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OSEA Online Library

Electronic Course Reserve and Program Materials


The materials below are exclusively for OSEA Program Participants. Documents are in MS Word or PDF designed for download. All rights are reserved and all other use requires the written consent of OSEA.

 

Handouts & Misc. Course Materials

1.0 Intro to Primary Concepts of “Culture” & “Society; Anthropology vs Sociology”
1.1 Guide to Anthropological Schools, from 1900s-1970s
1.2 Glossary of Terms

2.0 Theory Terms and Concepts
2.1 The Status of Truth in Social Sciences (Notes on “Rashomon Effect” by K. Heider)
2.2. The Metaphysics of Baseball
2.3 Positivism: Natural Sciences vs. Human Sciences
2.4 Chicken or Egg Stories: Or, metanarratives

3.2 Behavior, Action & Practice
3.1 Marcel Mauss & the Theory of the Gift
3.3 Symbols, Metaphors, Tropes, Speech, & More
3.4 Guide to Victor Turner’s Theory and Analytics of Symbolism

4.0 Genres of Analysis, Comparison of Approaches

5.0 Types of Feminisms
5.1 The Semantic Field of the Concept of Gender
5.2 Study Guide for the Film, A Woman in Flames
Study Guide & Notes on Foucault
Study Guide to Mary Pratt, Imperial Eyes

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OSEA Guides to Fieldwork
-- Guide to Writing Fieldnotes & Archival Documentation
-- Guide to Body & Corporeality Focused Visual Documentation
-- Guide to Writing Ethnography
-- Guide to Structuring and Writing Research Proposals

OSEA Guides to Research Equipment
-- General Guide to Research Equipment and Supplies
-- Guide to Digital Cameras & Videos
-- Sony's Guide to Digital Dictation Recorders

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Essay on Levi-Strauss in NYC

NY Times Article on Exhibit of
500 Years of Mayan Life

AAA Workbook for Tourism Workshop

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MIRA2005 Program Book
Program Book Ch 1, Orientation
Program Book Ch 2 Logistics
Program Book Ch 3 Calendar
Program Book Ch 4 Courses, Syllabi
Program Book Ch 5 Coursework Daily Schedule
Program Book Ch 6 Final Portfolio Assignment
Program Book Ch 7 Writing Ethnography
Program Book All Chapters

MIRA2006 Program Course Book
01. Introduction
02. Calendar
03. Course Syllabus
04. Daily Schedule
05. Final Portfolio Assignment
06. Guide to Writing Ethnography

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Pre-Departure Readings for MIRA2006

Fadwa El Guindi, Introduction to Visual Anthropology

Heritage Articles, Anthropology News, May 2006
1. Coates & Lathrop, “Policy in World Heritage” (req.)
2. Castañeda, “Tourism Wars” (required)
3. C. Walker, “Marketing Maya Heritage” (req.)
4. L. Mortensen, “Heritage Tourism” (req.)
5. F. Babb, “Post-Revolutionary Tourism” (opt.)
6. Alaka Wali, “Beyond Museum’s Walls” (opt)
7. Proschan, “Intangible Heritage” (optional)

Castañeda, "Intro toMaya Identity of Yucatán"
Matthew Restall, "Maya Ethnogenesis"
Castañeda,"Approaching Ruins"
Castañeda, "Tourism Landscape Yucatán"
Malcolm Crick, "Representations of Tourism"
Tim Wallace, "Tourism, Tourists, Anthropologists"

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, World Heritage optional

 

