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OSEA Winter Courses OSEA Winter Quarter Seminar in Anthropology Culture Concepts and Theories Description This course offers students the basic conceptual and theoretical tools of contemporary cultural anthropology. The course is taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The undergraduate course consists of six sessions, each of three hours, that introduces core ideas to the major and non-major at a “junior” level. The graduate course has an additional component of four sessions, each of two hours, as well as a more advanced reading list. Evaluation of student success is determined through active participation in seminar discussions as well as short written essays dealing specific concepts that can either be a conceptually driven explanation of ideas or an elaboration of ideas in relation to the diverse ethnographic and historical materials being presented throughout the broader course of study in Yucatán. Schedule of Topics
GRADUATE LEVEL COURSEWORK Entails additional four seminars listed below
TEXTBOOKS This course will be based on a collection of carefully chosen articles, chapters and essays by diverse authors. The following table is a provisional Listing of Authors and/or Readings according to Topic. Concepts of and from Religion Ritual, Myth, Symbol, Spiritualism Geertz, Religion as Cultural System Turner, chap. From Forest of Symbols Concepts of Culture Geertz, Thick Description Rosaldo, ch in Culture and Truth Concepts of Identity, Subjectivity, Sex/Gender, Desire, masculinities and feminities in cross-cultural frames Donna Haraway, intro to Primate Visions plus selections Connell, Masculinities book, selection Eve Sedgwick, selection Omar Castañeda, “Guatemalan Macho Oratory” Concepts of Discourse Knowledge, Ideology, Dialogue Althusser, Ideology and State Apparatus (part) Bakhtin, selection from Dialogical Imagination Tedlock, ch 10 from Emergence of Dialogical Anthro. Foucault, “Truth & Power” “Two Lectures” in Power/Knowledge Concepts of Polity Nation, State, Ethnicity, Public Sphere Nugent & Joseph, Everyday State Formation, Selection Guibernau & Rex, Ch. 1 Ethnicity Reader Eley, essay on Habermas’ Public Sphere Concepts of Cultural “Fusion” Transculturation, Hybridity, Mimicry, Syncretism, Acculturation Ortiz, pages from Cuban Counterpoint Coronil, Introduction to Ortiz Pratt, Introduction to Imperial Eyes Robert Young, selection from his Colonial Desire Herskovits, 1940 Am. Anth. Essay on Acculturation Redfield, Herskovits & Linton, Statement on Accult. Grad Readings Concepts of Performativity Time, Body, Space, Practice, Staging of Self Judith Butler, intro to Bodies that Matter Michel DeCertau, chaps in Practice of Everyday Life Marcel Mauss, essay on the body Goffman, Presentation of Self in Everday Life, selections Textual Analysis Semiotics, Tropes, Rhetoric, & Narrative Turner, Chapter from Forest of Symbols Francis Yates, ch. 1, Art of Memory Kenneth Burke, “4 Master Tropes”, Grammar of Motives Paul Ricouer, “Model of the Text” & ch. Narrative Concepts of Power Resistance, Governmentality, Hegemony Foucault, History of Sexuality, vol. 1: 81-102 Ortner “Resistance & Ethnographic Refusal” CSSH 1995 Foucault & Colin Gordon’s Intro in The Foucault Effect Mitchell Dean, Governmentality Ch 1-2 Basic Concepts Laclau, Hegemony & Social Strategy, pp.7-29, 65-71, 134-145, 159-171 Modernities Peripheral, Alternative, and other forms Bruce Knauft, intro to his edited Critical Modernities Trouillot & Friedmen, chaps. in the B. Knauft collection Enrique Dussel, ch 1 & Appdx, Invention of America Nelly Richard, “Peripheral Modernities” |