday November 4. Each student will pick a topic in
consultation with the instructor and prepare an annotated bibliography that
ideally will be part of your conference project. Students will write brief
descriptions of each bibliographic entry. More specific guidelines will be
provided in class and during conference meetings.
5) Conference Projects: We will discuss your projects individually
during our weekly conference meetings. At the end of the semester, each one of
you will conduct a formal, in-class presentation of your projects. Accordingly,
all are expected to come prepared to engage their peers, ask provocative
questions, and provide constructive criticism. Conference Project Topic is due
in class on Tuesday, September 30. A draft or detailed outline of your
project will be due in class on Tuesday, November 25. Conference
Projects are due on Friday, December 12. If you would like to work on a
year-long project, we can discuss different options on an individual basis.
Some Important Information
1. Late
Assignments: I will not accept assignments that are turned in late
unless you have checked with me at least one week before the assignment
is due and we have decided upon an extended deadline.
2. Absence:
It is your responsibility to keep up to date with class readings and
assignments. If you miss a class, or a conference meeting, you are expected to
contact me regarding your absence, both to let me know why you did not show up,
and to discuss what you may have missed in class and/or to re-schedule a
conference.
3. Email: I
expect you to check your SLC email account (or the email address that you have
provided as primary) regularly. Likewise, it is your responsibility to keep me
posted on changes in contact information for you (e.g., phone extensions).
Additionally, we will have a web board for this class, which you should check
for additional assignments or notices.
4. Reserve
Reading: All of
the books and articles for this class should be available on reserve. You can
access the reserve readings at the front desk. I have also placed some copies
of book chapters in a photocopy box at the library. You are not allowed to take
these copies home. They are for you to read at the library, or to photocopy and
take with you if you prefer to do so. If you are unsure about how to ask for a
reading, or how to find one, please check with me or with a librarian.
5. Research:
Throughout the semester, you are expected to become familiar with various forms
of research techniques and to use the resources available in a responsible
manner. For instance, if you don’t find a book that you need in the
library, you should try Inter-Library Loan before assuming that the book is not
available. In other words, not finding a book at the SLC library is not an
excuse for not completing an assignment or asking for extensions.
6. Writing:
Writing is a skill that you will continue to develop throughout your
time at SLC and beyond. We will work on various dimensions of the writing
process in this course, but one critical aspect we will emphasize is the
importance of giving yourself the time to edit assignments before you turn them
in. Assignments that are sloppy (e.g. numerous spelling errors) or that are
lacking page numbers, a bibliography, etc., will be returned to you, and will
most likely result in a loss of credit. There are two wonderful writing tutors
on campus who are available by appointment. You can reach Carol at x2487 or at
Bates 100, and Kevin by calling x2233.
7. Using
the Internet: The web can be an extremely useful resource for research.
Electronic databases, on-line journals, and quick access to newspapers from
around the world are only some examples of the many ways in which using the
Internet can enhance your research experience. However, it should not be used
in lieu of responsible academic research. In this course, for example, using
websites as a primary source of information for a paper will not be considered appropriate
research. I will expand on this in class.
8. Plagiarism:
Plagiarism of any sort will not be tolerated. This includes copying sentences
or paragraphs from the web, books, articles, or other sources and using them
without proper citations, representing someone else’s words and work as
your own, and other forms of academic dishonesty. Periodically, I will check
student work for plagiarism using special software available to faculty. Plagiarism
will result in loss of credit (at best) or expulsion from the seminar (at
worst). Students are encouraged to read the section on plagiarism in your
student handbook.
Required Texts (Available at the SLC Bookstore and on reserve at the
SLC Library)
1.Lila Abu-Lughod.
1986. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. CA: University of California Press.
2.Joseph
Conrad. 1988. Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and
Sources, Criticism. New York:
Norton & Company.
3.Miguel León-Portillo. 1992. The Broken Spears
: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston:
Beacon Press.
4.Mahmood Mamdani.
1996. Citizen and Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
5.Anthony
Pagden. 1982. The Fall of Natural Man: The
American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6.Haunani-Kay Trask. 1999. From a Native
Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.
