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ANTH 3 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Summer 2014 Instructor: Course Time: Course Location: Office Hours: Office Location: Email: Prof. Laura Ogden 11 hour, M/W/F 11:15 – 12:20; X-Hour T. 12-12:50 1 Rockefeller M/W 10 – 11; F 12:30 – 1:30 406A Silsby Hall [email protected] Course Overview In this Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, we explore a variety of concepts and theories that help us to understand the similarities, differences, connections and disconnections that shape world communities (including our own). Cultural anthropologists are interested in all types of societies, from rural indigenous communities to life in urban industrial settings. A key aim of cultural anthropology is to document and comparatively analyze the full range of human cultural adaptations and achievements, to discern themes and patterns in the human experience, and to examine processes of (and resistance to) change in a range of socioeconomic, geographic, and political contexts. Last, we will learn about Anthropology as a profession, including the methods and ethics of research, and the ways anthropologists represent their research to varied audiences. Learning Goals By the end of this course you should be able to: Understand "culture" as a process of sense-making, Reflect on how cultural difference is constituted and challenged Consider the ways anthropologists use ethnography to translate cultural difference Reflect on the relationship between global & local processes of cultural production On written assignments and examinations you should be able to: Write clearly and as objectively as possible about social issues Define key terms and concepts in anthropology in your own words Reflect on the meanings of particular events, acts, or behaviors in their cultural context Identify some prominent anthropologists, both in terms of who they are/were and what their work has contributed to our understanding of the world. Ground Rules Please turn off all cell phones (smart or otherwise) in class 1 You may use a laptop to take notes, but turn the Internet off. It is too tempting to check email, send messages, and surf the web. Anthropology, as a discipline, is committed to engaging diverse, even conflicting views. I do not expect that every student will agree with his/her fellow students or with me. However, I do expect that you will treat your fellow students and me with respect. Alternative viewpoints are always welcome – just offer them with care. Readings are due on the day they are listed in the syllabus. It is your responsibility to read the syllabus carefully and come to class prepared. Books Lasiter, Luke. 2008. Invitation to Anthropology (4rd edition). AltaMira Press. Kohn, Eduardo. 2013. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. Univ. of California Press. Bourgois, Philippe and Jeffrey Schonberg. 2009. Righteous Dopefiend. Univ. of California Press. Hesse, Karen. 2005. Aleutian Sparrow. Margaret K. McElderry Books. All other readings are available as downloadable PDF’s via the Canvas site/Library reserves. Films are streamed whenever possible and are available through Jones Reserves. All course materials are also available through electronic and hard copy reserves in Baker-Berry Library. Grades and Assignments Your grade in this class will be based on the following: 1. Weekly reading responses 10% 2. Two Ethnographic Exercises 30% 3. Midterm Examination 30% 4. Final Examination 30% Weekly Written Responses At the beginning of the term I will divide the class roster in thirds alphabetically, based on last names. You will either post on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday by 9am. This means that every class meeting a core group of students will post reading responses to the discussion forum on Canvas, from week 2 through Week 10 of the course. Each written response should be about 100 – 200 words in length. These responses are an opportunity for you to raise critical issues or conclusions based on your understanding of the reading assignment for the day. You may not simply summarize readings in this forum. I will read your responses and often use these responses as a way of generating in-class discussion. Each individual post will not be graded. Provided you complete all required posts, you will receive full credit for this part of the course, worth 10% of your total grade. Ethnographic Exercises Students will complete 2 ethnographic exercises. These exercises are meant to be opportunities for students to have a more “hands on” introduction to ethnographic 2 research methods and anthropological practice, and to engage in critical and creative assessments of Dartmouth culture as an anthropologist would. Specific assignments will be distributed in class one week before the assignment is due. Each ethnographic exercise is worth 15% of your grade. Midterm Exam The midterm exam at the end of week five is an in-class format. The exam will ask students to define key terms and to respond to several essay questions regarding the materials covered in the beginning half of the course. Final Exam A final in-class exam will be given during examination week. The final exam will require students to define key terms and to answer essay questions on course topics. The final exam is cumulative, although more emphasis will be placed on the second part of the course. Honor Principle You are reminded that the Honor Principle applies to all work done outside of class, as well as in-class exams. Research papers and take home-essays, if applicable, should contain citations to the work of others used in preparing your paper/essay following the guidelines laid out in Sources: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/sources/. You are encouraged to discuss the course material with other students outside of class, but the work you submit for exams, essays, and papers must be written by you and reflect your ideas and conclusions and contain citations to other sources where appropriate. In the case take-home essays and papers you are not to collaborate with anyone else in preparing this work. Students with Disabilities Students with learning, physical, or psychiatric disabilities enrolled in this course that may need disability-related classroom accommodations are encouraged to make an office appointment to see me before the end of the second week of term. All discussions will remain confidential, although the Student Accessibility Services office may be consulted to discuss appropriate implementation of any accommodation requested. Religious Observances Some students may wish to take part in religious observances that fall during this academic term. Should you have a religious observance that conflicts with your participation in the course, please come speak with me before the end of the second week of term to discuss appropriate accommodations. Course Schedule 3 DATE Topic & Readings Week 1 What is Anthropology? June 20 Week 2 June 23, 25, 27 Week 3 June 30, July 1 (X Hour) July 2 July 4 (no school) Week 4 July 7, 9, 11 Assignments & Other Info. Get Books! Lee, Richard, 1969. