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Academic Year 2003/2004

Ethnicity, Nationality, Identity
ANTH 336 FA

This seminar is geared toward exploring concepts of ethnic boundaries, the nation-state, and group identities as they change within cultural contexts and historical circumstances. In this course, students will examine theories of race, ethnicity, indegeneity and national identity within varied locations with multi-ethnic societies. The ethnographic and interdisciplinary readings address traditions and technologies of rank, gender, class and race as they relate to ideological constructions of citizenship and belonging across national borders. Attending to (neo)colonialism and postcolonialism, we will explore globalizism, migration, and transnationalism as culture, people, identities, and boundaries move.

MAJOR READINGS

Anthony D. Smith, NATIONAL IDENTITY
Thomas Spear and Richard Waller (eds.), BEING MASAAI: ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY IN EAST AFRICA
George Marcus, PERILOUS STATES: CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURE, POLITICS AND NATION
Karen Leonard, MAKING ETHNIC CHOICES
Loring Danforth, THE MACEDONIAN CONFLICT: ETHNIC
NATIONALISM IN A TRANSNATIONAL WORLD
Patricia Pessar, A VISA FOR A DREAM
And selected excerpts by Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, Fredric Barth, Eric Hobsbawm, Nina Glick-Schiller and
others to be announced.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Class discussion and presentations, reaction papers, final paper (10-15 pages).

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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