Recommended Texts (Available at the SLC Bookstore and on reserve at the
SLC Library)
1.
Joan Vincent, ed. 2002. Anthropology of
Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique. Mass.:
Blackwell Publishers.
2.
Eric Wolf. 1986. Europe and
the People Without History. CA: University of California Press.
3.
John L. Comaroff
and Jean Comaroff. 1997.
Of Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics
of Modernity on a South African Frontier. Chicago:
University of
Chicago Press.
4.
Gabriel García Marquez. 1998. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: Harper Perennial Press.
5.
Peter Wade.
1997. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America.
London: Pluto Press.
Note on Required vs.
Recommended Readings:
Required readings are those you
are expected to read (and think about) before arriving in
class. The
recommended readings are primarily a list of suggested readings that might be
helpful to you
in future assignments and research projects, or which may interest you if you
wish to expand your knowledge of a particular topic.
If you are interested in a particular
recommended reading and are unable to find it in the library,
see me about obtaining a copy
of the book or article for which you are looking.
Syllabus is subject to change.
Students are responsible for keeping up with those changes.
CLASS SCHEDULE
Fall Semester
Week 1 (B)
September 9
· Introduction
to course.
· Readings from Chile: The
Other September 11th.
September 12
Readings:
· Eric
Wolf. 1982. “Introduction.” In Europe and
the People Without History: 3-23.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
·
Library Tour: Introduction to resources for research at SLC/Intro to Web Board.
PART I—COLONIALISM: DISCOURSES AND REPRESENTATIONS
Week 2 (A)
September 16
CLASS WILL BE HELD IN THE LIBRARY PILLOW ROOM ON THIS DAY
Required Readings:
·Talal Asad. 2002. “From the History of
Colonial Anthropology, to the Anthropology of Western
Hegemony.” From Colonial
Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge.
George Stocking, ed. (1991).
Reprinted in The Anthropology of Politics: A
Reader in Ethnography,
Theory, and
Critique. Joan Vincent, ed.: 133-142. Mass: Blackwell Publishers.
·Nicolas
Thomas. 1994. “From Present to Past: the Politics of Colonial
Studies.” In
Colonialism’s Culture:
Anthropology, Travel, and Government: 11-32. Princeton: Princeton
University
Press.
Recommended Readings:
·Ann Stoler. 2002. “Perceptions of Protest: Defining the
Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra.”
From
American
Ethnologist (1985). Reprinted in The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in
Ethnography,
Theory, and
Critique. Joan Vincent, ed.: 153-171. Mass: Blackwell Publishers.
Film: The
Couple in the Cage
September 19
Readings:
·Joseph
Conrad. [1902] 1988. Heart of Darkness: An
Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources
Criticism. New
York: Norton & Company. Read novel only.
Week 3 (B)
September 23
Readings:
·Chinua Achebe.
1988. “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”
In
Heart of Darkness: An
Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism.
Robert Kimbrough, ed.: 251-262. New
York: Norton & Company.
· Edward
Said. 1994. “Two Visions in Heart of Darkness.” From Culture and
Imperialism: 19-
30. New
York: Vintage Books.
· Adam Hochschild. 1998. King Leopold’s Ghost:
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial
Africa. New
York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Read
Introduction, Prologue, and Chapter 9.
Additional
Assignments:
·Film: Apocalypse Now.
Watch BEFORE class and come prepared to discuss. On reserve
in the library.
September 26
Required Readings:
·
Clifford Geertz. 1983. “
‘From the Native’s Point of View’: On the Nature of
Anthropological
Understanding.” From Local Knowledge: Further Essays in
Interpretive
Anthropology. New
York: Basic Books.
In
class:
·Bronislaw Malinowski.
[1922] 1984. Argonauts of the Western
Pacific. Illinois:
Waveland Press,
Inc. We
will read selected excerpts.
· Bronislaw Malinowski. 1967. A
Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. New
York: Harcourt,
Brace, and
World. We will read selected excerpts.
Recommended
Readings:
· James Clifford.
1988. “On Ethnographic Self-Fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski.”