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OSEA Library of Readings

Readings by Quetzil Castañeda
On Tourism, Representation, Heritage, Adventure
n.d. "Note on the Work of Heritage in the Age of Archaeological Reproduction." Chapter in L.Mortensen & J.Hollowell, eds., Archaeologies & Ethnographies. University of Florida Press. In press.
2002. "Postcolonial Toponymy: Writing Forward in Reverse." (on naming of Yucatŕn) IN Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia, vol. 11 (2): 119-134
2001. "Approaching Ruins: A Photo-Ethnographic Essay on the Busy Intersections of Chichén Itzá" IN Visual Anthropology Review vol 16(2): 43-70(4megs pdf)
(1994) An Archaeology of Tourist Landscape of Yucatán
n.d. "In Search of Simmel & Similar Adventures Among Ruins"

On the Pisté Maya Art and Art World of Chichén Itzá
2004. "Art-Writing in the Modern Maya Art World of Chichén" IN American Ethnologist, vol. 31(1):21-42
2005. "Between Pure and Applied Research: Experimental Ethnography" IN NAPA Bulletin #23:87-118
2005. Community Collaboration and Ethnographic Intervention: Dialogues in the Piste Maya Art World. Practicing Anthropology, vol. 27(4):31-34.

On History of Anthropology
2003. "Stocking's Historiography" (Boas, Gamio, Redfield) IN Critique of Anthropology, vol. 23(3): 235-262
2005. Carnegie Mission & Vision of Science: Institutional Contexts of Maya Archaeology & Espionage. IN R. Darnell & F. W. Gleach, eds. History of Anthropology Annual Vol.1, pp. 37-74.(2meg pdf)

On Pisté Social and Political History
2003. "New & Old Social Movements" IN Ethnohistory, vol. 50(4): 611-642 (Socio-Political History of Pisté)
2005. Tourism Wars in Yucatan. Anthropology Newsletter, May 2005

On Ethics in Anthropology and Archaeology
2006. Ethnography in the Forest: Ethics and Morals in Anthropology. Cultural Anthropology, vol. 21 (1): 121-145.
(2006). What is Ethical in Archaeology? An Analysis of Ethical Codes and Morals of Archaeology. American Anthropologist (unpublished ms/word doc)

On Ethnography, Fieldwork & Methodologies
2006. The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: The Performative PRinciples of Fieldwork. Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 79 (1):75-104

 

Articles on Maya Identity, Ethnicity, Politics & Community
From Journal Latin American Anthropology, vol. 9 (1)
Q. E. Castañeda, Introduction to Maya Identity of Yucatán
Matthew Restall, Maya Ethnogenesis
Wolfgang Gabbert, Of Friends and Foes:
Paul Eiss, Deconstructing Patria in Alvarado's Project
Ben Fallaw, Federal Teachers & Maya Resistance in Chan Kom
Juan Castillo Cocom, Lost in Mayaland
Ueli Hostettler, Rethinking Ethnicity

Pedro Pitarch, "Zapatistas & Ventriloquism"
Juan Castillo Cocom, Maya PRInces in YucaPAN
Karen Caplan, "Legal Revolution in Town Politics: Oaxaca & Yucatan"

Articles on Maya Religion, Ritual and Spirituality
Ron Loewe. "Dance of the Pig's Head" and "The Uay K'ot"
Paul Eiss, "The Virgin of Tetiz"

Articles on Maya of Quintana Roo and Migration
Ana Juarez, "Maya Marriage among Cruzob Maya"
Ana Juarez, "Ecology, Tourism, & Inequality in Tulum"
Ana Juarez, "Maya Immigrants in Tulum, Q.Roo
Alicia Re Cruz, Maya Migrants in Cancun

Reviews of the visual ethnography/video by Jeff Himpele & Castañeda,Incidents of Travel in Chichén Itzá
Luis Vivanco, "Documenting Performance"
Castañeda, n.d. "Equinox or Eclipse? Adventure-Traveling Among Maya Ruins"
Hilary Kahn's Review of the Fake Documentary, RUINS (about Morley and Chichén Itzá

Pisté Ethnography from the 1930s
Morris Steggerda, from MAYA INDIANS OF YUCATAN.
Chap. 1, "History of Piste" Chap. 2 Maya Superstitions & Customs