LAST335 - Ethnography of/as Colonialism

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Academic Year 2002/2003

Ethnography of/as Colonialism
LAST 335 SP

Crosslistings:
AMST 335
ANTH 335
HIST 204

Beginning with the 1550 debates over "Indian" humanity, and ranging to contemporary scholarship about and by Indigenous peoples, this course takes as its focus the intersections of writing, colonialism, violence, and historiography in the Americas. Students will explore the relationship between 16th century reasoning about race and post-millennial, Western, academic practices of writing history. The course will challenge students to develop a critical stance on the utility of post-colonial theories as such perspectives come to bear upon anthropological and historical studies of Native American religions. Some of the regions considered include southwest Columbia, the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela, the Valley of Mexico and several examples throughout the U.S. southwest, plains, and northeast.

MAJOR READINGS

Enrique Dussel, THE INVENTION OF THE AMERICAS
Lewis Hanke, ALL MANKIND IS ONE
Greg Sarris, KEEPING SLUG WOMAN ALIVE: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO NATIVE AMERICAN TEXTS
Michael Taussig, SHAMANISM, COLONIALISM, AND THE WILD MAN
Johannes Wilbert, MYSTIC ENDOWMENT, RELIGIOUS ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE WARAO INDIANS

A Required Reading Packet will include the following essays or excerpts from books:

John Beverly, WRITING IN REVERSE: ON THE PROJECT OF THE LATIN AMERICAN SUBALTERN STUDIES GROUP
Raymond J. DeMallie, THESE HAVE NO EARS: NARRATIVE AND THE ETHNOHISTORICAL METHOD
Arif Dirlik, IS THERE HISTORY AFTER EUROCENTRICM?
Larry Evers and Felipe Molina, MASO BWIKAM/YAQUI DEER SONGS
Ranajit Guha, DOMINANCE WITHOUT HEGEMONY AND ITS
HISTORIOGRAPHY
Stuart Hall, WHEN WAS THE POSTCOLONIAL?
Thomas King, GODZILLA VS. THE POSTCOLONIAL
Florencia Mallon, THE PROMISE AND DILEMMA OF SUBALTERN STUDIES: PERSPECTIVE FROM LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
Walter Mignolo, ARE SUBALTERN ST UDIES POSTMODERN OR POSTCOLONIAL?
Alfonso Ortiz, SOME CONCERNS CENTRAL TO THE WRITING OF INDIAN HISTORY
Jose Rabasa, ON WRITING VIOLENCE
Joanne Rappaport, THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
Frank Saloman, UNETHNIC ETHNOHISTORY: ON PERVUVIAN PEASANT HISTOR IOGRAPHY AND IDEAS OF AUTOCHTHONY
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES
Neferti Tadiar, PROPERTIES AND POTENTIALS OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Students will be expected to complete brief, weekly response papers, one in-class presentation, and one final paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Although this reading list is tentative, please note that this course is "reading Intensive." Students will be expected to read, critically, upwards of 200 pages between class meetings. For this reason, students must be pre-approved to register.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

The instructor of this course will not be using the on-line wait list. If you are interested in this course, please contact the instructor directly.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS LAST Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Shorter,David

Times: ..T.... 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: CAMS 3

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 16)

SR. major: Jr. major:

SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: SO: FR:

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing

Permission: Permission of Instructor Required

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003