In
The Predicament of Culture:
Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art:
92-113.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
· David
Price. 2000. “Anthropologists as Spies.” The Nation,
November 20.
· Eric Wakin. 1992. Anthropology
Goes to War: Professional Ethics and Counterinsurgency in
Thailand. Madison: Wisconsin University Press.
Week 4 (A)
September 30
***CONFERENCE PROJECT TOPICS
DUE!!**
Required
Readings:
· Edward Said.
1979. “Introduction.” In Orientalism.
New York:
Vintage Books.
· Edward
Said. 1994. “Empire, Geography, and Culture.” From Culture and
Imperialism: 3-14.
New
York: Vintage Books.
·
Richard Fox. [1992] 2002. “East of Said.”
In The Anthropology of Politics: 143-152. Mass.:
Blackwell
Publishers.
Recommended Readings:
· James
Clifford. 1988. “On Orientalism.” In The
Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-
Century Ethnography,
Literature, and Art: 255-276. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press.
PART
II—COLONIAL HISTORIES, COLONIAL LEGACIES
October 3
Required
Readings:
· Anthony
Pagden. 1982. The Fall of Natural Man: The
American Indian and the Origins of
Comparative
Ethnology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Read chapters 1-4.
· Miguel
León-Portillo. 1992. The Broken Spears
: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston:
Beacon Press.
· Mario
Vargas Llosa. 1990.
“Questions of Conquest.” Harpers, 281 (1687): 45-53.
In class:
· Letters from Columbus and Hernán Cortez
to the King of Spain. We will read excerpts.
Film: Columbus on
Trial
Recommended Readings:
· Eric
Wolf. Europe and
the People Without History. Chapter 5 (“Iberians in America”).
Week 5 (B)
October 7
**BOOK REVIEW DUE!!**
CLASS WILL BE HELD IN THE LIBRARY PILLOW ROOM ON THIS DAY
Required Readings:
· Eric
Wolf. Europe and
the People Without History. Read
chapter 7 (“The Slave Trade”).
· Eduardo Galeano.
1973. “Lust for Gold, Lust for Silver.” From Open Veins of Latin
America: Five Centuries
of the Pillage of a Continent. New
York: Monthly Review Press.
Recommended Reading:
· Pablo Neruda. Canto General.
October 10
Film: Trinkets
and Beads or Kayapó: Out of the Forest
Week 6 (A)
October 14
Required Readings:
·Frantz
Fanon. [1961] 1996. The Wretched
of the Earth. Reprinted in Princeton Readings in
Political
Thought.
Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon, eds.: 615-622. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
·Mahmood Mamdani. 1996.
Citizen and Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Read Chapters
1-4.
Recommended Readings:
· Walter
Rodney. 1998. “How Europe
Underdeveloped Africa.” Reprinted in Perspectives
on Africa: A
Reader
in Culture, History, and Representation. Roy
Richard Grinker and Christopher B. Steiner,
eds. Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishers.
·
Terence Ranger. 1998. “The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa.”
Reprinted in Perspectives on
Africa: A
Reader in Culture, History, and Representation. Roy
Richard Grinker and Christopher B. Steiner, eds. Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishers.
· Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. 1998. “Detained: A Writer’s
Prison Diary.” Reprinted in Perspectives on Africa:
A
Reader in Culture, History, and Representation. Roy Richard Grinker and Christopher B.
Steiner, eds. Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishers.
· John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff. 1997.
Of Revelation and Revolution: The
Dialectics of Modernity on a
South
African Frontier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
***SPECIAL EVENT: Wednesday, October 15, 2003***
You are required to attend a talk
by guest speaker Dr. Jeffrey Lesser. Dr. Lesser is a distinguished historian of
Brazil, and he will speak on the politics of race, ethnicity, and
immigration in Brazil. His talk will be in Titsworth
Lecture Hall, from 5:00-7:00.
October 17
In class: Will
discuss Dr. Lesser’s talk.
Required Readings:
· Philip Gourevitch. 1998. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We
Will Be Killed With
Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. New
York: Picador USA. Read
excerpts.
