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Academic Year 2003/2004
Ethnography of/as Colonialism
LAST 335 SP
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.
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS LAST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004
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