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari. Natural History 78(10):14-22; 60 – 64. Available: http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/master.html?http://www.naturalh istorymag.com/htmlsite/editors_pick/1969_12_pick.html Race, Culture & Identity Monday: Race & Ethnicity Lassiter, Ch. 1 American Anthropological Association’s Understanding Race: http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html Wednesday: Diaspora & Identity Brown, Jacqueline Nassy. 1998. Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space. Cultural Anthropology 13(3):291-325. Rahier, Jean Muteba. 1998. Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995 – 96. American Anthropologist 100(2):421-430. Friday: Culture & Cultural Relativism Lassiter, Ch. 2 Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1995. The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology. Current Anthropology 36(3):409-440. Ethnography & Ethics Monday: Ethnography Lassiter, Ch. 3 Rosaldo, Renaldo. 1980. Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage, from Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. Tuesday: Ethics of Representation (Yanomami Case Study) Secrets of the Tribe. 2010. HBO Documentary Films; Director José Padilha (call number: 12621) streaming Ramos, Alcida R. 1987. Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic. Cultural Anthropology 2(3):284-304. Wednesday: The Politics of Representation Bourgois & Schonberg, Intro & chapter 1 Gender and Sexuality Monday: Gender & Sexuality Lassiter, Ch 5 Martin, Emily. 1991. The Egg and the Sperm: How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypes. Signs 16(3):485-501. Wednesday Bourgois & Schonberg 2, 3 Friday: Williams, Walter L. 2000. The Berdache Tradition, from Annual Editions of Anthropology (2014). Valentine, David. 2003. “I Went to Bed with My Own Kind Once”: The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity, from Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. 4 Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca, June 26, 5pm Dartmouth Green ** Free concert and option for ethnographic exercise Week 5 Kinship and Family July 14, 16, 18 Monday: Kinship Lassiter, Ch 6 Cadigan, Jean R. 1998. Woman-to-woman marriage: practices and benefits in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 29(1):89-98. Wednesday Bourgois & Schonberg 4, 6 & 7 Friday Midterm (in class) Livelihoods & Exchange Week 6 July 21, 23, 25 Week 7 July 28, 30 and Aug. 1 X Hour film. Week 8 Aug 4, 6, 8 X hour -- Midterm Review Xhour (Tuesday) Monday: Subsistence Lassiter, Ch 4 Sahlins, Marshall. 1972. The Original Affluent Society. Stone Age Economics. Aldine-Atherton, Inc. Slocum, Sally. 1975. Woman the Gatherer: Male Bias in Anthropology, from Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. Wednesday: Reciprocity & the Gift Mauss, Marcel. 1925. The Gift (selections) from Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (McGee & Warms). Nadasdy, Paul. 2007. The Gift in the Animal: The Ontology of Human and Human-Animal Sociality, American Ethnologist 34(1):25-43. Friday: Commodities & Value Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1922. The Essentials of the Kula, from Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (McGee & Warms). Strathern, Marilyn. 2012. Gifts Money Cannot Buy. Social Anthropology 20(4):397–410. Religion & Ritual Monday: Religion Lassiter, Ch 7 Miner, Horace. 1956. Body Ritual among the Nacirema. American Anthropologist 58(3):503-07. Wednesday: Rituals & Rites of Passage Geertz, Clifford. 1973. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books. Gmelch, George. 2009. Baseball Magic. Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology (13th edition). Turner, Victor. 2001. Symbols in Ndembu Ritual. Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory (Erickson & Murphy, editors). Broadview Press, pg. 357-381. Friday: Shamanism & Identity Politics Humphrey, Caroline. 1999. Shamans in the City, Anthropology Today 15(3):3-10. Conklin, Beth. 2002. Shamans versus Pirates in the Amazonian Treasure Chest. American Anthropologist 104(4):1050-61. Film: The Split Horn: The Life of a Hmong Shaman in America –steaming or available during X hour. The World System & Globalization Monday: Anthropology & the Global Wolf, Eric. 1982. The Fur Trade. Europe and the People without History. Berkeley: Univ. California Press. 5 film Wednesday: Global Flows Appadurai, Arjun. 1990. Difference and disjuncture in the global cultural economy. Theory, Culture and Society 7.2 (1990): 295-310. Ho, Karen. 2005. Situating Global Capitalism: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks. Cultural Anthropology 20(1):68-96. Friday: Resisting the Global Turner, Terrance. 1993. The Role of Indigenous Peoples in the Environmental Crises: The Example of the Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 36(3):526-545. Film: The Kayapo (streaming) – but also shown during x hour. Week 9 Indigeneity in the Contemporary World Aug. 11, 13, 15 Monday: Hesse, Karen. 2003. Aleutian Sparrow. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. Film: Aleut Evacuation – streaming but also shown during X hour X hour – film Wednesday Tsing, Anna. 2007. Indigenous Voice. Indigenous Experience Today (edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn). New York: Berg. Cruickshank, Julie. 2007. Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains. Indigenous Experience Today (edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn). New York: Berg. Friday Week 10 Aug. 18 & 20 Smith, Paul Chaat. 2007. The Terrible Nearness of Distant Places: Making History at the National Museum of the American Indian. Indigenous Experience Today (edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn). New York: Berg. Mankiller, Wilma. 2009. Being Indigenous in the 21st Century, Cultural Survival 33(1) – available at: http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survivalquarterly/none/being-indigenous-21st-century Anthropology Beyond the Human Monday Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 1989. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4(3):469-488. Kohn: Introduction, 1 Wednesday Kohn: chapters 2, 3, & 4 Aug 23 26 Sat. Aug 23, 8am 6 Final Exam Review X Hour