· Mamdani, Citizen and Subject. Read chapter 6.
· Mahmood Mamdani. 2001. “A
Brief History of Genocide.” Transition 10(3): 26-47. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transition/v010/10.3mamdani.html
Additional
Assignments:
·Film: The Triumph of Evil.
Watch BEFORE class and come prepared to discuss. On reserve
in the library.
Recommended Readings:
· Mahmood Mamdani. 2002. When
Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and
the
Genocide
in Rwanda. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Week 7 (NO CONFERENCES THIS
WEEK)
October 21
NO CLASS (OCTOBER STUDY DAYS,
20-21)
October 24
Required Readings:
· Haunani-Kay Trask. 1991. “Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle.” The
Contemporary Pacific 6: 159-167.
· Roger Keesing. 1991. “Reply to Trask.” The Contemporary Pacific 3: 169-171.
· Jocelyn Linnekin. 1991. “Cultural Invention and the Dilemma of Authenticity.” American
Anthropologist 93: 446-449.
· Robert Borofsky. 1997. CA Forum on Theory and Anthropology: Cook, Lono,
Obeyesekere and Sahlins. Current Anthropology, 38 (2), April, 1997: 255-282:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%
28199704%2938%3A2%3C255%3ACFOTIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
Recommended Readings:
· Sally Engle Merry. 2003. “Kapi’olani at the brink: Dilemmas of historical ethnography in 19th-
century Hawai’i.” American Ethnologist 30 (1): 44-60.
Week
8 (B)
October 28
Readings:
· Hauanani-Kay
Trask. 1999. From
a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii. Hawaii:
University of Hawaii Press. Read selected chapters (TBA).
·Film: Act
of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation.
October 31
Readings:
· David Hurst
Thomas. 2000. Skull Wars: Kenewick Man,
Archaeology, and the Battle for
Native
American Identity. New
York: Basic Books. Read foreword by Vine Deloria, Prologue, and
Chapter 9.
· Thomas Killion,
et al. 1999. “The facts about Ishi’s
brain.” Anthropology News, September
1999: 9.
· George Foster. 1999.
“Responsibility for Ishi.” Anthropology
News, October 1999: 5-6.
· Nancy Rockafellar and Orin Starn. 1999. “Ishi’s Brain.” Current Anthropology,
40(4): 413-
415. Also at: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204% 28199908%2F10%2940%3A4%3C413%3AIB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
Week 9
(A)
November 4
***ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE!!***
Film: Ishi: the last Yahi
November 7
Readings:
· Patrick
Tierney. 2000. “The Fierce Anthropologist.” The New Yorker,
October 9.
· Napoleon Chagnon. 2001. Napoleon Chagnon Responds to Darkness in El
Dorado. http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/chagnon.html
· American Anthropological Association. 2002. Excerpts from
the report: El Dorado Task Force.
Recommended
Readings:
· AAA. 2002. Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological
Association. http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethcode.html
· Terence
Turner. 2002. “Representation, Polyphony, and the Construction of Power
in a Kayapó
Video.” In Indigenous Movements,
Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America. Kay B. Warren
and Jean E. Jackson, eds.: 229-250. Austin: University of Texas Press.
PART
III—NATIONALISM, CULTURE, AND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
Week 10
(B)
November 11
Readings:
· Benedict Anderson. 1991.
“Introduction” and Ch. 4
(“Creole Pioneers”). In Imagined
Communities. New
York: Verso.
· Clifford
Geertz. 1973. “After the Revolution: The Fate
of Nationalism in the New States.”
In The
Interpretation of Cultures: 234-254. New
York: Basic Books.
November 14
Readings:
· Partha
Chatterjee. 1993. “Whose
Imagined Community?” From The Nation and Its
Fragments:
Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton University
Press.
· Marc Thurner.
1997. “Historicizing the Postcolonial Andean Predicament.” In From
Two
Republics
to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nation Making in Andean Peru.
Durham: Duke
University Press.
Week 11
(A)
November 18
Readings:
· George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer. 1986.
“Ethnography and Interpretive
Anthropology.” In Anthropology as Cultural
Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Humans Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
· Clifford
Geertz. 1973. “Thick Description: Toward an
Interpretive Theory of Culture.” In
The
Interpretation of Cultures: 3-32. New
York: Basic Books.
November 21 (AAAs)
NO
CLASS: WORK ON CONFERENCE PROJECT DRAFTS AND/OR OUTLINE
Week 12
(NO CONFERENCES THIS WEEK)
November 25
**DRAFT OF CONFERENCE
PROJECT OR DETAILED OUTLINE OF PROJECT DUE!!**
Readings (if
you have the time):
· Clifford
Geertz. 1973. “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese
Cockfight.” In The Interpretation of
Cultures:
412-453. New York: Basic
Books.
· William Roseberry.
1994. “Balinese Cockfights and the Seduction of Anthropology.” In
Anthropologies
and Histories: Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economy:
17-29. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
ENJOY YOUR BREAK!
PART IV—GENDERED
VISIONS:
RE-THINKING NATIONALISM AND
CULTURE
Week 13
(B)
December 2
Required
Readings:
· Partha
Chatterjee. 1993. Chapters 6 (“The Nation and
Its Women”) and 7 (“Women and
the Nation”). In The Nation and Its
Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories: 116-157.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
· Amina Mama. 1997.
“Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial
and Contemporary
Violence Againt Women in Africa.” In Feminist
Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic
Futures. M.
Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, eds.: 46-62. New
York:
Routledge.
· Ann Stoler.
1991. “Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in
Colonial Asia. In Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist
Anthropology in the
Postmodern Era, Micaela
di Leonardo, ed.: 51-101. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Additional
Assignments:
·Film: The Quiet American.
Watch BEFORE class and come prepared to discuss. On reserve
in the library.
Recommended
Readings:
· Marisol de la Cadena.
1996. “The Political Tensions of Representations and
Misrepresentations:
Intellectuals and Mestizas in Cuzco
(1919-1990).” Journal of Latin
American
Anthropology 2(1): 112-147.
December 5
Required
Readings:
· Lila
Abu-Lughod. 1991. “Writing Against
Culture.” In Recapturing Anthropology:
Working in the Present.
Richard Fox, ed.: 137-162. Santa Fe: School of American
Research Press.
· Lila Abu-Lughod.
2002. “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on
Cultural Relativism and its Others.” American
Anthropologist 104: 783-791.
Recommended
Readings:
· Kirin Narayan. 1993. “How Native is a
‘Native’ Anthropologist?” American Anthropologist 95:
671-
686.
Week 14
(A)
December 9
Readings:
· Lila
Abu-Lughod. 1986. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and
Poetry in a Bedouin Society. CA:
University of California Press. Read selected chapters (TBA).
· Cynthia
Enloe. 2000. “Nationalism and
Masculinity.” In Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making
Feminist
Sense of International Politics: 42-64. Berkeley: University of California Press.
***SPECIAL
EVENT: Wednesday, December 10,
2003***
You are
expected to attend a talk and film screening by Alexandra Halkin
and Carlos Efraín, representatives from the Chiapas
Media Project, a progressive, grass-roots project that uses indigenous media to
educate the public about indigenous rights issues in Mexico and
beyond. The event will take place in Titsworth
Lecture Hall from 5:00-7:00.
December 12
***CONFERENCE
PROJECTS DUE!!**
In class: Discussion
of Chiapas Media Project presentation.
Film: Beyond
Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives
Week 15
(B)
December 16
Conference
Presentations
December 19
Conference
Presentations
HAPPY
WINTER BREAK!
PART I— RACE, ETHNICITY, AND POSTCOLONIAL
IDENTITIES: VIOLENCE, STRUGGLE, POSSIBILITY
January 23
Readings:
· Orin
Starn. 1992. “Missing the Revolution:
Anthropologists and the War in Peru.”
Reprinted
in Rereading Cultural Anthropology, George Marcus, ed. Durham: Duke
University Press.
·
Enrique Mayer. 1992. “Peru in Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa’s ‘Inquest in the Andes’
Reexamined. Reprinted in Rereading
Cultural Anthropology,
George Marcus, ed.
Durham: Duke University Press.
In class: Pass out Warren and Twine article for critical review
Week 2 (A)
January 27
Readings:
· Go
over article by Vargas Llosa, “Questions of
Conquest”, which we read last semester.
· Jennifer Collins. 2000. “A Sense of
Possibility: Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement Takes
Center Stage.” NACLA, 33(5): 40-48.
· Jose Antonio Lucero. 2001. “Crisis and
Contention in Ecuador.” Journal of
Democracy, 12(2): 59-73.
January 30
Readings:
Presentation: Ten
Years After the Uprising (Matt, Erin Lane, Sheila)
Week 3 (B)
February 3
Readings:
· Peter
Wade. 1997. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. London: Pluto Press. Read chapters 2,
3,
and 4.
· Marisol de la Cadena. 2001. “Reconstructing
Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin
America.” NACLA, 34(6): 16-23.
Film: Mirrors of the Heart
February 6
Readings:
· Peter
Wade. 1997. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. London: Pluto Press. Read chapters 5,
6,
and 7.
· Casandra Badillo. 2001. “
‘Only My Hairdresser Knows For Sure’: Stories of Race, Hair,
and
Gender.” NACLA, 34(6): 35-37.
Recommended Readings:
· W. E. B. Du Bois. [1900] 1996. “To The Nations of the World” and
[1940] “The Concept
of
Race.” Reprinted in The Oxford W.E.B. Du
Bois Reader: 625-627, and 76-96.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
· Franz
Boas. [1920] 1988. “The
Methods of Ethnology.” Reprinted in High Points in
Anthropology. Paul Bohannan and Mark Glazer, eds.: 93-100. New York: McGraw-Hill.
February 8: Fieldtrip to International Center of Photography. Exhibit: “Only Skin Deep: Changing
Visions of the American Self.” Check out description of exhibit
at: http://www.abramsbooks.com/books/OnlySkinDeep.html
Week 4 (A)
February 10
· Cornel West. 1994. Race Matters. New York: Vintage Books. Read chapter 8 (“Malcolm X
and
Black Rage”).
· Benoit Denizet-Lewis.
2003. “Double Lives on the Down Low.” The New York Times
Magazine, August 3, 2003: 28-33, 48, 52-53.
· Graham Boyd. 2001. “The Drug War is the New
Jim Crow.” NACLA, 35(1): 18-22.
Additional Assignment:
· Watch American History X, On reserve in the library.
Recommended Readings:
· Michael Omi and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s
to the 1990s. New York: Routledge. Read
selected chapters (TBA).
· Audrey Smedley. 1993. Race
in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview.
Boulder: Westview Press.
February 13
Film: When We Were Kings
Week 5 (B)
February 17
Readings:
· Brent Staples. 2003. “When Racial Discrimination Is Not Just Black and White.” The New
York Times: A30, September 12.
·Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. 2001. Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice From Tatekeya’s Earth.
Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Read selected chapters (TBA).
Presentation: Native
American sovereignty and the debate over casinos (4 students)
Recommended Reading:
·Circe Sturm. 2002. Blood Politics: Race,
culture, and identity in the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma.
Berkeley: University of California Press. Read selected chapters (TBA).
***SPECIAL EVENT: Wednesday, February 18,
2003***
You are expected to
attend a panel on indigenous rights and environmental activism titled
“The Politics of Indigeneity: contesting land,
law, and representation in Malaysia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.” Participants include anthropologist
Peter Brosius (University of Georgia), Maori activist, lawyer, and filmmaker Moana
Sinclaire (UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues), anthropologist Paige West (Barnard College), and scholar of anthropology and religion, David Shorter (Wesleyan University). The panel will take place in the Library Pillow
Room, from 5:30-7:00.
February 20
Readings:
· Tanya Murray Li. 2000. “Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resources Politics
and
the Tribal Slot.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 42
(1): 149-179.
In class: Will discuss panel on indigeneity.
PART III—RACE, CLASS, GENDER, EDUCATION: THE POLITICS OF PRIVILEGE
Week 6 (A)
February 24
Readings:
Readings:
· Beverly Daniel Tatum. 2003. Why Are All the
Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And
Other
Conversations About Race: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial
Identity.
New York: Basic Books. Chapters TBA
February 27
CRITICAL REVIEW ESSAY
DUE
· Andrea Smith. 2003. “Soul Wound: The Legacy
of Native American Schools.” Amnesty
Now, Summer: 14-17.
Film: Before Columbus (Part IV: “Teaching Indians to be White”)
Week 7 (B)
March 2
Readings:
· David R. Roediger.
1999. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working
Class. New York: Verso. Read chapters 1 and 2.
· Paul
Willis. 1981. Learning to Labour: How Working
Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs.
New York: Columbia University Press. Chapters TBA.
Presentation: Class, Race, and Work:
Situating Proposed Immigration Policy Changes (3 students)
March 5
Required Readings:
Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender.” Challenging Fronteras:
Structuring Latina and
Latino
Lives in the U.S. New York: Routledge.
Week 8 (A)
March 9
Readings:
· Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 1991. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist
Scholarship and
Colonial Discourses.” In Third World
Women and the Politics of Feminism,
Mohanty et. al,
eds.:
51-81. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Additional
Assignments: Review the film The
Global Assembly Line (which we watched last semester)
Film: Performing the Border
March 12
PERSONAL ESSAY DUE
Readings:
Mexican Maquiladora.” Ethnography at the Border, Pablo Vila, ed.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
· M. Jacqui Alexander. 1997. “Erotic Autonomy
as a Politics of Decolonization: An
Anatomy
of Feminist and State Practice in the Bahamas Tourist Economy.” In
Feminist
Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. M. Jacqui Alexander and
Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, eds.:
63-100. New
York: Routledge.
· Derrick Hodge. 2001. “Colonization of the
Cuban Body: The Growth of Male Sex Work
in
Havana.” NACLA, 34(5): 20-28.
SPRING BREAK!!!
(Be sure to begin reading García Marquez)
PART IV—POWER
AND “PROGRESS”:
DEVELOPMENT, THE
STATE, AND MULTICULTURALISM
Week 9 (B)
March 30
Readings:
· Gabriel
García Marquez. 1998. One
Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: Harper Perennial
Press.
· Eduardo
Galeano. 1973. “Introduction: 120 Million
Children in the Eye of the Hurricane.”
In
Open Veins of Latin
America: Five
Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent: 11-18. New
York: Monthly Review Press.
April 2
Readings:
·
James Ferguson.
1997. “Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: “Development” in the
Constitution of a Discipline.” In International Development and the Social
Sciences: Essays
on the History and Politics of Knowledge. Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard, eds.:
150-175.
Berkeley: University of California.
· Michel
Foucault. 1984. “Panopticism.” From Discipline
and Punish: The Birth of the
Prison (1977). Reprinted in The Foucault
Reader. Paul Rabinow, ed.: 206-213. New
York: Pantheon Books.
Week 10 (A)
April 6
· Arturo Escobar. 1995. Encountering
Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.
Princeton: Princeton University Press. Read chapters 1 (“Development and
the
Anthropology of Modernity”) and 2
(“The Problematization of Poverty”).
· Anthony Bebbington.
2000. “Reencountering Development: Livelihood Transitions and
Place Transformations in the Andes.” Annals of the Association of American
Geographers
90(3):
495-520.
April 9
Readings:
· James
Ferguson. 2002. “The Anti-politics Machine.” From The
Anti-Politics Machine:
“Development,” Depoliticization
and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1990). Reprinted in The
Anthropology of Politics.
Joan Vincent, ed.: 399-408.
· Marc Edelman. 2002. “Peasants Against Globalization.” From Peasants Against Globalization:
Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica (1999). Reprinted in The Anthropology of Politics.
Joan
Vincent,
ed.: 409-423.
Recommended Readings:
· Peter Uvin. 1998. Aiding
Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda. West
Hartford,
Connecticut: Kumarian Press.
Week 11 (B)
April 13
Required Readings:
· William Fisher. 1997. “Doing Good? The politics and anti-politics of NGO practices.”
Annual
Review of Anthropology, Vol. 26:
439-464.
· Henry D. Delcore. 2003.
“Nongovernmental organizations and the work of memory in
northern Thailand.” American Ethnologist 30(1): 61-84.
· Elizabeth Jelin. 1998.
“Toward a Culture of Participation and Citizenship.” In Cultures
of
Politics, Politics of Cultures.
Alvarez, Dagnino, and Escobar, eds.: 405-414. Boulder:
Westview Press.
Recommended Readings:
· James Scott. 1999. Seeing Like a State: How
Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have
Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press. Read selected chapters (TBA).
· Julia Paley. 2001. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in
Post-Dictatorship Chile.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
April 16
RESEARCH PAPER DUE
Readings:
· Charles Hale.
2002. “Does Multiculturalism
Menace? Governance,
Cultural Rights and the
Politics of Identity in Guatemala.” Journal of Latin American Studies 34: 485-524.
· Bret
Gustafson. 2002. “Paradoxes of Liberal Indigenism:
Indigenous Movements, State
Processes, and Intercultural Reform in Bolivia.” In David Maybury
Lewis, ed. The
Politics
of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States: 267-308. Cambridge: The
David Rockefeller Center on Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
PART V— THE POLITICS OF ENGAGEMENT:
ANTHROPOLOGY, ADVOCACY, AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Week 12 (A)
April 20
Required Readings:
· Kirsten Hastrup
and Peter Elsass. 1990. “Anthropological
Advocacy: a contradiction in
terms?”
Current Anthropology, 31(3): 301-311.
· James F. Weiner and Ron Brunton. 2001. “Do Anthropologists Have a Moral
Responsibility
to Defend the Interests of “Less Advantaged” Communities?” In
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial
Issues in Anthropology. Kirk M. Endicott and
Robert
Welsch, eds.: 380-400. Guilford: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.
·Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
1995. “The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant
Anthropology.” Current Anthropology 36(3): 409-420.
Read
What We Write: The Politics of Ethnography. Caroline B. Brettell, ed.: 1-24. Westport, CT:
Bergin & Garvey.
states.”
Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 71 (1): 1-17.
·Orin Starn. 1994.
“Rethinking the Politics of Anthropology: the case of the Andes.”
Current Anthropology, 35 (1): 13-38.
· Kay Warren. 1998. “In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One
Anthropologist.” In
Indigenous Movements and
Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
April 23
Readings:
·Christine Walley. 1997.
“Searching for ‘Voices’: feminism, anthropology, and the
global
debate
over female genital operations.” Cultural Anthropology 12(3):
405-438.
Eliminate
the Practice of Female Genital Mutilation?” In Taking Sides: Clashing
Views
on Controversial Issues in Anthropology. Kirk M. Endicott and Robert Welsch,
eds.: 360-
Week 13 (B)
April 27
Readings:
· Excerpts from I
Rigoberta Menchú.
· Excerpts from David Stoll, Rigoberta
Menchú and The Story of All
Poor Guatemalans.
· Arturo Arias, ed. 2001. The Rigoberta Menchú
Controversy. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. Chapters TBA.
April 30
Readings:
· Arturo Arias, ed. 2001. The Rigoberta Menchú
Controversy. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. Chapters TBA.
· Vine Deloria. 2003. Custer
Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. Oklahoma: University of
Oklahoma Press. Read chapter 4 (“Anthropologists and Other
Friends”).
Presentation:
Anthropology and Truth Commissions: the case of Guatemala (3
students)
Week 14 (A)
May 4
·EVALUATIONS
· Sally Engle Merry. 2003. “Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (And
Anthropology
Along the Way).” Political and Legal
Anthropology Review 26 (1): 55-76. Also Read short response by Madhavi Sunder (pp. 77-85).
May 7
**CONFERENCE PROJECT
DUE!!**
·Conference Presentations (4)
Week 15 (B)
May 11
·Conference Presentations (4)
May 14
·Conference Presentations (5)
HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER